The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-10-14
Soldiers &uoaet.
Grants Memory HOnored.

The ceremonies of the day opened
with grand military display, in which
General Grants origin Il regiment, the
famous Twenty.frst Illionois Infantry,
took part. General Miles led the col
umn with his chief of staff, General
Stockton, and his aids Tue first divi
sion comprised 500 policemen. Tue
second division, General Fitzsim-
m )ns leading, comprised the Fifteenth
United States Infantry, the regular
artillery and regular cavalry from Fort
Sheridan, and the Illinois National
Guard, infantry and cavalry. 7 he third
division, under the dir ection of Colonel
Y. A. Sexton. General Ducat headed the
)urlh division, containing carriages of
stinguished guests, four abreast. The
rand Army, with empty sleeves and
tered flags, matshaled by General
GRACE Clark, came next, thirty-four
hicago posts in line, with others from
l,ewherc in Illinois besides Wisconsin,
Michigan and. Iowa Communicates.
Following the sixth division, under
Colonel William Hale Thompson, were
the Sons of Veterans and the society of
ex-coniederates. The seventh and last
division was made up of civic societies
commanded by Colonel NJ ID. Bragg.
MIS. OTduJ Nl6Wtu Tue JTOCbSslDU ITOn
the residence of Potter Palmer.
The scene at Lincoln park was an
impressive one. Grouped around the
monument were The five hundred or
more distinguished citizens, while in
the background was the vast assem-
blage of spectators. Back of all these
on the lake was iotilla of nearly two
hundred vessels. After an invocation
by RI Rev. John p. Newman, Colonel
Edward S. Tay lor made the presenta-
ton address on behalf of the monument
association to the commissioners of
Lincoln park, in trust for the people of
Chicago. AT prearranged signal, the
young son of Potter Palmer oosed the
cord binding the bunting that concealed
the 1S-foot bronze horse and rider. A
great cheer went up as the statue was
presented to view, while the ships on
on the lake fred a salute. w.
G Cloudy, as president of the Lincoln
park commissioners, made speech of
acceptance, and Mayor Hampstead
Washburne accepted the monument on
the part of the citizens of Chicago.
Judge Walter @. Gresham, the or
ator of the day, WIS then introduced.
Among other things he said: 1t is
hardly necessary to enter upon any
minute account of the life and deeds
OF the man TO whose memory this
beautiful statue has been rected
They are part of the history of our
country, and in the minds Of the peo-
pie are as familiar as household words.
Wherever It's history is read, in what
ever nook and corner of the habilable
globe there exists an int lgent inter-
est in the strength and perpetuty of
our institutions, the name and fame of
the illustrious soldier and patriot have
preceded aught that may now be said
OF him. He was remarkably free from
that vanity and conceit which have
been the weakness of many great minds
and which seem to be the peculiar vice
of men who have risen like him from
humb antecedents to lofty eminence
He had none Of the strut of the first
Napoleon, as it was revealed in his
private letters, his turgid addresses to
the armies of France, and his egotls-
tical assumption that he was man of
destiny; and none of the boastfulpess
with which C9'ar announced his vic
tories in Asia Minor to the Roman
Senate ever manifested itself in the
speech or writings of the victorious
leader of our armies. Grea ness was
never more unconscious of itself than
1t was in him. The triumphs of Grant
from Belmont to Appomattox never
destroyed his balance or affected the
habitual moderation Of his utterance or
demeanor. There is nothing of the
braggart in any of his official reports
or dispatches; there is no arrogance,
no regard for dramatic effect, no pa
rade of himself. Even with the con-
federacy at his feet, as final
testimony of his skill aud proves as
military chieftain, he was not
betrayed into anything like exulta-
ton, and stopped the jubilant firing of
a salute in his command as soon
as the sound of the cannon reached his
ear. The glittering uniform of the
conquered leader of the confederate
armies contrasted strongly with The
plain and much worn habiliments of
the conqueror; but Grant was more in-
tent upon the results of the conference
between them than upon his own APP
pearance in it. The great confederate
general was shown the respect that
generous natures always accord TO mis-
fortune bravely borne, and proved
by his conduct and bearing the truth of
the remark that the greatest reverses
ulO hooI Vastly eusIdlllSu ny dignity
that belongs to them. He and those
who fought under him, with unsur-
passed courage, were touched by the
victor's delicate consideration for their
feelings and welfare. Grants magnan-
lmous nature was incapable of anything
else. In the struggle that ended in
final captulation, he was never actu-
ated by the spirit of revenge or hate or
by aught else than high sense of pa
trotic duty. Grant had extraordinary
abilities and while he never dwelt upon
or thought about their greatness, or
measured or compared them with the
ability of others, he knew just what
they were, their extent and limitations,
what might be accomplished by them
and what was beyond their reach. He
was never misled by rating himself too
high or too low. The timd distrust
18th which he entered nnon tha an