Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-06-11
rounds Of applause. His speech was as

rounds OF applause. His speech was as
follows:
Thirty years ago your city numbered among
It's citizens man 80 modest that he wAs little
known IN the community; merchant 10 hum
business. Three years later his fame illumined
the earth, and the calculations OF every com.
mercial venture and OF every constructive en-
success or failure Of his plans. he was then
supporting his family on o Thousand dollars q
year. and before tho third anniversary of his
millions o day for the preservation OF
the Union, One Of the patriotic meetings,
common at that time all over the North,
was held here to sustain President Lincoln
In his call for seventy-fye Thousand m9n to
suppress the rebellion. The ardor and eloquence
OF John A. hawlfns 80 impressed an auditor
whom none OF the Congressman and prominent
citizens on the platform had ever met that he
subsequently made the orator his chief OF staff
and Secretary OF War. Some one discovered
and veteran Of the Mexican war, lived In this
city, and he was invited to preside at the for
nation OF military company. He was SO diff
tences but In that short address was condensed
all the eloquence and logic of the times. "You
know the object for which we are assembled.
your pleasureP" dc organized and drilled that
company and led it to the Governor at Spring
field. By that march Galena lost q citizen and
the republic found it's savior.
drhubb career Will DO Gn0 PARADOX Oh history.
Parallels cannot be drawn for him with the
great captains of the world. Historians, by
common consent, place Alexander the Great,
Hannibal, julius Cesar and Napoleon Bona
parte in the front rank But each of them had
learned the art of war by continuous service
and unequaled opportunities and displayed the
most brilliant qualities at every period of their
universal fame in the sos. Alexander died at
50, grieving because he had no more worlds to
conquer, and Napoleon at 81 was master OF
Europe. But Grant at 40 was an obscure leath-
en- merchant in Galena. AS cadet at West
Point he had risen only just above the middle of
Mexico he had done no more than perform bis
duty with the courage and capacity OF the aver
age Nest-POinter
But ths moment that the great responsible
ties were thrust upon him and the fate of his
country rested upon his shoulders this indiffer-
emit farmer, business man, merchant, became
the foremost figure of the century. The re-
serve powers of q dominant intellect which Or
binary affairs could not move, came into action.
mighty mind which God had kept for the hour
of supreme danger to the republic grasped the
scattered elements of strength, solidifed them
into q resistless force and organized victory.
He OWNED the purposes OF the enemy az we'll as
clearer, his strategy more perfect and his conf
dence in himself moro serene as his power ln-
creased He could lead the assault at Donelson
or the forlorn hope at Shiloh or maneuver his
forces with exquisite skill and rare originality
of resources ut Vicksburg as the best of brigade
or corps commanders, or before Richmond
calmly conduct a campaign covering conti-
nent aud many armies with consummate gen.
eralBhip
His plans did not contemplate defeat. The
movement he always made was advance" The
order he always gave was forward When