The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-05-30
SPEAKING METAPHoRfcALLr.
Dr. Dspew Explains what ne Meant II
HIS Address at Rlxerslde.

Dr. Dspew Explains what ne Meant Il.
HIS Address at Riverside.
To THE EDrTor or THE SuN-Sh: Ny alton
ton has been called TO a letter published re-.
Gently in THE Sun crticising the staten emit.
in my address at tho laying Of the corner
stone OF the Grant Monument. Of Gen. Grants
receipt and return OF the sword Of Gen. Lee. I
find that this and several other illustrations
| havo been the subject of hostile comment in
| various newspapers throughout the country
knew that Gen. Grant said in his book that
| the story was untrue that he actually received
and returned Gen. Lees sword. Any one ia.
miiar with the characteristics OF tho Union
commander would know that he would havo
done anything to avoid being an motor in a
spectacular scene OF that kind. He had Gen.
| Ices army hemmed in by an overwhelming
| force. The Confederate troops had. many of
them. thrown away their arms and were with.
| out food. Grant was in position to enforce
| an unconditional surrender. Tho persons,
| arms. and military stores OF the Confederate
| army wero In his hands. In debating the
| terms OF capituation. however. to Gen.
Lee at Appomattox he voluntarily conceded
that tho Confederate officers should retain
their side arms and personal effects. Gen.
Grant says in his work: Gen. Leo remarked
with some feeling. thought. that this would
have happy effect upon lis army" Gen.
Leo then suggested that tho cavalry and arti-
lery men owned their own horses whcreupon
Gen. Grant ordered that tho Confederate SOL
diers should be permitted to keep their horses
and mules. SO that on their return to thei.
homes thcy would have. the means to begin
mn ~ Ike that this would have happy elect,
Galy had in his tho s' sword wt Of Gem
lee but did not avail himself of his power to
N.t.
That Grant received and returned the sword OF
Lce while not true as To tho physical fact
cured cured It was II harmony with Gen. Grants
refusal to enter Richmond in triumph. and his
He stn the fE Of hs ds to S6
was over and tho contending armies and the
LCnn!es they represented were thereafter to 10
Tho surrender. and return of the sword OF
Ice Sonnen 9 in paragraph the spirit and
a Lending New England journal in a re-
cent cent editorial said tina. any schoolboy knew
dome, Of tic invaiid"s-u as I had sa id,
na that s it T1s Mr. Ss
!!esnnic1lly IN IhS church ef St: Louis. but the
dome Of the mvalidcs .'''S ''''0 0''uef '''0
e task for saying. in order to prove that our
oca that An%ey was national and not
Grant at Riverside. Nc. asserting TINT there is
no scriptural warrant for the belief or stnte-
buried: and that such loose avcrments over
throw tho whole BODY Of approved theology.
attacks upon my address is proper the orator
and poet Of the future must be very, proix and
teligcnee and imasnation of hearers .u ee or or
readers, But tho speaker can no longer by an
Illustration. or metaphorcal statement. con-
a IISf Ia. ~ Ia To
ence signorant Of history and literature In
. stead OF conveying the spirit and purpose OF
tence 1 would have been compslled to cover
three or :our pages with explanatory matter.
Ing clear from ta sn 'Hn hnok Shsrs ma tGe
H iI1 of st. Louis ended and the limit of the
hn "te nSs invalidrs GeGan: And then might
OF tho patriot where his body rested without aut
:, Tho most famous and frequently quoted
lines IN the poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson
s sl" sa4 s %Sl
Here tho great thinker, congresses in two
ideas of the American Revolution 1t is in
order order t for our critics to shout How ut
c ce1tSu III, gIGbe Emerson should be more
Guenc :. WA, vas his magnificent picture of Eng
land. Whose morning drum beat, following |
the sun and Keeping company with the hours. |
circles the earth with one continuous and uu-
broken strain OF tho martial airs OF England" |
There is no finer specimcn Of eloquence in the |
English language. But our critic Of to-day |
immediately sounds the alarm. How rdicu- |
!ous.' he says, is the assertion that tho drum |
beat could keep company with the hours fol- |
lowing the sun. when oceans and uncx plored |
continents and hostile countries lie between |
the military posts OF England. II Mr.. Webster |
iai possessed any proper regard for his repu- |
Mmentnl mistake. Besides. the drum heat |
would have lost Il day going around tho world" |
ar. webster committed another biunder, |
which was astonishing in so erudite and ac- |
complShed an orator. in these lines:
The Avon to the severn runs:
The Severn to the sea;
And Wyckfe's dust sh all spre ad abroad
Vide ms the waters be-
That Mr.. Webster thus briefly illumiped the |
minds OF his audience with brilliant picture |
OF Liberty enliEhtening the world does not, |
according to tho practical view. excuse the |
ldlotic suggestion that the dust OF tho old re- |
former whose bones. seventy years after his |
death. were dug out OF the grave and burned
and the ashes thrown into tho Avon could have
heen OF sufficient quantity and buoyancy to
nont over all the seas and oceans Of the earth
Truly. Aremus Ward lived and died too
early; Our friends would have furnished ex-
Haustl"ss material for the efforts OF his genius |
Yours very truly. CnAUTCEY NJ DEpEw.