Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-02

GEN. ULYSSES 8. GRANT.
C. Black, now United States attorney
for the Northern district of Hin DIS, de
livered an grafton.
Gen. John C. Black spoke in part as
follows:
'rHe who stands at Yorktown Sees not the
1owlands and tumbling sea- but there arise
before him Washington and Lafayette and
the United Armies of France and America;
at Bunker Hill stands Warren's slender
form; at Valley Forge the worn and starv-
ing continentals: at Vicksburg, Grant and
Logan, Mcpherson and Sheridan, McClel-
Ian and Blair, and the invincible besiegers;
at Gettysburg, Hancock and Meade and
Doubleday and Sickels; over against them
Lee and Longstreet and Pickett and 15O,-
900 struggling men: at Appomattox. Grant
and vast host and n gallant quarry!
'They will not die from among us; they
throng our exalted stations; they point to
glorified battle plains and to high scaf-
folds. where they paid the last obligations
to right; they sentinel the long and growing
highways of fame; they cluster around
heroic epochs. made noble by their speech
or written words of unself!sh deed: they
are the better angels of our national life,
and prompt to highest purpose and no.
blest devotion, to love the country and her
cause.
Grant could not have conquered, nor any
that have named of any of our heroic dead
have risen to glory, had our armies been
of different material; but now, officer and
man. they are blended one and imperish-
able.
''Beginning with Donelson, to the closing
campaign in Virginia, Grant trod the as
cending round of success and glory, until
at last he stood the embodiment of the pur-
pose of the people in the camp, as Lincoln
was in the cabinet, holding the sword of
the whole union power, lifting 1t above the
PROSTATE purposes and broken fortunes of
a defeated people, whose every hope was
gone, and forever! Ruin in their fields:
ashes on their hearthstones; their social
systems uprooted; their warriors dead;
their sons reduced to daily toll
"They drank the bitter cup they had
brewed, and the world wondered what
would be the fate of the fallen. All his
tory contains no nobler answer than fell
from the lips of the victorious general: Go
in peace-keep your honor, observe the
laws of the land, till the soil. build up anew
your broken fortunes and be dutiful Amer
lean citizens
1.-The surrender at Appomattox was made
to an eagle-not to a vulture: to a lion,
not to a prowling beast of carnage: to an
American citizen, and not to vulgar con-
Queror Valor and devotion gave up the
contest to sublime purpose and infleXible
will; the lost cause surrendered to destiny
and the manifest purposes of Almighty
God. Lee the incarnation of the highest
purposes of his people. yielded to Grant,
the silent, infieNible, unalterable will of the
American republic.
"A grateful country, loving comrades,
admiring citizens, twice elevated him to the
chief magistracy. With the traditions and
forces of a great war. from which his fame
had sprung all around him, what was to be
the influence he should exert upon his fell
dow citizens and the institutions of the
Hand? What would this soldier, bursting
from camps upon the attention of the
world, do with the enormous power in
trusted to his hands? What he did do
furnishes the best answer to the question.
Character such as that of Grant was
slow in growth; not attracting public at
tention, known only to the most intimate
of his companions. and not fully compre-
hended by them; 1t was accretion to a
rock; when the hour came for its display
1t was found ringed and banded by all the
surroundings of his life.
How true he was to friends all know.
His word was pledged at Appomattox 20
the southern soldiery, and at a later day,
when 1t was proposed to ignore the terms
he had made, he stood like lion for those
who had trusted his word-and saved them.
When he discovered that his purposes were
opposed by constitutional authority he
Il bowed his crestedhead and let the Island OF
San Domingogo. He upheld the traditions of
his country and announced, as the illustrl-
Gus before and since him have done, that
on American soil there was room only for
American institutions.
t"And now we have assembled about his
statue three-quarters of n century after
his birth, and while the recollections OF
him still abide with many living witnesses,
TO renew our regard ana tell our affection
for him whose ashes are treasured by our
distant countrymen in historic urn at the
gateway from the sea to the land he helped
to keep-Slet them guard his ashes! Here
is the threshold over which he stepped to
fame This the town that was his home,
and this the state that upheld him through
oltt every moment of his prosperity and
greatness! The thronging thousands who
shall lift careful eyes to the monument at
Riverside shall see beside 1t figure point
ing over mountain and plain and saying:
HE who sleeps here was son of Illinois,
and from her mighty nurturing arms rose
to continental stature and boundless
fame"
Boston, April 2S.-Gen. Longstreet,
of Georgia, Grants great antagonist.
is the guest OF the Middlesex club, AMI
on Monday night was the principal
speaker at it's annual Grant banquet.
Gen. Longstreet upon RISING to re-
spond to- the toast, was received with
long-continued cheers, the audience
standing apd rapturously greeting him,
and even during the first few sentences
it was impossible for the general to be
heard consecutively, owing to the in
tcrruption of applause. He said,
among other things:
.."Of all OF tho union commanders he was
the great leader who accurately surveyed
the great field of war, the elements OF
trength, and points of error, and consid-