The sun., 1897-04-27

Pepin and Charlemagne only crossed the Alps,
Cesar travelled only from Belgium to Spain
and Egypt, Napoleon never was in America,
Alexander never saw China. Grant traversed
| the world, made Wellingtons life provincial.
| arbitrated as the private friend OF Jealous kin
dred nations. was Lincoln's recourse. Victoria q
friend, Bismarck's guest: what was ever like it I
He doubled Marco Polo on Columbus, buried
opponents like Sumner and Greeley with the un-
varying crystallized face and expression, an
swering in the industrious simplicity of his
tasks down to the fatal, pride-pierced end to the
Village Blacksmith:
Toiling rejoicing. sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes,
Each morning secs somo task begin.
Each evening sees It close.
Finally he becomes tho one monumontalized
guest of the Rome. the metropolis OF the newer
half world. His tomb. like Hadrian's mausoleum,
survives in the chief vista, line of great men
buried here with public honors for specific bene-
factions.
Few think to-day that a great statue of De
Witt Clinton stands In Greenwood: that Fulton
and Hamilton and Gen. Gates lie among US;
the impassive, quiet stranger from the ruined
mining town of Galena has usurped tho highest
hill. the most expensive temple, the public PARK.
1t is like the tomb Of Hiawatha-to something
not yet Ineligible because SO plain Reduced
to his essentials, Grant had no moro than the
Indian myth: his bow and arrow stone.mill and
family brood. For seven years he was q do
tached soul. struggling to put his foot across
the limits Of society. dropped officer not At to
be made town surveyor.
l well recollect the bitter face Of Dick Yates,
Governor Of Illinois. as he recited to mo in
Grants Presidency how he had lost tho great
chance to win Grants friendship, but at length
tossed him bad regiment In Understanding
stinginess.
washburne also feared Grant after he had
enjoyed for years the rank OF Grants legislative
savior. There was In Grant q growing mastery
such as tutors and playfellows fear in their
prince He came on with those great and true
white horses of Marty" the Events.
savage soul was there borne on by tho
plunging steeds he could not hold. He hung to
them. They and he arrived breathless This IL
the statuary. the monument
Grant had not much scmblance nor resem-
blance.
As President he led to their stations tho broad
galaxy OF his war generation, like Napoleon be-
fore him, and made a corresponding displace-
ment in the legislative and statesman genera
ton which had not prepared for his arrival
These rebeled, but he stayed a mute mourner
by their tombs. Grant was faithful undertaken
to the displaced. The mime, whose appearance
AL tho SciuBio 10 lho oikAul Ol puIllC ana QoALl,
was not more impassive. more mournful.
What is 80 relentless as to survive them over
whom we have trumphed. and to remember
their funerals with decency!
The study Of eminence In Grant is like taking
up the old theological faiths with tho dictum of
modern knowledge. He dispensed with all the
appearances of pride. but insisted upon every
reality of success revived grade, revived
pay. the Presidency. He rebuilded his capital.
He expressed the view and acted upon It, that in
exchanging his life position of General for the
Magistracy. he was entitled to more than tho
two terms he had already received.
His course through the nations. the array of
rich presents. the return and attempted renomi-
nation seemed to repeat on a civil field his
military fankings. standoff great battles, and
continental strategy.
His active work for Garfield who beat him.
recalls Gen. Washington's last campaign to beat
Jefferson and carry Virginia for the Federalists.
Grant was unquestionably in 1880 the foremost
politician in the United States. His appearance
at Mentor recalls the saying OF Chateaubriand
that the old surtont Of Bonaparte stuck up at
Boulogne would made all Europe run to arms.
Many of Grants acts tested former friend
ships, as when, having habilitated Logan in
Illinois politics, he espoused the cause of Fitz
John Porter, TO whom Logan was hostile to the
pitch Of self.esteem.
In fact, Grant in peace was like other kings
retired from business, the subject OF one of Dr. |
Doran's curious books. and he espoused many |
things not to his craft. among others his sons
banking foldcrol with the Claude Melnotte of
mssionary's sons.
Two scenes rise to the height of dramatic sub |
Unity In Grants domestic career: his uncon-
seriousness that at his elbow sat a secretary
around whom his police and attorneys were
trin infy tn.lin intp nI A.