The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-27
ULYSSES S. GRANT AND WIFE.
50. Louis Globe Democrat.

50. Louis Globe Democrat.
Mrs. Julia Dent Grant has Joined her illus
trious husband in the transition that forms
one of life's boundaries. A wealth of grateful
and suggestive memories touching the lives of
Gen. and Mrs. Grant is part of the history of
st. Louis. Mrs. Grant was born first met her
husband, and was married in st. Louis, and
here they struggled Loyalty together through
some years of adverse fortune. Their union
was ideal. They met and loved, and it can be
said of their marriage that they were happy
ever afterwards in each others companion
ship. To what extent wife is an element in
the success of her husband is too deep sub
ject for the best analyst of the springs of char
acter and action. Somewhere in her writings
Mrs. Grant has said she always knew that
Gen. Grant, even when holding an humble
position as a clerk, was a great man. There
was slight prospect in those days that Ulysses
s. Grant was a name that would be heard
around the world, but Mrs Grant was not sur
prised to be in the White House in 1869, though
eight years before her husband was a book
keeper in small way in the little town of Ga
lena. In the intervening years the quiet pod-
der whom his wife knew to be man of i'm
mense latent power, had compelled the sur
render of three armies and ended the most
dreadful war OF modern times
Gen. Grants home was always a haven and
his wife his best counselor. They were fire.
quently together in the camp. There is pho
tograph of the two in front of a small tent
which served as headquarters of the comman-
der in chief during the final advance on
Petersburg and Richmond. No display or
posing is in the picture, not the slightest pre-
tension of any kind. 1t is a simple little
family group, serene-faced matron with her
soldier husband standing near, with a certain
intensity in his eyes and brow that speaks of
vast responsibilities steadily borne. Mrs.
Grant is understood to have spent several re-
cent years in writing an photographed
work. 1t will be fitting companion of Gen.
Grants hook and will throw an invaluable
light upon his qualities. No thoroughly salts
factory life of Grant has yet been written.
The full secret of his ability has not been laid
bare. Mrs. Grant was its closest and keenest
observer and her intuitions as well as her
judgment as woman of strong sense and in
tellectuality, will interest the student of the
achievements of one of the worlds greatest
soldiers, man profoundly simple, yet pro-
foundry subtle in the best sense of the word
The story of Gen. Grant and Mrs Grant will
always be an inspiring one aside from its
military and political aspects Their union
was a noble realization of what marriage
should be. Their fidelity to each other, their
Unfaltering devotion, their mutual, unreserved
reliance and confidence, became second ma
ture For richer or poorer, for better or worse,
were words meaning to them just what they
implied. Adversely might make them anx-
ious, but could not touch their unfathomable
love and respect for each other. The mind
naturally reverts, in this connection. to Presi-
dent McKinley's conception of husbands
duty to love and cherish wife too frail to
bear the whole weight of high station. Grant
was equally chivalric and devoted, though
Mrs. Grant was an equal partner iIAhfalth and
force of character. Marriage is not a failure,
but the greatest good, in the light of such
shining lives.