New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-27

before the war Grant was sad and decreased. He
says Of that famous interview: II felt Ike any
thing rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a
foe who had fought 50 long and valantly, and
who had suffered so much for a cause
at this interview at AppOmattoX thar
by capturing the hearts of the people When he
put in the terms OF surrender the provision which
permitted the officers to retain their side arms ami
mitted the soldiers take their t.rses home to do
me spring plougnins he did more IN Ten minutes
try then all the parliaments OF the world could
Of peace he followed up by preventing President
johnson and Secretary Stanton from arresting Leo
and other Confederate generals on the charge OF
treason
Grant was playing billiards night in the
old Willard Hotel in Washington a man came I'm
and told him that Lee and Longstreet and others
We're TO be arrested and tried for treason IN
be blamed If they areI" he exclaimed, put on his
SLOUGH hat and walked in the darkness toward
the White House. II is known that he threatened
resign the head OF the If The administra-
ton proceeded with It's intention Of violating the
%e h ne ha m cram MAS r gTeT
then Than that OF the administration. and there
Before the war Grant had taken !itte interest in
politics He had voted in Presidential cleo
ton for Buchanan and had favored Douglas IN
1860. He reckoned Democrat and was a
i ber ffber G6Innei i Denf Tbongb he Possessed
little or no knowledge of political affairs. gra:e-
United States In his last annual message to Con
gress he reviewed his work deplored his lack OF po-
ministration the failures have been errors OF
Judgment not of intent" To this history and the
world Will agree. During part of Grants term I'm
the White House lie was surrounded by unworthy
advisers upon whom he leaned too heavily but the
country lost faith IN his honesty or IN his
ability. Four years after he retired from the Pres
idency there a mighty popular movement to
give him a third term which was defeated only
by the tradition that Washington refused such an
honor.
As a business man Grant unsuccessful He
was not a prosperous farmer in Missouri in the
davs before the war and his father and father-in-
law regarded him almost failure in lie. After
he left the Presidency he became involved In Wall
Street and was wrecked BY his partner, Ward. Re-
duoed 10 poverty, he persuaded TO write an
account of some OF his campaigns Tor punHcauoh
in a magazine. The country received them so
gladly that he decided to write his personal me-
moirs. The cancer that had attacked his throat
was causing him the most eXcruciating suiterlns
but he stuck to his task long after he was forced
TO sop using HIS voice for dictaton. lie wrote MS
notes with a pencil revising them painiuily ana
with much care. The work was finished Just pc
fore the end came His body rests IN the -nagnH-
cent tomb In New York that is to-day the mecca or
thousands who go TO pay their respects 20 mo
memory Of this great American soldier and man
The history of great cannot pc written VIII
out the story Of the United States ana that story
cannot be told without the name OF Grant
FREDERIC J. HASKlN.
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