The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-04-15
'''' A Relic of Grant.
The Business Man

Grant, who was sitting in the Office of his
friend Rowley when the news was brought to
him that the Republican convention had denied
him the nomination and given it to Garfield, had
just lighted one of his famous cigars Walking
out to the sidewalk he stood for moment in
thought, then tossed the cigar in the street.
turned and went back into the office. Il can't
say that regret my own defeat" he said quietly.
by it shall escape four years of hard work
and four years of abuse. And, gentlemen we
can all support the candidate"
Across the street was a jewelry store. When
the son of the proprietor saw Grant throw away
his cigar he sent a clerk to retrieve it. That
cigar, the symbol of the end Of Grants public
career, is one of the Grant relics which is pre-
served in Galena to this day. But II is only
one of the many which you find on every hand.
A modern paved highway leads you into
Galena, but the moment you enter the town, you
realize the aptness of someone's description Of
Galena as "a town where time stands still" The
crooked narrow streets which wind in and out
among the old stone and brick houses are the
same streets along which walked the notables of
q century ago. But the booming river town of
those days is no more. The river itself, that was
$50 feet wide in 1874, is but thin trickle now,
barely kneedeep. The levee where once scores
Of packet boats tied up is gone. For once you
realize that the much overworked words Of
sleepy" and quaint" as applied to 'little
town" are true because Galena is both.
There are innumerable landmarks which stand
unchanged by the years to take you back to
another century. They suggest innumerable in
teresting stories Of frontier times in Hlinois-of
the days of the voyageur and the trader, of the
Indian wars, Of the old steamboat river days.
But dominating them all is the memory of one
mana late conner in the history of Galena to
whom Galena clings as giving 1t now its only
claim to fame 1t is the memory of Grant.
Galena will show you the store in which
Grant clerked and the First Methodist Episcopal
church in which Grant and his family worshiped
They will take you up along "The Street of the
Generals" and point out to you the homes of
Rawlins and Rowley who were generals on
Grants staff during the war, and that of his
friend Doctor Kittoe, who became medical d.
rector Of the Army of the Tennessee with the
rank of lieutenant colonel
They will take you out to the cemetery and
show you where rests "the only Grant who
stayed in Galena"-Samuel Simpson Grant,
Ulysses brother, who died in September, 1861
and is buried there. Through the principal park
in the town, named for the general and DOM
mated by bronze statue Of him, they will lead
you up the hill the brick house which Galena
once gave to her distinguished citizen and which
his son. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, gave back to
Galena to be preserved as Grant memorial.
There you may look upon innumerable relics Of
the Citizen the soldier and the President and his
family, for 1t is furnished and kept as it was
when the Grants occupied it,
In fact. there is scarcely place in the town
but that has its memento of him or can con-
tribute some incident to the story of his career
Grant and Galena, Galena and Grant-the words
have become inseparable. His ashes may rest
in the magnificent tomb on Riverside Drive in
New York city. but the living memory of him can
be found only in little Illinois town "where
time stands STILL"
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