Show HOW GRANT WAS MOBBED The Salt Lake Tribune has recently stated and several times repeated that Generals GRANT and SQERHAX two years after the war were followed from the hotel to the railroad station in St Joe hissed his-sed and hooted all the way by a mob of Southern gentlemen land many vbo saw the act did not believe that either of those Immortal men would live to reach the depot Casually THE HEKALTD denied this Rross misstatement but the persistency persist-ency with which our neighbor adheres to it loads us to give the exact facts of the case It was in the summer of 1867 Generals GUAXT SHEKMAX and BLAIR had all been out vest the two first named inspecting the military posts and BLAIR inspecting the Union Pacific railroad of which he was ono of the government commissioners On their way east they were met at tho St Joseph depot by a great concourse of citizens with a band of music and carriages and escorted to tile Pacific house about S or 9 oclock in tho evening Before they I had time to wash and brush off the dust of j travel loud calls were made some for GRANT some for SHERMAN and some for BLAIR the crowd being anxious to see them and hear them speak Finally introduced in-troduced by General CHAIG a volunteer Union soldier of St Joseph General GRANT appeared on the balcony and made a few remarks saying he had been out west riding in a stage coach in the dust and heat and was tired and could not make a speech but was glad Ito I-to receive this friendly demonstration etc witndrawmg from the balcony to his room General SHERMAN was next presented and addressed the crowd for some minutes There was an eccentric old fellow sitting in his little onehorse wagon in the street fronting the speaker who had a tin born which ho frequently tooted to the great annoyance of General SHBRUAN and his audience Tho general remarked that he didnt often counsel violence but he thought if the noisy follow were taken down to the rival and ducked he would be served about right or words to that effect whereupon a goodsized boy just home from school in the east remarked that if General SHERMAN thought that a proper thing to do he had better come down and try it adding some sneering observation about satraps Tho general soon after closod his speech and withdrew from the balcony General BLAH then went forward I for-ward and mado quite a talk on general subjects sub-jects which closed the ceremonies of the evening This is the basis for the ridiculous stuff which the Tribune foists upon its readers as one explanation excuse or cause for tho Missouri ironclad testoath forbidding ministers of CHRIST to preach tho gospel of peace It illustrates bow a small and in signihcant incident may be magnified and distorted in tho mind of a man whose conceptions con-ceptions are not clear |