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Show CHICAGO GAVE GRANT a sublime welcome. But she is shaken now with agony because her Democratic mayor in his address gave the General, what is termed to be indirect advice with regard to the third term question. The following sentences includes the objectionable features of the speech: Sir, you have served your country nobly; your country has honored you grandly. Like the immortal Washington, you rose from the lowly walks of life, passed through all military grades until you commanded its glorious armies. Like him, you filled the office of President two long terms. He when his two terms were over, was offered a crown; but, prefering [preferring] the immortality of fame to temporary power, he retired to private life, lives in the hearts of his own people, and all time will call him his country's father. You, too, sir, when your two terms were over, obeying that part of your country's Constitution in its unwritten traditions, hallowed by the example of the immortal Washington. You, too, retired, and you, sir, live and will live forever in your countrymen's hearts. Sir, in the name of Chicago and its people, I prophecy that when fame shall have grown old, when the page of history shall have become dim by the side of the great quartet who have gone before you, your name, your statue, will be placed, and by the side of Washington, of Jefferson, of Jackson, and of the immortal Lincoln will live the name of Grant. |