Show five minute chats about our presidents by JAMES MORGAN ULYSSES S GRANT 0 0 1822 april 27 hiram ulysses grant born at point pleas ant 0 1839 enrolled at west point military academy as ulysses simpson ant 8 in the mexican war 1848 aug 22 married julia dent 1854 resigned from the army 1861 colonel of twenty first 1111 nois volunteer regiment of infantry 1861 august brigadier general 1862 april fought battle of shiloh 1863 july 4 took vicksburg 1864 march lieutenant general in command of the armies may opened his campaign in the wilderness in clr ginia 1865 april 9 received lees lets surrender at appomattox court house 1869 march 4 inaugurated eighteenth president aged 45 1872 grant re elected the credit Mob lifer scan da dal exposed 1876 february whisky ring exposed march belknap secretary of war impeached 1877 march 4 grant retired from the presidency 0 0 FAILURE at thirty nine at for aty A tyone ty one grant was uns the most successful soldier of hla his generation war was his element but he did not suspect IL it on the contrary he hated warfare was bored by army life and never read books on the military art in the mex wex lean ican war ar he lie had lind been contented to be aft JA 1 0 f r 3 4 grant as second lieutenant ade grael ed from the fighting line in the quartermaster department that experience inclined him to be a con tractor tor for supplying bread to the army at the out outbreak brenk of the civil war when hen the politicians refused to make male him an officer the first time grant came in sight of the enemy in the civil war he frankly tells tell q us that hla his heart jumped into hs his throat 1 I had not the moral courage conrage he said to halt and consider what hat to do I 1 kept right on I 1 that Is the whole thole atory of how hov grant got to appomattox Appo mattoi he kept right on starting without a friend at his back and with only a ion long un broken trail of disappointments disappointment behind him he never asked for promotion an assignment or a favor yet this man rose to be general in chief no conqueror ever was higher than grant at appomattox sad ad and depressed as he tells us at the doAn downfall fall of a valiant vallant foe he met lee as it if that foeman in war were a neighbor in trouble when he became president it was grant grants a misfortune to know no one except his associates in the war the belt self respecting among them kept ausy aw ay from him but the self seekers and the camp followers fol loners crowded about a nan man who whomever never forgot and neer distrusted a friend not even when he woe came bearing a greek gift and senator diaries charles sumner spoke scornfully of the administration as a 41 gift enterprise ter prise the many scandals of the administration were mostly traceable to the betrayal of grant 8 childlike conil dence in uil unworthy orthy friends black friday in street cast its shadow on his family circle itself the whisky ring the presidents private secretary A mem ber of the cabinet was impeached for squalid transactions tran actions but by accepting his resignation grant let him dodge the conviction A liberal section of distinguished republicans revolted against grants election to a second term but they were mostly leaders without followers the popular revolt did not come until the panic of 1873 had plunged the country into six ears cars of hard bard times and a tidal wave in the election of 1874 swept the democrats into control of the house SLUGS AND ARROWS 1877 9 grants tour of the world 1830 1880 june defeated for nomination for third term in republican national con bention entered the firm of grant ward bankers in new york 1884 failure of grant ward grant began to write hla his personal memoirs at af filched with cancer of tho the throat 1885 march 4 congress revived the rank of general for him july 23 died at mt mcgregor N Y aged six ty three LIEN grant left the white house W WHEN freed from public care tor for the first time in 15 years his uppermost wish was to visit his daughter sirs mrs nellie Sartor ls in england where he was mas surprised by the public welcome that greeted his arcinal lie he was uns puzzled to find himself a personage said james kussell russell lowell but his polita cal friends were quick to see in hla his triumphs abroad a chance to restore their own prestige at home and they urged him on until he had bad completed a tour of the world which perhaps unequaled in brilliance A at he went his way from london to tokyo emperors and kings honored him coming home after a three years absence he lie weakly yielded to the politicians who he were using his name an j in a desperate adventure to regain power for the stalwart faction ol 01 the republican party but the ten law against it third term was anva vin dilated in his defeat in the republican I 1 contention convention of 1880 railing the white house loue Il lie waa was tempted by a I 1 young napoleon of rI finance nance into the whirlpool of lieu york and to become a partner in a wall street bank into that blind venture he lie put what little money he be had bad and most of all his name after three years he was rudely audil anak awakened ened from his dream of wealth by the young napoleons request that he go borrowing from william II 11 N to kave the bank from crashing ue he was lame from a fall on an icy street when the truth wa was broken to him but he limped into the fifth avenue palace of the multi millionaire pillion alre and came out with ODO aa As lie he entered the bank two days later he was met with the crushing news mat the firm of grant waa ward had gone down donn in a shameful failure hours afterward a clerk found the broken man still sitting at his desh desk in silent despair hla his head dropped for forward his hands bands gripping the ann of lils his chair out of bad came good grant opens his personal memoirs with a frank n that he consented to writt that great narrative only because jit lit was nas living on borrowed money when a publisher proposed the tul tal in ing As he lie pursued hla his theme he lie was grat idled to discover nn an unsuspected gift for unfolding a moving tale of bis his ad ventures and achievements in the field he ile wrote rote on until he had finished 4 story as imposing in its directness and as hl hig own nature and the first sales of it brought his wife when he lie was nas gone more money than oil all the earnings of his lifetime one day in the midst of hla his writ ing as he be was eating a peach he felt a stabbing pain in his fits throat A cancer had him in its clutch with grim heroism he be fought it un til he lind completed the two volumes of his memoirs although he was reduced to the necessity of whispering hl his dictation in the ear of a eapher finally he was left speech less and had to write out the cl closing chapters on a pad in his lan inn at the coming of summer he was taken up state to a cottage on sit mt mcgregor there he silently welcomed elc omed as he sat on the piazza the visitors who came to see him film among them gen cral eral atmon buckner buchner to th tint thit it classmate at west eat point and at I 1 ort donaldson grant gave his last message of rejoicing that ills sil sufferings suffering frer had united north and wid south ID a cou ivion sympathy 1920 by jama jam morgan blui irto |