Show t f 1 Crene general rai grant A 8 F bat ballsun Bull sUn 1 1 as y p t i I 1 it is announced that gen gran grant has an incurable disease which will end his litak life in a short time he H recently expressed ali the bb pinion tha that his days were few A special in terest now attaches to the tile man to al I 1 he be docs does and arid saas sa and especially to t the record which he lie is making up ui 1 of his event eventful tul life no american since the days of NV washington ashington ha haq 7 filled so prominent a place in ilia th estimation of his countrymen anc and in the I 1 ih judgment of e english 9 speaking world as gen grant if he a will figure in history as one of oi the great characters of the tile nineteen ih century ilia ilis country countrymen inch ha have i ve arlius t pride J J in arid achievements they have not nov been always just toward him and sometimes they bavo have been more mor e than just excusing his errors from excess bf generosity gl G ea en grant has not always been just with ro to himself ilia ilis career has been asprion a striking one both for its lack of early success san and d for th the e won wonder derl ul ill achievements of his later days gen grant was not an a accident he lie had great arc opportunities and gad vantage of these the man was made some men make tuni ties but gen grant found fabun I 1 them made 1 after ho had retired as a lieutenant from the army and was interested in tanni agTa C galena liis his prospects beke were iii poor ol 01 brna any ally man in tho the country who had been educated at west point tho the civil war was the opportunity for men of military education who had the right stuff in bliem grant giant demonstrated that he lie had bad the qualities of a successful soldier H he e was never n u brilliant man inan but a slow plodding man who had an unco unconquerable merable will ivill when lidde clar dared ad while on the I 1 direct eliat at he would fight it out on that line if it took all summer ho lie disclosed that personal quality which was at the foundation of all hiis ais success it was K that will backed by L a sound military judgment ho he would stick and hang hanga to the last moment there were a score of moie baill ia G ehalt 11 jeneral en fai sh erman was one of trasa brilliant erratic and somewhat dan berous man who might go wrong 1 or might go right but whose in were always patriotic Gr anChal n 0 arill banc i he lie succeeded many unsuccessful generals he had nota not a much brain power a Il alleck in military strategy ats vs he altogether the equal of thomas lee and others ho lie had ei a d dodged 0 ai 20 n april whid ap bleat i a atje side he ile was the roan mail fur for the great crisis in the affairs anair e country V ahe cabe curoe oat of the war not only oily iritha anti national reputation ion but with willi a reputation recognized in all till the civilized world his country was wab I 1 grateful fur for hia his service it has twice elected him president comparatively ively few feir graduates of west point were so poorly qualified for the presidency debey as ck ami n grant want he was in no sense a civilian and arid he knew nothing of statesmanship for mot most of hia his mature life he lie had not even voted he lie knew little of political patties a rues pud ud jart d jakl I 1 but the greata r ain ain ud ha d helped to gave fave tai and the country rec recognizing his services male lum ar I 1 there is is nothing tin 4 eard SIVI a p worthy pecia a admiration oi lie a V casati wa a sati tho mercy of politicians he ile bali believed ved in his friends ile didiot belleve thai they would ever betra betray b hinnie I 1 UT anny t I 1 I 1 1 oe fiche in he qt or lie roan t at be s slick stick to his friend friends H he a co could tild riot not understand that it was any 67 man should prove false in whom ho lie and ad ope pt placed h en in a abl political 1 sense air howa was obied ociea betrayed yet he be was rarely ca conscious cons clous ol 01 any such betray after gen n reU rement arshi effice ana eife life wn to many muta mutations the worst poli tibal iseri fil tho coli country urged him to bs ie a candidate fora third term tho the precedents which have become tho the common law of the country f forbade bis his election the country was not ungrateful eaul but it had a belter better bense of the propriety riely and fitness of things thing than general grante grance adai advisers ero he went abroad it and no everywhere was lid honored bored with wih 0 I 1 aliu had bad thing to do with cloud clouding his jud judgment as to th tho b propriety 14 0 of a third term the country not un mindful buc it atwould not follow the lead of a cerus of unconscionable politicians genara general I 1 grant retired with big hi honors and gad sn afterward 4 bid b id X private provision made tor haji by IY J ecate his is ends to qua rj ter of a dollar hofle afterward became abe bittini rit tini dami confident thab thai had wil beer we 11 placed c 0 of his ilia eventful the one weak weakley des I 1 I 1 life hii ills 1 e wrecked all the tile haa out ajo bf alk provi wil ihde J gy b bi h 4 friend the th e maj i Y rat rai r aa bal been in invited in labh ra bondu tid d the e lat JA Gover governor ajor Aj mor orans gu guaranty arant V w as backof back it that it or quid pay a 01 fit afi w income for six years gen grant wanted to be put oil the retired list as a general of the A army aly in the last hours of the late be session assion of congress that provision was made yet the proposition had once failed and pending the dis cu cassion ion many ungracious things th bad been uttered by politicians cl ia ns of email mail caliber which pierced I 1 the tile soul of the old warrior he lie could not understand under taud why in liis ills extremity he be should not be treated with justice if not with magnanimity gen grant is now ja calmly almly getting ready for the tile closing evi events ants of br ahja life he is making u up ais chap of war lih tory he ile began the work when he lie was in a pecuniary pecuniary strait his account will be read with interest thus far it has fallen short of a good history general Slier fliermans mans war chronicles were subject to tile same criticism they were interesting reading but they were not calm and 1 history 1 5 1 0 grants statements all 1 1 1 ay 1 provoked ked the protests of some of hia his own Gette generals rals tha fragment of war history has r a special interest in view of jhc thc near noar nes of general the brave margocs man gocs abdul his W work with the same coolness he disclosed on the eve eve of his great battles his hi s days are numbered number pd ho he himbert himself believes that they arc are fewer than alac been intimated by his physicians yet they are working days there is something to be t shed when men that is done do tho the renowned warrion will lie down and d die ie when that event occurs tho country will forget many of the small which seemed to attach to his life irwill it will only remember tho the great character who was not renowned as a civilian and not altogether happy as the historian of the va vir i r but who was one of or the greatest generals of the age and id who became il lustrous by ren rew dering his country the most important service since the tile da days s of washington |