Speech of Hon.
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon.: Joseph G. Cannon Before the Middlesex Club, Boston, Saturday, April 30, 1910 One of the weaknesses of age is the tendency to live in the past; but it is true that the contests of those who have gone before, their battles for correct policies in war and peace, their efforts to write those policies into legislation, their struggles against the counsels of the vicious, the ignorant, the selfish, and the demagogue, constitute a glorious history, show the timbre of the people who have preceded us. and furnish examples and experience by which we may profit in solving the problems that confront us to-day. Therefore, I make no apology for uniting with the Middlesex Club, a Republican club, in celebrating the birthday anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant. In April, 1861, he was a clerk in his father´s store in Galena. In April, 1865, he was the most famous military man in the world. In April, 1861, he presided at a Union meeting in a small Illinois town, unknown even to the majority of his neighbors; in April, 1865, he presided at that most famous Union meeting at Appomattox, when armed resistance to the Union ended. He had not come to this success and distinction through political favoritism or favorable publicity, unless we accept General Bragg´s epigram on Grover Cleveland; "We love him for the enemies he made." All the political generals and all the literary generals were opposed to Grant, and without friends in Washington and nothing but his record as he made it commending him, he went from one victory to another, compelling.recognition until Lincoln placed him in command of all the Union armies before he had ever met or seen the man. General Sherman said every other general in the western army had his press agent with him, and while the newspaper accounts were necessarily confusing as to who were the real heroes, none of them gave Grant the credit; but the truth could not be kept from the Government and the people. Almost up to the day of Lee´s surrender there were severe criticisms of Grant and the country at times was compelled to doubt, as they read of him as a "butcher" needlessly sacrificing life, as a "drunkard" unlit to command troops, as a dull and commonplace man, utterly devoid of military genius; but somehow his work and the victories that followed him answered the criticism, and the men in the field and their friends at home waited with hope that he would succeed where others better advertised had failed. No Hysteria In Grant. General Grant seems to have been a perfectly normal man. He had neither enthusiasm nor passion, and no hysterical development of any kind. He had no sense of the dramatic, and failed to do those things which instantly appeal to the public eye. He was so calm under all circumstances that he seems to have communicated some of his unexcitable nature to those about him, even to the horse he rode. Who ever heard of Grant on a prancing, rearing war horse? Why, even the artists who are ever looking for the dramatic and picturesque have always pictured Grant sitting quietly on a horse standing on four feet, as quietly as though just unhitched from the plow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the
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