Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1878 — Why Gen. Grant is Honored. [ARTICLE]

Why Gen. Grant is Honored.

I must here remark that my ignorance in regard to the European ovations so generously and properly given Gen. Grant lias induced me to believe that these ovations were to be participated iu, indirectly even, by the United States of America as regards to an ex-President. Not a bit of it. Indeed, the friends of the General here ignore the United States in this association altogether. No ovations, no honors from crowned and uncrowned dignitaries, go to ye, good people of America. It’s all a mistake to think so. The international favoring and flavoring is all mythical. It is entirely, solely, and singly personal and to Gen. Grant, “the Wellington of America,” that these ovations are given, and to him as a soldier, and not as an ex-President or a future one. The logic of this is incontrovertible. I am told that when the Prince of Wales addressed Gen. Grant, he said: “I welcome you to England, General, as the second—the American—Wellington.” That was a pretty speech for the gallant Prince to make, and he can put pretty phrases into the right place now and then. The boy King of Spain the other day was even more gushing. He said: “General and savior of your country, Spain is proud to greet you on her soil, for Spain is the country of warriors, and you are the greatest of our age! ” Good for the boy King! There is a grace about the Spanish language that even makes truth in simple sentences pale beside the very eloquence of fancy. Mucho palavera is a peculiarity of the Spaniards. —Cor.Cincinnati Enquirer.