Mr. Lincoln said: “ When 'ou 0t below and took Port Gibson and Grand Gul. andjoin Ithoncht you shouldnodownthe river GeneralBanks: and whenyouturnednorth ward out of Big Black I feared it was a failure. I now wishto makeapersoml acknoivledguienttoyou. that you wereright and was wrong." Grant had great confidence in the pluck and mettle of his army, and he considered the victory was half won whenever he made up his mind to let the brave Illine ians and other troops of the Northwest go into the battle. His policy was to “let ’em fight, " and to light the enemy wherever he could find him. Still it cannot be laid to his charge that he was reckless of the lives of his officers and men, for he never asked them to go where he was not willing to load. In the battles of the Wilderness he did not, as has been charged, run heedless upon the intrenchments of the enemy. He resorted to flanking movements, concentrating his strength 1st upon one wing and then upon another; or, having divided the forces of the enemy, he threw his whole force like an avalanche upon the center, and drove him back to new positions, until, dispirited and besieged, the confederato capital fell like ripened fruit into his hands. When he assumed supreme command as Lieutenant General he changed radically the whole Inn of our military operations. He discontinued the plan ofindependent spasmodic movements by our different armies a plan which had enabled the enem to move as upon a pivot, and to confront our divided forces now at one point and then at another, and to bafiic us by a superior concentration of his forces. But, sir, I read from his own report to show whntthispolic was which all now seewas necessary to turn the tide of fortune in our favor. He says: “I thereforedetermined 1st to use the greatest number or troops practicable against the armedforces of the enemy, preventing him from using thesumo forceat different seasonsagainst 1st one and then another of our armies and the possibility of repose froy rinregfiotntinr egsainstdapnrcoed.ucingnecessarysuppliesfor car The anaconda of which so much had been said early in the war was no longer a myth. If he was not the author of the comprehensive idea conveyed by that word to the public mind he was the 1st to vitalize and make it real. He did not simply move forward the army of the Potomac, but for the purpose of employing the enemy at every point and preventing the concentration of his forces upon any given point, GenlGrant set in motion all the armies of the Union Sherman against John ston; Butler moved up the James, Sigcl up the Shenandoahvalley, Banksa alnst Shrcvesport, Sheridan against Early, on other generals in their appropriate places, in the mighty drama which ends in the death of the rebellion. Mr. President, when the histor of this war is carcfullyread with the 0ft e campaigns before you; when all the etails of deptal organization are understood; and when all the orders, correspondence, and dispatches are properly weighed; when all the conperative movements of the various divisions ofhis armies are carefully studied; the vast territory he had to overlook, to conquer, and todefend; vast communications by land and water; immense supplies and transportation to be provided; aconfronting enemy ever vi ilant, brave, confident, commanded by skillful cadet s; and all the splendid results of his great plans are considered, we may truthfully pronounce him the model commander of the age in which he lives. I know well the secret of his power, for when I saw him at head uarters, upon the march, and on the battle held, in his plain, threadbare uniform, modest in his dept, careful of the wants of the humblest soldier, personally inspecting all the disositions and divisions of his army, calm an courageous amid the most destructive fire of the enemy, it was evident that he had the confidence of every man from the highest officer down to the ham blest drummer boy in his command. He also judged men with the most unerring accuracy, so that when the choicelaywith himhe alwu 5 selected the right man in the right place. Needll mention Sherman, McPherson, Meade, Hooker, Hancock, Thomas, Howard, Logan, and many others who were relied upon by him, each for some particular excellence or fitness assigned a specific duty? With what sagacity, too, did he select those 2 gallant chieftains, Grierson in the West and Sheridan in the East, as a vant couriers to herald his own mighty comlllg. It is needless to recount here the details of Grierson’s grand raid, in which, with 3 regiments only, he suddenly abandoned all communications with his base and supply trains, almost without artillery, and beset on all sides by hostile forces, and, subsisting entirelyupon the enemy’s country, be swept through the confederacy, cutting telegraph lines, destroying railroad communications, burning depots of military supplies, and spreading disma among the people, and after destroying mi lions' worth oi the enemy’s stores, marched into NewOrleans, with streamin colors and glad music, amidst the wild ace amations of the army of the Gulf. I need not refer to Sheridan. His heroic deeds outshine the romantic stories of the past, when mailed knights fiereply strove with ods around the walls of Troy. such was Grant’s confidence in Sheridan that it is said he hardly ever gave him an order in detail. When he asked the privilege of attacking the enemyin his stronghold at Winchester, Grant’s simple order was, “ Go in.” And on another occasion he said to Sheridan, “ Go and whip Early.” It is said that Napoleon was reatly disturbed and uneasy during the battle of Baut zen, until he heard the sound of Ney’s us thundering on the left, when he sat quietly down and wrote Marie Louise the victory was gained. such confidence as Napoleon in Mar shal Ney, Grant had in gallant, glorious Phil. Sheridan. The American people have not lavished upon their heroes costly presents or princely estates, nor stately pile nor royal titles, such as England bestowed upon her Marlborou hs, her Nelsons, and her Wellingtons, but for their eat services this nation has conferred upon ashington, Jackson, and Taylor a positi on of more value than heaps of shining gold and prouder than that of emperor; and monarchs may well env them the title of citizen POTUSA. Who among the long roll of honored names has achieved a grander success or given to his peoplea nobler boon than Grant? Black vis age war desolated the land; horrible dread froze up the fountains of hope;from every house went up to heaven wails for the loved and lost, louder than Israel for her 1st born; and from foreign despotisms came the shouts of exultation over the fading fortunes of our great experiment for universal liberty. And when there was no eetoity or arm to save, sud denly a light 5 eametl athwart the sky. hope banished sickly fear, order was where confusion reigned, and victory snatched our chustened nation from the jaws of ruin and clothed her anew with the garlands of immortal youth; and the people saw high above the common plane their 2 deliverers, Lincoln and Grant. Alas! how soon the dread javelin seeks the shining mark and leaves but one. Long may he wear the charmed life; lthuriel lilrc, within our Eden, be “armed with asear of celestial temper." And now, sir, why should we not eagerly seize the opportunit to confer upon GenlGrant the grade of Generalof the armies of the U.S.? It was conferred on Washington, and who will say it was not justl and worthily bestowed? Then why shall we oless to him who dared all and conquered all in a darker and grander crisis of our fate? If it is objected that we should not lavish honors and emoluments upon one where all, officers and privates, have one so well, I reply, if reply is necessary, that in honoring him we honor all his comrades in arms, and I am sure that not one, from the highest officer, from the cat Sherman down, own through all the ran s to the hnmblest private soldier, will say no to this tribute to the exalted worth of their great commander. I repudiate the imputation of prodality of the people’s money in advocatm tie small appro nation proposed to be adde to the sal ar of) Genera Grant by this bill. While I he love this grateful and magnanimous nation will not object to this almost nominal increase of his salary, I believe they are also willing to be taxed to the extent of making all our soldiers equal in bounty and pay fort eirscrriccs in rescuing the country from total ruin, and for that reason I desire to vote for any measure that will accomplish that measure at the earliest possible moment. If this congress should issue 100 year bonds, with interest, to be appropriated to the supportof our wounded and penniless soldiers an of the widows of such as died by disease or wounds in the service, and for the liberal education of the orphans of our poor dead soldiers, do you suppose our nation would be any poorer for such a boon to its brave defenders who saved its very life? No. sir. but far richer, for then, indeed, would tnis nation be strong in a race of heroes; every cabin would be a fortress and every woman a soldier; and while our posterity, who had the principal of the debt to pay, would celebrate the achievements of the men who had borne aloft the flag, they would also indorse the acts of the statesmen who had done some little to reward the heroes who had offered themselves a willing sacrifice upon the altars of patriotism and liberty. It has come down from age to age, as the shame of the ancient republics, that they were ungrateful to public benefactors; that those who had borne theirea les farthest over conquered kingdoms, or ren cred most service to their country, either in the field or council chamber, were the most liable to censure, ostracisin, and even death to gratify the popular caprice. The poet thus characterizes this popular caprice in the sudden transfer of the popular favor from the defeated Pompey to the victorious Ciesar, by word. but into the mouth of a tribune of the people, wh0 says: "W hplrocmfoere? rejoice? Whnt conquestsbrings ho What tributaries follow him to Rome. To gracoin captive bondshis chariot wheels? Youuplockls, you stones.you worse than senseless "18$ 0. you hard hearts.you crucl menof Rome, new ye riot Pompey? Many a time and 0H Have you climbed up towalls and battlements, To towersand windows.you. to chimney tops, Your infants in your arms, and there haveset The live long day, with patient expectation, To seegreat Ponipev passthe streetsof Rome; And when you saw is chariot but appear, Have on not madean universnl shout, That ‘iber trembled underneath her banks, To hear thereplication of your sounds Made in her concave shores? And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holld ‘I And do you now strew flowers in agisway 'llghactomes in triumph over Pompey's blood? 0gone: Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the godsto intermit the plague That neods must light on this ingratitudo." Mr. President, never let it be said that this Republic shall incur the shame of ingratitude to public benefactor s which spreads a cloud over the bright glories of the great republics of the past. But, Mr. President, I should not finish the picture were I to stop here. Grant is free from ine rdinate ambition, and from many of the faults and vices which have sullied the characters of many others who have been chronicled as great men in history. He is an honest man; he is gentle and kind hmugnauimous to the vanquished; of rugged virtue; stern simplicity; lain, republican manners; true to freedom without regard to caste; spotless of life, and elevated devotion to country, sptuurnigy ing out before the world as Washington and Lincoln stood, an ever present and sublime illustration that exalted greatness and exalted goIodness are one and inseparable. do not wish to deal in panegyrie. I know that Grant cares as little for it as any man. He never sought glory. There is nothing about him of the pomp or vain gloriousness or glare which men call glory. A I that he desires is truth. He is the last man who would have ascribed to him achievements which he never wrought, or praise for words he never uttered. Its we look upon that calm, reticent, statue like figure, it is hard to realize that he is the man 'who stood self poised and unmoved by the discordant elements of the great revolution through which we have passed, and with the certainty of fate directed the destiny of a continent. But time, which at last sets all things cycn, Will reveal him to the world and blazon hlmgreater in history than Alexander, whose ambition the conquest of a world did not sat isfy; greater than Ctesar, who sacrificed the glory of republican Rome for the pageantry of universal empire; and greater than Napoleon, who bartered the victories won by the sword for the vain ma ificence of the impterial purple. Grant we comed the end of conquest as a national blessing. His name will go shining down the ages lustrous with the halo of great achievements and of great beneficence, without the stain of selfishness; and will be enshrined in the hearts of the coming millions as the man to whom we are most indebted for the success of our arms, the triumph of truth and liberty, and the preservation of our national Union.