Mr. DEMING. When GenlGrant 1st entered upon the general direction of affairs 4 new and controlling characteristics forth with reformed, invigorated, and systematized our military administration cooperation of purpose in our separated armies, energy in attack, rapidity in pursuit, and wisdom in the selection of the commanders of armies, corps and divisions; the fit man for the fit place. I cannot, in this brief resumeof his services which I am attempting, but barely allude to the manner in which be combined the scattered and independent Operations of our various armies in the field, concentrated upon a single point the entire military strength of the nation, and destroyed that damaging expedient by which the enemy in command of the interior fines of communication was enabled to reenforce any of his armies which were vigorously assailed. The campaign upon which the Lieutenant General 1st entere is admitted by the highest Military crities to have been grand and perfect in its conception, contemplating the simultaneous movement and the pint action of 4 armies the army of the otomac the army of the Cumberland, the arm of Western Virginia, and the army of the nines each with a different objective point, but all contributing to the great purpose of the campaign, the destruction of the chief army of the rebellion. If the plan partially failed, and what was designed to have been finished in the field was at length completed by a retracted siege, it was not due to an want of genius or merit in the plan or of ski] and vigor in executing that part of it under the immediate supervision of the commanding general. No man can contemplate, without admiration and wonder, that hanto hand fight in the blind thickets of the bloody Wilderness, that persistent and inflexible advance against overwhelming natural obstacles, against a determined enem intrenehed in front, acquainted with every path and with every point of attack and resist ance, in possession, too, of interior lines over which he could rapidly hurry his troops, and throw them impetuously in any direction. No one can contemplate without astonishment and sympathy the burden of labor anxiety, and solicitude which he cheerfully bore during the immense labors of that protracted siege, and at its final success our thanks to Grant unconse iously mingled with our thanks to God. For this crowning work alone. so important in its immediate results, and charged with ultimate consequences so momentous to liberty, civilization, and the human race, let grati tude unbounded. unmeasured, infinite, be freely tendered, and let substantial honor and reward be bestowed in some slight degree commensu rate with the obligations of an emancipated and rese ued nation. I think I may safely invoke the favor of the Representatives of the people to the humble testimonial prolfered by this bill. Let. us not in this day of our deliverance paralyze future Iwroism and reaffirm before the civilized world theingratitudo of republics by refusing this rlllflll tribute to the foremost soldier of this generation; to him who, entering the war as captain, won in its battles every successive grade, and emerged from it witha rank unsur passed in our service; to him who at Fort Don clson 1st lightened the despondency of a trembling nation; to him who at Shiloh 1st demoralized the spirit of the haughtiest of foes; to him who at Vicksburg 1st released the loyal Father of Waters from forced complicity with treason; to him who at Chattanooga 1st opened the gates of Georgia that Sherman might swee from Atlanta to the sea and from the Savanna to the Cape Fear; to him who received the swords of Buckner, Pemberton, and Lee, and the capitulation of 3 great armies of the rebellion; to him who successfully conducted 2 of the most memorable sieges in history; to him, finally, who dissolved the confederacy at Richmond, and struck every rebel rag from the Rappahannock to the Rio Grande. Time, it is said, devours the proudest human memorial. The impress we have made as a nation may be obliterated; our grandest achievements, even those which we now fondly deem eternal, those which embellish the walls of that historic Rotunda, may all drop from the memor of man; our civilization, liberty, arts, agricuture, though sculptured in the pediments of this Capitol, may all beingulfed in Lethes dark waters; this massive structure, with its solid foundations, expanded wings, towering columns, and bubbling dome may all be buried with our Constitution, Government, laws, and polity, in a common grave, yet we shall not alL perish. You may rest assured that 3 American names will survive oblivion, and soar to ether immortal: the name of him who founde, the name of him who disenthralled, with the name of him who saved the Republic.