Mr. RAYMOND. Mr. Speaker, I obeya perilous but resistless impulse when I attempt to add a single word to the eulogy upon GenlGrant to which we have just listened with so much delight. I do not rise to rehearse the story so well told; I do not rise to enforce by any additional argument the passage of the bill whose success has been already so thoroughly secured. That success was certain when the crowning reason for the presentation of the bill was stated by the gentleman who has just taken his seat. I seek to do nothing more than to express my own sense of the transe endent services for which this House thus seeks to reward that distinguished general and add a word, if possibly I may, with the indulgence of the House to the estimate of those services. such honors as this bill proposes to create, or if not to create, to rgvive anew for a higher and still greater occasion than that on w 1ich they were created, become the man on whose head they are to cluster and whether you consider his private worth, his patriotism, his distinguished services in the tie d, or the atti tude in which he stands to this great nation today, and will stand through all time to come, those honors cannot be greater than his desert. He has carried this nation through the great rebellion which menaced its existence. He has reestablished the integrity of the Union and the supremacy of the Constitution, which were threatened and endangered by this rebellion. He has established through all time to come the right of the people to govern themselves, the destruction of which right wms involved in the overthrow of the only Government in which it is now embodied. But, sir, even more than this, he has remdered the highest service any man can render his country; he has led the nation through these transe endent trials by which alone any nation ever reaches the 1st rank among the military Powers of the earth; for until a new nation passes successfully through the great crisis of a civilWar she cannot claim a place among the foremost nations of the world. History shows that without such atrial no such conquest has ever been achieved. No nation has ever yet won for herself that foremost rank to which all ambitious Powers aspire, except throlugh the discipline of civil strife and bloo she. When we plunged into this great contest it was without experience, without knowledge of the means and resources that we could command to carry it through, without knowl edge of our own temperand courage to face the crisis. without compactness, or solidity, or any of the elements of strength so essential to success. GenlGrant, it is not too much to say, has shown us that we iosse ssed them all. He has organized, disciplined, and welded them all, and carried the nation successfully through its great struggle. That, sir, is a service for which he will be remembered, not in this land alone, but in all lands where military prowess stands foremost, as it does in every civilized nation of the world. For that we cannot give him too much of recognition or of honor. Nor will this nation ever forget that it owes to him, in all human probability, the perpetuity of the great system of government which this nation was ordained to establish among the nations of the earth and make perpetua and paramount over them all and no words will sound his fitting eulogy; no words less gifted than those used by the distinguished Gentfrom Connecticut [ML Dsmso] can properly and sufficientl describe the long career of his services, the on cata logue of victories he harwon, and the onors he has heaped upon his native land. I rejoice, sir, that this bill has been brought forward to do him honor. Would it were in our power to magnify, to increase, to augment to any extent the honors we would heap upon his name; for it is only by such recognitions from those they serve that the great men of any age ever meet their fitting reward. have listened, as I am sure we all have, with delight to the graphic recital by my honorable friendfrom Connecticut [Mr. Dumso] of the rewards hea )ed by foreign nations upon those who served them. What honors crowned the career of Marlborough! Whnt rewards in palaces, and dotations, and in everythigg elsebe any reward of national gratitude. that a man or his family could prize, awaited the victous Wellington when he returned from the Continent! What, in the face of such honors as these; can we present to those who have rese ued this great nation of free men from the peril with which their Government was threatened? It is not, as has properly been said, the genius of our institutions to heap upon men undue material rewards, even for such distinguished services as these; but, certainly, this nation does not lack a grateful heart, even if its ratitude does not take the same form with that of other nations. We will give to GenlGrant, cheerfully, and with the heart iest acclamations of the nation he has served, ever thing that it is in our power to give. He shal walk from one end of the land to the other, so long as he shall walk the earth at all, honored and endeared to all as the savior of the nation, as the man who rese ued from danger and destruction the priceless principle of self government. Ay, sir, unless gratitude shall fail, in coming generations nothing shall remind us of his name that does not remind us of his services; and when he shall die, and mingle his dust with the dust of our common earth, e shall dese end to an honored grave covered with benedictions, covered with the glorious recollections of theser vices he has rendered, covered with everything that a grateful people can accumulate aroun his memory so as to pepetuate itto successive generations. This is his reward, if there can This would suit, certainly, the quiet, the self depreciating modesty of his noble and heroic c ar aeter and nothing more than this will be needed to satisfy him with what he has done, for he never sought anything but the conse iousness that he was doing lllS duty, with all his bnergy and ll his power. Let this bill, then, sir, pass, as I am sure it will ass, by the unanimous and hearty vote of the House and ifthere beanything else worthy of the nations gratitude and of his acceptance let it be freely offered as the fitting testimonial of the service he has rendered the country and the honor he has heaped on the American name throu by all time to come.