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 Grant Reception 
 
 MONOGRAPH. 
 
 COMPRISING A COMPREHENSIVE RECORD OF THE MEMORABLE 
 EVENTS OF "RECEPTION WEEK " IN CHICAGO; BIOGRAPHICAL 
 SKETCH OF THE GREAT HERO; CONCISE HISTORY OF HIS 
 TOUR AROUND THE GLOBE ;(hIS RECEPTION AT SAN 
 FRANCISCO; HIS PRELIMINARY RECEPTION IN 
 CHICAGO ;j FULL TEXT OF ALL THE MORE 
 NOTABLE SPEECHES DELIVERED AT 
 RECEPTIONS AND BAXqUETS ; SOCIAL 
 EVENTS OF THE WEEK; LISTS 
 OF GUESTS AT THE VA- 
 RIOUS soirees; DE- 
 SCRIPTIONS OF 
 TOILETS; 
 ETC. 
 
 "He hath deserved worthily of his crtuntry, and his ascent was not by such easy de- 
 grees as those, who, having^ been supple and courteous to the people, jbonnetted, without any 
 further deed to heave Ihem at all into their estimatio.i and report; but he hath so planted his 
 honors in their eyes and his actions in their hearts, that for their tongues to be sik nt and 
 not confess as much, were a kind of ingrateful injury; to report otherwise were a nrilice 
 that giving itself the lie, would pluck reproof and rebuke from every ear that heard it." 
 
 Shakspbre^ 
 
 CHICAGO: 
 
 L. E. Adams, Publisher, 154 Madison St., 
 
 1879. 
 

 PRINTED BY 
 GUSHING, THOMAS & CO- 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 The welcome accorded to General Grant by the people and sovereigns 
 cf the Old World, while on his travels around the globe, in brilliancy, en 
 thusiasm and universality, is without a parallel in recorded history. He 
 -went abroad, not as the ruler of a vast empire, not even with the humblest 
 insignia of rank, but as a plain unassuming American gentleman, seeking 
 relaxation from the labors incident to his eventful career. But his fame as 
 the greatest General of the age, and the honored Chief Executive of the 
 Great American Republic had preceded him, resounding his deeds from 
 nation to nation, until the civilization and even barbarism of a whole hem- 
 isphere awaited his coming, anxious to bestow their imperial tributes of 
 praise ^nd admiration. Alexander and Napoleon after years of campaign- 
 ing with mighty legions, conquered a continent. Grant touched the shores 
 of Britain, and a world was at his feet! With that modesty characteristic 
 of true greatness, he chose to interpret his honors as intended for him, not 
 as a private citizen merely, but as the representative of a great country. 
 While this is doubtless in a limited sense true, and afforded the General a 
 happy means of turning attention from himself, the equally royal welcome 
 extended him upon his return home was essentially personal in its nature. 
 It was intended for Grant the great soldier, for Grant the Ex-President, the 
 honored of trans- Atlantic nations. It had no party significance, but was a 
 spontaneous outburst expressive of the universal regard entertained for him by 
 his fellow countrymen. In Chicago, as in other cities, General Grant bridged 
 the chasm of party animosity, and political friends and foes clasped hands 
 with common purpose, appropriately to honor the great warrior and states- 
 man. How well they succeeded, seconded by the efforts of a peerless metro- 
 politan society, this volume will attempt to relate, believing the great event 
 is worthy of more permanent record than newspaper narratives ordinarily 
 assure. The occasion furnished gems of oratory among the richest and 
 most brilliant of the English language — fitting jewels in the crown of honor 
 prepared by the Garden City for her illustrious visitor — to preserve which 
 these pages are more especially devoted. 
 
 For the material embodied in this volume we are largely indebted to the 
 ever enterprising press of Chicago, whose exhaustive reports paid splendid 
 tribute to the presence of the city's distinguished guest. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 General Grant's Military Career — His Political Life ..«« 7 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 Around The World... .« n 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 The Reception, Wednesday, November 12th — General Grant's Arrival 
 in Chicago — A Mammoth Procession — Speech of Welcome by the 
 Mayor — the General's Response — Reception by the Army of the 
 Tennessee 28 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Thursday's Programme — the Union Veterao Meeting — Speeches by 
 General Logan, Ex-Governor Oglesby, General Grant, Emory A. 
 Storrs, and Others — Reception at the Residence of the Honorable 
 E. B. Washburn — Reception to Soldiers and Visitors — the Guests 
 — Palmer House Banquet 43 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Friday, November 14: Social Events — Mrs. F. D. Grant's Reception 
 
 — Reception by the Chicago Club 77 
 
 CHAPTER VL 
 
 Saturday Nov. 15: The Reception of Mexican Veterans — the Public 
 Reception at the " Grand Pacific " — At the Residence of Potter 
 Palmer -. 89 
 
 CHAPTER VII 
 
 Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 17 and 18; Reception of the School Chil- 
 dren — Calumet Club Reception — Reception by the Loyal Legion 
 -Second Regiment Reception 94 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 General Grant's Return: Receptions — The Chicago Commercial 
 
 Club Banquet 10© 
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 The Commercial Club Banquet — The City's Decorations on "Recep- 
 tion Week" — The Great Procession — Lists of Reception Com- 
 mittees - 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 
 GENERAL GRANT'S MILITARY CAREER. 
 
 ENERAL GRANT is an Ohio man, having been born at 
 Point Pleasant, Clermont county, in that State, on the 27th 
 day of April, 1822. Born and raised on a farm, he inherited 
 the rugged strength of body and intellect which had character, 
 ized the Scotch stock from which he sprung. Farming 
 life, however, failed to satisfy the ambition of the lad, and, through success- 
 ful personal endeavor, he became at 18 years of age a cadet at West Point, 
 where, notwithstanding that his earlier educational advantages had been 
 greatly inferior to those enjoyed by the bulk of his companions, he gradu- 
 ated with credit and in good standing, and was in July, 1843, brevetted Sec- 
 ond Lieutenant in the Fourth Regular Infantry. His earliest military ser- 
 vice was on the Missouri frontier, among the border Indians. In 1845 he 
 was ordered to Corpus Christi, Texas, where he distinguished himself on 
 the battle-fields of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey and Chapulte- 
 pec, and gained promotion, being appointed Brevet- Captain, the copimission 
 dating from the battle of Chapultepec, where his bravery was such that his 
 superiors in command made special mention of his services. Promoted to 
 a full Captaincy in 1853, he shortly afterwards married Miss Julia Dent, 
 a daughter of Frederick Dent, Esq., a St. Louis merchant. He soon re- 
 signed his commission, and engaged in farming pursuits in the vicinity of 
 St. Louis ; but, agriculture not suiting his taste, he went to Galena, where 
 he started in the leather business with his father in 1859. Two years later, 
 and when the firm of "Grant & Sons, Leather Dealers," were doing quite a 
 prosperous business, the junior partner of the firm, startled by the news that 
 the old flag at Fort Sumpter had been fired upon by the Rebels, decided 
 that his duty as a soldier required him to sacrifice his business interests and 
 offer his services again to his country. He accordingly went to Spring- 
 field, where, after much useful work in recruiting and gettmg into shape a 
 number of regiments, he accepted the Colonelcy of the Twenty-first Illinois 
 Volunteers. With these men he did such good work at Mexico, Mo., that 
 in August, 1861, he was appointed Brigadier- General of Volunteers and 
 sent to Cairo. In February of the following year he co-operated with Com- 
 modore Foote in a successful attack upon Fort Henry, on the Tennessee 
 River, and the garrison of that point having retreated to Fort Donelson, 
 one of the strongest positions occupied by the Confederate army. Grant fol- 
 lowed them, and on the 15th of February, after a desperate battle, captured 
 the summit, a hill which commanded the fort. Darkness came on and 
 
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 prevented the Union forces from reaping that day the full fruits of victory. 
 Early next morning the commander of the fort suggested the appointment 
 of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulatioh, but when Grant sent back 
 the message, " No terms other than an unconditional surrender can be ac- 
 cepted ; I propose to move immediately upon your works," General Buck- 
 ner acceded to what he characterized as " the ungenerous and unchivalrous 
 terms" proposed, and the stars and stripes soon floated over the Southern 
 stronghold. This was the first signal victory achieved by the Northern 
 arms, and it created a profound impression upon the nation. Grant was 
 nominated as a Major-General, and the Senate confirmed the appointment, 
 the commission being dated from the day on which Fort Donelson fell. 
 
 Grant followed up his success at Fort Donelson with the capture ot 
 Clarksville, Nashville, and other important points, and early in April his 
 army was scattered around Pittsburgh Landing, on the west side of the 
 Tennessee River, awaiting the arrival of Buell's force. His opponent was 
 General Albert Sidney Johnston, one of the ablest of Southern soldiers, 
 •who was stationed at Corinth with an army of between 50,000 and 100,000 
 men. Taking the initiative. General Johnston, on the 6th of April, concen- 
 trated his forces, and in the early morning, with an army of 75,000, made a 
 sudden and impetuous attack upon Grant's army, which numbered but little 
 more than half that number. In the desperate battle which followed, the 
 defeat of the Union troops by the overwhelming numbers of the enemy 
 seemed inevitable, when a brigade of Buell's army arrived in time to avert 
 the disaster. On the lollowing day a desperate battle took place, but at two 
 o'clock in the afternoon Grant had driven the enemy five miles beyond his 
 line of the battle of the previous day, and, placing himself at the head of 
 his troops, ltd them in a charge which swept the enemy from their last 
 stronghold. The carnage of this two days' fight was terrific. Grant's loss 
 aggregated nearly 13,000 men, while the Confederates lost 20,000, and among 
 them General Johnston, whose death was in itself a severe blow to the Con- 
 federate arms. 
 
 A reorganization of military departments gave General Grant the De- 
 partment of West Tennessee, reaching from the west bank of the Missis- 
 sippi to the west shore of the Tennessee. The autumn following saw three 
 important victories earned by his armies, — those of luka, Corinth, and 
 Hatchie. The problem which the advance of the Union troops brought to 
 the consideration of their commander was the reduction of Vicksburg, a 
 work which, e^rly in 1S63, General Grant — who knew that the capture of 
 that stronghold meant the opening up of the Mississippi to New Orleans — 
 made preparations to accomplish. Up to this time Vicksburg had triumph- 
 antly defied all military and naval attacks, and a general belief prevailed 
 that the place was impregnable. Preliminary operations of importance oc- 
 cupied a month, when active measures were taken which resulted in the de- 
 feat of the enemy at points whose occupation was necessary to insure the 
 success of the attack on Vicksburg. By May iSth Grant had the strong- 
 hold closely invested, and its fall was only a question of time. Heroic as- 
 saults, which resulted in irrcat carnage but no decisive advantage, made on 
 the 19th and 22d of May, showed that but little was to be gained by such ex- 
 
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 pensive operations, and the assailants confined themselves thenceforward to 
 siege operations, which were finally crowned with success on the 4th. of 
 July, when the supposed impregnable citadel capitulated with 34,620 men, 
 20 Generals, numberless standards, 301 pieces of artillery, and 4,500 stands 
 of arms, — the largest capture up to that time ever made in war. In the 
 Vicksburg operations. Grant had lost 943 killed, 7,095 wounded, and 537 mis- 
 sing; the enemy lost in all 11,800 men. 
 
 On the 25th of November the Union army, under General Grant, stormed 
 and carried Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge, — victories which substan- 
 tially ended the War of the Rebellion as far as the Southwest was concerned. 
 Up to this time General Grant's unbroken succession of victories had resulted 
 in the capture of 472 cannon, 90,000 prisoners, and over ioo',ooo stands of 
 arms, and Congress, on the 27th of February, 1S64, marked its appreciation 
 of General Grant's services by the passage of a bill reviving the grade of Lieu- 
 tenant-General, to which position he was nominated by President Lincoln 
 on the 2d of March following. On the following day he was confirmed by 
 the Senate, with " the authority, under the President, to command tlie armies 
 of the United States." 
 
 Invested with full power, General Grant entered upon the final campaign of 
 the War. With Lee as his opponent, he began, on the 5th of May, the 
 bloody battles of the Wilderness ; and while Sherman was making his famous 
 rnarch to the sea, and other Generals were carrying the Northern armies to 
 success in other sections of the land, Grant, by a series of terrible blows and 
 rapid marches, gradually beat the Southern commander back to Richmond. 
 Here, on the 3d of April, 1865, he pierced the broken lines of his foe, and so 
 overpowered him that six days later the surrender of Lee was accomplished, 
 and the Rebellion was at an end. 
 
 HIS POLITICAL LIFE. 
 
 After the close of the War, General Grant, in response to universally 
 expressed desire, visited various cities of the North, where he was greeted 
 with the acclamations of joyful millions. On July 25, 1866, Congress having 
 passed a bill to revive the grade of " General of the Army of the United 
 States," he was appointed to the life position. On the 12th of August, 1867, 
 when President Johnson suspended Secretary Stanton from the Secretary- 
 ship of War, he appointed General Grant to the position ad mterim, which he 
 held until January, 1S68, when Stanton, whose removal the Senate refused 
 to sanction, resumed possession of the office. In the latter part of 1867, 
 General Grant began to be prommently spoken of in the Republican party as 
 its candidate for the Presidency. The idea grew in the favor of the party 
 daily, and on the 21st of May, 186S, the National Republican Convention 
 assembled at Chicago and unanimously nominated him for the Chief ^lag- 
 istracy of the Nation. Ilis opponent on tlie Democratic ticket was Horatio 
 Seymour, whom he defeated by a majority of 134 Electoral votes. 
 
 Inaugurated on the 4th of March, 1869, President Grant directed his atten- 
 tion early to the army, to the command of which, vacated by himself he 
 nominated Lieut.-Gen. William T. Sherman, and Maj.-Gen. P. H. Sheridan 
 
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 to the position vacated by Gen. Sherman. The restoration of Sheridan to 
 the military command at New Orleans, from which he had been removed 
 by President Johnson, and the appointment of Gen. Terry to Georgia, and 
 Gen. Reynolds to Texas, had the effect of assuring the loyal citizens that 
 tumult and violence in the South were no longer to be tolerated. The nomi- 
 nation at the same time of the rebel Gen. Longstreet to be Surveyor of the 
 Port of New Orleans was criticised at first, but when it was learned that 
 Loncjstreet had, immediately after the War, accepted its results and given 
 his influence in favor of the policy of reconstruction, the appointment was 
 indorsed by the people. 
 
 The financial credit of the Nation was secured by the passage of an act 
 declaring that the faith of the Nation was pledged to the payment of the 
 National debt in coin or its equivalent. 
 
 On the 2Sth of February, 1S69, after a long debate, the famous Fifteenth 
 Amendment was passed, in which Congress, speaking for the Nation, declared 
 that " The rights of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be 
 denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account of race, 
 color, or previous condition of servitude." 
 
 The President and Congress were in harmony on the measures taken for 
 the reconstruction of the Southern States, but. a scheme which the former 
 favored for the acquisition of the Island of San Domingo was disapproved 
 by the Senate, in spite of the report in favor of its acquisition made by a 
 Commission which had visited the Island. 
 
 One of the highest honors of Grant's first Administration was the settling, 
 by peaceful negotiation Avith Great Britian, of a long-standing international 
 dispute over what were known as the " Alabama Claims," being the demand 
 for indemnification made by the American Nation for the injuries done to the 
 American merchant marine by Confederate cruisers built and fitted out in 
 England. The success of the treaty was hailed by the whole world as one 
 of the highest triumphs of peace and international law, as an example to all 
 nations, and as a herald of the day when peaceful arbitration would settle 
 the disputes of nations," and wars would be no more. Of the part which the 
 soldier- President had in achieving this grand result, Hon. Mr. Boutwell 
 stated that, when the unwritten history of the treaty came to be known, it 
 would be learned that its success was largely the result of the personal tact 
 skill, and wisdom of President Grant. 
 
 The success of General Grant's first Administration secured him the 
 Republican nomination for the Presidency a second time, which was given 
 him by acclamation by the National Convention at Philadelphia, June 5, 
 1872. His opponent was Horace Greeley, who secured the Democratic nom- 
 ination, but was defeated. President Grant being re-elected by a popular 
 majority of 762,991. His most important act was the veto ot a bill to in- 
 crease the currency. The adherents of the policy ot inflation had been 
 steadily growing in number, but this firm action checked the advance of an 
 idea with which, subsequent events showed, the majority of the people are 
 not in sympathy. As President of the United States, he presided at the 
 opening ceremonies of the Centennial Exposition. His term expired on the 
 4th of M.'uch, 1S77, by which date his successor, Mr. Hayes, had already 
 been inaugurated. 
 
CHAPTER 11. 
 
 AROUND THE WORLD 
 
 /HEN General Grant retired ironi the Presidency be had a 
 record of sixteen years continuously spent in the military 
 and civil service of his country. During his occupation 
 of the Presidency he had never been outside of the 
 United States, he believing that the Chief Magistrate of 
 the country should not leave it during his term of office. 
 Shortly after his return to private life he visited various parts of the Union, 
 being everywhere received with great enthusiasm. He then made up his 
 mind to devote some of his leisure to the enjoyment of travel in foreign 
 lands. He accordingly took passage for England by the steamer Indiana, 
 one of the only line of steamships which carry the American flag, and left 
 Philadelphia on the 17th of May, 1S77. 
 
 The departure was accomplished with appropriate eclat. A few days 
 after this event the Secretary of State sent to the representatives of his De- 
 partment in foreign lands the following circular, bespeaking for the ex-Presi- 
 dent the consideration due to the position which he held in the esteem of the 
 Nation : 
 
 Department of State, Washington, May 23. 1877. — To the Diflo- 
 waiic avd Consular Officers of the United States. — Gentlemen: General 
 Ulvsses S. Grant, the late President of the United States, sailed from Phila- 
 delphia on the 17th inst. for Liverpool. The route and extent of his travels, 
 as well as the duration of his sojourn abroad, were alike undetermined at the 
 time of his departure, the object of his journey being to secure a lew months 
 rest and recreation after si^iteen years of unremitting and devoted labor in 
 the military arid civil service ot his country. 
 
 The enthusiatic manifestations ol popular regard and esteem for General 
 Grant, shown by the people in all parts of the country that he has visited 
 since his retirement from official life, and attending his every appearance in 
 public from the day of that retirement up to the moment of his departure 
 for Europe, indicate beyond question the high place he holds in the grateful 
 affections of his countrymen. 
 
 Sharing in the largest measure this public sentiment, and at the same 
 time expressing the wishes of the President, I desire to invite the aid of 
 the Diplomatic"^and Consular officers of the Government to make his journey 
 a pleasant one should he visit their posts. I feel deeply assured that you will 
 find patriotic pleasure in anticipating the wishes of the Department^ by 
 showing him that attention and consideration which is due from every officer 
 of the Government to a citizen of the Republic so signally distinguished 
 both 'n ofTicial service and personal renown. I am, gentlemen, your obedi- 
 dient servant, Wm. M. Evarts. 
 
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 IN GREAT BRITAIN. 
 
 Queenstown was reached on the 27th of May. At ^ p. M. of the fol- 
 lowing day, the Indiana arrived at Liverpool. England's ■welcome of Grant 
 was a glorious one. 
 
 Tiie enthusiastic crowds which welcomed him showed that the people 
 deemed himiworthy of the highest honors. The press of the country uni- 
 versally indorsed the popular opinion, as will be seen from the following 
 extracts from the leading English dailies. Said the London Daily Ncms: 
 " He (Grant) is miquestionably one of the greatest soldiers living. No crit- 
 icism can do away with the fact that he was absolute victor in one of the 
 greatest wars known in history. By his skill, tact, indomitable energy and 
 discipline he has succeeded where all who had tried the task before him 
 failed." 
 
 The London Standard said : " The present is an important opportunity 
 of confirming that more friendly understanding which has for some time 
 subsisted between Great Britain and America." 
 
 The Monitfig Post declared that •'Grant is worthy of every attention. 
 His name is so closely interwoven with recent events in the history of 
 the United States that not only in America but throughout Europe he is en- 
 titled to respectful treatment in a degree which it is the lot of but few to 
 command." 
 
 General and Mrs. Grant had a round of festivities at Liverpool. On 
 the way to London the General's presence was everywhere marked with 
 ovations. General Grant's stay in the metropolis lasted a month, and was 
 marked by one continuous succession of fetes in his honor. The earlier 
 days of his visit were given to rest, varied by occasional sight-seeing and 
 social enjoyment, including amongst other events a day passed at the Ep- 
 som race-course, where the General met the Prince of Wales for the first 
 time; dinner with the Duke of Wellington at Apsley House ; a visit to 
 Westminster Abbey, where a sermon was lieard by Dean Stanley, who made 
 in it a graceful allusion to the ex-President; and other pleasant incidents. 
 On the 5th of June the General attended a reception given in his honor by 
 Mr. Pierrepont, the American Minister. This was a most brilliant affair, 
 about 1,000 guests being present, among them the membersof Her Majesty's 
 Cabinet and the entire diplomatic corps, and such distinguished persons as 
 John Bright; William Evart Gladstone, the ex-Premier; Tom Taylor, the 
 dramatist; William Black, the novelist; Moncure D. Conway; Professor 
 Schliemann, the Greek explorer; Dr. Newman Ilall; Arthur Sullivan, since 
 famous as the composer of "Pinafore;" Baron Lionel de Rothschild; Russel 
 Gurnev, General Fairchild, and a number of members of the aristocracy. 
 
 Dinner with Lord Carnarvon, presentation at Court, a trip to Bath, a re- 
 ception at Consul-General Badeau's, dinners at the Duke of Devonshire's, 
 Lord Granville's, and Sir Charles Dilke's enlivened the following days, 
 when the General and Mrs. Grant paid a short visit to their daughter, Mrs. 
 Nellie Sartoris, at Southampton. 
 
THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 1 3 
 
 On the 15th of June the General became the leading figure in that sol- 
 emn and portentous rite which is known as the conferring of the freedom of 
 the City of London. 
 
 At the banquet which followed the presentation, the General made 
 another speech in reply to the toast drank in his honor, which is so full ot 
 the laconic eloquence of the soldier that it is well worthy of reproduction. 
 General Grant said : 
 
 "My Lord Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen: Habits formed in early 
 life and early education press upon us as we grow older. I was brought up 
 a soldier — not to talking. I am not aware that I ever fought two battles on 
 the same day in the same place, and that I should be called upon to make 
 two speeches on the same day and under the same roof is beyond my under- 
 standing. What I do understand is, that I am much indebted to you for 
 the compliment you have paid me. All I can do is to thank the Lord 
 Mayor for his kind words, and to thank the citizens of Great Britain here 
 present in the name of my country and for myself." 
 
 On the evening of the iSth the General attended a dinner of the Reform 
 Club, at which were present Earl Granville, presiding; Mr. George H. 
 Boker, the American INIinister to Russia; Mr. Mundella, M. P.; W. E. 
 Forster, Mr. Bagston, Frederic Harrison and others. The toast of the even- 
 ing, " The health of the illustrious statesman and warrior. General U. S. 
 Grant," was proposed by Earl Granville, who, alluding in the course of his 
 speech to the peaceful settlement of the Alabama claims, held that not only 
 America and England, but " civilization throughout the universe recognized 
 in General Grant one of those extraordinary instruments of Divine Provi- 
 dence bestowed in his beneficence upon the human race." 
 
 On the evening of the 22d the Trinity Corporation gave a banquet in the 
 General's honor. The Prince of Wales presided, and in his speech made a 
 happy illusion to the presence ot the ex-President, saying that it was a mat- 
 ter of peculiar gratification to those present, as Englishmen, to receive him 
 as their guest — a reference which was received with cheers. There were 
 present on this occasion, among others, Prince Leopold, Prince Christian 
 of Schleswig-Holstein, the Prince of Leningen, Prince Edward of Saxe- 
 Weimar, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Hertford, the Earl of 
 Derby, Lord Carnarvon, Sir Stafford Northcote, and Chief Justice Sir Alex- 
 ander Cockburn. 
 
 On Wednesday, June 27th, the General and Mrs. Grant visited Windsor 
 Castle, by invitation of Queen Victoria. 
 
 Another noteworthy event was the dinner given to General Grant at the 
 Grosvenor Hotel, in order that he might meet tlie leading journalists of 
 London. 
 
 On the 3d of July General Grant received a deputation of forty men, 
 each representing a different trade, and representing in all about one million 
 English workingmen, who presented him with an address of welcome, 
 assuring him of their good wishes and their regard for the welfare and 
 progress of America, where British workmen had always found a welcome. 
 
 To this address the General responded as follows : 
 
 " In the name of my country, I thank you for the address you have pre- 
 sented to me. I feel it a great compliment paid to my Government, and one 
 
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 to me personally. Since my arrival on British soil I have received great 
 attentions which were intended, I feel sure, in some way, for my country. 
 I have had ovations, free hand-shakings, presentations from different 
 classes, from the Government, from the controlling authorities of cities, 
 and have been received in cities by tlie populace, but there has been no 
 reception which I am prouder of than this to-day. I recognize the fact that 
 whatever there is of greatness in the United States, as indeed in any other 
 country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all greatness and 
 wealth. Without labor there would be no Government, or leading class, oc 
 nothing to preserve. With us labor is regarded as highly respectable. 
 When it is not so regarcied, it is because man dishonors labor. We recog 
 nize that labor dishonors no man, and, no matter what a man's occupation 
 is, he is eligible to fill any post in the gift of the people. His occupation is 
 not considered in selecting, whether as a law maker or as an executor of the 
 law. 
 
 " Now, gentlemen, in conclusion, all I can do is to renew my thanks for 
 the address, and repeat what I have said before, that I have received notiv 
 ing from any class since my arrival which has given me more pleasure." 
 
 On thd evening of that day the General attended a banquet given in his 
 honor by the United Service Club, at which the Duke of Cambridge, Com- 
 mander-in-Chief of the British Army, presided. 
 
 On the Fourth of July the General attended a reception at the American 
 Embassy, and a private dinner given by Mr. Pierrepont to a number of 
 American gentlemen, which closed the vast array of social events which he 
 had enjoyed during his London visit. On the following day the party left 
 England for the Continent. 
 
 A CONTINENTAL INTERLUDE. 
 
 On the 5th of July, 1S77, General Grantarrived at Ostend, where he was 
 tendered the use of the Royal car in his trip to Brussels. At the latter place 
 he was visited by King Leopold, whose visit was returned the following day* 
 In the evening General and Mrs. Grant attended a banquet given by his 
 Majesty in honor of the ex-President, at which all the high officials of the 
 State and the foreign ministers were present. 
 
 Flying visits were made to Homburg, Salburg, Heidelburg, Baden, the 
 Black Forest, Interlaken, and Berne, and on the 26th of July the party 
 reached the famous Swiss city of Geneva. At a breakfast, General Grant, 
 in response to a speech welcoming him to Geneva, made a reply which is 
 interesting, both as bearing upon the important international event which 
 had been consummated at the Swiss capital, and as being a tribute from the 
 representative of Republicanism in America to a similar institution as exem- 
 plified in the sturdy little Republic of Europe. General Grant said : 
 
 " I have never felt myself more happy than among this assembly of fel- 
 low republicans of America and Switzerland. I have long had a desire to 
 visit the city where the Alabama claims were settled by arbitration, without 
 the effusion of blood, and where the principle of international arbitration was 
 established, which I hope will be resorted to bv otlier nations, and be the 
 means of continuing peace to all mankind." 
 
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 A trip to Mount Blanc, and a tour of the northern j)art of Italy and of the 
 late French provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, closed the General's first 
 Continental visit. He had engagements in England which had to be kept, 
 and, in the latter part of August he started back to London. 
 
 SCO* AND AND ENGLAND. 
 
 On the 31st of Augu;.t, 1877, General Grant arrived at Edinburg, where 
 he was received by the Lord Provost, Sir James Falshaw. On the same 
 day he was presented with the freedom of the city, the ceremony being 
 witnessed by over 2,000 people. 
 
 The reception accorded the General at Glasgow was most enthusiastic. 
 During the War of the Rebellion the population of Glasgow had been 
 staunch sympathizers with the Union cause, and they showed in their treat- 
 ment of General Grant that their kindly feelings had undergone no change 
 since then. 
 
 A visit to Ayr and a tour in the vicinity of Loch Lomond, during which 
 the General received the hospitalities of the Duke of Argyle, a nobleman 
 who, during the Rebellion, had been a firm friend of the Northern cause, 
 dosed the Scotch tour, after which the party crossed the Tweed and pro- 
 ceeded to Newcastle, where another rousing demonstration awaited him. 
 The most important event during his stay at Newcastle was the demonstra- 
 tion of workingmen which took place on the Town Moor in his honor. The 
 number of persons estimated to be present on this occasion was said to be 
 80,000, the demonstration having no precedent since the great political meet- 
 ings at the time of the Reform bill excitement in 1873. 
 
 After a trip to Sunderland, the party went to Sheffield, the seat of the 
 cutlery trade of Great Britain, where the General found the city handsomely 
 decorated in his honor. Here he was driven to the Cutler's Hall, where 
 addresses were made by the Mayor and the Corporated Cutlers' Company. 
 
 The time was now drawing near for the second Continental tour, but 
 before the start was made the General paid a visit to Brighton, England's 
 most aristocratic watering-place, where a banquet was given him by the 
 Mayor and Corporation of the place. On the day following it the General 
 left Brighton for London, preparatory to starting on his second Continental 
 tour. 
 
 FRANCE. 
 
 Boulogne was reached on the 24th of October, and here the General was 
 welcomed to France by the Prefect of the Department, speaking m the 
 name of the Marshal-President of France. Just before Paris was reached> 
 the car was entered by General Noyes, the Am.erican Minister; General 
 Torbert, the Consul-General, and an Aide-de-Camp of Marshal MacMahon. 
 At the station a large crowd, among them many members of the American 
 colony m Paris, welcomed the General, 
 
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 At 2 o'clock on the following afternoon General and Mrs. Grant, accom- 
 panied by General Noyes and the Secretary of Legation, drove to the Elysee, 
 •where they were most cordially received by President MacMahon and the 
 Duchess of Magenta. 
 
 On the evening of the 29th came off the official banquet given by Min- 
 ister Noyes to the ex-President. The banquet jtFAS a superb affair. The 
 tables were occupied by a number of the elite oernnit^ity and by representa- 
 tive American residents. ''^*^ ^ 
 
 Marshal MacMahon was not present at the banquet, he having declined 
 to attend on the ground that he had recently failed to accept Invitations to 
 be present at several diplomatic dinners, but he was a prominent feature of 
 the reception which followed it. The guests at the reception were received 
 by General Grant, Mrs. Grant, and their son, the introductions being made 
 by General and Mrs. Noyes, Consul-General Torbert and Secretary Vignaux. 
 The reception drew together the largest assembly of the American colony 
 known for years. 
 
 November ist President MacMahon gave a dinner at the Elysee in honor 
 of the ex-President. , 
 
 November 6th occurred the banquet given by the American residents in 
 Paris in honor of their ex-President. The toast of the evening, " Our Guest, 
 General Grant," was proposed by Mr. Noyes, chairman of the banquet, in a 
 complimentary speech, to which the General made a suitable response. In 
 reply to the toast of " France," M. de Lafayette said that France duly appre- 
 ciated the great leader and citizen who honored her by his visit. He 
 remarked also that General Grant quitted power solely to bow before the 
 laws of his country. He thanked him for visiting France, because he was a 
 great example for her, and because France gained from clpse inspection. 
 The Marquis of Rochambeau also spoke in eulogy of General Grant, and 
 after a few more speeches the company adjourned to the drawing-room. 
 ! The General and party now engaged earnestly for two weeks in the 
 •work of sight-seeing, for which the French Capital presents such famous 
 advantages. 
 
 At a dinner given the General on the 27th of November by M. Emii de 
 Girardin, he met a number of the leading French statesmen, amon them 
 MM. Gambetta, Grevy, Renault, De Lesseps and Waddington. M. de 
 .Girardin proposed the health of General Grant, who responded, and drank 
 to the prosperity of the French Republic, saying he hoped it would attain 
 Jhe result which Americans had endeavored to attain — namely: the regime 
 of liberty accessible to everj'body. Gambetta, who since that time has 
 become the central figure of French politics and successful champion of 
 French republicanism, proposing the health of M. de Girardin, thanked him 
 for affording him an opportunity to sit at the same table with the ex-Presi- 
 dent of the United States. He spoke with praise of General Grant's political 
 career, and showed how the General, obedient to the laws of his country, 
 ■while he understood the importance and dignity of the army, never per- 
 mitted it to assume supremacy over the civil power. 
 
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 On the evening of November 30th the ex-President attended a farewell 
 banquet given in his honor by Mr. Harjes, the eminent Parisian banker. 
 Shortly thereafter he started for the South of France, and on the 13th of 
 December he embarked at Villefranche on board the United States man-of- 
 -war Vandalia, which the American Government had placed at his disposal 
 ifor a tour of the Mediterranean. 
 
 FROM NAPLES TO JERUSALEM. 
 
 The trip made in the Vandalia enabled the ex-President and party to 
 •visit Italy, Egypt, the Holy Land, Turkey and Greece. The first point 
 touched at by the Vandalia was Naples, where the party on the i8th of 
 December paid a visit to Mount Vesuvius. On the following day they 
 visited Pompeii. For the General's special benefit the director of excava- 
 tions had a house exhumed. Palermo was reached on the 23d of December, 
 1877, and two days later the party celebrated their first Christmas abroad. 
 A stoppage of several days was made at Malta, where the General met the 
 Duke of Edinburg, at whose palace the party were entertained by his Royal 
 Highness and his wife. 
 
 Alexandria was reached on the 15th of January. Immediately on his 
 arrival m Egypt the General found that the Khedive had known of his 
 coming and had* made preparations accordingly. The Governor, in the 
 name of the Khedive, welcomed General Grant to Egypt, and offered him a 
 palace at Cairo and a special steamer up the Nile. The offer was accepted, 
 and when the party reached Cairo they were driven to the Palace of Kassr- 
 €l-Noubsa, which the Khedive had placed at the General's disposal. On the 
 day after his arrival at Cairo the General called upon the Khedive and staid 
 for half an hour, and the same afternoon the Khedive returned his visit. 
 The journey up the Nile was begun on the i6th of January, 1S78, in one of 
 the Khedive's steam vessels. At Thebes, Luxor, Assouan, Karnak, Philae 
 and Memphis the travelers beheld the pyramids and ruined fanes which 
 liave made Egypt a land of mystery to the world at large and of inexhaust- 
 ible delight to the antiquarian. It was not all sight-seeing, however. Even 
 in inland Africa the General's fame had preceded him, and at more than 
 -one Eg}'ptian town he was forced to receive and respond to eulogistic 
 addresses. 
 
 The Holy Land was reached on the loth of February, the landing place 
 being Jaffa, in their wanderings through which they found the house of 
 Simon the Tanner, the friend of Peter. From this place they went to Jeru- 
 salem, where, contrary to the General's desire or expectation, he was 
 accorded a grand reception. In their stay in the Holy City the party exam- 
 ined its many points of religious interest — the Via Dolorosa along which 
 Christ bore the cross in agony ; the Mount of Olives, from which the sermon 
 of the beatitudes was preached ; the church which has been erected over the 
 spot where the crucifixion occurred, and which contains what is claimed to 
 
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 be the tomb of our Savior. Visits were subsequently made to Bethlehem 
 and Damascus, and finally Bejrout was reached, at which point the party 
 again embarked on the Vandalia, with Turkey as their destination. 
 
 Constantinople was reached on the 3d of March, just a few days after the 
 terrible struggle between Turkey and Russia had been brought to an end by 
 the treaty of San Stefano. Notwithstanding the unfortunate state of affairs 
 prevailing at the Turkish Capital the General was the recipient of many 
 kind attentions. 
 
 Departing from the land of the Sublime Porte, the party reached Athens 
 on the 8th of March, where they were met by the United States Minister to 
 Greece, General John Meredith Read, and a large enthusiastic crowd of 
 American citizens. Their stay at Athens was marked by a succession of 
 social attentions, a grand reception by the King and Queen leading off the 
 festivities, which followed one another so fast that it wasnvith difficulty that 
 the party were able to find time to devote to visiting the beauties of nature 
 and art in which the ancient city abounds. A visit to the Parthenon was 
 made in the evening, the famous ruins being illumined with Bengal fires 
 for the General's benefi.t. 
 
 IN I T A L. Y 
 
 From Athens the party went to Rome, the Eternal City being reached 
 on the 20th of March, 187S. The party paid several visits to St. Peter's 
 Church and the Vatican, and on one of these visits to the latter place they 
 were received by Pope Leo XIII. , who greatly impressed the General with 
 the sweetness and simplicity of character which he displayed during the in- 
 terview, and also with the knowledge he possessed of public affairs in 
 America. One of the pleasantest days in Rome was that passed in the stu- 
 dios of the American artists, where the ex-President met a number of his 
 fellow-countrymen, who were delighted at his visit. 
 
 Florence was next visited. Then a trip to Venice, and then one to Mi- 
 Ian, after which the General returned again to Paris, which just then was 
 gay with the new life brought to it by the great Exposition, which was then 
 in full swing. After seeing the big show and enjoying another round of so- 
 cial delights, the General left the French capital and wended his way to the 
 Netherlands. 
 
 His first stopping place was at The Hague, the capital of Holland, where 
 he was received with great enthusiasm. The public reception was followed 
 by a grand military review, after which came luncheon with the uncle of 
 the King at the country seat of the Royal family. Then came a visit to 
 Rotterdam, whose numerous canals reminded them of Venice, and then a 
 sojourn at Amsterdam, where a grand banquet was given the General by 
 the leading merchants of the place. 
 
THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. I9 
 
 GERMANY, 
 
 The General arrived at Berlin on the loth of June. The citv was full of 
 political celebrities just then, but General Grant was the lion of the hour. 
 One of the pleasantest episodes of the earlier days of the Berlin sojourn 
 was a reception given to the ex- President by Minister Taylor. 
 
 During his stay in Berlin occurred the General's famous interview with 
 Prince Bismarck, in which these two great men exchanged views as follows: 
 
 Prince Bismarck wears an officer's uniform, and, as he takes the Gen- 
 eral's hand, he says, " Glad to welcome General Grant to Germany." 
 
 The General's reply is, that there is no incident in his German tour 
 more interesting to him than the opportunity of meeting the Prince. 
 Prince Bismarck then expresses surprise at finding the General so young a 
 man; but, when comparison of ages is made, Prince Bismarck finds that the 
 ex-President is only eleven years his junior. One of the Prince's first ques- 
 tions was about General Sheridan. " The General and I," said the Prince, 
 " were fellow campaigners in France, and we became great friends." 
 
 General Grant said that he had had letters from Sheridan recently, anO 
 he was quite well. 
 
 " Sheridan," said the Prince, " seemed to be a man of great ability." 
 
 " Yes," answered the General, " I regard Sheridan as not only one of 
 the great soldiers of our war, but one of the great soldiers of the world, — as 
 a man who is fit for the highest commands. No better general ever lived 
 than Sheridan." 
 
 "I observed," said the Prince, "that he had a wonderfully quick eye. 
 On one occasion, I remember, the Emperor and his staff took up a position 
 to observe a battle. The Emperor himself was never near enough to the 
 front, — was always impatient to be as near the fighting as possible. 'Well,' 
 said Sheridan to me as we rode along, ' we shall never stay here. The en- 
 emy will, in a short time, make this so untenable that we shall all be leav- 
 ing in a hurry. Then, while the men are advancing, they will see us re- 
 treating.' Sure enough, in an hour or so the cannon-shot began to plunge 
 this way and that, and we saw we must leave. It was difficult to move 
 the Emperor, however, but we all had to go, and," said tlie Prince, with a 
 hearty laugh, " we went rapidly. Sheridan had seen it from the beginning. 
 I wish I had so quick an eye." 
 
 "You are so happily placed," said the Prince, speaking of European war 
 clouds, " in America that you need fear no great wars. What always 
 seemed so sad to me about your late great war was, that you were fighting 
 your own people. That is always so terrible in wars, so very hard." 
 
 " But it had to be done," said the General. 
 
 "Yes," said the Prince, "you had to save the Union just as we had to 
 save Germany." 
 
 " Not only to save the Union, but to destroy slavery," said the General. 
 
 " I suppose, however, the Union was the real sentiment, the dominant 
 sentiment," said the Prince. 
 
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 " In the beginning, yes," said the General; "but as soon as slavery fired 
 upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, 
 that slavery must be destroyed. We felt that it was a stain to the Union 
 that men should be bought and sold like cattle." 
 
 " I suppose if you had had a large army at the beginning of the war," 
 said the Prince, "it might have been ended in a much shorter time.'" 
 
 " We might have had no war at all," said the General, " but we cannot 
 tell. Our war had many strange features. There were many things which 
 seemed odd enough at the time, but which now seemed providential. If we 
 had had a large regular army, as it was then constituted, it might have gone 
 with the South. In fact, the Southern feeling in the army among high 
 officers was so strong that when the war broke out the army dissolved. We 
 had no army. Then we had to organize one. A great commander like 
 Sherman or Sheridan even then might have organized an army and put 
 down the rebellion in six months or a year, or, at the farthest, two years. 
 But that would have saved slavery, perhaps, and slavery meant the germs 
 of a new rebellion. There had to be an end of slavery. Then we were 
 fighting an enemy with whom we could not make a peace. We had to 
 destroy him. No convention, no treaty, was possible — only destruction." 
 
 " It was a long war," said the Prince, "and a great work well done, and 
 I suppose it means a long peace.'" 
 
 " I believe so," said the General. 
 
 Hamburg was next visited, and here the General passed his second 
 Fourth of July since his departure from home. 
 
 On the following day the party departed from Germany, their objective 
 point being Copenhagen. 
 
 FROM PORTUGAL TO NORWAY. 
 
 The General arrived at Copenhagen on the 7th of July, and, after a stay 
 of a few days, crossed the Cattegat and landed in Sweden at the city of Got- 
 tenburg, whose population gave him so hearty a welcome that though a 
 stoppage here was not on the programme, it had to be made, out of defer- 
 ence to the wish of the people. At Christiana, the General was met by 
 King Oscar in person, who welcomed him to his domain with every demon- 
 stration of pleasure, having come from Stockholm with this special purpose 
 in view. The stay in Stockholm was full of pleasure, and at its close a 
 steamer was taken, in which the party crossed the Baltic's waves on their 
 way to St. Petersburg. 
 
 Only a short stay was made at Cronstadt, Russia's famous Baltic strong- 
 hold, when the General embarked on a steamboat and made his way to 
 St. Petersburg, where he was met by the Kon. E. M. Stoughton, American 
 Minister at St. Petersburg, by an aide-de-camp representing the Emperor 
 Alexander, Prince GortschakoiT, and a number of other members of the 
 Imperial Court, who welcomed him to Russia. On the following day the 
 General had an audience with tlic Emperor, at the close of which the latter 
 
THE GRAXT RECEPTIOX MONOGRAPH. 21 
 
 remarked that it was a source of pleasure to him that the relations between 
 Russia and America had continued friendly, adding that as long as he 
 lived nothing should be spared to make the friendship lasting. To this 
 pleasing sentiment the General replied, by sajing, that though the Gov- 
 ernments of tne two countries were opposed in their character, sympathy 
 with Russia was felt by the majority of the American people, w^hich he 
 hoped they would continue to feel in the future. 
 
 In Moscow the party made a stay of several days, after which they 
 paid a visit to Warsaw, the capital of the once important country of 
 Poland, which closed their Russian tour. 
 
 At Vienna, where the party next halted, the Austrians gave the Gen- 
 eral a very hearty greeting. On the day after they arrived the General 
 paid a visit to the American Legation, where he had an interview with 
 Count Andrassy, the first Minister of the Austrian Council, with whose 
 Countess he dined in the evening. Next aay the ex- President had an 
 audience with the Emperor Francis Joseph, and on the 21st of August 
 he and Mrs. Grant dined with the Imperial family at the Schoenbrunn 
 Palace. On the 22d a grand diplomatic dinner was given by the Amer- 
 ican Minister to the General, at which all the ambassadors of the foreign 
 powers were present, and in the evening a reception and ball followed 
 in the General's honor, which was attended by the elite of Vienna society. 
 After a delightful stay at the Austrian capital the General visited Munich, 
 the capital of Bavaria. 
 
 Working southward through France, the General at last passed the 
 Pyrenees Mountains and arrived in Spain. 
 
 At Vittoria the ex-President for the first time met King Alfonso. The 
 stay at Madrid was a short one, but the reception accorded the General was 
 a glorious one, and the party left the Spanish capital with regret. 
 
 At Lisbon, Don Luis tlie First, King ©f Portugal, was very attentive to 
 his American visitor. Very shortly after the General's arrival the King 
 met him and extended courtesies which were accepted. 
 
 After a delightful visit to Don Fernando, the father of the King, at the 
 Palace of Cintra, the General pursued his Spanish tour, visiting in turn 
 Cardova, Seville, where he was visited by the Due de Montpensier, the father 
 of the late Queen Mercedes, and Cadiz, after which the party again embarked 
 on an ocean vessel, with Ireland as their destination. 
 
 IRELAND. 
 
 On the 3d of July General Grant arrived in Dublin, where he was met 
 by Sir J. Barrington, Lord Mayor, who took the party in charge and drove 
 them around the city, stopping at the City Hall, where the General was pre- 
 sented with the freedom of the city, accompanied by a handsomely-illumi- 
 nated certificate, inclosed in an elegant casket of carved bog-oak. 
 
 July 6 the party left Dublin for Londonderry, their progress being marked 
 by grand demonstrations at Dundalk, Armagh, Strabane, and other places 
 
22 THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
 along the route. At the Londonderry station an immense crowd had assem- 
 bled to greet him. In the afternoon the party drove with dithculty tlirough 
 the enthusiastic crowds to the ancient Town- Hall, where the ex-President 
 was received by the Mayor and Council. 
 
 The enthusiasm which marked the Londonderry reception was repeated 
 at Belfast. At every station on the way there crowds had assembled, and 
 when the cars stopped the people rushed forward to shake the General's 
 hand. At Coleraine an address was read to the ex-Prcsident, and at Bally- 
 money the demonstration, which was crowded into a few minute's space, 
 was intensely enthusiastic. At Belfast the reception of the General was 
 one of the most imposing and extraordinary he had yet received. 
 
 After a glorious time at Belfast, the General returned to Dublin, enjoying 
 ovations at the various stations on the way, the demonstrations at Portadown, 
 Dundalk, and Drogheda being exceptionally hearty. At Dublin the party 
 were again met by Lord Mayor Barrington, who conducted them to the 
 steamer in which they departed from the Emerald Isle. 
 
 BRITISH INDIA. 
 
 After a brief visit to London the General again crossed the English 
 Channel, where, on the 14th of July, he was the recipient of a grand di.mor 
 at the United States Legation at Paris, and, a few days later, of a state-dinner 
 and reception given him by President MacMahon at the Palais d'Elysee. 
 
 The party left Marseilles on the evening of Jan. 21, with India as their 
 objective point. 
 
 After a delightful sail through the Mediterranean on the French steamer 
 Labourdonnais, the party reached Suez; and, on the 30th of January, they em- 
 barked on the steamer Venetia, and, after a run through the famous Suez 
 Canal, moved out into the Red Sea. The City of Aden was touched at Feb. 
 6, and on the morning of Feb. 13 Bombay was reached. A splendid recep- 
 tion awaited the General here. The ships in the harbor were dressed with 
 flags, and at the wharf was a large crowd of soldiers, natives, and Europeans. 
 An officer representing Admiral Corbet welcomed the General to India. 
 The attentions paid to the General by the people of Bombay were so marked 
 and continuous that most of their time was taken up in receiving and 
 acknowledging them. 
 
 The General left Bombay Feb. iS, being taken to the station in a state 
 carriage, accompanied by a representative of the Governor and escorted by 
 a squadron of cavalry. 
 
 The next stoppage was made at Allahabad, a very sacred town by reason 
 of the commingling here of the holy convents of the Ganges, Jumna, and 
 Sereswati. A very delightful time was spent here with their hosts, Sir 
 George Confer, the Lieutenant-Governor, and Lady Confer. 
 
 Agra was reached on the 23d, of February, where the party made many 
 researches among the art-treasures of the past, of which this city contains a 
 
THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 23 
 
 vast number. On the 24th of February the General paid a visit to Jeypore, 
 ■where he met with a formal reception by the Maharajah and his Ministers, 
 and Dr. Hendley, the British resident. A visit to Amber, the ancient capital 
 of Jeypore, revealed to the travelers Orientalism in all its glory, the archi- 
 tecture of the place being free from European innovation. 
 
 A delightful time was had at Delhi, and when Calcutta was reached on 
 the 2Sth of February a grand demonstration was made in the General's 
 honor. 
 
 The ex-President left Calcutta and India and repaired to British Burmah. 
 After a grand reception and a fine time at Rangoon, the party left British 
 Burmah and started for Singapore. 
 
 SI AM. 
 
 When the General reached Singapore he found awaiting him there an 
 invitation from Chulal^ongkarn, King of Siam, to visit the latter at his grand 
 palace at Bangkok. The General accepted the invitation, and, after a few 
 days in Singapore, he started for Siam, reaching Bangkok April 14, 1879. A 
 seven days' programme for the entertainment of General Grant had been 
 prepared by the King, and, with some slight alterations suggested by General 
 Grant, it was carried through. 
 
 CHINA 
 
 Cochin-China was reached on the 25th of April. The point touched at 
 was Saigon, an important town in the possession of the French. The honors 
 were done here by Rear-Admii-al La Fond, the Governor of French Cochin- 
 China. A public levee was held, at which a number of European and native 
 residents paid their respects to the General, who also, before departure, visited 
 the Royal Palace and the Navy-Yard and Arsenal. 
 
 China proper welcomed the party at Hong Kong on the evening of 
 April 30. 
 
 The party arrived at Canton on the evening of May 6, the vessels in port 
 firing rockets and burning blue lights in his honor. The Viceroy of Canton 
 was prepared for the coming of Grant, and some time before had issued most 
 extraordinary pronunciamentos to his people announcing that the "King of 
 America" was about to visit China, and that he was bringing a large number 
 of presents with him ; also calling upon the people to close their houses when 
 he came, clean the streets, and get tiic troops ready to help in the honors of 
 the day. When General Grant landed at Canton next morning it seemed as 
 if the whole population of the place had turned out to receive him. Depart- 
 ing from Canton, the party visited in turn Macao, the Portuguese Colony 
 in China, Swatow, and Amoy, ports thrown open to foreigners under the 
 treaty of Lord Elgin, and on the 17th of May the General arrived at Shanghai, 
 
24 THK GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
 the most important commercial centre in China. The reception here was 
 indescribably grand. 
 
 Pekin was reached on the 3d of June, on the evening of whicli day the 
 American residents called upon General Grant in a body and welcomed him 
 to Pekin, after which an address was read by Dr. Martin, an American resi- 
 dent and President of the Chinese-English University. The General called 
 on Prince Kung, the Regent in the place of the Emperor, who was but a 
 child of seven years of age. 
 
 JAPAN. 
 
 The United States war vessel, Richmond, in which the General and party 
 accomplished the bulk of their Asiatic water-travel, arrived at Japan on the 
 2istof June, 1879, the point first stopped at being Nagassaki. A very cor- 
 dial reception was had here, and on the 22d Utsumi Tadakatsu, the Governor 
 of the province, gave a state dinner in honor of General Grant. 
 
 After a visit to Yokohama, the party went to Tokio, where the palace of 
 Euriokwan was placed at tlieir disposal. Here they passed a delightful time, 
 tlieir stay as guests of the Japanese Emperor lasting nearly three months. 
 
 On the 4th of July, there was a grand reception given by the Emperor at 
 his palace, with addresses and replies, in which the ladies of tlie occasion 
 took part. 
 
 On the 3d of September, the party embarked on the steamer Tokio, for 
 San Francisco. 
 
 HOME AGAIN. 
 
 General Grant arrived at San Francisco on Saturday, September the 20th. 
 For weeks previous the city had been occupied in preparations for the event, 
 and the other cities and towns of the State, among them Oakland, Sacra- 
 mento, San Jose, Vallejo, Petaluma, Los Angeles, and others to tlie number 
 of over a hundred, had sent dejiutations to share in the welcoming demon- 
 stration. 
 
 For three or four days preceding the day of arrival the city was on the 
 tip-toe of expectation. San Francisco had just passed through an era of 
 unusual political excitement, but jxilitics were laid aside by common con- 
 sent, and the coming of Grant and the demonstration to be made in his 
 honor were the only themes of current conversation. 
 
 On the day of the General's arrival the excitement reached a point of 
 rare intensity. The city was crowded, and each of the hotels was a centre 
 of enthusiasm. 
 
 The first tap of the bell and the hoisting of the flag on the Merchants' 
 Exchange, announcing the approach of the City of Tokio, started the city 
 from the spell of suspense that hud prevailed for three days, and transformed 
 
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 the waiting crowds into an excited people, who hurried, men, women and 
 children, on foot, in carriages and on horseback, with common consent, in 
 the direction of Presidio Heights, Point Labos, Telegraph Hill and other 
 eminences, to catch the first glance of the incoming ship. 
 
 The General was found, bj his old friends, to be looking well. He ex- 
 pressed his satisfaction with the experiences of his h-ip, and his surprise at 
 the demonstration which greeted his arrival home. In foreign countries the 
 receptions were looked upon as a matter of course, but, on leaving t'ae shores 
 of Japan, he had given up all thought of grand receptions, and certainly ex- 
 pected no such greeting as had just been accorded him. 
 
 A volume could be written of the doings of the party in San Francisco. 
 Of the social entertainments given in his honor the most notable one was 
 that which took place at the residence of Senator Sharon, at Belmont, on the 
 8th of October, just after the General's return from the trip to the Yosemite 
 Valley. This was the most brilliant gathering that ever took place on the 
 Pacific coast. The richness of the ladies' costumes, the magnificence of the 
 internal decorations, and the brilliancy of the superb grounds, illuminated by 
 Chinese lanterns, rendered the scene one of unsurpassed splendor. Nothing 
 had been omitted by the host that could give enjoyment to the guests and 
 lend eclat to the occasion. About 2,500 people were presnt. 
 
 At eleven o'clock, the General was conveyed in a carriage to Oakland 
 Ferry, accompanied by the fire and military companies and a thousand men 
 in a torch-light procession, with bands of music playing. The streets through 
 which the carriages passed were crowded, and, as the General boarded the 
 ferry, the farewell cheer that went forth upon the air was a deafening one. 
 At Oakland Pier, the Director's car of the Central Pacific Railway was en- 
 tered, and in company with Senator Sharon, Eugene Sullivan, of San 
 Francisco, and J. A. Fillmore, Master of Transportation of the Central 
 Pacific Railroad, the General started on that Eastern journey which had 
 Chicago for its final stopping place. 
 
 Carson was reached on the following evening, Livermore and Colfax 
 being passed on the way, a grand demonstration being liad at each place. 
 Next morning there was a reception at the Capitol, at which Governor Kin- 
 cade made an address of welcome on behalf of the peojile of Nevada, to which 
 the General made a brief response. 
 
 Gold Hill, Nev., was reached on the afternoon of October 27. The mines 
 and mills of the Belcher, Crown Point, Yellow Jacket, Imperial, and Devil's 
 Gate districts were all decorated, and the cheers of the crowd combining 
 with the blowing whistles, made a noisy welcome. In the Sutro tunnel, 
 1,500 feet under the earth, the subterranean enthusiasm was so intense that, 
 it was with difticulty the General could escape from the people. Crowds of 
 men and women followed him, and little girls who sang " Home, sweet home," 
 as he passed by. 
 
 At Ogden, a stay of half an hour was made, the General onlv showing 
 himself, to the crowd. 
 
 A rough-and-ready reception was given the General at Laramie, where 
 
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 the cars filled up with a committee from Cheyenne, who accompanied him 
 to that place, which was reached on the 31st ol" October. 
 
 On the way to Omaha the demonstrations inade at Grand Island, Central 
 City, Schuvler, and other points gave the advance of the General the char- 
 acter of a continuous ovation. 
 
 Omaha was reached on the isl of November, and the General's arrival 
 was announced to that city by an artillery salute. Instantly all the whistles 
 in the city began screeching, the church and fire bells rang out in w-elcome, 
 and the crowds cheered lustily as they concentrated rapidlv round the rail- 
 road station. As the train arrived, deafening cheers went up from thousands 
 of patriotic throats. 
 
 The procession which escorted Gen. Grant from the depot to Capitol 
 Hill was a grand one, and the streets through which it marched were bright 
 ■with a profusion of beautiful decorations. 
 
 When the procession halted upon Capitol Hill fully 10,000 people were 
 present on the grounds. Mayor Chase presented to the assemblage Gov. 
 Nance, of Nebraska, who made a brief but eloquent address of welcome, 
 which the Mayor supplemented with another, the General replying to both 
 in a brief speech, expressing the high respect entertained for his country 
 abroad. " For the many kindnesses that I have received at the hands of 
 foreign nations and foreign princes," he said : 
 
 " I feel gratified myself, and I know that all of you do. The welcome 
 given to me there has "been a welcome to this grand Republic, of which you 
 are all equal representatives with myself. As I have had occasion to say 
 several times before since my arrival in San Francisco, we stand well abroad, 
 infinite! v better than we did twenty years ago, as a nation and as a jieopic; 
 and as a result of that to-day the credit of the United States in the European 
 market is higher than any other country in the world. We are there more 
 highly appreciated than we appreciate ourselves as a whole, and I can and 
 •will say that as individuals we do not think well enough of ourselves." 
 
 In the evening he was given a banquet at the Withnell House, which was 
 attended by about sixty prominent citizens of Omaha. 
 
 Iowa welcomed Gen. Grant at Council Bluffs. To aaaresses made by 
 Col. Griswold and Gen. Gear, the General made a brief response, and after 
 an abundance of cheering and other joyful demonstations on the part of the 
 crowd in attendance, the train moved out on its Eastern way. Stoppages 
 were made at various points on the road, where demonstrations by the peo- 
 ple were the invariable rule. At Red Oak, Vilasco, Creston, IVlurray, Osce- 
 ola, Chariton, Albia, Chillicothe, Ottumwa and Mount Pleasant, the General 
 mado his appearance and acknowledged the homage which the people had 
 gathered to pay to him. At Burlington the reception was one of the noisiest, 
 liveliest, and most brilliant on the route. As the train entered the city, 9: 30 
 p. m., the engine blew a long blast which was followed by similar long and 
 piercing screams from all the steam whistles in town. Church and fire bells 
 began their merry peals of welcome; salutes were fired; and the illumina- 
 tion in nenrlv all the house-windows, with the assistance of numerous bon- 
 fires, the display of fire-works, and the gathering, cheering crowds, added to 
 
THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. ZJ 
 
 the general noise and fury which signified that " Grant had come " at last, 
 and that a joyous welcome awaited him. 
 
 The first demonstration which the General received after his entry into 
 Illinois was at Monmouth, where a big crowd and a dozen splendid bonfires 
 helped to make the occasion a joyful one. Galesburg greeted tlie General 
 with much enthusiasm. 
 
 After ovations at Freeport, Lombardville, and Princeton, the General 
 arrived at Mendota, where a vast crowd swarmed around the depot, whose 
 cheers, united to the thunder-peals of ordinance, conspired to make the 
 noisiest and heartiest kind of welcome. Governor Cullom, who met the party 
 at this point,delivered an address of welcome, to which the General made areply 
 and shortly afterward the train which was to carry the General to Galena 
 got under way, and at twenty minutes past three o'clock a salvo of artillery 
 and a thunderous cheer, to which the straining throats of 10,000 citizens con- 
 tributed, welcomed the General back to his old home, where, with a grand 
 procession, hearty hand-shaking, vociferous enthusiasm, speeches, and a 
 dozen other expressions of joy, his fellow-townsmen testified their pleasure 
 at having him once more among them. 
 
 One of the pleasantest incidents of Genera- Grant's trip across the conti- 
 nent, was the crossing of the State of Iowa amid the luxurious hospitalities of 
 the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. The munificent liberality of this 
 great corporation in placing at the disposal of its distinguished guests, a train 
 of surpassing magnificence in all its various appointments, did not escape 
 the appreciation of the General. It aftbrded him an enjoyable opportunity 
 of witnessing the grandeur of our Western prairies teeming with a thriving, 
 restless, progressive population, which was lending its sturdy aid toward 
 establishing the reputation of America as the granary of the world, thereby 
 extending our foreign trade balances, swelling our supply of specie to 
 ample proportions, promoting the commercial and financial independence of 
 the United States, and inspiring in a great degree that profound respect 
 among foreign nations for our country, the frequent expressions of which 
 were so gratifving to our visiting ex-President. While evidently deeply 
 interested in the agricultural panorama presented to his view, the General 
 was evidently not insensible to the elegance of his more immediate surround- 
 ings. The train was profusely decorated with flags, banners and wreaths, 
 every car appearing a very floral hall on wheels. The celebrated imperial 
 dining car Cosmopolitan, was twice brought into requisition during the jour- 
 ney from Omaha to Galena, in which banquets were served in sumptuous 
 style. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE RFXEFTION, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12. 
 
 GENERAL GRANTS ARRIVAL IN CHICAGO; A iMAMMOTH PROCESSION; 
 
 SPEECH OF WELCOME HY THE MAYOR; THE GENERAL's 
 
 response; RECEPTION HY THE ARMY 
 
 OF THE TENNESSEE. 
 
 i HIS city has seen several occasions bearing some analogy to the 
 demonstration of Nov. 12th, in honor of General Grant, but 
 none equal to it in magnitude. Never before in its eventful 
 history lias Chicago presented such a festival appearance, 
 and never at a public reception here was there so much 
 in the matter of disagreeable weather to contend against, and so much 
 that would have dampened the ardor of a people less enthusiastic and less 
 determined to succeed in an undertaking of this description. The heavy 
 showers tliat ushered in the day sadly interfered with the work of decoration, 
 and at noon hundreds of business men and private citizens were arranging 
 the banners and flags, the wreaths and the emblems, that told in such an 
 unmistakable and pronounced manner the high and universal esteem enter- 
 tained by all classes of Chicago people for their visitor. 
 
 When the train bearing General Grant reached Park Row, in the Soutn 
 Division of the city, a Major-General's salute was fired, and as the guest 
 alighted and was met hy the Mayor and the citizens' committee, the joy of 
 tiie populace was vociferously emphasized by prolonged cheers. But the 
 rain, which had fallen so copiously during the forenoon, again broke loose 
 and put a temporary check upon the movement of the procession. Tlie 
 Ktorm raged fiercely for a quarter of an hour, when suddenly the clouds . 
 rolled away, the sun shone out brightly, and the decorations, the gav uni- 
 forms of the militia, the thousands of wagons carrying flags and mottoes, 
 and the smoke from booming batteries on the lake-front presented a scene 
 at once beautiful and grand. Haste was made to set the huge procession 
 in motion. The incidents of the march were numerous. At almost every 
 crossing General Grant was compelled to rise in his carriage and acknowl- 
 edge the generous ovation tendered liini. It seemed as if the whole North- 
 west had poured out its population to the citizen thus auspiciouslv returning 
 to his home. It is impossible even to estimate the crowd, and any attempt 
 would require the keenest statistical knowlcd;je. An estimate of the length 
 of the procession may be had M-hen it is stated that the rear of the proces- 
 sion was still forming in Michigan avenue when the forward part of the 
 colunm extended down that avenue to Washington, to State, to Lake, tO' 
 
 28 
 
THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 2^ 
 
 Franklin, to Monroe, to LaSalle, to Madison, to Dearborn, to Adams, to- 
 Clark, and so on to the head of line in front of the Grand Pacific. 
 
 The following was the order of the procession : 
 
 First Division. — Detachment of Police; Jefferson Barracks Band; 
 Lieutenant General Sheridan and staff; General Stockton and staff; General 
 Torrence and staff; First Regiment CavaL-y, Major Weller; Second Regi- 
 ment Infantry, Colonel Quirk; Sixth Regiment Infantry, Colonel Thompson;. 
 Sixteenth Battalion, Infantry, Major Scott; Battery D, Major Tobey; Bat- 
 talion of miscellaneous companies. Major De Young; First Regiment In- 
 fantry, Colonel Knox. 
 
 Second Division. — Loesch's Band ; Captain Neeley and staff; carriage 
 containing General Grant, escorted by the Society of the Army of the 
 Tennessee; carriage containing General Sherman and Governor Cullom;. 
 carriages containing the Reception Committee, prominent guests, and maimed 
 and crippled soldiers; platoon of Police; Northwestern Band; Society of the: 
 Army of the Cumberland, General Whipple commanding; Society of the 
 Army of the Potomac, General White commanding; Nevan's Band; Veteran 
 organizations with the Clarendon (Iowa) Cornet Band, Colonel Scribner 
 commanding ; Mexican veterans of Fort Wayne, with band of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic, Colonel Swain commanding. 
 
 Third Division. — Columbus Barracks Band; General Wallace and staff; 
 old settlers; carriages containing the Judges of the Courts, Common Council, 
 County Commissioners, Clerk and Deputies, County Treasurer and Clerks, 
 Clerks of the Courts and Deputies, City Treasurer and Clerks, City Clerk 
 and Deputies, Sheriff and Deputies; First Regiment Trumpeters; Fire In- 
 surance Patrol; Hyde Park Authorities; Illinois Skirmishers' Battalion; 
 Brothers of the Union; United Fellows; Downers' Grove Band; IMail Car- 
 riers; First Norwegian Total Abstinence Society; Jacksonville Drum Corps; 
 Chicago Labor Union; Stock Yards Troopers; Lanigan's Band; Chicago 
 Turngemeinde. 
 
 Fourth Division — Elgin Band; General Sherer and staff; Fire De- 
 partment; Park Commissioners in phaetons, escorted by the South Park- 
 Police ; decorated Avagons, escorted by the Lincoln Park Mounted Police, 
 and decorated business vehicles. 
 
 The procession as seen from State and Washington streets was grand and 
 imposing beyond description. As far as the eye could reach, flags fluttered to 
 the breeze from every window and point of vantage. The sidewalks and 
 streets were blocked with people, crowded so closely together that passage 
 was impossible. A vast multitude, in which the movement of individual 
 persons was scarcely perceptible, a closely-packed throng which was hardly 
 stirred at the approach of the procession, and which constantly threatened to 
 precipitate itself upon the procession, stood for hours, many of the spectators 
 in the mud and water that had collected from the rain. As the head of the 
 Grand Army made its appearance as it moved north from Washington street, 
 a cry went up from the throng in the street that was echoed from the- 
 widows and porches, also black with people — cheers that drowned the music 
 of the bands, the trampling of the horses, and the tread of the rapidly march- 
 
3© HE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
 ing host — voices that were hoarse and that rose and swelled in volume as the 
 contagious enthusiasm spread instantaneously through the throng. At every 
 point, as the carriage containing General Grant, which was drawn by six 
 horses and guarded by a platoon of police on each side, appeared, the vast 
 multitude broke into a cheer that extended all along the street, in a universal, 
 hoarse, deep-throated shout of welcome. As the shout went up all along 
 the long route, General Grant raised his tall silk hat, and, bowing, kept his 
 head uncovered for a few minutes. As soon as he had replaced it, another 
 shout would again cause him to repeat the operation. With a clear color in 
 the face, the beard but slightly grizzled, the hair hardly tinged with gray, 
 tlie face without a wrinkle or furrow perceptible from the street, General 
 Grant looked in the very prime of manhood and vigor. 
 
 Singularly enough, the entire afternoon and evening were pleasant, not a 
 drop of rain falling to mar the festivities, and consequently the streets, as the 
 afternoon advanced, were constantly receiving additions to sight-seers, who 
 had earlier been deterred from venturing out. The view of the crowd and 
 the procession from a point opposite the Palmer House, where General Grant 
 viewed the troops, was a memorable one, every point that could be occupied 
 — house-tops, windows, doorways, the telegraph poles, even — holding their 
 quotas of humanity. To pass along the streets was simply impossible. It is 
 hardly necessary to mention that business was generally suspended. All the 
 public oflices, the Board of Trade, and nearly every business establishment 
 were closed, and innumerable school children, both from the public schools 
 in and out of the city, for many of the suburban schools were closed for the 
 day, mingled in the multitude. 
 
 The decorations in the city were the most elaborate ever attempted in the 
 city, and have scarcely ever been equaled. The Palmer House and State- 
 street in its vicinity were, of course, the center of attraction. Two large 
 banners were nailed out from every window in the edifice. Elaborate plans 
 were carried out on State street. Rows of poles were erected on each side 
 of the street; each one of thenn was festooned with evergreens, and halfway 
 up had a shield bearing the coat of arms of a State or some other design. 
 These posts were all joined by ropes of evergreen, and each alternate pole 
 had a burgee of colors hanging from the top. Near the corner of the Palmer 
 House a stand was built, extending from the top of the first floor out to the 
 street. It was from this that the procession was reviewed by General Grant, 
 who at this point left the ranks. The wood-work was entirely concealed by 
 stripes of red and white and blue, with stars, and above was a canopy of bine 
 with white stars. An immense banner hung over the street, with the words, 
 "Head-quarters of the Army of the Tennessee," and a flag with a portrait of 
 Grant and the word "Welcome." The interior decorations of the house were 
 of the most gorgeous kind. One of the neatest tributes in the way of deco. 
 ration was that of the Tribune building The other newspaper oflices were 
 also resplendent in bunting. The theatres were also enveloped in red, white 
 and blue, McVicker's and Haverley's being most conspicuous. It would be a 
 diflScult task to give any adequate idea of the elaborate adornments which 
 inet the view on every hand. Throughout the resident portion of the city, 
 
THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 3I 
 
 even to the most remote districts, a liberal display was made at private reair 
 dences, flags flying in profusion. At night there were illuminations by Chi- 
 nese lanterns. Many of the largest business houses on the South Side were 
 illuminated, especially on Clark, State and Madison streets and Wabash 
 Avenue. 
 
 After the review General Grant was formally welcomed by Mayor Har- 
 rison, who spoke from the rotunda of the Palmer House, as follows : 
 
 "General Grant : The people of Chicago recognize in you the most 
 renowned of America's citizens. They have watched you for the last thirty 
 months journeying around the world. They have seen you the recipient ot 
 honors heretofore conferred only upon those of exalted rank. And yet, sir, 
 you had no other passport than that you were an American citizen. Princes, 
 rulers, and their people delighted to honor you, and in honoring you they 
 lavished honors upon your country. These people, now that you have re- 
 turned home, are desirous of tendering you a befitting reception. To that end 
 they have appointed a committee of 500 gentlemen to receive you here in 
 the heart of the city, and to welcome you to the homes and hearts of our 
 people. Upon me," as Chairman of that committee, devolves the pleasing 
 duty of clothing in words what their hearts would warmly express. 
 
 "Sir, for many long years you have been constantly before the eyes of this 
 people. Eighteen years and two months ago a neighboring State had adopt- 
 ed the role of neutrality in the dread internecine war then commenced. Our 
 statesmen were deeply troubled, and knew not how to solve the problem. 
 You, sir, like the Macedonian conquerer, with your sword, cut the Gordian 
 knot, and the first-born daughter of the Constitution no longer wavered in 
 her devotion to the Union and to the Union's flag. 
 
 "Two months after, we saw you writing your name in blood at the fiercely 
 contested Belmont. Before the frosts of winter had thawed, you threw your 
 regiments around Donelson. Its commander, feeling the death-grip upon him, 
 asked for terms of capitulation. Your laconic reply — " Unconditional sur- 
 render, or I propose immediately to move upon your works " — enriched the 
 page of military literature, and 15,000 prisoners came here to Chicago, living 
 witnesses of your great victory. Ere the buds of spring had bursted into the 
 summer's flowers, Pittsburg Landing and Corinth were your trophies, and 
 the waters of the Cumberland and Tennessee floated freely, bearing the stars 
 and stripes through the Ohio and the Mississippi to Memphis and below. 
 But the mighty river refused to bear you on to the Gulf Vicksburg deemed 
 impregnable, frowned upon its turbulent waters, and demanded a toll of 
 death. You resolved that Vicksburg should fall, and for you to resolve, as 
 seemed in the pas., is simply for you to do. After months of strategic move- 
 ments, long marches and many battles, you put your army in front of the 
 Gibraltar of the South. But Vicksburg was vulnerable only from the rear. 
 Desirous of saving your army, you endeavored to make a new channel for 
 the mighty stream ; but the Father of Waters, despising your human efibrts, 
 rolled majestically on beneath tlie enemy's guns. Unable to bridle 
 the monster, you mounted his foaming back, rode through a storm of fire 
 and a hail of shot; Vicksburg fell, and Chicago shouted The backbone of 
 the Confederacy is broken. Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain and Mission 
 Ridge were then added to the chaplet encircling your brow. 
 
 "We then sav/ you at the nation's Capital connnanding your country's 
 armies; but your special duty was to reach Richmond, which had in the past 
 seemed a " noli me tangere " to our armies. You chose the line of the Wil- 
 derness, and to the immortal Lincoln declared that you would " Fight it out 
 on that line if it took all summer," thus giving evidence of the tenacity of 
 your will, rousing the wavering and lifting up the down-hearted. You did, 
 sir, fight it out on that line, and Richmond was ours. 
 
 "We next saw you, sir, at Appomattox Court House receiving the sword of 
 the brave but mistaken Lee. You handed it back to him, Keep it, said 
 
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 you, "a braver man never wore a sword." You bid him keep his horses, for 
 his folks would need them at the plow. You bid his armies to return to 
 their homes, build up their broken hearth-stones, and re-establish their shat- 
 tered fortunes. Sir, Chicago and the world then applauded the clemency of 
 the conquerer as before they had admired the dauntless soldier. 
 
 "The bloody war over, you said Let us have peace, and a grateful nation 
 elevated you to the highest position in its gift, — aye, or in the world. Eight 
 years you were President. Then, wearied with sixteen years of service to 
 your counti-y, you sought rest in travel. Turning your eyes to the east, mov- 
 ing ever toward the cradle of the sun, you were greeted in all lands, but 
 received every greeting in the name of your country. 
 
 "Sir, you have served your country nobly. Your country has rewarded 
 you grandly. Like the immortal Washington, you rose froin the lowly ranks 
 of life, passed through all millitary grades until you commanded the victori- 
 ous armies of your country. Like him, you tilled the office of President two 
 terms. He, when his two terms were over, was offered a crown, but, prefer- 
 ring an immortality of fame to temporary power, he retired to private life, 
 and lives in the hearts of his people, and all time will call him his country's 
 father. You, sir, when 3'our two terms Avere over, obeying that part of 
 your country's Constitution in its unwritten traditions, hallowed by the ex- 
 ample of the immortal Washington, — you, sir, retired, and you, too, live and 
 will li\'e forever in the hearts of your countrymen. 
 
 "Sir, in the name of Chicago and its people, I prophesy that when time 
 shall have grown old, when the page of history shall have become dimmed, 
 by the side of the great quartet who have gone before you, your name, your 
 statute, will be placed. By the side of Washington, of Jefferson, of Jackson, 
 and of the immortal Lincoln will live the name of Grant. Sir, again allow 
 me to tender to you a hearty welcome to the homes, to the firesides, and to 
 the hearts of all people of Chicago, regardless of creed or of party, sir, I wel- 
 come you." 
 
 W^hen the applause with which Mayor Harrison's eloquent welcome was 
 received had died out, and amidst a silence that testified the crowd's anxiety 
 to catch every word of the response, General Grant, in his accustomed low 
 tone of voice — disappointing to the majority of the crowd because they were 
 unable to hear all he said — modestly replied as follows : 
 
 "INIr. Mayor, and Gentlemen of the Committee of the Chicago 
 Reception, and Gentle.men of Chicago and of Illinois: I feel 
 very much honored by the welcome which I am receiving at your hands 
 to-day. I feel highly honored by the speech of welcome that has just been 
 uttered by your worthy Mayor. It is something so personal to myself that 
 it would hardly be in good taste for me to respond to the language of it, and 
 it leaves, therefore, nothing further for me to do than to repeat my thanks to 
 this Committee and to the citizens of this city for the hearty reception 
 which they have given me. 
 
 "In regard to one allusion to my reception abroad, I will say that in every 
 case I felt that it was a tribute to our own country. I will add, further, that 
 our country stands differently abroad, in the estimation of Europeans and 
 the Eastern nations from what it did a quarter of a centurvago. An Amer- 
 ican citizen is regarded in a different light from an American citizen of one 
 quarter of a century ago. At that time it was believed that we had not a 
 nation — that we were a mere confederation of states, tied together by a rope 
 of sand that would give way upon the slightest friction. Thev have found 
 out their grand mistake. They know that we have now a government, that 
 we are a nation, and that we are a strong, intelligent, and brave people, capa- 
 ble of judging and knowing our rights, and determined on all occasions to 
 maintain them agains'. either foreign or domestic foes. That is the explana- 
 tion of the reception which you have received, through me, while I was 
 abroad. Gentlemen, I thank vou." 
 
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 The response was enthusiastically applauded. The formal reception being 
 thus happily closed, the distinguished visitor was permitted the "freedom 
 of the city" until the evening reception given by the Army of the 
 Tennessee. 
 
 RECEPTION BY THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE. 
 
 The reception given by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee to 
 General Grant took place in the evening, at Haverly's Theater. The audi- 
 torium was beautifully decorated with flags, festoons of flowers, and wreaths. 
 On either side of the stage was the inscription in evergreens, " Welcome to 
 the Society of the Army of the Tennessee," and above the center of the 
 stage was, " Welcome Commander." There was also upon the stage a repre- 
 sentation of the battle-ground back of Vicksburg, in charge of Boys in Blue, 
 who guarded the approaches, doing regular sentry duty. The ground was 
 strewn with iTiunitions of war, facines, etc. There were also arranged on 
 each side of the stage, and facing the audience, life-si?e portraits of President 
 Lincoln and General Thomas. High above all, on large banners, were 
 inscribed the names of the battle fields with which the Army of the Tennes- 
 see is so well acquainted. The immense building was crowded with an audi- 
 ence which, upon the arrival of General Grant and staflf, broke into hearty 
 applause. Upon the stage were seated many of his prominent officers, 
 including Generals Sherman and Sheridan. Governor CuUom, Mayor 
 Harrison, and others were also present. The Rev. Dr. Thomas opened the 
 exercises with prayer. 
 
 The Hon. E. B. Washburne arose and proceeded to deliver the foUowino- 
 address of welcome, in the course of which he was frequently interrupted 
 by applause : 
 
 " Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Society of the Army of 
 THE Tennessee : In the name of the people of all the States I greet you 
 to this reunion. 
 
 "It is an exceptional welcome; for, since your adieus at Des Moines in 
 1876, your first commander, who meets with you here to-night, has made the 
 circuit of the world, and all the nations have laid at his feet the tribute of 
 their admiration and respect. You must permit others, with grateful emo- 
 tions, to hail with you his safe return to that country which he has so much 
 honored, and with you to signify our appreciation of all the honors which 
 have been so graciously, so generously, and so worthily bestowed upon him. 
 We find that, aft.r all his wanderings over the lands and by the seas, he 
 returns to us the same American, prouder than ever of his contrv, its insti- 
 tutions, its great people, and its glorious destinies. We join with you in all 
 the acclamations with which he has be^n everywhere greeted. The gallant 
 ship which bore him so safely, kissing the dark-blue crvstal of the Pacific 
 seas, had no sooner touched the shores of California," than the chivalric 
 people of that golden coast rose up to bid him welcome. His journey across 
 the continent, and until he reached this Empire Citv of the Northwest, has 
 been one continual ovation, participated in by all parties, all nationalities, 
 and all creeds. 
 
 "Your meeting this year, Mr. President, comes fortunately at a time when 
 the clouds of adversity and business depression, which have so long lowered 
 over our country, are breaking, and we see the dawn of a brighter and better 
 day. It should be the prayer of all good and patriotic citizens that peace, 
 happiness and fraternal feeUng may prevail througliout all our borders, and 
 that our country, and our whole country, may mo\ e forward with gigantic 
 
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 THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
 I 
 
 strides in the pathway of prosperity and progress. But it must be understood 
 always, that our starry ensign, which is now saluted with reverence in every 
 part of the civilized globe as the emblem of liberty, order, and law, must_ 
 cover with the Kgis of its protection the rights of all men — native and foreign 
 born, white and black alike — over every inch of the territory of our ocean- 
 bound Republic. When it tails in that, it is but a flaunting rag, to be trampled 
 under foot as a fitting emblem of our National degradation. 
 
 "This reunion to-night of the gallant men who followed the victorious ban- 
 ners of the Army of the Tennessee over a hundred battle-fields excites the 
 profoundest feelings of pride and gratitude in all our hearts. Such meetings 
 serve to keep alive that spirit of loyalty and patriotism which throughout 
 the war shone forth with such resplendent etYulgence. _ Hearts beat once 
 more in unison, and the old campaign memories are rekindled. In accents 
 of enthusiasm you can recount the fatigues of the march, the furies of the 
 conflict, the horrors of the battle-field, and the joys around the camp-fires. 
 There are times, Mr. President, when the ordinary language of eulogy be- 
 comes trite and unmeaning, and the actions of men drown the echoes that 
 linger on their lips. Who shall dare to speak of all 'the courage, the glories, 
 tlie sacrifices, the sufterings, and of all the inestimable services rendered to 
 the country by the Army of the Tennessee — of all its marches, its assaults, 
 its sieges, and all its battles, from Belmont ' till Sherman marched down to 
 the sea.'' 
 
 "It is not my province to-night, Mr. President, to speak for the Army of 
 the Tennessee. That is left to other and abler hands. But I would like to 
 say a word to the living of that grand army, who have worn so worthily, 
 alike in public and private life, all the honors they have so courageously and 
 nobly won, holding a title to public gratitude which shall descend to the 
 latest generations as the proudest legacy ever bequeathed from sire to son. 
 And I must recall on this occasion the memories of your mighty dead, and 
 join in scattering flowers over their hallowed graves. How many of tliem 
 with whom you marched ' shoulder to shoulder and elbow touching elbow' 
 fell by your side, and how many of theni were buried hurriedly on the very 
 spot of the conflict! But they" shall never, never be iorgotten. The grass 
 shall ever grow green, aiid the wild flowers shall ever blossom over all the battle- 
 fields where repose their sacred ashes. I speak here of the young, the gener- 
 ous, the gifted Rawlins, my townsman and friend, and known so well to the 
 country and so well to you all. From the day of Sumter till death claimed 
 him as one of its most distinguished victims, he followed the fortunes of his 
 great chief, and served his country with a zeal, a devotion, and an intelligence 
 which challenged the public admiration. A native of our own great Corn- 
 monwealth, had his valued life been spared to us there is no honor that Illi- 
 nois, at least, would not have conferred upon him. 
 
 "But I pause in the presence of a great figure. It is M'Pherson, whose 
 name and fame are treasured in all your memories. Full of courage, talent, 
 intelligence, and militarv instinct, dying so young, and, as a soldier, would 
 die on the battle-field, he yet lived to win glory enough to distinguish the 
 longest military career. I can well remember an incident of the Vicksburg 
 campaign, which took place a few days before the last time I saw him, and 
 when Tbade him what proved to be— alas! — a final adieu. It was on the 
 march from Bruinsburgh, and on the day of the battle of Port Gibson. He 
 was leading the rear column, and some distance in advance. No one there 
 will fail to remember his dashing back on his foaming black charger— his 
 splendid military presence, and his manly face lighted up with military ardor. 
 He brought a note from the commanding General, who was, as usual, at the 
 front, and which had been hastily scratched in pencil. It was brief and to 
 the point, and there was no waste of words. The note was precisely this, 
 and no more: ''JVe have met the enemy, and are u-kippinff htm beantifitl'y.'' 
 And in that campaign — which I undertake to say is one of the most brilliant 
 and extraordinary ever set down in military annals — General Grant went on 
 
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 35 
 
 meeting the enemy, and "whipping him beautitullj," until our victorious 
 eagles tloated in triumph over the battlements of Vicksburt^ 
 
 "I have no time to mention all the others, officers and soldiers, of the Army 
 of the Tennessee who have passed from among us, and who won glory and 
 fame on so many well-fought fields. But who can pass over the nanies of 
 Wallace, and Ransom, and Wyman; and who among you will ever foro-et 
 the dashing and chivalric Blair, and tlie stubborn bravery of our own Ha?d- 
 ing? They are gone, and we can only mingle our tears with yours at their 
 loss, cut o% so many of them, in the strength of their manhood and tlie full- 
 ness ol their usefulness — 
 
 When a soldier weeps o'er a brother's bier. 
 
 You may know that the brave is dead ; 
 For never yet was a soldier's tear 
 Shed over a craven's head. 
 "A grateful country has raised lofty columns to Rawlins and McPherson 
 But there are other monuments erected in our hearts to the memoryof all the 
 noble dead of the Army of the Tennessee, and which shall endure so long 
 as the love of noble and patriotic deeds shall find a lodgement in the human 
 heart. 
 
 "Mr. President, and gentlemen of the Society of the Army of the Tenn- 
 essee, I bid you welcome, welcome— thrice welcome." 
 
 SHELBY M. CULLOM. 
 
 Governor Washburne was followed by his Excellency .Shelby M. Cullom, 
 Governor of Illinois, w^ho spoke substantially as follows : 
 
 " Soldiers of the Army of the Tennessee : Nearly fifteen years 
 of eventful history have passed away since the army of the Union, of wliich 
 you were so important and conspicuous a part, after having completed the 
 heroic task for the accomplishment of which it was called into existence, 
 furled all its victorious banners and was disbanded. The brave men who 
 constituted it returned, each to his place in the peaceful walks of life, believino- 
 that, in the results of the great w^ar in which he had been an actor, liberty 
 and union— one and inseparable under a government of the people— had been 
 secured for the future of the Republic. It is not for me, even if time were 
 at my disposal, to tell now the story of the war. " From year to year the 
 battles, sieges, fortunes" that you have passed. That is a task the muse of 
 history must hereafter perform, and in its performance record your deeds 
 among those of the best soldiers of liberty, who have made many of the eras 
 of the world bright with the sacrifices of unselfish patriotism ; for never, in 
 all the course of time, did braver men than you fight for a nobler cause. 
 And— thanks to the good genius of the Republic— vou battled better than 
 you knew; you battled for the idea of Nationality, wliich must yet permeate 
 and be acknowledged by all communities of the Republic, and' in the appli- 
 cation of which to the aft'airs of the government will be found the best safe- 
 guard of the rights of the States and the inalienable individual rights of life, 
 liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This idea has become the "chief stone 
 of the corner, and cannot be again rejected. 
 
 "And now, as the representative of the people of Illinois, and in the name 
 of th.e Government which the soldiers of the Union saved from destruction, 
 and in the memory of the battles you fought, and the victories you won, and 
 in honor of your dead comrades, whom the present hours bewail, and to 
 whom the future belongs, and who, if the departed ever revisit the scenes of 
 earth, are with you here to-day,— I welcome you within the borders of our 
 State. And representing, by virtue of my office, the patriotic masses of 
 Illinois, with pleasure I unite with you in salutation of your first commander. 
 General Grant, in Avhose person alf the world has done honor to your valor, 
 and the valor of your comrades in arms which his genius directed to \irtory, 
 and who now stands before the people of the Union the most conspicuous 
 
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 representative ot the idea of Nationality wliich that valor, thus directed, vin- 
 dicated and tirnily established upon an enduring foundation. He returns to 
 us from a memorable journey. Departing from the Republic by one of its 
 eastern doors, he sailed across the Atlantic, with his face toward the East, and 
 made the circuit of the globe. 
 
 "During his progress he beheld the energy and refinement of Europe, the 
 undisjnited home of Christian civilization ; he beheld the ignorance and 
 barbarism of Africa, the land of mystery and the lield of the future; he 
 belield the apathy and degradation of Asia, in which society is a stagnant 
 pool, and in which he stood among the most inert, the representative ot the 
 most active people in the w orld. On his journey he was at times surrounded 
 by architectural ruins, and looked upon landscapes that called to his mind 
 historical events as grand as those in which he had been the most prominent 
 figure. He stood in the busy streets of many great cities, — walked on the 
 banks of the Nile and the Ganges, and rested in the shadow of the Pyramids. 
 He beheld the holy places of Buddhism, heard the Mohanmiedan call to 
 pravers, and in Palestine, the birthplace of Christianity, looked upon scenes 
 made sacred by the lile and death of the Author ot that consoling faith. He 
 had a glimpse of the efiects upon the indi\idual of every form of govern- 
 ment, and glanced with comprehensive eye at every condition of human 
 existence. Then, without turning his back upon his pathway, with his face 
 still toward the East, he sailed across the Pacific, tarrying for a time on islands 
 of the ocean, and, passing the Golden Gate, entered the Republic through one 
 of its western doors, greeted by a general acclamation of joy at his return to 
 his native land. Illinois welcomes him, and welcomes, too, your other great 
 Commander, the present General of the Army of the United States, who, 
 during the war, was the right hand oi' Grant, — the hero of the march to the 
 sea,— the brilliant soldier who dashed from one victory to anoth.er, and closed 
 the war in a blaze of glory. To him, the incomparable Sherman, Illinois 
 also extends a hearty welcome. 
 
 "The chivalric Logan, who commanded 30U in a great emergency-, is with 
 you here, and to him Illinois has not only extended its hand of welcome, but 
 has often said to him, ' Well done, good and faithful servant.' 
 
 " Another of your commaders, the gallant Howard, is elsewhere in honor- 
 able soldierly employment, and to him, and to all other absent heroes of the 
 Army of the Tennessee, Illinois sends a thankful greeting. 
 
 "And would that Illinois could \^-elcome or send greeting to your third 
 Commander, the lamented McPherson, who, as has been eloquently said, 
 'From the front of the action, in full sight of the foe, booted and spurred, 
 went into the presence of the God of battles.' And would that Illinois couM 
 give a welcome to the other noble men of your army who sacrificed their 
 lives for the countrv. Would that, here and now, I could, uttering the wish 
 of Illinois, gi-eet and welcome vour loved comrade, the friend of my youth, the 
 brave and patriotic Rawlins. But McPherson and Rawlins are gone,— no 
 sound can wake them to glorv again. To them, and to all your dead com- 
 rades, Illinios pays the tribute of honest regret, and all the nation laments 
 thein." 
 
 The address was received with frequent bursts of applause, the references 
 to Generals Grant and Logan compelling those gentlemen to rise and bow 
 their acknowledgments. 
 
 THE MAYOR. 
 
 On behalf of the city the Hon. Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, 
 eloquently said: 
 
 "Gextlemen of the Society of the Army oftheTenxes.see: You 
 have now been greeted in loval words by the whole people of this broad land. 
 Patriotic Illinois has welcomed vou also in burning words. It now, sir, be- 
 comes my pleasant dutv to welconie you to the business city of Chicago, to its 
 
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 hearts as -^vell as to its home. Self-interest in Chicago makes deep the gratitude 
 that she owes to the Army of the Tennessee. Sir, when that dread peal burst 
 from the cannon's mouth at Charleston harbor, was caught up, rolled across 
 the mountains, became doubly hoarse in its deepest callings, echoed and re- 
 edioed from the loftiest heights, was swollen and spread over our broad 
 prairies, coming to this city of the plains, telling us that the discontent of the 
 South had robed itself in the garb of grim-visaged war, the people of Chi- 
 cago said, by one unanimous voice, that secession was the remedy for no evil. 
 Her people never for one instant doubted of the Republic. For' awhile, sir, 
 the news coming Irom the seat of war was not too encouraging. Here and 
 there was a glimmer of sunshine. It was not until eighteen years and five 
 days ago, when a small army at Behnont taught the world that a citizen sol- 
 diery — a soldiery recruited from the fiirm, and from the shop, and from be- 
 hind the counter — could do deeds of steadfast daring equal to those of the 
 oldest and best-tried regiments— it was not until then that she had a real 
 ground of hope. Sir, Belmont was but the chirp of the eagle within its shell, 
 but itg.ive promise of the wild scream of its grown future. That little army, 
 recruited from the stalwart hearts an'd from the brawny muscles grown on 
 our free prairies, soon threw itself around Donelson. It tightened its gi-asp 
 tighter and tighter, until its beleaguered Captain surrendered, and nearly 
 15,000 prisoners came to Chicago, telling us that we had a true friend and 
 guard at the front. That army, which had been begotten in blood at Bel- 
 mont, was at Donelson baptized in victory — the Army of the Tennessee. From 
 that day, sir, the people of Chicago never for a moment lost sight of that army. 
 In the morning we read on the bulletin-boards whereto it was marching. By 
 lightning at night we saw it around the bivouac-fires. We saw it climbing 
 slowly up the Tennessee, crossing over from the Cumberland, until it massed 
 at Pittsburg Landing. For an hour or two we were told it was defeated, but, 
 thank God, the Army of the Tennessee never knew when it was defeated. 
 It snatched from the very jaws of defeat one of the most substantial victories 
 of the war. Corinth was its immediate first fruit, but your wily and brave 
 enemy, knowing the value of that strategic point, endeavored to repossess it, 
 .and again you won a battle at Corinth. After many long marches, many 
 victories— the crowning one luka— we saw the Armvof the Tennessee sleep- 
 ing on t!ie low banks of the Yazoo. We trembled then, for we knew that its 
 pestilential breath was far more dangerous than the bullets or cannon of a 
 living enemy. Unable to scale the heights of Vicksburg, the army crossed 
 over to the other bank of the Mississippi River. It said to itself, ''Cvrus ot 
 old turned the Euphrates, we will turn from its course the old Mississippi.' 
 But that Avas a flood that drained an empire. It despised your feeble efforts. 
 Unable to bridle the monster, vou mounted his untamed back, and, running 
 a gauntlet of fire and hail, passed Grand Gulf, fought a battle every other 
 day, and every battle was a victory. Vicksburg fell, and Chicago shouted 
 Thank God, the sun shines upon a free Mississippi. We next saw you 
 concenti-ated at Chattanooga. We gloried in your victory. We saw Vou 
 trailing along Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. We saw vou mount- 
 ing up, up, higher, higher, until you were lost iii the clouds that capped their 
 dizzy heights. We heard the boom of the cannon, where before alone had 
 been heard the roll of heaven's own artillery. The cannon boomed louder, 
 the ciouds grew denser, until at last we heard a shout. The clouds lifted, 
 the smoke blew away, and 30,000,000 of freemen uttered one grand resolve: 
 'It is the sun of victory.' Sir, we then saw you traveling "on your long 
 march to the sea. We saw you begrimed with "mud and smoke, bathin<'- in 
 the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Thence you climbed over the Car- 
 •olinas,^ fighting the last battle of the war, at Bentonville, and receiving a 
 nations plaudit beneath the Capitol of vour country. Behind you sat the 
 Father of his Country in chiseled maiesty. High above you, benignantlv 
 smiled a statue of the Goddess of Liberty." You' had come,' for the first time, 
 to the Capital of your Nation. You had. come by no easy road, an(i vou had 
 come on no dead-head ticket. You had fought Aour wav ihrou-h eleven 
 
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 States. You had paid toll at every cross-road. In after ages some future 
 Homer will write a grand epic, and the rank and the file of the Army of the 
 Tennessee, aggregating one grand mass, will he sung in the epic ot c!ie last 
 ■war." 
 
 The speaker closed with appropriate words of welcome, and was followed 
 by that indomitable military chieftain 
 
 GENERAL SHER.MAX, 
 
 General Sherman then arose. On behalf of the society, thus so heartily 
 welcomed, in substance who responded as follows : 
 
 " Comrades : We are richly welcomed to-night. We have heard words 
 deep with praise from Mr. Washburne. We have also heard from the Gov- 
 ernor — Governor McCuUom — the Commander-in-Chief of the great State 
 of Illinois, the granary of the world. And, lastly, we have heard from the 
 Mayor of Chicago, that city which has, meteor-Hke, risen among the great 
 cities of the world, ready and willing — for a consideration — to feed the world. 
 And I believe Chicago'would undertake to build a railroad to the moon if 
 the man in the moon would hold a ladder long enough for the surveyor to 
 get there. We accept your welcomes in the spirit in which they have been 
 tendered, and thank vou one and all. 
 
 •■What is the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, that you have praised 
 so highly — these veterans who are now sitting here, with wives and chiLlren 
 before u"s ? They are not the creation of war. They represent an army 
 styled the Army of the Tennessee. In 1865, far off in Raleigh, N. C, 
 before the fluttering wings of peace were heard even, when the sword and 
 rifle were lamiliar to us, a few of our comrades met in the Senate Chamber, 
 at the Capitol, and there passed a series of resolutions -\\ hich I wish every 
 citizen in this land would read very often. I wish citizens would read those 
 resolutions, to see what was in the hearts of this army at that time. Kind- 
 ness and charity pervaded every line and every syllable. You all remember 
 it, my friends, but I speak of it to the citizens, who are behind me, that we 
 are a' society, named after the Army of the Tennessee, proud of its record, 
 glorying in its deeds, but still social," purely social, in our nature." 
 
 General Sherman's response was well received and solicited hearty 
 applause. 
 
 The next speaker was 
 
 general w. q. gresham, 
 
 the orator of the evening. In the course of his speech he said : 
 
 " It is now more than fourteen vears since our opponents sued for peace,, 
 since they laid down their arms and returned to their homes on terms which 
 involved' neither hardship nor humiliation. The soldiers of the Union 
 applauded the generous and magnanimous conduct of their illustrious com- 
 manded toward" their prostrate and helpless foe; they shared his desire that 
 all obstacles to lasting peace and harmony between the alienated sections 
 should be removed. Like him thev came out of the bloody conflict harbor- 
 ing no revcngful feelings toward 'their vanquished enemies. During the 
 fierce and sanguinary struggle thev w^ere actuated by sentiments more nolile 
 than malice alid hatred, "thev fought for the Union and all benefits and 
 blessings which it represented and assured to tb.emselves and their posterity. 
 The fruitful source of disturbance— 'the baleful comet of fire and blood' — which 
 had so long threatened the peace of the country, having disappeared be!ieath 
 the horizon, thev ghuilv returned to their homes and the pursuits of peace, 
 desiring and expecting that mutual distrusts and sectional jealousies would 
 soon and forever give wav to reconciliation and friendship. But these patri- 
 otic hopes and expectations have not been fully realized. The late warrmg 
 
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 sections, instead of being united in sympathy and feeling, as they are in 
 interest, occupy toward cacli other, even at this late day, the attitude of nations 
 between which there is an armed truce. This condition of things must be 
 deplored by the thoughtful and patriotic men of all sections, and they who 
 exposed tliemselves to the multiplied dangers of the camp, march, siege, and 
 battle-field, are deeply sensible that happiness and prosperity will not make 
 their home with us until the passions engendered by our strife are extin- 
 guished, and the people North and South are more homogeneous. They 
 know that it is time for passion to give w-ay to interest and duty ; they feel 
 that interest and duty alike require that we should no longer treat each 
 other as enemies. They are as responsive to the de-.nand of peace as they 
 ■were to those of war, and they have not stood, and do not stand, in the way 
 of fellowship and fraternity. But it is still proclaimed over the graves of 
 the Confederate dead and elsewhere, by those who have been treated with 
 unparalleled leniency by the National Government, that the rebellion was 
 right; that the caus'e of the South was just, and that it was crushed by the 
 weight of overwhelming numbers. It is natural and reasonable to infer 
 that persons who cherish these opinions and sentiments do not harbor an 
 abiding love for tJie Union and its defenders. It also necessarily follows, if 
 their utterances be true, that the soldiers of the Union were on the wrong 
 side in the war ; that they fought for oppression and despotism ; and this, 
 it is almost unnecessary to add, they can not be expected to admit even to 
 gain the good-w ill of the South. It was also proclaimed within the last few 
 weeks, by one v/ho led the South into rebellion and ruin, that the Constitu- 
 tion is nothing more than a 'compact between the States,' which is only 
 another expression of the right to secede, and an attempt at its justification. 
 It will hardly be disputed that this is what was meant by State rights before 
 the war, and that all the arguments which were made in support of nullifi- 
 cation and secession were based I'pon this theory of the Constitution. It is 
 to be regretted that the Confederate soldiers have not been impelled by a 
 sense of honor and duty to openly repudiate the mischievous utterances of 
 their late leader. For it has been settled, if war can settle anything, that 
 the Constitution is not a 'compact between the States,' and it is not out of 
 place for Union soldiers, on occasions like this, to declare that they regard 
 as enemies of the country those who advocate or cherish opinions to the 
 contrary. 
 
 "Our country," he continued, "although it is yet young among the 
 nations of the earth, has already produced men whose names will go down to 
 the latest posterity. The names of Washington, Lincoln and Grant will be 
 familiar to the world in the centuries that are yet unborn. The last, and it 
 may be said with becoming reverence for the illustrious dead, not the least, 
 of the three, is still spared to his country. He returns to us from his extend- 
 ed travels abroad, where honors and attentions have been showered upon 
 him by the hereditary governments of the other hemisphere, and with a love 
 for his own country and a confidence in its institutions which have been 
 strengthened and confirmed by his observations and experience in foreign 
 lands^ His career was not that of a cruel and ambitious conquerer engaged 
 in the selfish and reckless pursuit of glory over the prostrate bodies of his 
 countrymen. On the contrary, few have done so much for popular liberty, 
 or contributed so much to the happiness of the human race. By calling into 
 action his matchless powers, the war enabled him to win undying fame in the 
 service of a great cause, and in doing so he has added lustre to tiie American 
 name. His extraordinary courage and firmness, united with a cool and un- 
 erring iudgment, elevated him at once above rashness and indecision. He 
 always knew when to decide, and ' nothing,' said Napoleon, 'is so difficult, 
 and, "at the same time, so important.' His exalted patriotism, his unwavering 
 faith in the ultimate triumph of our cause, his ability to penetrate the designs 
 O'f the enemy while forming his own plans, gained for him the implicit confi- 
 dcnoii of the Army of the" Tennessee, while his candor, his simplicity, hi» 
 
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 ■warm heart, and his capacity for constant and unselfish friendship enlisted 
 its loyal and devoted affection. Detraction and the ' savage envy of aspiring 
 dunces may do their worst, they may asperse his motives, and they may attrib- 
 ute his grand achievements to sheer luck, but the world knows better. Men 
 do not sustain themselves in positions of great eminence and responsibility 
 without great talents. One who is not equipped by nature for the command 
 of men, could not have retained the esteem and confidence of those subor- 
 dinates of acknowledged genius and spirit who were led by him, and tried by 
 the test of success. When and where has the world produced one greater in 
 arms than Grant .'' " 
 
 After the conclusion of Judge Gresham's masterly effort, which was 
 received with great enthusiasm, upon General Logan devolved the pleasant 
 duty of presenting to the Society a handsome blue banner, fringed with gold, 
 adorned with the escutcheon of the Society, and inscribed " Society of the 
 Armv of the Tennessee," which on behalf of the Society was accepted by its 
 President, General Sherman, promising that it should ever be " preserved 
 pure and undefiled." The audience had now become impatient to hear the 
 great central figure of the occasion, and in response to repeated calls, 
 
 GENERAL GRANT 
 
 advanced to the footlights and said : 
 
 "Comrades of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee : After 
 an absence of several years from the gatherings of the Society of the Army 
 of the Tennessee, it affords me heartfelt pleasure to again see you, my earli- 
 est comrades in arms in the great conflict for Nationality and the Union of 
 all the States under one free and always-to-be-maintained government. ^ 
 
 "In my long absence from the country 1 have had the most favorable op- 
 portunities for seeing and comparing in my own mind our institutions and 
 those of all the European countries and most of those of Asia, and com- 
 paring our resources and their development, and the capacity and energy of 
 our people for upholding the government and developing its resources, with 
 most of the civilized peoples of the world everywhere, from England to 
 Japan, and from Russia to Spain and Portugal. We are everywhere under- 
 stood;' our resources are highly appreciated, and the skill and energy and 
 intelligence of the citizen recognized. My receptions have been your recep- 
 tions. They have been evervwhere a kind of an acknowledgment that the 
 United States is a Nation, a s'trong, independent, and free Nation, composed 
 of strong, brave and intelligent people, capable of judging of their rights, and 
 readv to maintain them at all hazards. 
 
 "'This is a non-partisan association, but composed of men who are united in 
 the determination that no foe, domestic or foreign, shall interfere between 
 us and the maintenance of our grand, free and enlightened institutions and 
 the unity of all the States. The area of our country, its fertility and the 
 energy and resources of our people, with the sparsity of population compared 
 to area, postpone the day for generations to come when our descendants will 
 have to consider the question how the soil is to support them and how the 
 most can be produced for the support of human life, without reference to the 
 taste or desire of the people, or when but a few can exercise the privilegeof 
 the plain luxury of selecting the articles of food they are to eat or the quality 
 and quantitv of clothing they are to wear, but will remain the abundant home 
 of all who possess the energy and strength to make good use of them, and 
 if we onlv remain true to ourselves. 
 
 " Such a country is one to be proud of I am proud of it, — proud that I am 
 an American citizen. Everv citizen, North and South, East and West, enjoys 
 a common heritage, and should feel an honorable pride in it. I am glad 
 these society meetings keep up their interest so long after the events and 
 
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 scenes which they commemorate have passed away. They do not serve to 
 keep up sectional feeling or bitterness toward our late foe, but they do keep 
 up the feeling that we are a nation, and that it must be preserved one and 
 indivisible. We teel the kindest for those who fought bravely on the opposite 
 side from us. They equallj' claim with ourselves the blessings of our great 
 common country. We claim for them the right to travel all over this broad 
 land, to locate where they please, and the right to settle and become citizens 
 and enjoy their politicarand religious convictions free from molestation or 
 ostracisni, either on account of this, or their connection with the past. Wc 
 ask nothing more for ourselves, and we rejoice to see them become powerful 
 rivals in the development of our great resources in the acquisition of ail that 
 should be desirable in this lifej and in patriotism and love of country." 
 
 Cheer upon cheer greeted the speaker's references to the principle of 
 national sovereignty — a theme of which he seemed never to grow weary. 
 After brief, soldier-like addresses by Generals Sheridan and Pope, Governor 
 Oglesby followed with a characteristically spirited address, eulogizing the 
 orators of the evening and complimenting the audience upon its " comely 
 ladies and good-hearted men." " Speaking for that vast army that cannot be 
 here," he proceeded: 
 
 " Speaking for the multitude beyond the pale of this theatre, that cover 
 the great plains of the Republic tar'aw^ay from here, who are seldom blessed 
 with the opportunity to witness such pleasant occasions as these, and for the 
 great army of privates, for the non-commissioned oiBcers, and for tlie great 
 sturdy sons of labor, who assisted our able commander to bear our flag on to 
 victory, and to bless humanity as this Republic is blessed with a sturdy, 
 strong Republican Government, — in the name of the privates of the army 
 of the Republic, in the name of the loyal men who stood behind the pri\ates 
 of the army, the loyal people inspired to-night Avith a new love of country ; 
 with a new vigor, with an assurance of intellect; in the name of the Republic 
 and in the name of the soldiers not ranked I would speak if I dared to do so, 
 it I might presume to do so, if I may be so bold as to dare to speak for tliem 
 and in their behalf and in their name, I thank these gentlemen, and thank 
 this great city of Chicago for this military display and for the civil procession 
 of to-day." 
 
 General Schofield then pleased the audience with a few well-chosen sen- 
 tences, succeeded by Mark Twain, " the inimitable," who spoke in his drollest 
 vein as follows : 
 
 "Ladies and Gentlemen: I just within a moment heard General 
 Sherman say to a gentlemen siUhig in my neighborhood that, if he would 
 promise not" to speak more than two minutes, he \vould let him get up. He 
 didn't say that to me, and I judge by h.is remarks to me, that he wouldn't 
 allow me quite so much. I have not listened to a bad speech to-night, and I 
 don't propose to be the one to furnish you with one ; and I would, if I had 
 time and permission, go on and make an excellent speech. But I never was 
 happy, never could make a good impromptu speech without several hours 
 to prepare it." 
 
 After the resurrection of "John Brown's Body" by the evening s quartette, 
 General Sherman sounded the tattoo, and formally adjourned the meeting 
 until the following day. The Reception by the Society of the Army of the 
 Tennessee was a success in every particular, although the capacity of the 
 tlieatre (Haverley's) was by no means large enough to accommodate numer- 
 ous thousands who desired but failed to gain admittance. This disappoint- 
 ment, of course, caused the generous people of Chicago much pain, and they 
 now no doubt regret exceedingly their thoughtlessness in not having extem- 
 
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 porized a structure for the occasion, with a seating capacity of half million, 
 to include all classes, ages and colors of the visiting population. 
 
 THE evening's ILLUMINATIONS. 
 
 The gorgeous display of bunting and streamers which rendered the streets 
 and buildings of the city very beautiful by day, was fittingly suppleinentad by 
 the illuminations of the evening. Brilliant calcium light and inellow gas 
 jets united to lend a radiance to the principal streets, lighting up the decora- 
 tions and bringing out in sti'ong relief, the eager faces of the surging crowd, 
 a scene at once inspiring and grand, and becomingly crowning the festivities 
 of the day with a halo of brightness. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 THURSDAY'S PROGRAMME. 
 
 THE UXION VETERAN MEETING; SPEECHES BY GENERAL LOGAN, EX-GOV- 
 EKNOR OGLESBY, GENERAL GRANT, EMORY A. STORRS AND OTHERS; 
 
 reception at the residence of the hon. e. b. 
 
 washburne; reception to soldiers and 
 
 visitors; the guests; the palmer 
 
 HOUSE banquet. 
 
 Cw ]S^^i|fOTWITHSTANDING the magnificence of the previous 
 ^.i!l^^ day's proceedings, those of Thursday were cliaracterized 
 
 with even greater interest and brilliancy. The reception 
 at McVicker's Theatre to General Grant by the Union 
 Veteran Club, which at about ten a. m., opened the festivities 
 of the day'was in every respect successful. Crowds of people were in attend- 
 ance, and most of those who applied for admission and were not veterans 
 were turned away. The theatre was tastefully decorated with flags and 
 flowers, and with living representations of the Goddess of Liberty and tlie 
 thirty -eight States. 
 
 After several lusty songs by the assembled veterans, the Rev. E. D. Wil- 
 kins. Chaplain of the Twenty-first Illinois Regiment, advanced to the front 
 bearing the staff and remaining shreds of the regiment's old war flag which 
 he exhibited with the following words of explanation : 
 
 "Ladies and Gentlemen: I have the honor to introduce the old flag 
 of the Twenty-first Illinois — the identical standard that was drawn upon 
 Colonel Grant's requisition at the time he took command. It has been car- 
 ried by the regiment from Fort Donelson and Stone River through some forty 
 engagements. Three color guards fell in seven hours while bearing it at the 
 battle of Stone River, and seven color guards in all have fallen under it." 
 
 During these preliminaries, the stage was concealed from the audience, and 
 when the curtain suddenly rose, a sight was revealed which justly elicited 
 rapturous applause. The back of the stage was occupied by a triple dais, 
 in the center of which, upon an elevated throne, sat the Goddess of Liberty, 
 while at her feet were clustered five lovely little girls, who represented the 
 Territories of the United States. On either side of these stood two tiers of 
 young ladies, representing the various States of the Union, the State repre- 
 sented by each being designated by a handsome blue shield, with the name 
 In gold letters diagonally across It, and beneath it the words, "I Welcome 
 You." 
 
 When the exciting effect produced bv this really beautiful vision had some- 
 what subsided, the assembly was formally welcomed by General Chetlain, 
 President of the Union Veteran Club, in the following words: 
 
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 "Ladies and Gentlemen, and Comrades: This meeting, convened 
 within the last forty-eight hours, for the purpose of giving opportunity to 
 the ex-soldier}' of our city, and others who Mnay be visiting here to meet each 
 other, to greet each other, and to revive the memories of the past, is a meet- 
 ing that I feel sure will result in good to all. It is a meeting unlike many 
 others. No extensive preparation has been made for it We have come 
 here — have been called together — and we intend to have a sort of old-fash- 
 ioned love-feast." 
 
 Corporal Brownell, the avenger of the lamented Colonel Ellsworth, was 
 tlien invited to address his old comrades, to which he responded in fitting 
 words. Amid prolonged applause, General John A. Logan was then intro- 
 duced to the audience and spoke in effect as follows : 
 
 general LOGAN. 
 
 " Fellow Comrades : The Veteran Club of Chicago have asked that 
 the veterans who are here at this time assemble here to-day, in this theater, 
 for the purpose of ha%ing an opportunity of meeting one another and 
 exchange friendly greetings. It is not necessary for me to detain you at anv 
 great length. Each and every vetei-an of the late war, who is now in the 
 city of Chicago, meets with a hearty welcome, not only at the hands of the 
 veterans who reside here and belong to this club, but a welcome to the hearts 
 of the people of this great city of ours. 
 
 " My comrades, I Avill not attempt to recount the many deeds of heroism 
 that were performed by the grand Armies of the United States. In fact, it 
 Avould be announcing to the country that you yourselves are unacquainted 
 with your own history ; but there is one thing I "hope you will pardon me for 
 calling your attention to, and tiiat is, the principles lor w hich these armies 
 contended. It was not a mere fancy ; it was not merely a dream, or chimera 
 of the brain, but it was a principle that underlies this as well as all other 
 civil governments. It was Avhether or not a government of the people, bv 
 tlie people and for the people, has within itself, by virtue of its whole consti- 
 tution, the power to protect, to preserve its own life, and with that power, 
 the power to preserve and protect the rights of its citizens wherever the 
 emblem of liberty, the flag of this nation, is unfurled and floats. The 
 armies of the Union contended that this government was a nation; that this 
 government was not a league; that this government was not a compact, but 
 that this was a constitutional government, made by the people, for their wel- 
 fare, their peace, prosperity and happiness; within which government the 
 power Avas vested in the people; which could do and might do all things 
 necessary for its own preservation and its own exigencies. 
 
 "On the other hand, it was contended that this nation was a mere league, 
 or confederacy; that each and every part of it was independent and sov- 
 ereign in itself; that that wide independence and sovereignty was of such a 
 nature and character as gave to each one of the parts — the States — the 
 right to consider for themselves whether the laws of Congress were passed 
 in accordance with the constitution — without reference to the judicial power 
 of the government wliich by the Constitution was established for the pur- 
 pose of deciding that very question ; that thev themsches would bike upon 
 themselves to decide whether or not the laws and the Constitution should 
 be enforced against citizens in other states without their consent. We said 
 the laws, the Constitution, and the treaties made in pursuance thereof are 
 the supreme laws of this countrv, and every executive, legislative depart- 
 ment, judicial department, and citizen of a state is bound thereby, and 
 should submit thereto. 
 
 " For this great Constitutional idea, for this great principle underlying 
 Republican government, the armv of the Union fought and contended. 
 
 " It was our sentiment when this contest began — it was the submission of 
 this great principle tl:is duty by a part of the people of this counti-y from the 
 
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 time of the organization of this government, when then the banners were 
 unfurled on either side and the contest of biood began — it was the reference 
 of this great principle of national unity, of national power, of the obedience 
 of the citizens to the powers of the national government — it was reierred to 
 the last appeal made by nations or people ; and that is the appeal made to the 
 arbitrament of the sword. It is now or ought to be and ever has been under- 
 stood by people of all nations that w henever a question had been referred to 
 this great tribunal of war, to the victor belongs the principle to be applied to 
 the government for which they had contended, in accordance w ith the theory 
 upon whicli war was based. 
 
 " So, then, this question at last having been settled by this final and last 
 appeal in favor of the union having power not only to protect and preserve 
 itself but to maintain its Constitution according to the construction given — 
 not Only that, but to enforce its Constitution, to enforce its laws upon the 
 citizen everywhere, as well as protect them everywhere in states as v.cU as 
 on the briny ocean — this question being settled on that side, it is a final set- 
 tlement by war in favor of the men wlio fought to maintain the union of 
 the states. 
 
 " That settlement having been so made, it was expected, and should be, 
 by the people of this countrv, that every good citizen in this land sliould sub- 
 mit to that settlement and agree that that is a iinal settlement, that that is. 
 the construction of the powers of this government. It was so understood by 
 every nation of the earth and by the people everywhere, except a few men 
 themselves Avho did not succeed in the war. Novv', then, and pardon me for 
 saying this — what is the duty of this country.? I do not mean to say that force 
 shall be applied to men to convince them of their wrongs ; but I do mean to say 
 that this government, having settled this question of its own power by war 
 in favor of that power, in favor of its own nationality and the right to execute 
 its own laws within its own confines, it is the duty of the people of this 
 country — the loyal people — to see that that government does execute its laws. 
 I do not believe that the armies of this union fought for the purpose of ex- 
 ecuting the laws against themselves and letting them be miexecuted against 
 others. I do not believe that the army of this union fought for the protection 
 of themselves under our Constitution and the laws, and at the same time- 
 would withdraw tliat protection from others. I don't believe that the protec- 
 tion of this governmet belongs to a Avhite man, or a man of any color exclu- 
 si\-ely — and while this Constitution, as it does, by its Fourteenth Amendment, 
 makes every man a citizen of the United States; while it makes liim and 
 clothes him with the power of citizenship everywhere in this countrv, and at 
 the same time makes him a citizen and requires of him the duty to the 
 government; that whenever it calls for his services he is bound to obey that 
 call; that while it imposes this duty on him not only in war, but in peace, 
 that there is a corresponding obligation following out from the constitution 
 of this government to that person. What is that, mv countrvmcn.' It is 
 that, that while he is bound to the government to perform all the duties ot a 
 citizen that this government is bound to him to perform the duty of a nation, 
 and when this government fails to protect its citizens, to protect its own fiag 
 on the ocean against governments of foreign powers, it fails to keep its obli- 
 gation to its citizens. If the government has power to protect its citizens on 
 the high seas against foreign powers and obligates to do it, that same obliga- 
 tion rests upon it to protect its citizen within its own borders. And the 
 government that fails to extend protection to its own citizens in the exercise 
 of their political rights, where it has the power to do it, fails in performing 
 one of the most important duties that belongs to a nation that expects to 
 survive and be perpetuated as a government. 
 
 " The man or government who would force a man to vote contrary to his. 
 own judgment, does violence to free institutions. A government, citV, state, 
 national, or whatever you may please to term it, that will not protect"its citi- 
 zens in voting as they please, fails to perform its duty to all its citizens. So. 
 I would extend this protection to everybody. But" one thing 1 want to say 
 
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 lo my soldier friends. The %veak and the feeble, those who cannot protect 
 themselves, always appeal strongly to the arm that can protect them. A 
 man that was a slave, that has been made a freeman by the powers of this 
 American army, who has been elevated from despair, and made to stand 
 before the civilized nations of the earth, can put his hand upon his bosom 
 and say as the Roman did, 'I am now an American citizen.'" 
 
 Following General Logan, 
 
 GENERAL GRANT 
 
 Tvho was greeted with a volley of cheers, addressed the veterans as follows : 
 " CoMRADE-s AND VETERANS OF THE Late War : I was entirely 
 unaware of the object of my coining here this morning. I thought it was 
 to see the place where we were to meet this evening, or some other time. I 
 was not av.'are that I was to meet so many of my old comrades, but I assure 
 you it aubrds me great pleasure to meet you, and to meet you everywhere. 
 The veterans of the late war, to me, are companions, and in all my travels 
 I have not been in a country, hardly a town, hardly a place, in the two and 
 a-half 3'ears that I have been away from my own country, that I have not 
 met some of your number. V>'e heard last night that war was not desirable 
 ■vvhen it was not attended with good. We believe sincerely that the war 
 ■vvhicli we waged has been attended with great good to our country. We 
 believe that our victory redounded to the benefit ot the vanquished, as well 
 as to ourseh'cs. We believe that they to-day would have been in a very 
 much worse condition than they are now, had their cause succeeded, and we 
 certainly would have been infinitely worse off. But wars render another 
 benefit. People who come up — grow up — in time of profound peace, are 
 very much accustomed to vegetate and live along near the place of their 
 birth; but, having been turned aw.ay from their homes, as all of you 
 were, thev get weaned from their homes, and at the close they seek the best 
 place for' the development of their energies and their talent, and in that way 
 the veterans of our war are scattered all over this broad land, and are now 
 developing our territories, building railroads, opening mines, opening farms, 
 cultivating the soil, over a vast territory which is made, and is being made, 
 available for the support of man. They are hunting and building homes 
 in foreign lands, and opening in that way the commerce of our countr^v. 
 They are making our country felt and known, and appreciated wherever a 
 flag can float. 
 
 " Now, gentlemen, I have said a great deal more than I had any idea of 
 saying. And as Mark Twain very aptly remarked last night, I could very 
 much better extemporize a speech "if I had a couple of hours to prepare it." 
 
 After three cheers were given for General Grant, Hendershot, the drum- 
 mer boy of the Rappahannock, made a brief and appropriate speech, and then 
 admirably imitated the roar and rattle of battle on his drum. 
 
 HON. EMORY A. STORRS 
 
 was then introduced by the chairman, and was received with cheer*. He 
 said: 
 
 " If there are any gentlemen or ladies present in this vast audience, who, 
 during the war, rem'ained at home, I want their sympathy. I wish to address 
 them 'as my fellow-comrades. I sympathize with those who protected their 
 firesides as" I did my fireside — and, as General Grant and General Logan 
 have not told vou what they know about peace, I Avould like to tell you what 
 I know about war. Being 'a lawyer I would like to do things in a lawyer- 
 like way, but it never for a moment occurred to me that we could wage a 
 campaign by" Chitty's Pleadings.' I thought there was behind our armies 
 a great and »plcndld cause. I thought you foujjht for It I thought it wa» 
 
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 that cause which armed every man, which took every soldier into the field. 
 I tiioiight you not only fought for a cause, but against a cause, and I consid- 
 ered in my soldierly way of looking at things — that the surrender of your 
 adversaries — which in\olved merely the laying down of his arms and the 
 acceptance of the situation — I thought it was a gigantic and a stupendous 
 crime when I heard about it. I say we fought for a cause. I am not 
 very emotional. I regret to say that while I am not bloodthirsty on this great 
 topic of government f am not sentimental. I believe that the capitulation of 
 the rebellion armies meant more than the capitulation of their arins. I 
 believe that at Appomattox court house they laid down the doctrine of State 
 rights and we took it up. They laid down the doctrine of infernal secession 
 and we took it up and puherized it. They surrendered human slavery and 
 we took it up. and that man is a flunky who will give any of it back. I am 
 not bloodthirsty, but I mean business. I do not want to see another war, 
 and the exact way to see it is to conciliate the adversary you have deieated, 
 by giving back to him the victories you have achieved. We established the 
 doctrine of nationality instead of state sovereignty. We extirpated human 
 slavery from every foot of soil of the republic. We said that there is a cen- 
 tralized pow-er that we call the nation, and by the federal constitution we 
 made everybody beneath the flag citizens of the United States the most 
 splendid declaration that a government ever made. We made some promises 
 in those amendments, and this is the serious question that is to-day and will 
 be for vears to come, ' Shall the nation that has the power to make a promise 
 have the power to perform it?' I say it shall. Has it ever occurred to these 
 battle-scarred veterans here that it would be an elegant thing if any one 
 should come and conciliate them.? Is there any one that has ever proposed 
 to conciliate you.? The first business and duty of the government is justice. 
 Sentiment, emotion, benevolence come after all that duty is performed. We 
 gaurantee to every citizen beneath the flag political equality. Have they got 
 it.? No, and you know they have not. Why haven't they got it.? Because 
 there is a large political organization in this country, promoting the old 
 counter doctrine of state rights, which declares that although this govern- 
 ment has the power to make an engagement, it has not the power to execute 
 its agreement. ■ This promise is interfered with. How.? By force. How 
 will you put it down.? I say by force. 
 
 "I would have more armed men, wouldn't you, and I would have the leg- 
 islation that would call lor more armed men, wouldn't you, and I would 
 have furnished the required rigidity, that everlasting backbone that would 
 say, ' this statute shall be executed or I will smash the concern.' \ye 
 come right to that now, suppose that armies are organized to interfere with 
 the enjoyment of these guaranteed privileges, I would like to contemplate 
 the spectacle of a great nation making a solemn promise and then with 
 driveling, drooling'sort of helplessness standing up before forty-eiglit mil- 
 lions of people and saying that it would create a great disturbance if we car- 
 ried out our promise. 
 
 "I like peace. There are some things I like infinitely better. I like justice 
 a great deal better than I like peace, and I would have everlasting and eter- 
 nal uproar until I had justice. Now, wouldn't you.? The Almighty, my 
 friends, don't do things ahvavs in a quiet way. When we have a pestilential 
 and malarious atmosphere that is charged all through with poison and disease. 
 He don't send quiet, still, and stealthy agencies, but the thunder storm, the 
 rain, the whirlwind, and the earthquake come, and, in the conflict of the ele- 
 ments which follows, the air is cleansed and purified, and we breathe again 
 with safety. The kind of peace that this people desire is liberty, calmly and 
 safely enjoyed. No other kind of peace do we require. I have said that 
 this draws the dividing line. It does. There is no— I am gomg to talk pol- 
 itics now. I can't help it. This great, bread, comprehensive. National poli- 
 tics,— this politics that reaches from sea to sea, from one limit and boundary 
 of the continent to the other. It is the great politics, the noblest of all hu- 
 
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 man science, which asserts the equality of mankind and swears by the livmg 
 God it will enforce it. That is politics. Here is a suggestion I want you to 
 take with you when somebody talks State-rights to you. Take down the 
 P'ourtcenth and Fifteentli Constitutional Amendments, and the more you 
 read them the more absolutely lustrous and splendid they become. There 
 is no such literature on the face of the earth. Concentrated in twenty lines 
 are the splendid guarantees that make all there is of human government, — 
 the absolute equality of political privileges, liberties, and immunities. Not 
 only that. This great cause of ours, embodied in the Union soldiery that 
 is here to-day, — a cause as broad as humanity itself, — declared in the organic 
 law that no man should be interfered with in the enjoyment of his pohtical 
 privileges by reason of race, culor, or previous condition of servitude. 
 These engagements have been made iDy whom.'' By your State .^ No. By 
 the State of lllmois, Indiania, or Wisconsin.? No S"tate has made that con- 
 tract with you. It is this nation that has made it Avith you, and when the 
 poorest and weakest of our citizens, driven from the polls, takes the contract 
 that his Nation has made in his hands and goes up to this great, puissant 
 body that I call the United States of America, and says: 'You promised 
 that I sliould have full and absolute privilege in casting an unconstrained 
 ballot, and you haven't kept your promise,' what is the Nation going to do 
 about it.'' My friends, you had better repudiate all engagements to pay 
 money than repudiate an engagement of that character. Rising right out 
 of the ground and the soil on which we stand is the splendid, puissant spirit 
 
 -of our institutions, — that great, majestic form whose brow is clothed with 
 diamonds, shining with light, and armed with a sword and a shield, taking 
 the poor, trembling black man by the hand, vith whom she has made the 
 contract, leading him through the files of his enemies, ai.d, with uplifted 
 hands, saying: ' By the eternal God, in whose interest I speak, you shall 
 cast a ballot just exactly as I agreed.' 
 
 "And, finally, my friends, for I feel the spirit of the occasion booming all 
 
 ■ over me, I desire to add that, when the enemies of our own countrv make 
 up their minds to do some particularly mean and despicable thing (and their 
 
 • disposition is so manifest that they cannot deny it), they at once appeal either 
 to what they call the founders of the Republic or become religious. It is an 
 old story to me, — a new one, perhaps, to some of you, — touching raid pene- 
 trating to the innermost core of my heart,^that affecting story of the Prod- 
 igal Son, which our good friends have again, and again told" as illustrating 
 the manner in which w-e should treat our erring brethern. May I be per- 
 mitted to remark to you tliat not a great while since I took down the Gospel 
 
 .according to St. Luke, where that beautiful parable is recorded, read it 
 through, and, with your permission, I will close this portion of the enter- 
 tainment with my idea or the exact reading of the story of the Prodigal Son 
 as applied to the Prodigal of the South. In the first place, I observed that 
 the old-fashioned, sacred Prodigal Son, when he got ready to leave home, 
 he had a perfect right to go. The father and the brother that remained 
 there said, " All right." In the next place, I observed that he didn't take a 
 thin'4- with him that didn't belong to him. I won't stop at this point to note 
 the differences between that parable and the parable of the South. 
 This young Prodigal of the olden time, anxious to see the world, has his por- 
 tion paid over to him in money. He takes it in monev. He starts out. He 
 falls among the Democrats and is, naturally enough, cleaned out. It is a sad 
 story, but 1 mustpursue it. When his money was gone, and his credit gone 
 the Democrats had no further use for him. He was read out of the part}-. He 
 ■went into the pork businesss. He went to feeding swine. That didn't 
 last long. He had no experience in that line, and failed at it. He went to 
 feeding with the swine, and the swine objected. I never blamed the swine- 
 He discovered that a diet of husks and of east wind didn't pay, and with a 
 stomach that hung as loosely and flabbily around him as the garments 
 around the Democr.alic party of the city of" Chicago, sore-e\ed, down at the 
 
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 heel, -without clothes enough on him to wad a gun, the poor Prodigal returned. 
 Now, he was not a very bad boy. He liad simply made a unanimous fool 
 of himself, He still re'tained afl his affection for the old home; and he pad- 
 dled back in a wearisome sort of a way. And I stop here to observe that 
 he didn't start back headed by a band-wagon. He went very quietly and 
 very modestly, General Logan, back to that old farm. I never heard of 
 him demanding any rights, either. His grand old father, whose heart had 
 always been moved tor'the boy, stood at the gate, looking down the dusty 
 highway. He knew the boy would come back. And he saw him coming 
 tofling and limping up, and rushed out to meet him, threw his arms around 
 the poor devil of a boy, and welcomed him back home. Now, what did he come 
 for.? Because that is the sugaring-ofF place for this parable. What did he 
 come home for.? You would think from the description that the double- 
 back-action, lever-escapement politicians of this country give of it, that the 
 old man gave him a farm. He gave him a suit of clothes, put a ring on his 
 finger, and gave him a veal dinner. Now, that was no great shakes. The 
 calf was a fat one. That was of no particular account. There was no 
 market there for calves. What did the boy ask now.'' Did he say,_ "Father, 
 o-et out of the way here, 1 want to be conciliated." Not a bit of it. If he 
 had come in that shape, the veal that he would have received would have 
 been at the end of a boot. He says, " I have sinned ; take me in as a hired 
 servant." That is what he asked — merely to run as a territory. You 
 observe, too, that the old man didn't slop over. All he did was to take him 
 in as a hired servant, and yet the boy that remained at home — the great, 
 splenditl, big, proud, large-hearted, loyal North that had been paying taxes 
 on account of that fellow's deviltry — stood up and said : "Father, I never 
 rt-ent away from home and spent my money in riotous living, and yet you 
 never killed any fatted calf for me.' And the old man turns around and 
 says to this great audience of splendid loyal men and women: 'Son, thou 
 art always with me. All that I have is tliine.' Not a dollar of money, not 
 a foot of ground, not an office nor a smell of an office went to him. 'All 
 that I have is thine.' I say, all that this country has to give, all that grate- 
 ful hearts have to render up, all that prayers, all that high and elevated de- 
 votion have to ask for, should be given to these splendid men before me to- 
 day. Thev saved this Nation the priceless treasure of free government 
 among men." 
 
 The speaker's version and application of the parable of the Prodigal 
 fairly convulsed the audience with laughter. 
 
 GOVERNOR OGLESBY. 
 
 After a brief, spirited speech by General Fuller, Governor Oglesby spoke 
 as follows: 
 
 " Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: The return of our great 
 military chieftain, the return of our great American citizen, the safe return 
 under the favor of Almighty God of General Grant, has made every wo- 
 man and every man in the XJnion feel as though he or she was renewed 
 with a new womanhood or a new manhood; and, better still, with a newer 
 and higher American coui-age. Wherever he goes in Europe or America, 
 meeting his own people, or through the ranks of foreigners, he carries with 
 him a spirit of the loftiest patriotism. Monarchial governments feel when 
 General Grant is in their presence more liberal and more generous than at 
 any other time. Our own people when he returns are lifted up, absolutely 
 lifted up, with a more exalted spirit than when he seems to be out of our 
 memories. 
 
 Governor Oglesby here turned towards the young girls dressed to repre- 
 sent the several States and Territories, and continued: These fair young 
 emblems of beauty, little fragments of tlie Kingdom of Heaven, the splen- 
 dor of American decoration, come here to sweeten this great presence 
 
5° THE GRANT RKCEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
 with their angelic faces; but what a splendid thing it has ever been, and i& 
 now, lor one to have been a lover of his country, and infinitely more splen- 
 did it is for one to have been blessed with the favor to have "fought under 
 the flag of that country. I envy them the love of the fair women and hon- 
 orable men of our Slates and ot our Union. 
 
 " I am addressing the Veteran Club. I am addressing veteran soldiers. 
 I speak in the presence of brave soldiers, — men who have nobly served the 
 calls of their country; but now, brother soldiers, how grandly you must 
 feel, sitting in this presence to-day catching the fire of the passing hour, — 
 how grandly you must feel tljat you Avere favored with an opportunity to 
 march to battle and to contend at the mouth of the cannon and on the 
 angry field of blood, — that you contended for youv flag and the old republic. 
 
 " You may find to-day everywhere in the most unfortunate walks of this 
 life, the poor, broken-down, forgotten and ignored soldier. Misfortune may 
 have overtaken him. Poverty may yet hang u]^on his very skirts, lie 
 may feel that after having done, and'dared so much for his country, that it is 
 a hard fate to walk through the obscure path of poverty to the gVave; but, 
 my soldier-boys, let your women and j'our men, your iriends of your com- 
 munity, know that you once marched under the flag of the Union, that you 
 once followed it to a great and grand victory, that you stood up for the Re- 
 public, and there is in the hearts of all women and men a spontaneous out- 
 flow of good feeling to you, even in your obscurity and poverty." 
 
 GENERAL WOODFORD 
 
 A most accomplished orator, General Woodford, made all points tell, 
 accomplishing in the brief space he consumed what others might have har- 
 angued for hours without effecting : 
 
 "Friends, I feel very heartily for this kind welcome. I thought last night, 
 as I have again thought this morning, that I got the inspiration of this gath- 
 ering and the meaning of its influence on the country in the words of 
 Grant, uttered last night and again this morning. They were these: 'We 
 welcome' said he, — I give, if not the words, the spirit, — 'we welcome tht 
 men of the South to come and dwell among us where they are to make 
 their citizenship, where they are to hold their own political and their own 
 religious opinions, and we ask no more for ourselves than we give to them.* 
 The thougiit that burns in my heart, and that flashes in j'our eye to-day, is 
 this: By the God of battles, we will have for every comrade of the loyal 
 army, for every black man raised to citizenship, we will have in all the land 
 all that we give to the men at the South. Last summer it was my fortune 
 to journey in lands beyond the sea, and, wherever I went, there kissed the 
 breeze no flag more beautiful than jours and mine. There looked to the 
 stars of heaven no eyes more bright than the answering stars that flashed 
 from the azure of our flag. And whereN'er an Ainerican citizen goes he is 
 protected by that flag, his land is honored, and her praises sung. Since my 
 return it has been my duty to go into one of the States in the South, where 
 citizenshiip was ignored, and where I met in one county at least one hun- 
 dred and fifty white men, most of whom had served in the Confederate 
 army, and who had their own political convictions, yet not one of them has 
 for three years dared to cast a vote. I bring no politics to such an hour as 
 this. But in memory of all that the battle cost us, in thought of the great 
 purpose that swells in loyal henrts to-dav, in dream of that future that 
 kindles before us, I charge you, so diers, whether you be Democrat or Re- 
 publican, by the memory of your drnd, and by the hope of the future, to see 
 to it tliat American citizenship protects an American ballot all over this Re- 
 public." 
 
 Rinf^in"; cheers greeted ti:is inspiring addri^ss, which had hardly died 
 away ere the " taps " sounded the iinalc of the progran'.me. 
 
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 RECEPTIONS. 
 
 E. B. WASHBURNE'S. 
 
 At 12 o'clock General Grant lunched at the residence of Hon. E. B- 
 Washburne, corner of North La Salle and White streets. The affair was 
 very private and unostentatious, there being but three invited guests pres- 
 ent, U. S. Grant and Mrs. Grant, George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia 
 Ledger^ A. J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, ex-Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, J. 
 Russell Jones, Col. F. D. Grant, and U. S. Grant, Jr. There were no deco- 
 rations, no ladies, no music, no noise, no bustle, crowd, or confusion, and 
 General Grant appeared to enjoy this brief respite from the general ovation 
 which has awaited him everywhere since his advent to this city. 
 
 General Grant remained here until shortly before 2 o'clock, when he 
 was driven to the Palmer House to attend the reception to be tendered 
 him by the soldiers and ex-soldiers. 
 
 SOLDIERS AND CITIZENS. 
 
 The place selected for the reception at the Palmer House was a perfect 
 bower of rare exotics, sago and rubber trees, Australian, South American, 
 and Indian palms, and other choice foliage plants embowering the windows 
 and overtopping the grand piano. In the centre was a magnificent basket 
 of flowers, oval-shaped, above four feet in diameter, displaying white cam- 
 elias, calla lilies, red and white pinks, tearoses, tuberoses, and ferns, inter- 
 spersed with palm-leaves and edged with smilax. 
 
 The crowd at the entrances was terrific. Two long lines of members of 
 the Society of the Army of the Tennessee were formed, extending from the 
 stairway landing to the reception room. This open space was reserved for 
 those returning from the reception rooms, they passing out by way of the 
 stairs and the rotunda below, where they were compelled to breast the ex- 
 pectant mass again. 
 
 As the line neared the parlor door, two ushers in full dress adroitly 
 sorted the people out, and admitted them in pairs, and in this way thev ap- 
 proached the ex-President and his company. At 2 :30 o'clock, half an hour 
 after the time announced, the General entered. 
 
 Receiving with Mrs. Grant were Mrs. General Logan, Mrs. W. Q. Gres- 
 ham, Mrs. P. H. Sheridan, Mrs. L. L. Chetlain, and Mrs. Fred Grant. 
 
 The ladies who received with the General were in full dress, but the rest 
 of the company, with a few exceptions, were attired in walking suits and 
 bonnets. 
 
 THE TOILETS. 
 
 This narrative would be incomplete did it fail to record the important 
 part which the fair sex so brilliantly enacted at the various receptions and 
 soirees. Not so much, perhaps, in words of eloquence as by the charm and 
 glory of their presence, beautified by toilets of surpassing richness and 
 splendor. Of the numerous elegant costumes observed at the Soldiers' 
 Reception, the following are deserving of special notice : 
 
 Mrs. Grant wore an elaborate toilet of black silk velvet and satin, richly 
 trimmed with jet, the entire front was composed of a mass of jet beads and 
 
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 ornaments; drapery moderately full; plain basque with satin vest and 
 sleeves, with trimming of passementerie; coiffure simple; turquoise ear- 
 rings and cross ; point lace barb and ruching. 
 
 Mrs. Fred Grant, lavender silk elegantly trimmed with white lace and 
 shirrings ; coiffure high ; point lace scarf; diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. General Logan, princesse dress of black velvet, open from the 
 waist and drawn back, showing an under petticoat of cream-color brocade; 
 elbow-sleeves, V-shaped; waist with point lace fichu; diamonds; hair 
 dressed a la Martha Washington. 
 
 Mrs. General Chetlain, becoming toilet of peacock blue silk, double pan- 
 ier, plain basque with elbow sleeves, point lace tie; diamond ornaments; 
 hair arranged in puffs. 
 
 Mrs. Governor Beveridge, combination costume of black velvet and satin 
 skirt trimmed with knife plaitings of satin, fan-shaped plaitings of the same 
 in front; side paniers of velvet edged with jet; basque of velvet with satin 
 vest and pipings of the same material ; point lace fichu and diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Philo J. Beveridge, short costume of black silk and Pekin stripe; 
 skirt ornamented by a plaiting of silk, headed by four puffs; side paniers 
 short and full form of the Pckin with border of rich fringe; coronet bon- 
 net of pink and blue ; ilowcr.s to match ; lace ruchings and diamond 
 ear-rings 
 
 Miss Celia Moulton, elegant toilet ot maroon silk and cream satin ; knife 
 plaitings of silk and satin on front of skirt; plain round train, drapery bouf- 
 fant ; basque plain, with pipings of crea m satin, vest of the same ; coiffure 
 high with cream roses and gilt stiletto. 
 
 Miss Addie Moulton maroon cachmere and rose satin, elaborately trim- 
 med ; elbow sleeves with deep lace ruchings. 
 
 Mrs. Bradford Allen, princesse dress of wine-color satin and ecru- 
 armure; satin skirt with plaitings, and revers of armure; plain satin front 
 with side paniers of ecru-armure; drapery bouffant: vest and basque trim- 
 ming* of satin; point lace and diamonds; turban bonnetj heavily jetted, or- 
 namented by jet aigrettes'and clusters of cream-color flowers. 
 Mrs. Springer, dress of black silk. 
 Miss Springer, toilet of black satin. 
 
 Mrs. General Macaulay, princesse dress of dark-green velvet, with rich 
 embroidery of amber and irredescent beads. 
 
 Miss Gracie Snow, short suit of gend'armee blue silk, simply but taste- 
 fully trimmed ; white hat. 
 
 Mrs. Williams F. Tucker, Jr., princesse dress of blue velvet and bro- 
 cade, Spanish lace scarf, coronet bonnet of blue velvet, bound with plumes 
 of the same shade; diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Fort, elegant costume of black velvet satin, and Pekin stripe; front 
 composed of puffs and shirrings of satin, pointed paniers of Pekin stripe; 
 satin vest; white bonnet covered with point lace; pearl ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. General Gresham, beautiful toilet of black satin and velvet; panier 
 and basque of the latter; rich trimming of lace and jet; point lace and 
 diamonds. 
 
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 Miss Gresham, toilet of wine-color silk, and velvet; skirt composed of 
 ■alternate folds of the two materials; side panier, with velvet border; double 
 vest of plaited and shirred silk and velvet 
 
 Mrs. Peter Taft, of Cincinnati, bronze-brown velvour and satin costume, 
 short skirt of Pekin stripe, bronze and gold shades ; bouffant polonaise of 
 valour and satin ; white opera bonnet, with lace trimmings; pearl and dia- 
 mond ornaments. 
 
 Miss Ellie Sherman, wine-color satin and brocade; short skirt of plain 
 satin, with full polonaise of brocade; evening hat. 
 
 Miss Sherne, elegant dress of old-gold brocade, elegantly trimmed ; coif- 
 fure high. 
 
 Miss Forney, gray silk, with rich cardinal satin trimming. 
 
 Mrs. Sherman, black silk velvet princesse costume; diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Fotz, combination costume of black silk and velvet; court train, jet 
 passementrie trimming; bonnet of pale-blue silk, with ostrich tips falling over 
 the crown. 
 
 Mrs. de Roode-Rice, black satin princesse dress, the skirt trimmed with 
 alternate plaitings of satin and lace; cascade of white lace, with blue satin 
 ribbons down the left side, matching the cufts and iichu ; white and blue 
 bonnet with the plumes; illusion strings with strands of pearl beads. 
 
 Mrs. Smith, black silk and velvet princesse dress, white lace fichu. 
 
 Mrs. R. B. Miller, combination suit of bronze-brown brocade and silk; 
 vest and revers of brocade; hat to match costume; ornaments, jet and pearl. 
 
 Miss Rosie Campbell, navy blue costume, ecru felt hat, with ecru ostrich 
 tips ; pearl ornaments. 
 
 THE GUESTS. 
 
 The following were among the more prominent who called during the 
 afternoon to pay their respects : 
 
 Gen. and Mrs. W. T. Sherman, Gen. and Mrs. Sheridan, Col. and Mrs. 
 Sheridan, Gen. and Mrs. Gresham and Miss Gresham, Mrs. Giles A. Smith, 
 Gen. and Mrs Bane of Utah, Gen. and Mrs. Eperson of Dacotah, Gov. and' 
 Mrs. Gear of Iowa, ex-Gov. and Mrs. Fletcher of Illinois, Gen. and Mrs. 
 IMiller and Miss Miller, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Logan, Gen. and Mrs. Chet- 
 lain, ex-Gov. and Mrs. Beveridge, Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Bouton, Mr. and Mrs. Page, Mr. and Mrs. Perkins 
 Mr. and Mrs. Everett, Col. and Mrs. Bowen, Gen. and Mrs. Wright, Mr! 
 and Mrs. Chase, Gen. and Mrs. Leake, Mr. and Mrs. Brackitt, Hon', and 
 Mrs. Bash, Mr. and Mrs. ISlarsh, Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Dickinson, Col. and Mrs. Johnson, Gen. and Mrs. Legget of Ohio, Gen. and 
 Mrs. Ross,. Dr. and Mrs. Plummer, Mr. and Mrs. Hunt, Chaplain and Mrs. 
 Raymond, Col. and Mrs. McCord, Col. and Mrs. Smith of Iowa, Capt. and 
 Mrs. Allinson, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Bothwell, Mr. and Mrs. Philo Beveridge, 
 Gen. and Mrs. John McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Ormsby, Hon. and Mrs. Fort, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt, Col. Abner Taylor and Miss Taylor, Col. and Mrs, 
 Vilas of Madison, Wis., Gov. and Mrs. Smith of Wisconsin, Capt. and Mrs. 
 Smith, Gen. and Mrs. Corse, Capt. and Mrs. Beardsley, Mr. and Mrs. Under- 
 
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 •wood and daughter, Col. and Mrs. Brush, Maj. and Mrs. Carroll, Col. and 
 
 Mrs. Swain, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Reid, Capt. and Mrs. Monroe, Mr. and 
 
 Mrs. Ray, Gen. and Mrs. Ross, Dr. and Mrs. Plummer, Mr. and 
 
 Mrs. Ferry, Gen. and Mrs. Kilby Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Studebakcr, Mr. 
 
 and Mrs. Oldfather, Mr. and Mrs. Place, Mr. and Mrs. Harris, 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Wood, Col. and Mrs.- Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Mayo, 
 
 Dr. and Mrs. Streeter, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, Capt. and 
 
 Mrs. Hunt, Gen. and Mrs. Streight, of Indiana, Gen. and Mrs. Bayard, Mr. 
 
 and Mrs. Elliot Durand, Mr. and Mrs. Stilwell, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Howell 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Allen of St. Louis, Col. and Mrs. R. W. Ricaby, Mr. 
 
 and Mrs. Coe, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Collins, Gen. and Mrs. Baird, Mr. and 
 
 Mrs. Frank Robinson of Rock Island, Gen. and Mrs. E. B. Sherman, Mr. 
 
 and Mrs. George W. Sherwood, Mrs. Alonzo Taft of Ohio, Mrs. Peter Taft 
 
 of Ohio, Mrs. Dr. Boardman, Mrs. Lotz, Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. Eugenie de 
 
 Roode-Rice, Mrs. A. J. Snell, Mrs. Haskell, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Lydia Cadwell, 
 
 Mrs. Springer, Mrs. William F. Tucker, Jr., Mrs. Satz, Mrs. R. B. Miller, 
 
 Mrs. Cameron, Mrs. Col. Noble, Mrs. Kent, Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Rosseau, 
 
 Miss Clara Squires, Mrs. R. B. Miller, Mrs. Nugent, Mrs. Brownell, Sandusky 
 
 Ohio, Mrs. Col. Mulligan, Mrs. Keller, Mrs. Morrison, Mrs. Crawford, Mrs. 
 
 Carson, Mrs. Chapin, Mrs. Sanford, Mrs. Randolph, Mrs. Temple, Mrs. 
 
 Carpenter, Mrs. Jay, Mrs. Rumsey, Mrs. Reed, Mrs. Col. Barnum, Mrs. 
 
 Hodgett of Dubuque, Miss King, Miss Nellie Sprat of Galena, Miss Forney, 
 
 Miss Springer, Miss Gracie Snow, Miss Rosie Campbell, Miss Kennard of 
 
 Champagne, Miss Everett, Miss Knight, Miss Gregg, Miss Wright, Miss 
 
 Lindsay, Miss Jay, Miss Gertie Cameron, Miss Lowry, Miss Celia Moulton, 
 
 and Miss Addie Moulton of Cincinnati, nieces of Gen. Sherman, Misses 
 
 Ellie and Rachel Sherman, daughters of the General, Miss Lord, Miss Emily 
 
 Campbell, Miss Alice Nugent, Miss Toner, Miss Ada McArthur, Miss 
 
 Gracie Snell, Miss Dorr, Miss Lillie Palmer, Miss Nellie Butler, Gen. Slack, 
 
 Capt. Buck, Gen. Warner, Col. Reynolds, Maj. Allen, Gen. Atkins, Col. 
 
 Cook, Gen. Ruggles, Col. Funk of Bloomington, Mr. Bushnell, Lieut. 
 
 Kniickles, Maj. Gray, Col. Wilcox of Elgin, Senator Hunt, Gen. Heath of 
 
 Michigan, Mayor Thompson of Detriot, Capt. Morrison, Capt. Flint, Gen. 
 
 Martin Beem, Capt. Tripp, Col. Swain of Memphis, Maj. Warner, Col. 
 
 Brush, Gen. Marshal of Minnesota, Gen. McArthur, Gen. Raum, Gen. 
 
 Rusk of Wisconsin, Gen. Robinson of Indiana, Col. Sheets, Capt. Towner, 
 
 Gen. Ducat, Gen. Hamilton of .Wisconsin, Gen. Routt, Col. Elliott of 
 
 Illinois, Mr. Matthews of Philadelphia. 
 
 The reception was brought to an abrupt close by the enforced withdrawal 
 of General Grant to review the veterans who were awaiting him in another 
 portion of the house. The General's old regiment, the " gallant Twenty- 
 First Illinios," were the first favored ; then followed the Union Veteran 
 Club, the wildest enthusiasm all the while prevailing, which the confused 
 roar of ten thousand voices from without did not tend to allay. Shortly 
 after 4 o'clock the hero retired to seek needed rest and prepare for the grand 
 banquet appointed for the evening. 
 
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 THE BANQUET. 
 
 The banquet given bj the Society of the Arniv of the Tennessee at the 
 Pahner House, was a carnival long to be chcrishel in the recollection of the 
 participants. No handsomer sight of the kind has ever been seen in Chicago 
 than that afforded when the banqueters had all found seats at eighteen tables, 
 •which had been prepared for their reception. In the large dining-room, 
 where six tables, running the full length of the room, were occupied by 460 
 gentlemen, the scene was resplendently beautiful. The two immense 
 chandeliers hanging from the frescoed ceiling of the centre aisle, which is 
 inclosed by eight gilded pillars, shed the light of 150 large gas-jets upon the 
 tables below, gleaming with snowy covers, whose monotony of tint was 
 relieved by the glasses of different color and the beautiful baskets of flowers 
 which were scattered about them in profusion. The decorations of this, the 
 largest of the rooms, were very handsome. From the high caps of the 
 gilded pillars hung airy and graceful festoons of cedar and bunting, and on 
 the opposite sides of each were shields bearing the names of famous heroes 
 and battles of the War of the Rebellion, and crossed flags of silken texture 
 which looked quite dazzling in the bright illumination. Graceful hangings 
 of evergreen and vari-tinted flowers hung on the walls, which also bore a 
 number of escutcheons commemorating the events of the War and those 
 who had a leading place in them. The table at which sat General Grant 
 and the more distinguished among the guests of the occasion, was on the 
 west side of the hall, and was raised on a platform to a height of a foot above 
 the others. The wall to the back of this table was covered with draperies 
 of large battle- flags laid in heavy folds, those immediately lo the rear of the 
 Chairman, General Sherman, who is President of the Society of the Army 
 of Tennessee, being monster standards. In the vacant space surrounded by 
 their inner folds stood the escutcheon of the Society, to the left of which 
 hung a crayon portrait of General Grant, which rested right behind the 
 chair occupied by the illustrious guest of the evening. 
 
 The table itself was ornamented with a magnificent basket of flowers. 
 At points half way down the table on either side were the masterpieces of 
 the evening, which deserve a somewhat fuller description than can be given 
 to the other features of the decorations. That which stood to the right of 
 the Chairman was a very pretty and unique representation of a fortress- 
 Its shape might possibly not have satisfied the critical judgment of a Vauban, 
 but its light walls of hard-tack, pierced by forty frowning cannon of choco- 
 late, its breastworks of oat-meal cake, and its surmounting sentinel in col- 
 ored confectionery, produced a very pretty, if not a very imposing eflcct. 
 
 The ornament at the left was in the shape of a gun-boat, built somewhat 
 in the style of a Chinese junk, and with its guns pointing waterwards in a 
 manner that was anything but warlike. There was an imm nsity of snowy 
 sail above the quaint and curious hull that suggested at once cream candy 
 and a dangerous top heaviness in case of a squall, and the main burden of 
 the craft seemed to be flowers and smilax — a sort of ammunition about 
 which the Farraguts and Wilkeses of the war did not overburden their 
 minds. These little nautical defects, however, were overlooked in the fact 
 
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 that the stern of the craft bore the magical initials "U. S. G.,'' and that the 
 platform upon which it stood had on its respective sides the words "Reim- 
 ion" and "November 13, 1S79." At this elevated and handsomely decorated 
 table sat the following guests, in the order named : Gen. W. T. Sherman 
 in the chair, having on his right General Ulysses S. Grant, Rear- Admiral 
 Stevens, Judge Taft, General Pope, General Crook, General Robinson, 
 Governor Smith, Governor Gear, the Hon. E. B. Washburn, Judge Howe> 
 and Mayor Harrison. On his left were General Logan, General Gresham, 
 General Schofield, General Don Cameron, General C. C. Auger, General 
 Richard J. Oglesby, Bishop Fallows, Governor Cullom, Judge Drummond, 
 the Rev. Dr. Thomas, and Professor David Swing. 
 
 The remaining five tables of this room were occupied by the prominent 
 citizens of Chicago and other cities who had gathered to share in her festiv- 
 ities. The wall was handsomely draped with flags and embellished with 
 evergreens and flowers, and a special feature of interest was supplied by the 
 presence of old Abe, the famous Wisconsin war eagle. 
 
 The toasts are with few exceptions given verbatim, with the conviction 
 that they furnish specimens of eloquence hardly surpassed by any in the 
 English language. 
 
 PROFESSOR SWING. 
 
 At a quarter after 8, General Sherman, having requested order, invited 
 Prof. Swing to say grace, to which he responded in these beau iful words : 
 
 " Our Father in Heaven, we ask a full blessing. Thou hast revealed to 
 us in Thy Word that the feast is the emblem of human happiness. We 
 meet this night at one of these feasts of memory, — memory of a great 
 country, of great deeds, — in memory of soldiers living and soldiers dead, and 
 we beseech Thy blessing. We bless Thee for that great feast of liberty and 
 happiness which Thou hast spread for all the land, to which millions sit 
 down every day of their life. Help us who are gathered here to confess 
 Thee to be the God of our Nation,— that Thou hast been present in all its 
 hours in our Congress and on the fields of battle. And then help these 
 soldiers before us all to believe that beyond the strifes and labors of this life 
 there shall be a reunion of all the faithful soldiers,— servants of every duty, 
 soldiers of liberty, soldiers of morals, soldiers of the cross; and when these 
 Generals, and these statesmen, and these soldiers shall be called, one by one, 
 from this life where they have earned and received the applause of men, 
 mav thev receive from thee, Almighty Father, those words above all human 
 ^•ofds,—' Well done, good and faithful servant.' At Thy feet, Almighty 
 Father, we place these petitions. Amen. 
 
 The supper itself was a grand success, and was heartily enjoyed by all 
 present. 
 
 After the recherche menu had been disposed of. General Sherman, the 
 chairman, called the assembly to order and the responses to toasts were 
 inaugurated bv 
 
 GENERAL GRANT'S 
 
 response to "Our Country; her place among Nations," as follows: 
 
 "Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Society of thf Army 
 OF the'Tenxessee, and Guests: Notice was sent to me some days ago 
 that I was to respond to a toast here, but I paid no attention to it at the 
 time, and had no idea, until I got here, of the toast that I was to reply to 
 
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 I had relied upon it that there wovild be half a dozen or more speakers before 
 I would be called upon, and during that time there would be a man out in 
 the hall that I would Avant to see; or that I would execute a flank move- 
 ment by which I would get out of it. Finding, however, after my arrival 
 here, that I was to be the first one called upon, and hardly feeling that it 
 would be proper to look for that man so early in the evening, I made a sub- 
 stitute here myself, but the President of your Society has not called upon 
 that man. I know if he had called it as it reads upon his paper, you would 
 have heard much more said about the position of our country among the 
 nations of the earth than I can say to you. I can feel what your Mayor 
 probably would have said if the President had ever called upon the name 
 that he sees on his paper. But as I have to say a word, I shall rely now 
 upon your signifying in a very few moments your disapprobation of what 
 I am saying, so as to let me otf. The President has given notice that we 
 are not to speak any longer than we can hold the audience. 
 
 " Our nation, w'e have been in the habit ourselves of looking upon as 
 being one of the first nations of the earth. For a long period back the 
 'Yankee ' had not only a respectable opinion of himself individually but of 
 his country as a whole. It has been our own opinion that we had nothing 
 to fear in a contest Avith another power. I am pleased to say that, from the 
 observations that I have been able to make in the last two years and a half, 
 we are beginning to be regarded a little by other powers as in our vanity 
 we heretofore regarded ourselves. We do, among the nations of the earth 
 to-day, not only in our own conceit, but with the acknowledgment of other 
 nations, occupy the position of one of the first powers in all that goes to 
 make up a great nationality. 
 
 " We have the strength. We have the individual self-assertion and inde- 
 pendrnce, and we have, to a greater degree than almost any other nation, 
 the power of colonizing, of settling up new country, opening it, and devel- 
 oping it. We have also the very great advantage of being without neigh- 
 bors to molest or make us afraid. 
 
 " It is true, we have a northern frontier, and we have a southern frontier, 
 but we get along with a very small army. We keep no standing army, but 
 what little we do, as some one remarked the other day, ' It is a standing 
 army because it has no time to sit down.' Mr. President, I find you are fill- 
 ing the chair with a good deal of ability. 
 
 "I do not know anything that I can specially add to what I have said, ex- 
 cept in the way of advice, and that is, let us be true to ourselves, avoid all 
 bitternesss andf ill feeling, either on the part of sections or parties toward 
 each o ther. Avoid quarreling among ourselves, and we need have no fear 
 for the future of maintaining the standing that wc have taken among 
 the nations so far as opposition from foreign nations goes. 
 
 " Gentlemen, I am very much obliged to you." 
 
 After the applause had subsided, the band played " Hail Columbia," and 
 the audience were ready for the next toast. 
 
 "The President and the Congress of the United States." Response by 
 
 general logan. 
 
 "Mr. President, Fellow Comrades of the Society of the Army 
 OF the Tennessee, and Our Invited Guests: In this toast, first, I pre- 
 mise by saying I never declined responding to any toast that is offered me, 
 but in this I must say that I find some shoals that will be a little difficult for 
 me to steer over, I think. Hence, you will have to allow me to make my 
 own arrangements in reference to 'it. I will change it that the last may 
 come first. 
 
 " The two departments of government referred to are separate and distinct 
 In their powers in a certain sense, and in another sense are not so, each^one, 
 by virtue of our constitution, having certain duties to perform — some inde- 
 
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 pendent of each other and some in connection one "vvith the other. Accord- 
 ing to the theory of our government, both of these offices, it was presumed 
 that the occupants of them would be selected by the people of this country 
 in an ordinary, peaceable and quiet manner, and that the duties pertaining to 
 these offices would be performed within the purview and meaning of that 
 instrument known as the constitution, in accordance with the sentiment and 
 consent of the people for Avhich they were acting. 
 
 " The people of this country Irom its foundation to the present time, being 
 permitted in their cool moments to decide without excitement, would say 
 that the kind of a congress the people of this country want. and require, is a 
 congress imbuedw^ith the idea that they are the representatives of the senti- 
 ment of the great American people; that they are selected for the purpose 
 of enacting laws; that these laws are for the purpose of benefitting all 
 classes of people to whom they shall apply ; that their duties are for the pur- 
 purpose of legislating for the maintenance of the welfare of the whole people 
 of the country ; that one of the great and highest duties of the congress of 
 the United States is: First, to legislate in a manner so that the means shall 
 be provided for the moving forward of the machinery of the people of 
 this country by which this government is organized. 
 
 "The next great duty of the congress of the United States is by legisla- 
 tion to provide for the peace of the people of this country, and in providing 
 for the peace of the people of this country it is their constitutional and 
 bounden duty to provide in such a manner that the power of the government 
 shall be exercised, in order to maintain and keep the peace of the people of 
 this whole country. 
 
 " It is the bounden duty under the constitution on congress that they 
 shall so legislate as to maintain at home and abroad friendly relations with 
 the citizens of their own country, and amicable and friendly relations with 
 the nations of the earth. It is their duty to so legislate that this government 
 shall at all times be prepared, and have the authority under their legislation, to 
 maintain its life, its integrity, its unity, its peace, its prosperity, and maintain 
 peace against foreign and domestic enemies. 
 
 " Speaking of the office — the highest office in the gift of the American 
 people, and, my fellow-citizens, the highest office in honor known to the civilized 
 nations of this earth, it is the office that always honors the man, and the man 
 who always honors the office. 
 
 "The "executive department of the government has its independent duties 
 to perform, and these duties should be so performed as that the constitution 
 should be maintained, and the laws of this Union be executed on every foot 
 of American soil. 
 
 " To the office of president — the Adamses took to that presidential chair, 
 scholarly attainments and ability. Jefferson and Madison took with them to 
 that presidential chair, statesmanship and constitutional experience. 
 
 "Jackson took with him to that presidential office an energy, an honesty 
 of purpose, and a determination and courage that made the office honor him 
 and he honored the office — and when the great strain came upon this country 
 during his time he uttered these words : ' This union must and shall be pre- 
 served.' That sentiment lives along with time, and that will cause Jackson 
 to live as this country rolls on. 
 
 " Lincoln, the immortal Lincoln, the office honored him. He took with 
 him to that executive chair great ability as a statesman, honesty of purpose, 
 and a love and affection for the unity of this country that made him the 
 admiration of all the loyal people of this land. If he had done but one act 
 durin-J his administi ation, and that act was to write and sign the proclamation 
 of en'iancipation, that act alone immortalized him, and his name will live 
 throui^h the future centuries as time rolls on. My countrymen, would that 
 the spirit of that sainted man to night could whisper in the ears of the people 
 of every nation on this eartll. ' Liberty to all mankind, and peace to every 
 nation on eartli.' 
 
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 "There was another man whom the presidential chair honored, and ■who 
 ho?i«Dred the presidential chair. Pardon me if I say, that his presence here 
 to ni^iit prevents me from saying we can only spealc of the dignity and honor 
 conicrred upon the presidential chair by the incumbent when they have 
 passed out of it. Of the present one I can but say I hope that the president 
 at Washington and statesman who followed Jackson and Lincoln, and of our 
 guest here to-night may induce him to loUow in their footsteps, that his 
 administration shall shine as bright and be as glorious as any of the past. 
 
 GENERAL VILAS, 
 
 of Madison, Wisconsin, was next introduced, who responded to the toast, 
 " Our First Commander, General U. S. Grant." The orator fairly electri- 
 fied the audience with his impetuous bursts of magnificent eloquence. 
 Cheer upon cheer greeted the termination of nearly every period, attesting 
 the enthusiastic approbation of the assembled banqueters : 
 
 "Your call invites me, sir, I am conscious, to give expression to the 
 profound feeling with which every heart of our assembled companions 
 responds to the stirring sentiment. But how shall I attempt to choose, in 
 the brief compass the occasion allows, from the multitudinous thoughts that 
 crowd the mind.'' Our first commander, the illustrious general whose fame 
 has grown to fill the world — nay, more, our old band of the Tennessee, 
 was his first army. What honorable memories of old association, you, com- 
 panions, may now recall. 
 
 "How splendid was your entrance on tne scene of armies. The anxious 
 eye of the North had long been fixed intently on the Eastern theater, 
 almost unconscious of the new formed Army of the Tennessee and its 
 unlvnown general. Suddenly there fell on the startled ear the roar of your 
 fight at Donelson and your chieftan's cry, which waked the country's heart 
 to exstacy, and rung, like a prophetic knell, the doom our army of salvation 
 bore to rebels — nothing but unconditional surrender. 
 
 " Then, but a few days later, there burst, at Shiloh, upon this Army ot 
 the Tennessee, the flame and fury of 'the first great field fight of the war.' 
 In desperate doubt the nightfall of the bloody day closed on the unequal 
 struggle. Higher then rose the iron resolution of that great commander. 
 Urged by cautious counsel to prepare the way for retreat, with trust in your 
 valor he gave the characteristic answer, ' I have not despaired of whipping 
 theni yet.' And loyally, on the morrow, was he vindicated in that reliance, 
 as he rode before his soldiery, driving the enemy over the victorious 
 field. 
 
 " How darkly comes back in recollection the long and dismal toil in the 
 pestilential swamps before impregnable Vicksburg. The sky was overhung 
 in gloom and the soaked earth sunk vmder the foot. Unlit by the flash of. 
 powder, unheralded by the noise of anns, in miserable darkness, the last 
 enemy irresistibly plied his fatal work, changing the river levees — where 
 only was solid ground for burial into tom'os for our trebly decimated ranks. 
 Then, again, new light broke from his troubled genius on the scene, and dis- 
 played the possible path for valor. Breaking past the rebel battlements and 
 across the great river he flung our army into the midst of the hostile host, 
 like a mightv gladiator surrounded by his foes, chosing no escape but in 
 victory. There av ith fiery zest, in fierce rapidity he smote the foe the crush- 
 ing strokes of Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hills, and Black 
 Ri\-er, and seized the doomed city with the unrelenting grasp of his Army of 
 the Tennessee. And Vvhcn, on the new birthday of the republic, her "flag 
 shook out its beautiful folds above the ramparts "of that boasted citadel, the 
 territory of revolt was finally split in twain, the backbone of the rebellion 
 v.-as broken. Such, in a glance, your splendid story, companions, under our 
 first commander. He and his Army of the Tennessee entered on the page 
 
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 of history together. Together they achieved the first grand prophetic tri- 
 umphs for the union ; together they followed and fought her enemies from 
 field to field, pushing our advancing arms in steady career tov»-ard the gulf; 
 nor were their eftbrts for our country disunited, until, having dismembered 
 the vast rebellion, the beginning of its utter downfall had been seen. 
 
 "Guided by his genius, your army had learned to fight only to conquer. 
 Parted from him, it forgot not the teaching. Its march and war struck 
 every revolted slave state save two, but never general anywhere lamented 
 over its retreat from the field of arms. Joyfully may we point to that 
 exalted fame which, rising like a pinnacle of the Alps, breaks through the 
 firmament above to carry up the name of the unconquered Grant, for it i& 
 our felicity, that on the solid base from which it lifts, history has written 
 the proud legend of the Army of Tennessee, which never shunned, and 
 never lost a battle with its foes. 
 
 "Joined to it by such a story, and especially when so assembled, his old 
 associates and soldiers in war, we may rightfully, w^ithout censure, and 
 without adulation, claim and speak the just measure of his merit and renown. 
 Nor shall his presence deny that satisi'action to us. His reputation is not 
 his, nor even his country's alone. It is, in part, our peculiar possession. 
 We who fought to aid its rising, may well rejoice in its meridian splendor. 
 
 "The foundations of his title are deep laid and safe. There was reaction 
 in the minds of our people after the intense strain of the war, and many 
 distracting subjects for attention. But with regained composure and reflec- 
 tion, his reputation augments, and its foundations appear more and more 
 irremovably fixed for lasting duration. They spring not from merely hav- 
 ing enjoyed possession of the honors of the place and power which his 
 countrymen have bestowed; others have had them too. They lie not 
 specially on his shining courage and personal conduct before the enemy, 
 who was never outdone in calm intrepedity, nor in the splendid daring with 
 which he ever urged the battle he immediately ordered, though long these 
 will live in song and story. Beyond the warrior's distinction, which was 
 his earlier glory, his is the true genius of the general. 
 
 "The strategie learning of the military art was to him a simple implement, 
 like colors and brush to a Raphael, not fetters to the mind. How like a 
 weapon in a giant's hand did he wield the vast aggregations of soldierlv whose 
 immensity oppressed so manv minds! How easilv moved his divisions, yet 
 how firm the place of all ! How everv soldier caine to feel his participation 
 a direct contribution to the general success ! 
 
 "And when, at length, his merit won the government of the entire mili- 
 tary power of the north, how perfect became without noise or friction, the 
 co-operation of every army, of every strength, throughout the wide territorv 
 of war, toward the common end! Subordinate every will and jealous soul 
 — the profound military wisdom of the capital, even — to the clear purpose 
 and comprehensive grasp of the one commanding mind. Then, how rapidly 
 crumbled on every side the crushed revolt! Where shall we find in past 
 records the tale of such a struggle, so enormous in extent, so nearly matched 
 at the outset, so desperately contested, so eftectively decided! Through 
 what a course of uninterrupted victory did he proceed from the earliest en- 
 gagements to a complete dominion of the vast catastrophe! Nor should it 
 be forgotten, he fought no barbarians, ill-equipped, undisciplined, not com- 
 manded by educated skill; but against soldiers of the finest spirit, armed 
 with the best weapons, standing on their own familiar ground, and led by 
 veteran generals of well-trained science, one of whom, at least, was never 
 over matched on his chosen field before. 
 
 "Spare, in pity, the poor brain which can not see, in this career, more than 
 a dogged pertinacity! Out upon the unjust prejudice which will consciously 
 disparage the true meed of genius. Leave it where his inrepid silence ]ea\e» 
 it, leave it to history. Leave it to the world. 
 
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 " But in the great cause, so well understood, and the great results to men, 
 so well accomplished, the bases of its renown is justly broadened. For the 
 salvation of this government of freedom for mankind we took up arms. 
 When liberty was safe, they were laid down again. Risen to the highest 
 seat of power, he has descended as a citizen, of equal rank with all. This 
 goes to the soul of American liberty, ennobling individual citizenship above 
 all servants in office. He is indeed the noblest grandeur of manhood, who 
 can rise from the grasp of over-topping power above the ambition of self, 
 to exalt the ambition of humanity; denying the spoils of the brief time to 
 the lasting guerdon of immortal honor. The judgment of immediate con- 
 temporaries has been apt to rise too high, or fall too low. But let not 
 detraction or calumny mislead. They have ever been the temporal accom- 
 paniments of human greatness. That glory can not rise beyond the clouds, 
 ■which passes not through the clouds. We may confidently accept the judg- 
 ment of the world. It'has been unmistakably delivered. But lately, as he 
 has pressed his wandering course about the round earth, mankind have 
 everywhere bowed in homage at his coming, as the ancient devotees 
 of the east fell before the sun at his rising. These honors were not paid 
 to his person, which was unknown; they were paid to his country, for which 
 he went on no errand. They were not paid to him as to some potentate 
 of a people, for he journeyed not as a man in power. They have been 
 the willing prostration of mortality before a glory imperishable. 
 
 " His memory shall, indeed, be" in the line of the heroes of war, but dis- 
 tinctive and apart from the greater number. Not with the kind of Alex- 
 ander, who ravaged the earth to add to mere dominion; nor of Belisarius 
 who but fed the greedy craving of an imperial beast of prey; not with 
 Marlborough, Eugene, Wellington, who played the parts set them by the 
 craft of diplomacy ; not with the Napoleons who ch.ose ' to wade through 
 slaughter to a throne, and shut the gates of mercy on mankind ;' not with 
 Csesar, who would have put the ambitious hand of arms on the delicate 
 fabric of constitutional freedom ; America holds a higher place in the con- 
 gregation of glory for her heroes of liberty, where sits, in expectation, 
 her majestic Washington. 
 
 " In nobler ambition than the gaining of empire, they have borne their 
 puissant arms for the kingdom of man, where liberty reigneth forever. 
 From the blood poured out in their warfare, sweet incense rose to heaven ; 
 and angels soothed, with honorable pride, the tears which sorrowed started 
 for the dead. 
 
 " Home again now, our first commander, after the journey of tlie world ! 
 Here, here again, we greet him at our social board where, with recurring 
 years, we regale on the deeper-ripening memories of our soldiersliip for 
 freedom. Partakers of the labors, the perils, the triumphs, which were the 
 beginnings of his glory, we join now, with exultation, in the welcoming 
 honors by which his grateful countrymen tell their foreknowledge of the 
 immortality of his renown. 
 
 "Long and man V be the years, illustrious leader, before your hour of 
 departure comes! Green and vigorous be your age, undecayed every faculty 
 of mind and sense, in full fruition of the well-earned joys of life: happy in 
 the welfare of your native land, the love of your countrymen, the admira- 
 tion of the world I 
 
 General Sherman then announced the next toast, "The Army of the 
 Tennessee," to which General Steve Hurlbut responded as follows: 
 
 GENERAL HURLBUT. 
 
 "Mr. President and Gentlemkn: Great leaders, Mr. President, 
 
 always make great armies, but the converse of the proposition is not always 
 true. Great armies have been wasted in the hands of incapable officers, a".d 
 have again recovered lost reputation by the magnetism of the right man in 
 the right place. 
 
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 "The Army ot the Tennessee was fortunate in receiving its military edu- 
 cation and impulse from one commander who led it for years through battle, 
 siege, in marches by land and movements by water over distances deemed 
 impossible, over obstacles deemed impracticable, now exhibiting a inarvel- 
 ous force of endurance, and now flashing out in a more marvelous force of 
 attack, until when Vicksburg fell, it was fashioned, handled, and tempered 
 into the most magnificent weapon ever wielded by the hand of one man, 
 thoroughly complete and fully furnished to be the weapon and champion of 
 a nation's unity and a nation's life. 
 
 "So again this army was fortunate that when the necessities of the war 
 called our first commander to tlie general charge of the movements of all 
 the affairs of the nation, there was ready to succeed him one who had lost 
 none of the lessons of the past, one who had been thoroughly educated in the 
 school of experience, a fit pupil and fit successor of the quiet soldier, who 
 applied his strong common sense and unflinching will to the business of war. 
 Besides these two great leaders, the Army of the Tennessee was fortunate 
 in the possession of a strong array of subordinates. All the dross in officers 
 had been turned out, and only sterling metal gleamed on the insignia of rank. 
 But, above all, the Army of the Tennessee was most fortunate in the mate- 
 rial of its rank and file, and in the thorough mutual confidence between offi- 
 cers and men. Disciplined bv prompt obedience in all matters of essence, 
 but relieved from the holiday oppression of the mere martinet, thought to 
 take care of themselves, and to believe in and trust each other, confident in 
 the ability of their officers, confident in their own performance of any duty 
 imposed, confident in the justice of their cause, and therefore confident in 
 the eventual success, they presented the unusual spectacle of a military 
 organization in which each man talked for himself, yet all were wielded by 
 a single instrument, by a single will, with absolute harmony of purpose and 
 of action. The m;m who was able to inipress this character upon the raw 
 levies of the voluntetrs, and to reduce this crude material to its working 
 form in so short a time must have had great qualities and great faculties. 
 
 "The patience, the capacity of endurance, terrible earnestness of resolved 
 action, the unflinching determination, the vigorous judgment, and the clear 
 perception which singled out Grant as the one nian in all the country to round 
 up the long struggle in a substantial and permanent victory, these qualities 
 . of their first leader became, in a great measure, the possession of the army 
 "which he organized and commanded. 
 
 " By his honest and unswerving exercise of these great qualities, every 
 step in promotion was fairly won, and the military history that began at 
 Belmont and ended at Appomattox, is brilliant to all time with the lustre 
 of many great actions. Upon this golden reputation, thus honestly earned, 
 the people passed judgment, and this fame of his, twice stamped with the 
 broad seal of the United States, has girdled the round world, has stood the 
 criticism of the earth's great capitals, and returns to us indorsed by the 
 applause of two continents. Such has been the fortune of our first great 
 leader in the past. His future, in any form of duty, public or private, will 
 be worthy of that past. 
 
 " Next in rank, as in command, comes the mind that saved and the will 
 that executed the world-famed advance from the Tennessee river line upon 
 the gate city of Georgia, the hard contested Thermopylae of the south ; 
 thence by swift m.arches, by repeated attacks, by steady pressure of heavy 
 columns to Fort McAllister and the sea; across broad rivers and wide 
 swamps to Columbia, through pine forests of the old north State to Golds- 
 boro; in sharp actions with the most thorough and skillful of the Confed- 
 erate generals until the shattered battalions of the enemy laid down their 
 well-used arms. The name of the president of this Society is indissolubly 
 linked in the public estimation with the glorious succession of the brilliant 
 military events that took Richmond in flank and rear, and repeated on a 
 gigantic scale the same grand strategy which Grant inaugurated when he 
 
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 swung his forces around the frowning heights of Vicksburg, and by a re- 
 peated succession of well delivered battles, sealed up the army of Pembroke 
 to inevitable surrender. 
 
 " McPherson in his short and brilliant career, made his mark in the his- 
 tory of the war. Howard and Logan — as opposite characters as men well 
 could be — each maintained in many a well-fought battle the well-won repu- 
 tation of this army. It is a privilege to have belonged to this Army of the 
 Tennessee because of the great leaders who commanded it — nor do those 
 leaders consider it any less a privilege to have commanded such a body. 
 The two essentials of military success — the great leader and the great army 
 — gave the full assurance of the winning of great victories, and the record 
 of the result is written on the broadest pages of our country's history." 
 
 A voice in the crowd called out, " How is that for a Democrat.'" And 
 the whole banquet-chamber went wild, shouting, screaming, laughing, 
 stamping, clapping hands, and making such an uproar for several minutes 
 as is seldom heard. 
 
 GENERAL SCHOFIELD. 
 
 The next toast " The Army of the United States," was responded to by 
 General Schofield, who said: 
 
 "Mr. President and Gentlemen: In the absence of the distin- 
 guished lieutenant-general, whose appropriate place it was to respond to this 
 toast, I will detain you but a moment to give expression to a single thought 
 in respect of the Army of the United States. 
 
 " The military system of any country is determined not alone by its 
 international relations, but by its own political institutions. The army of the 
 United States must needs be complex in its organization, corresponding to 
 the complexity of our political system. Experience has shown us the need 
 of a small standing army to maintain the authority of the national govern- 
 ment, and each state needs in its turn, a well-organized, permanent force of 
 militia to maintain its own authority and support its government in the en- 
 forcement of its laws. 
 
 " Behind all this, and as the substratum of the entire institution, consti- 
 tuting the great body of the army are the arms-bearing citizen soldiers o€ 
 the country. This, gentlemen, is the army of the constitution, and this I 
 regard as the army of the United States. 
 
 " It is a sj'stem born of our political institutions, and one which it is our 
 duty to perfect and prepare for any emergency which may call it into action. 
 " Let us, then, instead of amusing ourselves with new-fangled notions 
 about the organization of some other kind of force, set ourselves diligently 
 to work -perfect the system that is founded upon the constitution of our 
 country. And let us bear in mind that whether we be members of the little 
 regular army of the United States, or of the small organized militia forces 
 of the several states, or whether we belong to the great body of the people 
 from whom the armies of the Union are to spring in time of need, we are 
 all parts of the same harmonious system. We all belong to the army of the 
 United States." 
 
 ADMIRAL STEVENS. 
 
 The President announced "The Navy," as the next toast, which met 
 with the following response by Admiral Stevens : 
 
 "Mr. President, and Comrades of the Army of the Tennessee: 
 I claim the privilege of calling you comrades that fought for the union and 
 the flag. I come to you to-night the representative of ihe navy of the 
 union to tender to you, and your illustrious comrades, its hearty congratula- 
 tions upon the occasion of your annual reunion, and to join with you in 
 welcoming back to the soil of the republic after a tour around the world,, 
 
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 and the recipient of ovations that no man has ever received, and to the 
 iilustrous citizen of the republic and the commander of the Army of the 
 Tennessee. 
 
 " It is to me a matter of profound regret that this enviable duty has not 
 fallen to some more distinguished and able representative of the service to 
 -which 1 belong, but I am able, nevertheless, to express the sentiment and 
 feeling of the entire navj when I say that when such leaders as Grant and 
 Sherman and Sheridan point the way the navy will not be backward in 
 coming forward. 
 
 "As a citizen, too, as a resident of Chicago at a time when we walked 
 unafFrighted where you now spread your magryficent streets and palaces of 
 buildings, I claim the right to join with you in this splendid reception by 
 your city in honor of the man which all hearts delight to" honor." 
 
 General Sherman introduced the next speaker as follows: We will 
 now proceed with the seventh regular toast which is: "The Officers and 
 Soldiers of the Mexican War." Response by 
 
 MR. SWETT. 
 
 " Mr. President and Gentlemen: Patriotism, in the long history of 
 man, has been the ornament of ages. The Greeks honored above all those 
 who fell at Marathon, Salamis, and Platsea, and gave the state, as to its con- 
 trol, and the laural wreath, the emblem undying of fame, to those who 
 survived. '■Duke et decorum est pro Patria MorV is the sweetest Latin line, 
 and, nearly two thousand years alter it was penned, was repeated by General 
 Warren when urged not to expose his life at the battle of Bunker Hill. 
 
 " This a feast of patriotism. Nearly fifteen years after the great war, all 
 its rivalries and jealousies forgotten, upon the return of Ulysses from his 
 wanderings, this great feast is spread. Here we recognize the heroism of 
 the living and and honor the memory and valor of the dead. Here we cul- 
 tivate and exchange good cheer. Here we rekindle patriotic love, and here 
 consecrate ourselves anew to the preservation and glory of our common 
 country. 
 
 " After all honor to the gallant Army of the Tennessee under wliose aus- 
 pices we assemble, our thoughts widen and enlarge, and wherever in Amer- 
 ican history heroism has been displayed we are here to recognize and honor 
 it. Speaking in meniory of the officers and soldiers of the Mexican war, I 
 shall not contrast their patriotism with that of the army in the great war, 
 for patriotism, like gold, is always the same pure metal and of the same 
 value. In the main, too, I shall speak not of the living, but of the dead; 
 and, measuring the value of their s rvices, I shall consider our country not 
 as we received the heritage from the fathers, but a new empire, as large as 
 England, France, Germany and Italy combined, and added to our country 
 by their wearv marches, their battles, and their death. 
 
 " In the heroic glare of the great war and the important absorbing ques- 
 tions precipitated upon the country, this generation has forgotten the 
 marches in the burning, scorching heat of Mexico, the privations endured, 
 and the magnificent empire acquired. No country, smce the history of man, 
 ever acquired, by war, territory so essential to lis destiny, or wealth of min- 
 eral resources so unbounded, or an empire so magnificent and grand. 
 Formerly Texas and the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, with a line 
 thence along southern Oregon to the Pacific Ocean, constituted our western 
 boundary. By the Mexican war we acquired New Mexico, Arizona, Colo- 
 rado, Utah, California and Nevada — more than five hundred thousand square 
 miles — and before 1S73 our people had taken from them about $1,500,000,000 
 of silver and gold. Europe already pays tribute of her precious metal for 
 the surplus animal food there produced, and because of this empire and this 
 wealth and its ownership by a people commercially honest, the credit of the 
 United States, among the "nations of the earth, stands in the very foremost 
 rank. 
 
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 «' In the valleys 01 tnis vast empire countless herds find richesu pasturage 
 and shclier in its groves. Here a warm sun brings pink to the peach, the 
 ^reen to the melon, and the purple to the pjum and grape. It is the land of 
 boundless pasturage and the perfection of the fruit and the vme, the France 
 and Italy of America, the Ophir and the garden of the world. 
 
 "Here in caverns vast and time unknown, but having all the future in 
 His mighty purposes; here in great furnaces and forges Vulcan never rivaled 
 nor the' thought of man conceived, concealing in floods of lava and clouds 
 of smoke the secrets of His handiwork, 'midst fire and earthquake, with 
 thunder echoing in great upheaval ; here God made His precious jewels, 
 His silver and His gold, and locked them in the rocks of the mountains for 
 the people of the twentieth century— the fourth era of man — and for the civ- 
 ilization and lifting up of all mankind. 
 
 " To-dav this wonderful land may be the home of the savage, and the 
 land unknown, but in the next century it will blossom like the rose. The 
 white cottages of the villagers and the churches with their spires, will dot 
 its slopes. The buzzing spindles and the whirling wheel of industry will be 
 heard. The winding train will creep over its mountains and the whistle 
 echo in its glens. The rustling corn and waving grain will cover its slopes 
 and valleys, and teeming millions, thickly compacted as in New England 
 now, wiirthen occupy and possess the land to the very borders of the Pacific 
 ocean. 
 
 "But where are they, the heoroes of the burning march, the smooth-bore 
 gun and cannon, who purchased by their valor and with their blood, this 
 goodly heritage.^ Where are Scott and "rough and ready" of the Rio 
 Grande.' Where are Worth and Wool, and Quitman, and Cadwallader, 
 and Shields.' Where are Hardin, and Baker, and Bissell, and all their glo- 
 rious companions.' Where are Harney, and May; and the troopers whose 
 flint-lock pistols and sabres flashed as they charged at Palo Alto and Vera 
 Cruz. Or they who stormed Chapultepec, and marched in triumph on 
 the causeways to the very halls of Montezuma.' Some, like our great and 
 honored guest, lived to renew their services and win immortal fame ; some 
 with whitened locks and bent forms yet remain ; but the great body of the 
 army, officer and soldier, is dead. Where the tall grasses of Palo Alto and 
 Resaca de La Palma grow, on the lines of march, by the hills of Monterey, 
 on the plains of Buena Vista — wherever arms clashi d, and the battle's 
 wreck lay thickest, there they sleep, and there they will sleep to abide the 
 final destinv of the race. To the living soldier of this war, memory unrolls 
 the o-reat panorama of the past and the scenes and actors stand before him 
 as men and mountains of canvas — youth with its warm companionship and 
 love, the pomp and spectacle of war, sharp mountain peaks high up in air, 
 hlue as the bluest skv sn(j\v-capped and ice-clad in the tropic heat, and silent 
 as the night — the burning heat, the weary march, the pale patient face as the 
 soldier sat under the orange tree or the palm, wounded or spent by tlie 
 march, or lying on his bed of sickness or of death. Memory will not avaunt, 
 but holds even here a re-union with the dead. Even in this fairy scene of 
 flashing lights and eloquence, of music and of flowers, the deep-mouthed 
 guns of the castle of San Juan d' Ulloa again are roaring in his ears, and the 
 friends of the days of gone by rise up and smile, and call, and beckon to him 
 from the other shore. 
 
 " Nor did they die in vain. The soldier's life is not for himself. His 
 riches do not lie in the wealth of cattle, or of credits, or of bonds, but in the 
 magnitude of his self sacrifice. 
 
 His not to reason why — 
 His but to do and die. 
 
 He buries all his fears; he surrenders all his hopes; he invites disease and 
 rushes even upon death, that all he loses others may enjoy. England, France, 
 Germany and the Netherlands were brought out of darkness into a higher 
 life, through ages of bloodshed and war. They who sleep under the tall 
 
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 grassC' of Mexico, purchased with their lives an empire, sweet and fresh as 
 when it came from the creating hand of God, and gave it as a memorial 
 offering to their countrymen. Its blessings they can never enjoy, but the 
 milHons of the twentieth century will embellish and adorn it with all the 
 flowers of a Christian civilization, and as the world marches to the ultimate 
 development of mankind, tliese silent hei-oes will rise from their graves and 
 live in the hearts of a grateful posterity." 
 
 The band then played "The Red, White, and Blue." 
 
 General Sherman: Announcing the next regular toasi:, I ask you to 
 stand while the band performs a few strains of a dirge. That toast is : "To 
 the Memory of Our McPherson, Blair, ^.nd All of Our Heroic Dead." 
 
 The banqueters rose and remained standing while the dirge rose and fell 
 on the still air in mourni'ul cadences. 
 
 General Sherman — I will now read the ninth toast: "The Army of the 
 Cumberland and its Leader — The Rock of Chicamauga — Their Glory can 
 Never Fade." Response by 
 
 GENERAL WILSON. 
 
 "Mr. President: When the ancient Greeks wislied to celebrate the 
 achievements of their armies, they had Olympic games and public festivities. 
 Rome afterward adopted the same system, and tendered to the commanders 
 of her armies great processions, in which were led the captives taken in bat- 
 tles. America, still following the custom, looks to the victories of their great 
 armies and their great commanders, and as the cause and the effect tends to 
 elevate liberty and freedom, then we give to them an ovation of the 
 heart. 
 
 " Looking at it, Mr. President, in that light, the grand achievements of 
 the Army of the Cumberland, the grand achie\ements of the Army of the 
 Tennessee, tlie grand achievements of the Army of the James, the grand 
 achievements of the Army of the Potomac, can only be read in the light of 
 civil libert}'. Liberty has had to struggle from the dawn of creation to the 
 present hour. Liberty has always been uppermost when she had brave 
 commanders with true hearts to defend her rights. It was liberty that 
 caused Washington to lead our armies through the terrible struggles of 
 Valley Forge, It was liberty engrafted in the heart that laid the foundation 
 pf our Constitution. But that Constitution was not a free one, and because 
 it was not a free one liberty had to take anothei step, and it required Grant 
 and Sherman and Sheridan and Thomas to enable her to take it. It was a 
 contest of force on the one side and freedom upon the other. When they 
 failed to make a new Constitution and withdrew from the Union, then they 
 called upon the people whose hearts were filled with liberty to come and 
 battle for freedom and the Constitution of the Union. 
 
 " I am proud to say that the first gun that was fired in the rebellion was 
 fired by the command of the first commander of the Army of the Cumber- 
 land. I am sorry to know that some men in this age seek to destroy his fair 
 fame. I refer to General Anderson. I admire the courage of that noble 
 woman, his wife, who stands up and answers the publications made against 
 his memory, and shows their untruthfulness. 
 
 " After Anderson, then our distinguished President of the evening had 
 the honor for a time to command the Army of the Cumberland. After 
 hiin came Buell and Rosecrans, and then came that grandest of all, the 
 grand commander who lived with the army until he died. No man who 
 ever looked in the face of old 'Pnp' Thomas will ever be ashamed to own 
 it. He bore his honors meekly, but he bore them firmlv. Pericles, when 
 he was before the Athenian sennte; Cicero, when he thrust from himself 
 the crown ; Burke, when he stood in the house of commons and pleaded 
 
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 for American freedom ; Webster, in the senate when he defended the consti- 
 tution, never performed an act of greater and more resplendent magnitude 
 tlian Thomas when he planted his back against the eternal rock of Chica- 
 mauga and said, ' Here we stand or die ! ' 
 
 " Blessed be his memory ! May it endure forever ! It will endure so 
 long as that same spirit of liberty animates us ; so long as that same spirit 
 which actuated the armies that he led remains in the heart of Americans. 
 
 " One other thought, and I will detain you no longei . Thomas came to 
 the army from a Southern State, and it might be presumed that he had 
 instilled in him the peculiar notion that belonged to the people who lived 
 at that time south of " Mason and Dixon's line," but he owed no allegiance 
 to his State which did not yield to that greater and grander allegiance to 
 his whole, entire country." 
 
 General Sherman said: "Gentlemen, in announcing the next regular 
 toast I invite our Army of the Tennessee especially, and all friends, to con- 
 vince our eastern friend that the Army of the Tennessee have hearts big 
 enough, that they are all comrades. The next regular toast, the tenth on my 
 list, ' The Army of the Potomac — It fought with persistent valor and 
 achieved victory and undying fame.' I call upon 
 general woodford. 
 
 "Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the One Army of the 
 Union : All great armies, like strong men, have characters peculiarly their 
 own. Character is a growth, and inherited at birth. It is inspired by will, 
 it is developed by circuinstances, and ripened by experience. Your Army 
 of the Tennessee was born of a necessity to guard the water-way, and our 
 Army of the Potomac sprang from the necessity of holding the capital and 
 guarding the heirlooms from the renegades of the nation ; and so, with 
 great adventuresomeness and daring and mighty marching and combination 
 of will and force, you swept over thousands of miles until you had made 
 the Mississippi the pathway and the empire of the nation's republic; and so, 
 with weary watching and with painful discipline, we guarded the home of 
 the republic. Yours was the inspiration of the nation's future; ours was 
 the inspiration of the nation's future; yet in common source both had their 
 rise on the sunset of the Alleghany hills, sprang into light and kissed the 
 sun — the stream that by many windings at last emptied'into the gulf Sol- 
 diers from the mountain heights, from love of loyalty, your army and ours 
 were formed. 
 
 " By many miles the waters of the Tennessee emptied into the gulf By 
 a shorter course the waters of the Potomac emptied into the Atlantic, but 
 with intermingling ties gulf and Atlantic are one, and so your effort' and 
 ours flowed into one great unity of the nation's power. 
 
 " We won— won by deathless mem.ories of the past ; won by the golden 
 needs of the present, and won by the rainbow of hopes of the future.* 
 
 " Some of you are only transplants from the eastern states, with' larger 
 growth perchance on these broad prairies than you may have had at home 
 but all with loving hearts turn back Avhere the" old father and mother are 
 watching the ashes of your dead, and mine are sleeping- in New Eno-land 
 churchyards and by the requiem of Atlantic waves. oSd bless your %eat 
 and growing West! God bless our nation, and God bless dear ancestral New 
 H^ngland! God's richest blessing be upon our nation. 
 
 _ One more thought and I am through. I did not understand Grant s 
 journey around the world before this. Roman eagles flew, and the Roman 
 imperator went no further than the flash of his eagles' pinion. France 
 fought for glory, but the Emperor of France went no further than the pyr- 
 amids that told the story of his failure. English valo>- has gone where Eno-- 
 lish commerce made it profitable that it should go. On the fields of Pales- 
 tine the misguided soldiers of Petrr llu> Hemut died, and on the plains of 
 
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 Bulgaria Russia fought for a creed that was only a pretext for the rapine 
 of the Turk. But when our war had closed, far as had gone the story of 
 the struggle, the government by the people for the people should not perish 
 from the earth— far as had gone that story the rneaning of that struggle 
 was read. Kings knew it and the lowly knew it. They knew that the 
 reunion of the republic meant eventually the rule of the common people in 
 all the girdle round the earth. 
 
 " And so when your fir>t commander, and my last, went without panoply 
 of power, the simple American citizen, the world bent to do homage to 
 American citizenship. And most reverently grateful are we all that the 
 world bent to him, who, by our own free choice, we had twice named first 
 citizen of the republic." 
 
 General Pope responded to the toast, the leading sentiment of which 
 was, " All Other Armies." He spoke as lollows : 
 
 GENERAL POPE. 
 
 "Mr. Presidext and Comrades: It was with peculiar pleasure that 
 I came to this meeting of our honored society. First, because the circum- 
 stances made it certain that the attendance of the inembers would be large 
 and enthusiastic; and, second, because we should enjoy the opportunity to 
 welcome among us the first and geatest commander of the Army of the 
 Tennessee. He returns to us after a journey through the w^orld unparalleled 
 in its incidents by anything recorded in the annals of mankind. In every 
 country and by every people, of every condition of life, he has been received 
 with spontaneous enthusiasm and honor never accorded to the monarch 
 hiinself. In every land, and in every assemblage, he has been equal to the 
 occasion and true to himself and to his country. Though he appears among 
 us as a private citizen of the United St^t^, lie stands to-day the foremost 
 man in all this world. 
 
 " Great as is our pleasure, and certainly my profound satisfaction, at 
 being privileged in such good company to bid him welcome, I find myself, 
 by reason of his very presence, greatly embarrassed in respondiiig to the 
 toast you have assigned me. To recount the achievements and the glories 
 of any of our armies, gi-eat or small,' is simply to recite, in greater or less 
 degree, his own achievements, and it seems presumptuous in his presence for 
 any less authority than himself to tell the story of the armies of the United 
 States. Nevertheless, as it is your pleasure, I address myself to the task you 
 have assigned me. 
 
 " Of tlie armies which this toast embraces — the army of the James, of the 
 Ohio, of Georgia, and of the Gulf — little needs to be said at this day. They 
 have their orators and historians, and their gallant deeds are well known 
 and duly honored by their countrymen. Their achievements constitute a 
 part — and a large part — of that glorious heritage which we transmit to our 
 posterity, and it ill becomes one who was not a member of any ot them to 
 undertake to recount, in the presence of their commanders and their officers 
 the deeds better told by them in the past, and which it is much more appro- 
 priate that they should tell to you now. It will be enough to say that they 
 are worthy comrades of any of the great armies of the Union, and will go 
 down in history side by side with them. 
 
 " But there are numbers of gallant soldiers not embraced in any of the 
 army organizations who merit, though they have never had, a historian who 
 could do justice to their services. 
 
 " The large bodies of troops who served on the flanks and in the rear^ of 
 our great armies, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, have a history which 
 in no respect falls short in devotion and self-sacrifice to that of the great 
 armies to whose orators we have listened to-night with so much pride and 
 pleasure. Manv of them served in the mountains of West Virginia and 
 Kentucky, and in the swamps and forests of Arkansas and Missouri, where 
 evei-y bush concealed an r.-^sass'u and every hamlet was full of enemies; 
 
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 where social and personal hatred and abuse, of necessity, provoked bitter- 
 ness of feeling which it was hard for their manhood to restrain ; where there 
 was neither encouragement of friends nor applause of countrymen. Others 
 performed duty equally hard and equally obscure on the great plains of the 
 West, and in New Mexico, Arizona and California, where their enemies 
 were savages on the one side and loosely organized bands of outlaws on the 
 other. Others, again, were com.pelled to guard the camps and other places 
 of confinement of the prisoners of war — of all duties the most odious and 
 the most trying. 
 
 "These "were the conditions of their service — conditions which taxed 
 endurance and fidelity to the last degree. Through it all they toiled and 
 fought and suffered without complaint, and almost without recognition. 
 Yet, but for these men and this service our noted marches and great victo- 
 ries would have been impossible. But for the peace and order they main- 
 tained in the rear and on the flanks of our great armies, the civil war might 
 still have languished, uncompleted and, practically, fruitless of results. 
 
 "It would ill become us to forget such men and such service, and I rejoice 
 to say that long smce our society opened \\ide its doors to receive and honor 
 them — not as guests only, but as members in full communion with our- 
 selves. They are comrades and friends; they sympathized with us in our 
 objects ; they exulted in our victories, and they mourned over our reverses, 
 and, though little of notice and renown fell to their lot, none the less did 
 they rejoice in the fame so fairly won bv their more fortunate comrades. So 
 let us remember and honor them, and let it be understood that no meeting 
 of our great anny societies shall be held complete until it has recorded some 
 tribute of remembrance and of honor to these comrades of ours, neglected, 
 ja.nd well nigh forgotten. 
 
 "Comrades, we cannot be too thankful for this most satisfactory reunion. 
 •Circumstances and feelings which may never again be joined together, have 
 united to assemble to-night a greater attendance and to evoke more heartfelt 
 enthusiasm than we can hope will ever be repeated. Let us enjoy it as be- 
 comes us and the occasion. As tiine goes on we miss more and more of 
 our members from each meeting of our society, from the ranks of the army, 
 from the ^valks of civil life, irom the councils of the nation. Each year we 
 shall drop out with constantly increasiiig rapidity until— and soon — in the 
 nature of things, none of the actors in our great conflict will be left on earth. 
 "There is arising — indeed has already arisen — among us a generation to 
 whom our civil war seems the mere echo of a distant past. The great 
 uprising of the people of this country in defense of their government, the 
 fierce excitement, the hopes and purposes, the toils and sufiTerings, the agony 
 and exultation, are all unknown to them except as a strange episode which 
 they can not appreciate and in which they feel, at best, a languid interest. 
 The feeling which led our people to face disease and death with eagerness, 
 and to satisfy which plunged this whole land into inourning, appears to 
 them a sort of strange frenzy with which they have neither the power nor 
 the inclination to sympathize. The results which consoled us for the agony 
 of sorrow are accepted by them inuch as they accept the air and the sun- 
 shine, and they do not appear to tliink it necessary to inquire whence they 
 came or whither they are going. So far have they departed from the past 
 that they seem to look upon such meetings as these, and the feelings 
 which prompt and wliich characterize them, with a sort of compassionate 
 surprise, and to be afflicted with such confusion of the moral sense that 
 they no longer appear to draw the distinction between the loyal and disloyal, 
 and are prone to attribute the sentiment which broadly marks this dis- 
 tinction to us to a feeling, excusable perhaps, but hard of justification. 
 Thev do not consider, it would appear, that only by honoring loyalty and 
 condeming disloyalty, can we hope to maintain that lofty sentiment of 
 patriotism which is the only security of a great nation. 
 
 " It is, perhaps, human nature tliat this should be so, but to those who 
 have borne the heat and burden of the battle, this appai-ent ingratitude seern^ 
 
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 strange and unaccountable. It may well happen that under such changed 
 conditions, the great object which marshaled the best blood of the land in 
 arms, and filled every household with lamentation, may be wholly lost sight 
 of; and then the results which seemed to repay us for all this sorrow and 
 suft'ering, may be permitted to slip out of their grasp. They may deprive us 
 of all this, through heedlessness or want of foresight, but they can never 
 take from us the glory and honor we have deservedly won ; they can not rob 
 us of that sense of duty well performed and of sacrifices eagerly submitted to 
 in a cause which seemed sacred to us and should seem sacred to mankind 
 forever more. No man now living, or who shall live hereafter, can point his 
 finger at the members of the great aimies of the union, and hold them ac- 
 countable for any misfortunes which may hereafter befall this people. Not 
 ours will be the sin — not ours the need of repentance. 
 
 " Our race is nearly run, but we have fought the good fight, and neither 
 ingratitude nor injustice, neither forgetfulness of the object for which we 
 fought, nor surrender of the results we achieved, at this day can ever deprive 
 our great armies and our gallant soldiers of the approval and gratitude of 
 future generations. 
 
 " Let us devoutly hope that these forebodings may be only the result of 
 morbid imaginings, and will never be realized. But if they are to be fulfilled ; 
 if, in our old age, we are to be subjected to the sorrow and humiliation of wit- 
 nessing the shipwreck of all the hopes and purposes for which we sacrificed 
 so much, well may each of us here, and now, utter the prayer of the greatest 
 of our departed statesmen: "God grant that on my vision may never be 
 opened what lies behind.' " 
 
 ROBERT G. INGERSOLL. 
 
 " The Volunteer Soldiers of the Union Army, whose valor and patriotism 
 saved to the world a ' govermnent of the people, by the people, and lor the 
 people.' " Response by Col. Ingersoll. 
 
 A perfect ovation greeted the great orator as he mounted the table and 
 smiled on his vast collection of hearers. It was kept up at frequent intervals 
 during the course of the following eloquent response: 
 
 " When slavery in the savagery of the lash, and the barbarism of the 
 chain, and the insanity of secession confronted the civilization of our country, 
 the question, ' Will the great Republic defend itself .'" trembled upon the 
 lips of every lover of mankind. The grand North, filled with intelligence 
 and wealth, the products of labor, marshaled her hosts and asked only for a 
 leader. From thepeoj^le a man, silent, thoughtfully poised, and calm, stepped 
 forward, and, with the lips of victory, voiced the Nation's first and last 
 demand, — unconditional and immediate surrender. From that moment the 
 end was known. That utterance was the first real declaration of real war, 
 and in accordance with the dramatic writers ot mighty events, the soldier 
 who made it received the final sword of Rebellion. The soldiers of the 
 Republic were not seekers for vulgar glory, neither Avere they animated by 
 the hope of plunder or love of cruel conquest. No, no, never. They fought 
 to defend the homestead of liberty and that their children might have peace. 
 
 " They were the defenders of humanity, the destroyers of prejudice, the 
 breakers of chains, and, in the name of the future, slew the monster of their 
 time. They finished what the soldiers of the Revolution commenced. They 
 have relit the torch that fell from their august hands and filled the world 
 again with light. They blotted out from our statute-books the laws passed 
 by hj'pocrites at the instigation of robbers, and tore with brave and indignant 
 hands from the Constitution of the United States that infamous clause that 
 made men the catchers of their fellow-men. They made it possible for 
 Judges to be just, for statesmen to be humane, and for politicians to be honest. 
 Thev broke the shackles from the limbs ot slaves, from the souls of masters, 
 
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 and from the Northern brain. They kept our country on the map of the 
 world and our flag in heaven. They rolled the stone from the sepulchreof 
 progress, and found therein two angels clad in shining garments, — Nationality 
 and Liberty. 
 
 " The soldiers were the saviors of the Republic ; they were the liberators 
 of men. In writing the Proclamation of Emancipation, Lincoln, greatest of 
 our mighty dead, whose memory is as gentle as a summer air when reapers 
 sing amid gathered sheaves, copied with the pen what the grand hands of 
 brave comrades had written with their swords. Grander than the Greek, 
 nobler than the Roman, the soldiers of the Republic, with patriotism as 
 careless as the air, fought for the rights of others, for the nobility of labor, 
 and battled that a mother might own her child, that arrogant idleness 
 should not scar the back of patient toil, and that our country should not be 
 a many-headed monster, made of warring States, but a nation, sovereign, 
 grand and free. Blood was water, money was leaves, and life was only 
 common air, until one flag floated over one republic, without a master and with- 
 out a slave. And then was asked the question, ' Will a free people volun- 
 tarily tax themselves to pay a national debt.? The soldiers went home to 
 their waiting wives, to their glad children, and to the girls they loved. They 
 went back to the fields, the shops, the mines. They had not been demoral- 
 ized. They had been ennobled. Mocking at reverses, laughing at 
 poverty, they made a friend of toil. They said, ' We saved the nation's 
 life, and what is lite without honor.?' They worked and wrought with all 
 of labor's loyal sons, that every pledge the nation made might be redeemed. 
 And their great leader, having put a shining band of friendship, a girdle of 
 clasped and loving hands, around the globe, came home to find, and finds, 
 that every promise made in war has now the ring and gleam of gold. 
 
 " There is another question still. Will all the wounds of war be healed.? 
 I answ^er, yes. The Southern people must submit. Not to the dictation of 
 the North, but to a nation's will and the verdici of mankind. They were 
 wrong, and the time will come when they will say that the people are the 
 victors who have been vanquished by the right. Freedom conquered 
 them, and freedom will cultivate their fields, will educate their chil- 
 dren, wall weave robes of wealth, will execute the laws, and fill their 
 land with happy homes. The soldiers of the Union saved the South as well 
 as the North. 'They gave us a nation. They gave us liberty here, and their 
 grand victories have made tyr-anny the world over as insecure as snow upon 
 the Mps of volcanoes. 
 
 "And now let us drink to the volunteers, to those who sleep in unknown 
 and sunken graves, Avhose names are known only to the hearts they loved 
 and left, of those who oft in happy dreams can see the footsteps of return. 
 Let us drink to those who died where lifeless famine mocked at want. Let 
 us drink to the maimed whose scars give modesty a tongue. Let us drink 
 to those who dared and gave to chance the care and keeping of their lives. 
 Let us drink to all the living and to all the dead — to Sherman and to Sher- 
 idan, and to Grant, the laureled soldiers of this world, and last to Lincoln, 
 whose loving life, like a bow of peace, spans and arches all the clouds of 
 war." 
 
 EMORY A. STORRS. 
 
 Mr. Emory A. Storrs then responded to the following toast : 
 "The patriotic people of the United States who fed, clothed, and encour- 
 aged our armies and stood by us in defeat, as well as in victory." 
 
 "I speak in behalf of the great army of loyal citizens who volunteered to 
 remain at home; who guarded the ballot-box while you carried the cart- 
 ridge-box; whose ballots were as effective as your bullets. Without the 
 Union voter the Union soldier could not have kept the field. 
 
 "There were Generals at home, as there were Generals at the front; and he 
 who encouraged the wavering, who cheered the despondent, who convinced 
 the doubting, and so insoired the citizen that he made his convictions felt at 
 
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 the ballot-box ; who rallied the voters when the skies were dark, and inspii-ed 
 them with the hope of final success, even when the tide of battle went against 
 us, deserves to rank, and will in history rank, among the worthy leaders of a 
 great cause. 
 
 "The theatre of the war was not confined to the localities where armies 
 were actually encamped, and battles fought. 
 
 "There was war, not merely at Vicksburg and Gettysburg, at Atlanta and 
 Chicamauga, at Richmond and at Appomattox Court-House, but war also, 
 difiering in kind, it is true, but war, nevertheless, at Chicago and Pittsburg, 
 at Indianapolis and Cincinnati, at Philadelphia and K.ew York, in every city 
 and in every village where an arm was lifted or a voice was raised to discour- 
 age and dishearten the Union soldiers in the field, or to encourage and 
 strengthen those who were in arms against them. 
 
 " Those public enemies who made war against the Nation in the loyal 
 North were a great army, none the less dangerous because they did not carry 
 muskeis in their hands. An army of patriotic men was as essential to meet 
 thein here as Avere the hosts of Union soldiers to confront the armies of the 
 Rebellion in the field. Attacks on the National honor and credit must be 
 met by a steady upholding and vindication of the National honor and credit. 
 Appeals to base motives of individual gain must be met by stirring appeals to 
 National pride and patriotism. Doletul prophecies of disaster and defeat 
 must be met by high-hearted assurances of ultimate triumph. Hypocritical 
 protestations of sympathy for the slain must be met by exhalted exhortations 
 to remember the sacredness of the cause in which they died. Prophecies of 
 starvation and want were belied by abundant harvests. The arts of the 
 demagogue were overcome by the sturdy phalanx of loyal men, who knew 
 what freedom meant and how priceless it was, and whose votes spoke for 
 freedom. Wherever treason lurked, some loyal eye must search it out. 
 Speech must be met by speech; argument by argument; undisguised ti-eason 
 by outspoken and undisguised loyalty. Who, then, were the soldiers in this 
 great conflict.'' Not merely those who went to the field and took part in the 
 might wager of battle, but all those as well who tilled the fields, that the 
 soldier might not Avant — who comforted the mourning — who organized vast 
 charities, and followed every battle with their sacred ministration — who never 
 lost faith in the future — who steadily relied and taught others to rely more 
 upon the power and goodness of God than upon the shrewdness and dexterity 
 of the Devil — who searched out and defeated the schemes of treason, hatched 
 in our very midst. Cannons and muskets were not the only effective weapons 
 used. The plow and the hoe, the earnest appeal, and the enlightened argu- 
 ment, were equally essential and eflecti\'e. 
 
 " The New England boy was fighting his country's battles when,- with 
 hoe in hand, he struggled to extort an unwilling harvest from the sour and 
 reluctant soil, that his brother at the front might be fed. 
 
 " Battles and elections acted and reacted upon each other. The election 
 of a loyal Governor in a closely contested State was the sure precursor of a 
 victory in the field, and a well-timed victory in the field carried many an 
 election at home. Our victories at Atlanta and Vicksburg saved hundreds 
 of men from premature Democracy. 
 
 " Not alone to the soldier does the glory of the great triimiph belong. 
 Every single citizen who cast even the measure of his influence on the right 
 side is entitled to share in this common glory. 
 
 " History will ascribe, in making up her "final and impartial judgments, on 
 parallel lines, the solid heroism and sturdy sense of Grant, and the patient, 
 long-suffering loyalty of Lincoln, the grand strategy of Sherman and the 
 wise counsels of Seward; the dashing and intrepid valor of Sheridan and the 
 devoted love of country of Richard Yates; the fiery energy and splendid 
 generalship of Logan and the wise statesmanship of Morton; the dauntless 
 courage of fighting Joe Hooker and the resolute and uncompromising 
 patriotism and scii^i- .^•' iiistice of Zachariah Chandler. 
 
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 "Upon these imperishable records there will be inscribed not only the 
 names of the great leaders in the great cause, but the humblest worker in its 
 behalf will find his name upon its pages. 
 
 " Bright and shining on those resplendent annals shall appear the names 
 of those thousands of noble, heroic and self-sacrificing women who organized 
 and carried forward to triumphant success a colossal sanitary and charitable, 
 scheme, the like of which in nobility of conception and perfectness of execu- 
 tion, the world had never before witnessed, and which carried all around the 
 globe the fame and the name of the vvomen of America. 
 
 " No prayer was uttered for the cause, and for those who were fighting 
 for it, that was not registered on its side. 
 
 " While the boy who slept by his camp-fire at night and dreamed of home 
 :md what his valor would achieve for his country, uttered even in his dreams 
 j )rayers for the mother who had made that home so sacred to him, the mother 
 dreamed of her boy, prayed that the cause in which he was armed might 
 triumph, and her boy be saved. Though leagues separated them, the prayers 
 ;;nd blessings of both were borne heavenward, and met in the bosom of their 
 common God and father. 
 
 " An unjust war is a crime. But peace purchased at the price of National 
 lionor and integrity is a greater crime. 
 
 "The peace to which we aspire 'is liberty calmly enjoyed,' and the Greek 
 historian has wisely said : ' Peace is the greatest of all blessings if it leaves 
 us in possession of our honors and lawful rights, but if it is attended with the 
 loss of our National Independence, and places a blot on our escutcheon, there 
 is nothing more truly pernicious or fatal to our true interests.' 
 
 " From such a contest as that through which we have passed are devel- 
 oped the grandest and noblest of human characters. 'It is not where the 
 golden-haired Cei-es laughs, and the peaceful Pan, lord of the flowery plains, 
 but where the iron lies hid in the mountain caves tliat the lords of the earth 
 spring up.' In 'noble souls, valor does not wait for years.' And there came 
 forth when the first shot was fired thousands and tens of thousands of young 
 men, transformed by the great emergency from plow-boys, mechanics, and 
 clerks, into heroes. 
 
 " Great thoughts are to be ranked with great deeds, and always precede 
 them. The smoke-grimed and battle-scarred banners of the Army of the 
 Tennessee are radiant with glory, and lustrous as shining planets, for the 
 great cause in which they were unfurled has made them so. 
 
 "Everv battle which Vou fought, and every victory which you achieved, 
 was the expression of the great thoughts of self-government, political equal- 
 ity, and National integrity. These made your cause, and its triumph involved 
 not merely the complete, overthrow and surrender of the men who fought 
 against and the arms with which they fought, but the cause of secession and 
 human slaverv for which they fought. 
 
 "Reinforced by these great ideas, the armies of the Union could not fail 
 in driving the enemies of the country steadily before them. The loyal mill- 
 ions of the North pushed forward capturing every polling-place in their line 
 of progress, marching steadily to reinforce the soldiers in the field. 
 
 " Behind our armies were countless herds, and all the harvests of the 
 North. Behind them, and moving as the armies moved, were its great sani- 
 itarv stores, its inexhaustible wealth, its dauntless spirit, its lofty love of 
 country, its millions of patriotic men and women ; floating over all, our 
 country's flag, which symbolized all that was sacred and lofty in human gov- 
 ernment, and every breeze that unfurled its ample folds carried the glorious 
 message that no foot of soil over which it waved should be pressed by the 
 loot of a slave. 
 
 "The inevitable end came, the triumph of right over wrong, of justice 
 over injustice, and the rebellion fell in utter wreck, with a resounding crash 
 that was heard by all nations. 
 
 " The end came, the embattled hosts on either side melted away and dis- 
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 away. Then from bloody battle-field there rose the spirits of the contending 
 armies. The great cause of the Union, with spotless robes and starry dia^ 
 dems, with shining face and majestic form, came forth to meet and receive 
 the surrender of her adversary. From murky battle-cloud, from stifling 
 slave-pen, the dark spirit of secession and slavery emerged. Her garments 
 stained with the blood of the slave, her brow in gloom, the lust of power and 
 pride of empire in her eyes, forth she came, and, prostrating herself before the 
 majestic presence in which she stood, surrendered herself, the guilty cause of 
 a wicked Rebellion." 
 
 The toast " Woman "— 
 
 . In our hours of ease, 
 Uncertain, roy, and hard to please; 
 When pain and anguish wring the brow, 
 A ministering- angel thou! 
 
 was responded to by 
 
 GENERAL THOMAS C. FLETCHER. 
 
 "The only real magic of nature is the power possessed by a woman over 
 the man who loves her — whether it be his mother, his wife, his sister, or 
 his sweetheart. At the hearthstone she awoke in him patriotic impulses. 
 At the doorstep she consecrated him with tears and prayers to his country. 
 In the hospital she whispered to him of the loved ones at home, and as- 
 suaged his pains with soft and gentle words of hope. With skillful hands 
 she wrought life-inspiring inscriptions on our banners, and waved us a cheer- 
 ing adieu as we marched off to the front, and then through her tears looked 
 up to God to beg His protection for us, and for our success. 
 
 " There is efficacy in the prayers of a good woman as sure as there is in 
 the heaviest artillery. The Greek and the Roman woman, as well as those 
 of Europe, in the days of chivalry, reared amid the clangor of arms and the 
 scenes of war, animated those dear to them to deeds of valor, impelled by 
 ambition for the individual distinction which might be won in contests of 
 personal prov/ess. But the American women, to whom the sounds of war 
 were filled with strange and awful terrors, animated by a pure and lofty, 
 aye, a holy patriotism, gave the standard of her country into the hands of 
 her father or husband, or her son, or her brother, and bade him go and up- 
 ^lold the power of the goverment which it represented, at the risk of his 
 precious life. 
 
 " All through the terrific strife, the long years of anxiety, every mail 
 bore loving words to those at the front. Every boat and every train bore it, 
 the sick -^nd wounded the comforts which only woman's love can stiggest, 
 and only woman's tender care and skill can prepare. God bless the patri- 
 otic, \miu» woman wherever she may be. The fires were kept by them 
 brigl. upon the altar of home for those who never came back. The flag 
 of tl fc country covers their moldering ashes in the National Cemetery ; and 
 the it •org, fatherly arm of the government for which they died protects theii 
 dear ild mother, or their widow, or orphan children ; and, comrades, while 
 we hve and they live, the government we fought for shall continue to 
 do so. 
 
 " TVioughts of the loved ones at home quickened the step of every man 
 of us as we marched in pursuit of the enemy, and gave bounding impulse 
 to the desire to speedily perform our task of restoring the power of the gen- 
 eral government, that we might speedily return to them, the women who 
 waited our coming and had preserved for us the appreciated happiness of 
 acme: 
 
 O, woman, whose form and whose soul 
 
 Are the spell and the life of e ich path we pursue, 
 
 Whether sunn'd in the Tro]iic, or chili'd at the Polei 
 If woman be there, tlierc is happiness too. 
 
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 " Within the dark hne which marked the boundaries of slavery and rebel- 
 lion, there were displays of patriotism and heroism on the part of women 
 unequaled in all the history of civil wars. The armies, driving each other 
 to and fro, left desolation and ruin in their track. The guerrilla roamed at 
 will all over the prairies and valleys. There was left the lone chimney as 
 the sole monument to mark the spot where had once been the happy home. 
 Houseless and homeless amid the rigors of the most inclement seasons, the 
 husband away and the children helplessly clinging to them, the heroic wife 
 and mother sought the protection of the Union forces, and clung with 
 woman's devotion to the cause of the country with a constancy and heroism 
 so grand and so sublime as to inspire the men about them with a faith and 
 courage which led on to victory. 
 
 "Thouo-h their names be not written in the records of fame, their mem- 
 ories will be honored as long as liberty shall endure, and this Republic 
 shall be its embodiment." 
 
 " MARK TWAIN." 
 
 The fifteenth and last regular toast was, " The Babies. As they com- 
 fort us in our sorrows, let us not forget them in our festivities;" and to this 
 Samuel L. Clemens responded. He said : 
 
 "I like that. We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We 
 have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen, but when the toast works 
 down to the babies, we stand on common ground, for we have all been 
 babies. It is a shame that, for a thousand years, the world's banquets have 
 utterly ignored the baby, as if he didn't amount to anything. If you will 
 stop and think a minute — if you will go back fitty or one hundred years 
 to vour early married life, and re-contemplate your first baby — you will 
 rcmeinber that he amounted to a good deal, and even something over. 
 You soldiers all know that when that little fellow arrived at family head- 
 quarters you had to hand in your resignation. He took entire command. 
 You became his lackey — his mere bod}^ servant, and you had to stand 
 around, too. He was not a commander who made allowances for time, dis- 
 tancL-, weather, or anything else. You had to execute his order whether 
 it was possible or not." And there was only one form of machinery in his 
 manual of tactics, and that was the double quick. He treated you with 
 everv sort of insolence and disrespect, and the bravest of you didn't dare to 
 sav a word. 
 
 " "You could face the death storm of Donelson and Vicksburg, and give 
 back blow for blow, but when he clawed your whiskers, and pulled your 
 hair, and twisted your nose, you had to take it. When the thunders of war 
 were sounding in your ears you set your faces toward the batteries, and 
 advanced with steadv tread, but, when he turnud on the terrors of his war- 
 whoop, vou advanced in the other direction, and mighty glad of the chance, 
 too. When he called for soothing syrup, did you venture to throw out any 
 side remarks about certain services being unbecoming an officer and a gentle- 
 man.' No. You got up and got it. When he ordered his pap bottle and 
 it was not warm, did you talk back.? Not you. You went to work and 
 warmed it. You even descended ^o far in your menial office as to take a 
 suck of that warm, insipid stutf just to see if it was right, — three parts water 
 to one of milk, — a touch of sugar to modify the colic, and a drop of pepper- 
 mint to kill those immortal hiccoughs. I can taste that stuff. And how 
 many things vou learned as you went along! Sentimental young folks still 
 takestockin "that beautiful old saying that when the baby smiles it is because 
 the angels are whimpering to him'. Very pretty, but too thin, — simply wind 
 on the stomach, niv friends. If the baby proposed to take a walk at his 
 usual hour, 2 o'clock in the morning didn't you rise up promptly and remark 
 with a mental addition that would not improve a Sunday-school book much, 
 that that was the very thing you were about to propose yourself.'' Oh! you 
 
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 were under good discipline, and, as you went faltering up and down the 
 room in jour undress uniform, jou not only prattled undignified baby-talk^ 
 but even tuned up your martial voices and tried to sing " Rock-a-by baby in 
 the tree top," for instance. What a spectacle lor an Army of the Tennessee. 
 And what an afliliction for the neighbors, too, for it is not everybody within a 
 mile around that likes military music at 3 in the morning. And when you 
 had been keeping this sort of thing up two or three hours, and your little 
 velvet-head mtimated that notliing suited him like exercise and noise, what 
 did you do? You simply went on till you dropped in the last ditch. The 
 idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything ! Why ; one baby is just a house 
 and a front yard full by itself. One haby can furnish more business than vou 
 and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, 
 irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities. Do what you please, you can't 
 make him stay on the reservation. Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As 
 long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins Twins 
 amount to a permanent riot. And there ain't any real difference between 
 triplets and an insurrection. 
 
 " Yes, it was high time for a toast to the masses, to recognize the import- 
 ance of the babies. Think what is in store for the present crop! Fifty 
 years from now we shall all be dead, I trust, and then this flag, if it still sur- 
 vive, will be floating over a Republic numbering 2oo,ooo,txx) souls, according 
 to the settled laws of our increase. Our present schooner of State will liave 
 grown into a political leviathan — a Great Eastern. The cradled babies of 
 to-day will be on the deck. Let them be well trained, for we are going to 
 leave a big contract on their hands. Among the three or four million 
 cradles now rocking in the land, are s-ome which this Nation would preserve 
 for long ages as sacred things, if we could know which ones they are. In 
 one of these cradles the unconscious Farragut of the future is at this 
 moment teething; think of it, and putting in a word of dead earnest, inartic- 
 ulated, but perfectly jusiifiable prolanity over it, too. In another the future 
 renowned astronomer is blinking at the shining milky way, with but a 
 liquid interest, poor little chap! and wondering what has become of that 
 other one they call the wet-nurse. In another tUe future great historian is 
 lying — and doubtless will continue to lie until his earthly mission is ended. 
 In another, the future President is busying himself with no profounder 
 problem of Slate than what the mischief has become of his hair so earlv, 
 and in a mighty array of other cradles there are now some 6o,ocki future 
 ofhce-seekers, getting ready to fuinish him occasion to grapple vvith that 
 same old problem a second lime. And in still one more cradle, somewhat 
 under the liag, the iiiture illustrious Commander-in-Chief of the American 
 armies is so little burdened with his approaching granduer and responsibil- 
 ities, as to be giving his whole strategic mind at this moment to trying to 
 find out some way to get his big toe into his moutti, an achievement which, 
 meaning no disrespect, the illustrious guest of this evening turned iiis atten- 
 tion to some fifty-six years ago; and if the child is but a prophecy of the 
 man, there are mighty few who will doubt that he succeeded." 
 
 When the applause which greeted this humorous efl:"usiou had subsided, 
 the meeting was declared adjourned, and the events of the great banquet 
 became a thing of the past, though destined for record as one of the brightest 
 pages in the city's histor/. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 
 
 SOCIAL events; MRS. f. d. grant's reception; reception of the 
 
 CHICAGO CLUB. 
 
 I HE reunion of the Army of the Tennessee having concluded 
 with the magnificent banquet of Thursday night, the military 
 element gave way to the civic in the demonstrations in honor 
 of General Grant. The olive branch, to speak metaphorically, 
 or the smilax vine, to speak with precision, usurped the 
 place which freedom's starry emblem had occupied without dispute for two 
 days. The instruments for maintaining the national existence were replaced 
 with means of enjoying individual existence, and the society of the army 
 unconditionally surrendered the distinguished circumnavigator of the globe 
 to the army of society. 
 
 MRS. F. D. grant's RECEPTION. 
 
 The afternoon was devoted to a reception given to the General and Mrs. 
 Grant by Col. and Mrs. Fred D. Grant. In the numbers and station of the 
 people who attended, and in the elegance of all its appointments, it has prob- 
 ably never been surpassed here by a reception in a private house. The 
 resources of florists were taxed to beautify the interior, and the guests were 
 arrayed in full dress. The elite of the city were present, and in the military 
 element the reception was peculiarly rich. In addition to General Sheridan 
 and his staff, whom Chicago society fortunately has always with it, there 
 were present such eminent commanders as Generals Sherman, Ord, Augur, 
 and Scholield. 
 
 * The guests were received by Colonel and Mrs. Grant, and at once intro- 
 duced to General and Mrs. Grant, who were continually surrounded by an 
 admiring throng. 
 
 Among the notable people present were : 
 
 Judge and Mrs. Alfonzo Taft and Mrs. Peter Taft of Ohio, General Wm. 
 T. Sherman and daughters, Colonel and Mrs. Vilas of Wisconsin, General 
 and Mrs. P. H. Sheridan, Honorable and Mrs. Lyman Trumbull, General and , 
 Mrs. Baird, Colonel and Mrs. M. V. Sheridan, General and Mrs. M. D. Ilar- 
 
 7.7 
 
78 THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
 din, Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. D. Grannis, General 
 and Mrs. Anson Stager, U. S. Grant, Jr., the Misses ISIoulton of Cincinnati, 
 Rev. Dr. and Mrs. J. Monroe Gibson, Mrs. H. H. Honore, Judge and Mrs. 
 Mark Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Penn Nixon, Judge and Mrs. T. Lyle 
 Dickey, General and Mrs. H. N. Eldridge, General George W. Forsytli, Gen- 
 eral Whipple, General Rufus Ingals, General A. C. McClurg, Judge and 
 Mrs. S. :M. Moore, Mrs. H. O. Stone, Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Bishop, Mr. 
 and Mrs. James Kirkland, Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Eddy, Colonel and Mrs. 
 Mason Loomis, Miss Marriam, Miss Whipple, Miss Raum, of Washington, 
 D. C. ; Miss Schuvler, of St. Louis; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Caton, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Waller, Mrs. John M. Clarke, Mrs. 
 Stewart Clark, Honorable and Mrs.'j. Russell Jones, Mr. and Mrs. S. P. 
 McConnell, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Kerfoot, Honorable John Wentworth and 
 Miss Ro.xanna Wentworth, Prof David Swing, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Clinton 
 Locke, Mrs. John A. Logan, Mrs. Wm. F. Tucker, Jr., Miss Nina Lunt, 
 Henry W. Raymond, General and Mrs. Torrence, General and Mrs. Thomp- 
 son, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Rozet, A. J. Drexel, Esq., and Geo. W. Childs of 
 Philadelphia; Miss Love, Mrs. Babcock, Miss Emily Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Edward Hosmer, Dr. and Mrs. J. Reeves Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel 
 Appleton, General and Mrs. Small, Mr. and Mrs. Hunt, General and Mrs. 
 Meyers, Colonel and Mrs. Jones, Major and Mrs. Farmer, Mrs. Dudley 
 W^iikinson, Miss Carpenter, Honorable and Mrs. Richard Oglesbv, Mrs. 
 Shelby M. Cullom, of Springfield, Miss Lina Harrison, Mr. James Ross Mil- 
 ler, Miss Kerfoot, Rev. Dr. E. M. Boring, General Martin Beem, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Jno. M. Durand, Mrs. T. W. Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Badger, S. L. 
 Clemens, Esq., Mrs. Kate N. Doggett, Mrs. Perrv H. Smith, Mrs. Joseph 
 Medill, Mrs. Robert W. Patterson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gregg, Mrs. Herbert 
 Aver, Honorable and Mrs. Emor_v A. StoiTS, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Storrs, 
 Mr. Wm. Bryan, Mr. and Mrs. James F. Asay, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Smith, 
 Mr. R. Y. Richardson, of Scotland, Mr. and "Mrs. P. P. Oldershaw, Mrs. 
 Meatyard, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Laflin, General and Mrs. J. M. Drew, Mrs. 
 Fleetwood, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Sturges, Colonel E. B. Knox, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Henry S. Monroe, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Odell, John M. Douglass, Mrs. 
 Charnley, Mrs. Fred W. Peck, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R. Page, General Belknap, 
 Mr. and Mrs. George Mason, Mrs. John B. Drake, Mrs. Ira Holmes, Mrs. 
 Judge Beckwith, M^iss Rowley, Miss Otis, Mr. and Mrs. Skillman, Mrs. Ack- 
 ermann, little Miss Julia Dilt Grant. 
 
 Many of the toilets displayed on this occasion were remarkable for their 
 oeauty and elegance. Most of the ladies were in full dress, and their rich 
 costumes added greatly to the brilliancy of the gathering. Among the most 
 elaborate toilets maybe mentioned the following: 
 
 Mrs. General Grant; magnificent toilet of royal purple velvet, trained 
 skirt, with velvet flounce, front composed of fringe and irridescent beads; 
 corsage cut square with point-lace ruchings; elbow sleeves, with lace cults; 
 S'jperb diamond cross and earrings; coiflure simple, with shell comb. 
 
 Mrs. Fred Grant; exquisite costume of silk and satin, Pekin stripe, white 
 grenadine and crape; skirt with two flounces, panier full, and elaborately em« 
 broidered in white silk; surplice waist, with embroidered folds; white" satin 
 belt ; clusters of pink and white roses, diamond and onyx ornaments ; hair 
 becomingly dressed, with string of gold sequins on one side. 
 
 Mrs. Potter Palmer; beautiful costume of wine-color velvet and white 
 brocade shot with silver ; a short petticoat of brocade with knife-plaiting and 
 fringe of silver beads around the bottom; round side panniers of velvet 
 with flounce of white lace, train of velvet folds held in place bv silver and 
 crystal ornaments. Pointed corsage, Marie de Medici stvle, with V-shaped 
 front filled in with lace; a border of large irridescent beads. Velvet sleeves 
 with brocade puffs at the shoulder and deep cufis of the same ; cameo and 
 diamond oinaments. Coiffure high. 
 
THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 79^ 
 
 Mrs. General Hardin; toilet of seal brown cachmere and Pekin stripe; 
 skirt trimming of deep plaits, paniers of broad revers of Pekin; close-fitting 
 basque with folds and tiimmings of the same. Bonnet to match with os- 
 trich tips. 
 
 Miss Hall ; gray silk princesse dress ; skirt trimmed with three flounces 
 headed by a band of silk embroidered with cardinal overdress and basque 
 with bands and vest of the same; clusters of cardinal roses holding the 
 drapery in place. 
 
 Mrs. General Baird; elegant toilet of black velvet with brocaded velvet 
 in black and light blue; skirt of velvet with plaits, panier and basque of bro- 
 cade, untrimmed. Point lace fichu ; white bonnet and diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. J. Russell Jones; dress of black velvet, trained skirt entirely plain; 
 basque close-fitting, with pink fringe and pipings of pink satin. 
 
 Mrs. Aug. Eddy; beautiful toilet of peacock blue silk, box-plaited skirt, 
 panier with broad revers of pale blue silk embroidered in colors; basque 
 with vest and revers of the same. White felt hat with plumes. Diamond 
 ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Harvey; olive brown brocade, front drapery in folds, train plaited 
 from the waist. Plain basque with lace tie; bonnet to match. Diamond 
 ornaments. 
 
 Miss Emily Campbell; short skirt of wine color moire; plain coat shaped 
 basque of plush to match. White turban bonnet with silver braid and white 
 tips. 
 
 Mrs. Gregg; rich toilet of black velvet, skirt and basque ornamented 
 with bands of jet; thread lace flowers on panier. 
 
 Mrs. General Torrence; elegant costume of black velvet; skirt plain, 
 short side paniers, drapery very bouftant; white bonnet Diamond orna- 
 ments. 
 
 Mrs. Herbert Ayer ; handsome toilet of black silk and satin striped, elab- 
 orately trimmed with plaitings and jet passementerie; jet studded weap | 
 ■white bonnet covered with scarf of Spanish lace. Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Colonel Jones; black silk and blue brocade; skirt of silk with box 
 plaits ; panier plaited, drapery bouftan.t White opera bonnet. 
 
 Mrs. Patterson; wine-color silk; puffed and shirred front; scarf drapery 
 of pearl color brocade. Vest, collar and revers of the same on basque. 
 
 Mrs. Medill ; black velvet skirt, plaited train ; draperies and basque of 
 brocade with jet trimmings. 
 
 Mrs. Johnston ; short suit of green velvet and satin ; front shirred, with a 
 deep fringe, back of skirt, of plaited satin shirred at the waste. Plain 
 basque. Bonnet of velvet to match costume. 
 
 Mrs. Geo. Storrs; elegant short suit of black velvet in Pekin stripe in 
 narrow satin and velvet. Skirt of plain velvet; bouffant polonaise of the 
 stripe. Point lace tie; diamond ornaments. White turban bonnet with 
 broad gold band half hidden bv white plumes; belt bouquet of roses. 
 
 Mrs. Emory Storrs ; elegant short suit of black silk ; box plaited skirt, 
 the entire front composed of a net-work of jet, sides of the same. Short 
 panier with jet fringe; basque with. vest and other trimmings of jet. White 
 opera bonnet. Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Perry H. Smith; handsome toilet of black velvet and satin; skirt of 
 the former wnth double satin scarf draperies with rich embroidery; basque 
 ornamented in a similar manner. White bonnet. Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Lyman Trumbull ; elegant costume of black velvet, simply made. 
 Point lace and diamonds. Bonnet of pale blue silk with plumes to 
 match. 
 
 Miss Cullom ; wine color silk and brocade. 
 
 Miss A. Cullom; brown silk and brocade. White hat. 
 
 Miss Marion Whipple; beautiful costume of olive green silk; skirt trim- 
 ming of pearl with lining of old gold; uncut velvet front and basque, drap- 
 ery bouffant. Bonnet to match. 
 
So THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
 Mrs. P. P. Oldshaw; short suit of black satin, front puffed and shirred up 
 to the belt; short side paniers; plain basque trimmed with jet. 
 
 Miss Wentworth; black velvet satin with front of jet: black bonnet wiOi 
 cardinal and pink roses. 
 
 Mrs. Stevenson, nee Brayton ; short skirt of blue satin with same color 
 velvet flounce; basque and side paniers ot velvet with facings of blue; plaited 
 back ; velvet bag embroidered ; diamonds. 
 
 Mrs J. P. McConnell; short suit of maroon and cream-color silk, richlj 
 trimmed with lace ; bonnet of cream satin. 
 
 Mrs. Locke ; black silk with jet trimmings. 
 
 Mrs. Babcock; short skirt of black Pekin stripe; polonaise of the same; 
 cardinal satin bonnet. 
 
 Mrs. Chalmers; black silk walking suit with plaited satin back; white 
 bonnet. 
 
 Mrs. Mason; black silk and brocade; drapery bouffant; pink and blue 
 bonnet; diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. W. C. D. Grannis; black velvet skirt; panier drapery and basque 
 faced with light brocade, held in place by cardinal ribbons. 
 
 Mrs. Peter Taft; becoming toilet of myrtle-brown Pekin stripe and velour 
 skirt, short and of the Pekin, plain polonaise. 
 
 Mrs. Colonel Vilas; black velvet and silk with jet trimmings. 
 
 Mrs. John M. Clarke; velvet suit with plaited back; white bonnet 
 
 Miss Cecilia Moulton; beautiful toilet of black velvet; bonnet to match. 
 
 Mrs. T. Lyle Dickey; black satin embroidered with purple vines. 
 
 Mrs. Badger; wine-color velvet, front of cream brocade; point lace. 
 
 Miss Rowley ; skirt of pearl cashmere, pointed corsage and panier of wine- 
 color brocaded velvet. 
 
 Mrs. Wm. F. Tucker, Jr.; myrtle-green brocade with bimmings of old 
 gold. 
 
 Mrs. General Drew; rich black silk, white lace, and diamond ornaments. 
 
 Miss Otis; beautiful toilet of black silk. 
 
 Mrs. Colonel Sheridan; short skirt of olive-green satin, ecru polonaise. 
 
 Mrs. Beckwith; rich black silk and grenadine; white bonnet; diamond 
 ornaments. 
 
 Miss Lina Harrison; costume of black silk and velvet. 
 
 Mrs. Anson Stager; black silk and velvet; point lace and diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Arthur Caton; black velvet and diamonds; white bonnet. i 
 
 Following this reception occurred in the evening 
 
 THE CHICAGO CLUB RECEPTION. 
 
 The decorations of the Chicago club-house were of a different character 
 from those which had covered both exteriors and interiors in this city for 
 nearly a week. The occasion was a social and not a military reunion, and 
 the decorations were in keeping with this fact. The club-house, too, was so 
 richly decorated that the introduction of large masses of bright color would 
 have impaired rather than enhanced the effect. The decorations were mostly 
 of a floral nature and were elaborately magnificent. More than a thousand 
 guests were in attendance, and the reception in point of elegance marked one 
 of the most notable episodes in the history of Chicago society. 
 
 The following is the list of those who were present: 
 
 Samuel Adams, Abbott L. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. J. Mc Gregor Adams, 
 Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Atkins, Hon. and Mrs. William Aidrich, Mr. and Mrs. 
 E. A. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. George Ar- 
 mour, Mr. and Mrs. Philip D. Armour, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Armsby, Mr. and 
 Mrs. lsa:ic Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Ayer, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Andrews, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Enos Ayers, John W. Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus H. 
 
THE GRAXT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 8l 
 
 Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Owen F. Aldis, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Appleton, 
 Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Aver, Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Arnold, Dr. and Mrs. 
 Edward Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Allerton, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur 
 Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bradley, General and Mrs. C. C. 
 Carr, Miss M. A. Carlisle, H. A. Burt, General and Mrs. Babcock, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Butters, Mr. and Mrs. Philo Beverid<,^e, Mr. and Mrs. L. Blair, 
 Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Brewster, Miss Belknap, Honorable Hiram Barber, Mr. 
 .and Mrs. J. H. Benham, Mr. and Mrs. Absalom Baird, Mr. William T. Ba- 
 ker, Mr. and Mrs. Henrv C. Barnard, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Barnes, Mr. and 
 Mrs. George Barron, Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Baxter, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. 
 Bartlett, Mr. and Mrs. Corydon Beckwith, Russell Benedict, Mr. and Mrs. 
 A. M. Billings, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Blackstone, 
 C. J. Blair, ""C. B. Blair, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Boal, Mr. and Mrs. William 
 Bond, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Borden, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Burke, Mr. and Mrs A. G. Burley, Mr. and 
 Mrs. W. C. Barnett, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Botsford, Mr. and Mrs. William 
 Brass, W. F. Blair, Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Blair, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Brown, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Brown, Mr. and Mrs. William Blair, Edwin Erainard, 
 Miss Brainard, Judge H. W. Blodgett, the Misses Blodgett, Miss Beckwith, 
 Miss Ada Badger, R. B. Bacon, "Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Bcrch, Mr. and Mrs. 
 ■William Balcolm, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Baldwin, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bradley, 
 Mr. and Mrs. L.J. Burton, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. 
 Blatchford, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Bennett, the 
 Misses Blair, Mr. and Mrs. Broughton, General and Mrs. Geo. C. Camp- 
 tell, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Crosby, John Crerar, Leslie Carter J. M. C. Coon- 
 ley, C. R. Cummins, Mr. and^Mrs. James Charnley, General and Mrs. A. 
 L. Chetlain, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Charnley, W. P. Conger, Governor and 
 Mrs. Ciillom, the Honorable B. H. Campbell, the Misses Campbell, Mr. 
 and Mrs. Geo. Champlin, Mr. and Mrs. William Chisholm, Mr. and Mrs. 
 E. D. Chapman, W. D. Chatfield, S. S. Chisholm, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Clark, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Coolcy, Mr. and Mrs. H. 
 Clement, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Corwith, Mr. and Mrs." Alfred Cowles, R. 
 
 A. Crane, C. G. Carleton, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. G. 
 E. Conrad, Mr. and Mrs. F. Chase, O. P. Curran, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Chis- 
 holm, Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Cook, Bishop and Mrs. Cheney, George Washing- 
 ton Cliilds, R. L. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Jolm DeKoven,"Mr. and Mrs. J. D. 
 Caton, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Cooke, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Carpenter, Mr. and 
 Mrs. W. C. Chapelle, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Clarke, Vicar General John 
 Mc uUin, Watts S. Carver, Mr. and' Mrs. Stewart Clark, Mr. and Mrs. S 
 
 B. Cobb, Mr. and Mrs. Wirt Dexter, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Doane, G. E. P. 
 Dodge, Mr. and TJrs. E. A. Driver, General and Mrs. A. C. Ducat, Mr. 
 and Mrs. Geo. Dunlap, E. C. Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. J. U. Durand, Mr. and 
 Mrs. H. M. Dupee, Honorable and Mrs. J.R. Doolittle, Senator David Davis, 
 General Jefierson C Davis, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dole, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. 
 Dunham, Miss Dunham, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Dews, Mr. and Mrs. John B. 
 Drakf^, Mi. and Mrs. J. M. Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Dyer, Judge and 
 Mrs. T. Lvle Dickev, Judg^e Thomas Drummond, Ed. Drummond, the Mis- 
 ses Dunham, Mrs. Kate N. Daggett, R. P. H. Durkee, William Davis, Gen- 
 eral and Mrs. C. W. Duew, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. 
 Davis, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Drexel, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Deere, Honorable 
 and Mrs. George R. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Ewing, Mr. and Mrs Fred. 
 L. Fames, C. L. Easton, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Eddv, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. El- 
 dridge, Mr. and Mrs. T- A. Eleson, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. 
 A. b. Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. Edsall, Mr. and 
 Mrs. H. F. Eames, Mr. and Mrs. N. K. Fairhank, Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Fair- 
 bank, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Fargo, Honorable and Mrs. C. B. Farwell, Col- 
 onel H. W. Farrar, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Field, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Field, 
 A.J. Fisher, J. K. Fisher, Mr and Mrs. D. B. Fisk, Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. 
 
82 THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
 Fitch, Jos. L. Flint, Charles W. Fullerton, Miss Farnsworth, Miss Hill, N. 
 C. Faj, the Misses Fay, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Foreman, Mrs. Stanley 
 Fleetwood, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Fuller, Rev. and Mrs. J. A. French, 
 Mr. Fowler, Mr. and Mrs S. M. Fargo, W. A. Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. 
 James Field, Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Ford, R. D. Fowler, D. M. Fargo, S. F. Gale, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Geddes, O. R. Grover, J. Gollman, Mr. and Mrs. 
 George E. Gooch, J. B. Goodman, Charles Gossage, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. 
 Getty, J. F. Gregory, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gardner, the Rev. and Mrs. J. 
 Monroe Gibson, S. Glover, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Grannis, T. W. Grover, 
 Lyman Gage, A. L. Gage, H. H. Lardner, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Groat, 
 Colonel Gray, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Gale, Mi. and Mrs. Frank Gilbert, the 
 Honorable W. F. Gresham and familv, Mr. and Mrs. J. P.- Girard, Mr. and 
 Mrs. A. T. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Hammill, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Harding, 
 Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Harvey, H. Hart, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Henderson, A. 
 Hayden, W. G. Hibbard, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hitchcock, A. R. Houston, 
 Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Howard. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Hughitt, J. H. Howe, 
 J. A. Hunter, John Hannah, the Rev. and Mrs. Brooke Herford, Max 
 Hgortsberg, Dr. J. A. Hyde, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Houghtelling, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Charles Henrotin, J. A. Hant, Mr. and Mrs. T, W. Harvey, James 
 Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Huntington, Alonzo Huntington, Mr. and Mrs. 
 
 C. M. Hawley, the Honorable and Mrs. Thomas Hoyne, Mr. and Mrs. IL 
 N. Higginbotham, T. W. Hatfier, Miss Grace Hall, Miss Hoyne, Mr. and 
 Mrs.W. A. Havemeyer, Colonel and Mrs. C. G. Hammond, P. A. Healy,. 
 General and Mrs. J. B. Hawiev, the Messrs. Honore, C M. Hutchinson, C. 
 H. Bant, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Isham, Dr. and Mrs. R. N. Isham, H. P. Isham, 
 H. W. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Johnson, Sam- 
 uel Johnson, B. J. Jones, M, O. Jones, Colonel Augustus Jacobson, Judge 
 and Mrs. J. A. Jameson, Mr, and Mrs. F. O. Lyman, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. 
 Jewett, W. L. Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. J. Russell Jones, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. 
 Jones, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Jenkins, Miss Jenks, Clifford Johnston, the 
 Misses Johnston, W. J. Johnston, Mr. and Mi's. F. H. Kales, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Edson Keith, W. F. Keep, Mr. and Mrs. E. G.Keith, S. L. Keith. W. S. Keith,. 
 Mr. and Mrs. P. V. Kellogg, W H. Kellogg, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Kellogg, T. B. 
 Kent, Mr. and Mrs. W."W. Kimball, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. King, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Kirkwood, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Kent, Mr. and Mrs. A. Keith, Mr. and 
 Mrs. O. R. Keith, Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Kimbark, R. King, J. P. Kellev, Mr. 
 and Mrs. S. H. Kerfoot, Rev. Dr. A. E. Kittredge, Mr. and Mrs. Henry "Keep, 
 Ghauncey Keep, Fred Keep, I. S. Kirkland, Colonel and Miss G, H. Koch, 
 
 D. F. Ke'nley, W. B. Kein, Jr., Major and Mrs. Kirkland, W. S. Knight, 
 Mr. and Mrs. David Kellev, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lavton, Mr. and MrsV L.. 
 Z. Leiter, Mr. and Mrs. J."l. Leiter, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Lincoln, Colonel 
 and Mrs. M. G. Loomis, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lvon, D. M. Long, G. M. Lvon, 
 W. C. Lyon, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Lightner, Mr. and Mrs. C" B. Lawrence, 
 Mr. and "Mrs. A. F Lay, Mr. and Mrs. Ludington, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander 
 Keith, Mr. and Mrs. Brvan Lathrop, Miss Bryan, Miss Aldis, Mr. and Mrs 
 W. C. Earned, Mr. and "Mrs. E. C. Earned, M"r. and Mrs. Henry D. Lloyd, 
 General and Mrs. Joseph B. Leake, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Clinton Locke, 
 C. D. Lathrop, J. H. Lathrop, H. N. May, Rev. Dr. Leffingwell, Mr. and 
 Mrs. A. D. Lamb, Miss Lamb, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mactarland, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Franklin Mac Veagh, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Marsh, P. C. Maynard, E. B. Mc- 
 Cagg, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McHenry, Mr. 
 and "Mrs. S. P. Mclntvre, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. McKav, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. 
 McLoren, Mr. and Mrs, T. G. McLourv, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. McWilliams, 
 Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Meeker, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Moore, G. W. Montgomery. 
 Francis Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Moulton, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Mason. 
 Joseph Medill, Mr and Mrs. William Meyer, General and Mrs. A. B. Mc- 
 Clurg, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Pomeroy, C. A. Numu, W. Menro, Thos. Mur- 
 dock, Mr. and Mrs. W. H Murray, "Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Moultory, Mr. and 
 Mrs. S. Noeban Meads, Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Meagruder, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. 
 Mason, Mr. and Mrs. P. H. McCormick, Mr. and Mrs; W. G. McMettan, 
 
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 H. B. Mason, Mr. and Mrs. James Morgan, Bishop and Mrs. McLaren, C. 
 
 B. McDonald, Leander McCormick, N. W. Moudy, Mr. and Mrs. E. Y. 
 Mason, General J. F. McAuley, Colonel C. H. Moulton, Rev. and Mrs. 
 Arthur Gutebel, Mr. and Mrs. J. McKindly, Mr. and Mrs. Murry Nelson 
 Mr. and Mrs. Sam Nickerson, H. J. Nortor, Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Norton. 
 Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Norton, J. W. Neft", Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Norton, Mr. 
 and Mrs. J. T. Noyes, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Nixon, E. D. Most, F C. Nico- 
 demus, M G. Nixon, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Oakley, Colonel and Mrs. P. P. Old- 
 ershaw, Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Osborn, Mr. and Mrs. J, L. Otis, Mr. and Mrs. X 
 L. Otis, Mr. and Mrs. James Odell, Mr. and Mrs. Mahlon Ogden, Miss Ogden, 
 Miss Woodie, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Peck, Mr. and Mrs John L. Peck, Mr. and 
 Mrs. W. L. Peck, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Peet, B. A. Peters, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. 
 Pike, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Parker, F. C. Pope, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Preston. 
 Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Pullman, Mr. and Mrs. George M. Pullman, Mr. and 
 Mrs. A. W. Page, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Peabodv, Mr. and Mrs. S. Prentice, 
 Mr. and Mrs J. H. Prentice, Mr. and Mzs. W!" R. Page, Mr. and Mrs. C. ]. 
 Peck, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. R..W. Patterson, R. L. Perry, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. 
 Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. Pottei Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Porter, Mr. and 
 Mrs. W. ]. Pope, Honorable and Mrs. F. W. Palmer, W. R. Page, A. Q. 
 Quackenbose, J. B. Raymond, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Rhodes, R. W. Roloson, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ryerson, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Rumsey, Mr. and Mrs. 
 D. B. Raymond, Mr. and" Mrs. Julian Rumsey, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Ryerson, 
 Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Raymond, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Raymond, Judge and 
 Mrs. Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Russel, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred 
 Ray, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Runion, Miss Rice, Miss Rucker, Mr. and Mrs. 
 M.'Robinson, W. H. Sard, J. W. Savin, Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Schimpferman, 
 Charles Schwartz, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Scudder, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Sey- 
 mour, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Shortall, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Sylvester Sibley, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Smith, Mr. 
 and Mrs. E. F. Smith, Mr. and "Mrs. Z. G. Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. Edward 
 Sanderson, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Spaulding, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Spears, Mr. 
 and Mrs Harmon .Spruance, General and Mrs. Anson Stager, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Josiah Stiles, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur F. Story General and Mrs. Joseph Stockton 
 General and Mrs. G. W. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. E. 
 L. Stickney, General and Mrs. W. E. .Strong, Honorable and Mrs. J. Y. Scam- 
 mon. Pro!" David Swing, Mr. and Mrs. George Schneider, Mr. and Mrs. M. 
 
 C. Storrs, Honorable and Mrs. Emory A. Storrs, Mr. and Mrs. William 
 Henry Smith, E. N. Sheldon, Miss Schuyler, Miss Swift, A. Sanger, Albert 
 Sprague, Dr. and Mrs. G. Schmidt, Mrs. Bertha Smith, C. F. Smith, Mr. and 
 Mrs. J. L. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Trumble, Judge and Mrs. Lam- 
 bert Tree, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tower, Mr. and Mrs. N. Thomasson, Mr. 
 and Mrs. V. C. Turner, Mr. and 'Mrs. C. E. Towne, I\tiss Tuckham, Artluir 
 Towne, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Turner, Honorable and Mrs Lvman Trumbull, 
 Rev. Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Thomas, F. B. Tuttle, Mr. and M"rs. J. H. Thomp- 
 son, E. L. Tufts, W. S. Tucker, Honorable Alfonzo Taft, Mr. and Mrs. H. 
 A. Towner. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. John Van Nort- 
 wick, Mr. and Mrs. James Van Liwagen, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Vielcr, Mr. 
 and Mrs. J. M. Waite, C. IL Walker, Ur. and Mrs. Edwin Walker, ISIr. and 
 Mrs. James H. Walker, M. and Mrs. William Warren, L. D. Webster, Mr. 
 and Mrs. M. D. Wells, G. D .Wheaton, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. \\'hcelcr, 
 Mr. and Mrs. George H. Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Wheeler, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Norman Williams, Samuel Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. Willing, Mr. and 
 Mrs. J. M. Willmarth, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wampold, Mr. and^Mrs. J. L. 
 Wood, Mr. and Mrs. John Wilkinson, Mr. and ISIrs. Thomas Witherton, Mr. 
 and Mrs. Henrv Walker, H. Walker, Jr., the Misses Walker, ISIiss Wilson, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. W\adsworth, Mr. and Mrs. r>. M. 
 Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Williams, Honorable John Wentworth, Wilh'am 
 Watson, Ezra J. Wheeler, "Cliftbrd Williams, ]\Toses Wentworth, Mr. and 
 Mrs. F. H. Winston, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Whitehousc, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. 
 Williams, Cora Williams, Mr. and Mrs, B. R. Wells, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. 
 
84 
 
 THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
 Williams, Mr. and Mrs. A. McD. Yoiin<j, Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Yoe, H. C. 
 Van Schaack, General Murray, of The LouisviLe Commercial^ Miss Nellie 
 B. Hibbard, Miss Faulds, of Louisville; Miss Conda, Miss Campbell, Miss 
 Genie Hayne, Miss Adams King, Mrs. General Babcock, Miss Lyon, Miss 
 Skinner, Miss Clark, Miss Aldis, Miss Bryan, Miss Woodel, Miss Lewis, Miss 
 Eddy, the Misses Waller, Miss Williams, Miss Anna Farwell, Miss Fleet- 
 wood, Mis Cobb, Miss Harrison, Miss Farnsworth, Miss Shields, Miss Healy, 
 the Misses Cullom, Miss Ackerman. 
 
 The toilets were the most elegant ever seen at any social gathering in the 
 city, as will be seen from the following descriptions of some of the more 
 noteworthy. 
 
 Mrs. General Grant, toilet of white satin and white brocade, with gold 
 figure^ ; skirt plain, with back breadth of train of the brocade; square cor- 
 sage. Point lace and diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. General Sheridan, rich black silk elaborately trimmed; square 
 neck, with white illusion. J^iamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Fred Grant, white silk, with basque and overdress of Spanish lace; 
 square corsage filled in with lace. Diamond ornaments; coiffure high 
 
 Mrs. N. K. Fairftank, blue silk, with flowers of point lace. Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Chandler, toilet of white satin and brocade: plain skirt of brocade; 
 scarf panier of Spanish lace, tied at the back and falling over the train. 
 Corsage square, back and front, filled in with Spanish lace; sleeves ,of the 
 same ; coitiure high. Diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Lancaster, toilet of white silk; front of skirt trimmed with knife 
 pleatmgs in three rows; panier, drapery of white silk looped with silk and 
 satin ribbon; corsage studded with seed pearl; square neck with point lace; 
 sleeves composed of lace insertion and narrow satin bands, with rows of 
 pearls; opera bonnet Diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. G. W. Doane, elegant costume of black velvet and white satin, cut 
 princesse; front of basque and skirt of white satin exquisitely embroidered 
 in pearls; border of white ostrich feathers; ruching of satin and lace round 
 bottom of skirt; train of plain velvet; evening bonnet of white satin with 
 pattern in gold thread; border of pearl. Pearl and diamond ornaments, 
 
 Miss Lena Harrison, lavender velvet and white satin strtpe grenadine; 
 panier of velvet with lace; basque of grenadine, V-shaped in front; sleeves 
 of velvet; coiffure high; natural flowers. 
 
 Mrs. General Baird, white silk covered with black thread lace; low-neck 
 corsage with folds of illusion. Diamond ornaments, bouffant drapery; 
 sleeves with three puff's at shoulder; white hat. 
 
 Miss Dora Munroe, white satin skirt with knife-pleating; overdress, 
 waist and sleeves of silver tarletan, with clusters of pansies. 
 
 Miss Whitehouse, pale blue silk with skirt trimming of fine knife-pleat- 
 ings; side of pansies and bands of pale blue satin embroidered in blue- 
 V-shaped waist with broad vest of satin; elegant diamonds; coifture low. 
 
 Miss Florence Clarke, white silk and brocade. 
 
 Mrs. C. D. Dana, toilet of white silk covered with pleating of tarletan ; 
 garniture of autumn leaves; pointed corsage with lace bertha. 
 
 Miss Ollie Fay, short suit of light pink silk and brocade; skirt of silk 
 with pleatings; panier and basque of brocade. 
 
 Mrs. James H. Dole, toilet of dove-color silk and dregs-of-wine velvet; 
 skirt in folds of two materials; full draperies, vest and sleeves of velvet 
 Diamond ornaments. 
 
 Miss Fleetwood, becoming toilet of blue silk and Pekin stripe, knife- 
 pleated skirt, double panier of the stripe, square corsage, white lace and 
 diamonds 
 
 Mrs. Ferd Peck, toilet of blue silk, skirt composed of bands of silk and 
 lace insertion, shirred panier with lace flounce, pointed corsage with square 
 neck, filled in with lace. Diamond ornaments. 
 
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 Mrs. De Sac'ke, white satin and brocade, front composed of shirrings and 
 ■puffs. 
 
 Mrs. W. F. Storey, magnificent toilet of silk and brocade; train skirt of 
 pale blue silk, with pleafmg around bottom, with heading of shell-trimmed, 
 lined with pale pink satin ; front of skirt qui'lted; basque and panier of ele- 
 gant brocade, pale blue ground, with roses and foliage in pink; vest of blue, 
 with mosaic and cut-steel buttons, V-shaped in front with point lace; upper 
 part of sleeves composed of pleatings of lace; lace ruchings; elaborate 
 coiffure with gold ornaments. Superb diamond ornaments. Garlands of 
 wreaths and flowers. 
 
 Mrs. Ilavden, very elegant toilet of light lavender, cut princesse with 
 court train, the waist of brocaded silk of old gold and ecru, the sleeves and 
 neck finished with fine duchesse lace. D'lamond ornaments 
 
 Miss Betty Hamilton, delicate shade of pink silk elaborately made and 
 trimmed with white tulle. Pearl ornaments. 
 
 Miss Brooks, of New York, heavy black silk trimmed with thread lace; 
 white lace scarf; diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Godfrey Macdonald, black silk shirred and plaited silk, finished with 
 thread lace and jets ; diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Samuel B. Raymond, a very rich costume of uncut velvet, made 
 plain, with court-train ; white evening hat and diamond ornament. 
 
 Mrs. T. W. Anderson, combination of dregs-of-wine silk and uncut vel- 
 vet; white evening bonnet ; diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Enos Ayers, black silk velvet, made with plain court-train, trimmed 
 around the front with a deep flounce of fine thread lace, lace fischu. Dia- 
 .mond ornaments. 
 
 Miss Hall, a very unique toilet of light canary-colored silk, the front made 
 ■'of folds of the same, inteispersed with point lace. 
 
 Mrs. General Hardin, pale lavender silk, trimmed with deep folds of the 
 same, the bottom of the skirt edged with fine knife pleatings. 
 
 Mrs. George C. Eldredge, ecru silk and black silk plaited train of silk 
 "with a velvet fold; bou flan panier, plain basque with pointed vest of plain 
 ^velvet. 
 
 Miss Alma Kimball, blue satin skirt, with puffs and strings up the front; 
 ^shell trimming of brocade up the back; short polonaise of light brocade; 
 broad reverses in front, faced with satin elbow sleeves; lace ruchings; pink 
 roses. 
 
 Miss Belle Jansen, underskirt of pink silk, with knife plaitings around the 
 bottom; panier folded in front and draped in full pufls at the back; pointed 
 corsage with low neck, filled in with illusion and lace. 
 
 Miss Ada Badger, toilet made with short skirt of white silk; scarf pan- 
 ier of brocade in colors; drapery of same; plain basque. Diamond orna- 
 ments. 
 
 Miss Cauda, exquisite toilet of salmon pink and brocade; shell trimming 
 •on the bottom; panier with border of colored embroidery; drapery bouft'ant; 
 basque with vest and sleeves, trimmed with embroidery. Diamonds. 
 
 Bertha Cobb, superb toilet of pale blue silk: short skirt of silk; bouffant 
 'drapery; basque with square neck; vest and revers of satin. Coral jewelry. 
 
 Mrs. Marshall Field, exquisite toilet of blue silk and uncut velvet, front 
 in pleats; polonaise ot uncut velvet, with reverse covered with Spanish lace; 
 plaited back. Diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. General Babcock, Washington, D.C., black velvet princesse, front 
 •of pearl brocade; basque of same; square neck; duchesse lace. Diamond 
 'Ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. A.N. Eddy, toilet of old gold silk and pearl brocade; skirt of old 
 gold satin, with pleatings bordered with lace; fine knife pleatings around the 
 bottom; polonaise of brocade; colored flowers, back and train in heavy pleats, 
 square neck with lace. Pearl ornaments. Corsage bouquet of pink and car- 
 dinal roses. - - 
 
86 THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
 Mrs. J. K. Ormsby, toilet of black silk velvet, with fringe and band of 
 colored embroidery; with evening hat. Diamond ornament. 
 
 Mrs. Arthur J. Caton, shell-pink satin, and Spanish lace overdress; cor- 
 sage waist; elbow sleeves; square neck. 
 
 Miss Emiiy Campbell, pink satin, embroidered with white silk ; loopings 
 of pink silk. 
 
 Mrs. Edwin Walker, brocade and satin ; puffed and shirred front of drab 
 satin; princesse train of brocade, with apple blossoms; broad revers of 
 puffed satin, inserted at the sides; pointed corsage of brocade, point-lace col- 
 lar. Diamonds. 
 
 Miss MoUie Mitchell, toilet of white satin and wine-colored velvet; under- 
 petticoat of white satin, shirred and puffed to the waist; panier and train of 
 wine-colored velvet. Diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Birch, white satin and brocade toilet; pointed front; polonaise of bro- 
 cade; boutTant drapery ; square corsage filled with Spanish lace; sleeves of 
 the same. Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. A. D. Lamb, elegant toilet of blue silk, velvet and pale blue brocade, 
 fan-shaped train of folded silk, with pleat of velvet; scarf panier of light 
 brocade; with garniture of cardinal roses; basque with folds of brocade; 
 point lace and superb diamonds; opera hat. 
 
 Mrs. W. K. Nixon, elegant costume of black velvet, and white brocade, 
 plain skirt of velvet; polonaise of brocade. Diamond ornaments. 
 
 Miss Enders, beautiful toilet of blue silk and pearl brocade, skirt of 
 former with pleated polonaise of brocade; folded train. 
 
 Miss Cecelia Moulton, of Cincinnati, beautiful toilet of white silk covered 
 with Spanish lace. Diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Gillett; toilet of black silk and velvet, white lace. 
 
 Miss Campbell; short kilt skirt of satin, Pekin stripe grenadine polonaise. 
 Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. C. C. Town ; pink satin, front three deep flounces of white lace, 
 pleated waste and train. Diamonds. 
 
 Miss Spalding; toilet of navy blue uncut velvet with short skirt, sleeves 
 of lace and fichu of lace. 
 
 Mrs. Peter Taft, of Ohio; toilet of pale pink silk and brocade, brocaded 
 front, plain basque and pleated train of silk ;• point lace and diamonds. 
 
 Miss Amanda Shields; short skirt of pink satin with pleating around the 
 bottom, bouftant polonaise of pink brocade; point lace and diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Dr. Charles Oilman Smith; garnet silk trimmed with velvet; white 
 Spanish lace bonnet. Superb Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. William H. Thompson; combination costume of garnet silk blue, 
 and old gold brocade, cut princess. Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Senator Logan; com.bination toilet of brown and amber satin, 
 brocaded trimmings. Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. William F. Tucker, Jr.; toilet of white brocade with embroidered 
 tissue trimmings; white satin bonnet with embroidered trimmings to match. 
 Diamonds. 
 
 Miss Lulu Kimball; short suit of pink satin, skirt of satin in kalt plaits, 
 panier and watteau plated, back of Spanish lace, broad satin belt. 
 
 Miss Russella Campbell; white cachmere, square corsage, sleeves and 
 trimmings of Spanish lace. 
 
 Mrs. Gillett; toilet of white silk and brocade princess, shirred front of 
 silk, plain train of brocade, squaremeck. Garlands of white roses. 
 
 Mrs. William Henry Smith; black satin trimmed with thread I'ace. Dia- 
 mond ornaments. 
 
 Miss Allie Smith, of Lake Forest; pale cameo pink silk, finished at the 
 neck and slee\ e.s with point lace. 
 
 Mrs. Dudley Wilkinson; blue satin and Pekin stripe; plain skirt with 
 panier of the Pekin, basque of the blue satin. Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Mason; white satin and Pekin stripe, plaited satin front; pan- 
 ier of the Pekin, bordeied with swan's down; train of the Pekin 
 Diamonds. 
 
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 Mrs. Philo Beveridge; black silk and uncut velvet, box plaited skirt, 
 with panier of velvet, shirred front, jet ornaments, basque of velvet; white 
 opera hat. 
 
 Miss Higgins; black velvet and brocaded velvet of black and colors, 
 plain skirt of velvet, with pointed polonaise of brocade. 
 
 Mrs. John T. Lester ; elegant toilet of white satin and white satin mate- 
 lasse, princess basque and train of matelasse, plaited front of satin, full dra- 
 pery, garlands of roses, Spanish lace scarf. Diamonds. 
 
 Miss Hovne; blue silk and satin, fan-shaped train, pleatings, point lace 
 and diamonds, garlands ot tube roses. 
 
 Mrs. Buck; combination suit of black silk and black velvet, point lace 
 fichu, coiffure high. Diamond ornaments. 
 
 Miss Roxanna Wentworth; white satin and diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. McKay ; blue brocade with blue silk shirred front, square neck, 
 ppint lace trimmings, diamond ornaments, coifture high. 
 
 Miss Ackerman ; plaited skirt of white silk, sash panier trimmed with 
 blue forget-me-nots, square neck, filled in with lace. 
 
 Mrs. Colonel Mulligan; black silk and brocade, Spanish lace scarf, even- 
 ing bonnet. 
 
 Miss Lund; light blue silk, blonde lace trimming. 
 
 Miss Kate Lewis ; combination suit of white silk and cashmere, em- 
 broidered muslin handkerchief worn over the shoulders. 
 
 Mrs. J. B. Lyon; elegant black satin costume trimmed with jet. Diamond 
 ornaments. 
 
 Miss Lyon; white silk, Spanish lace overdress, cut square, neck filled 
 in with Spanish lace. 
 
 Mrs. Foreman ; gendarme light and dark bkie silk, slashed front, trimmed 
 with bands of silk, V-shaped vvaist, Breton and point lace. 
 
 Mrs. Colonel Sheridan ; white satin and white crepe du chene, elaborately 
 draped overdress, coiffure high. Diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Walter Cobb; short costume of striped watered silk, blue and cream, 
 overdress of white crape, white hat, and diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Lillie Bai-ry ; blue silk and brocade. 
 
 Mrs. Colonel Thompson; light blue brocade with cardinal trimmings, 
 point lace fichu. Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. W. T. Harvey; corn colored silk, made princess, loopings of satin, 
 point-applique lace. Diamonds. 
 
 Miss Legh; short costume of pink brocade, with trimmings of pink 
 satin and Breton lace; elbow sleeves. 
 
 Miss Anna Wilson; white mull overdress of dotted silk, cut low in the 
 neck and the lace covering the neck, short sleeves, narrow bodice; hair 
 dressed low; no ornnments. 
 
 Mrs. Jameson ; black brocade princesse dress, point lace ; diamonds 
 
 Mrs. Rnbert Jones; light blue silk, low neck, short sleeves, overdress of 
 Spanish lace; diamonds. 
 
 Miss Mitchell; wine-colored velvet, embroidered in white-colored flowers 
 and leaves, green silk underskirt, wine-colored velvet hat with cream tips 
 and pearls; diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Henry Waller; black silk, ruchings crepe lace; jet ornaments. 
 
 Miss Sterrel, of Cincinnati ; white dotted muslin, short basque, skirt 
 trimmed with ruffles and edged with Valenciennes; cardinal roses. 
 
 Miss Addie Moulton, of Cincinnati; white silk princesse dress with 
 overdress of white muslin with insertings of valenciennes lace, corsage low, 
 sleeves looped with pink and cardinal roses, hair low. 
 
 Miss Sherman, niece of General Sherman; light blue silk, square train 
 with light plaitings, scarf-shaped panier, elbow sleeves, square neck, trim- 
 mings of Breton lace; coifture high, with natural flowers. 
 
 Mrs. Captain Lightner; rose-colored silk princesse dress, square train, 
 square neck, short sleeves, coiffure high, pink roses; diamonds and roses. 
 
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 Mrs. George L. Dunlap; black silk velvet princesse dress, underskirt in 
 front of apple-blossom brocade, point lace trimmings, diamond ornaments. 
 
 Rarely has this city witnessed a more brilliant assemblage. It was a 
 strictly full dress affair, and the canons of good taste in this respect were ob- 
 served almost without exception. The gentlemen appeared in evening 
 costume, and their black coats and the black velvet and black gros-grain 
 robes of the matrons, whose years entitled them to the exception, set off to 
 advantage the myriad-hued toilets of the youth and beauty, which swept and 
 swirled around them with all the soft iridescence of the arched rainbow. 
 
 The hours flew rapidly, and the clock pointed to eleven before the main 
 door opened to permit the exit of a parting guest. Then they went as quickly 
 as the carriages could be brought to the curb, and a half hour later the bright 
 company was gone, and the memorable afiair was at an end. 
 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 
 
 THE RECEPTION OF MEXICAN VETERANS ; THE PUBLIC RECEPTION 
 
 AT THE GRAND PACIFIC; AT THE RESIDENCE OF POTTER 
 
 palmer; A RECHERCHE AFFAIR. 
 
 VERY interesting and pleasant interruption of General 
 Grant's forenoon rest, was the reception of the Mexican 
 Veterans, at the residence of Colonel Fred Grant. The idea 
 of calling upon this hero of two great wars had its incep- 
 tion in the meetings of the veterans before the General's 
 advent in this citj, and the simple yet thorough preparations 
 made for it were carried out to the letter and to the very evident satisfaction 
 of all concerned, — the recipient of this grateful attention himself, — as v/ell as 
 those at whose hands it came. The veterans assembled at their club-room 
 in the Grand Pacific, at ten o'clock, and were from thence escorted by several 
 companies of military to the place appointed where they were met bv the 
 General and the Honorable Leonard Swett, who delivered in behalf of the 
 aged heroes an eloquent address to their old-time comrade. 
 
 "In the overshadowing of this great war [the Rebellion]," he said, "the 
 people of this Nation have almost forgotten that you were ever in the Mexi- 
 can war; and this, notwithstanding your services were conspicuous and hon- 
 orable. Looking a little at the history, as a matter of curiosity in connection 
 with this occasion, I find that you were breveted for gallant conduct, so far 
 as I know, in every battle that you were in. I find that, in connection, as I 
 understand, with Resaca " 
 
 General Grant, modestly interrupting Mr. Swett, as if anxious to receive 
 no more laurels than were strictly and historically due him, said : 
 
 " I was breveted twice, but I was in everv battle it was possible for any- 
 one to be in. I was with Taylor at Palo Alto and Resaca, and in the cam- 
 paign down to the surrender of the cities of Vera Cruz and Mexico." 
 
 Mr. Swett, equally determined to give the hero his full due, and depend- 
 ing upon the records for the accuracy of his statement, continued : 
 
 " I find that you were breveted for gallant services at Palo Alto, and 
 Resaca, and at Monterey, and afterwards in the battles which were con- 
 nected with the surrender of the City of Mexico. It is a little sinffular part 
 of the history of this country that you in that war were schooled for the 
 great war which followed. The Mexican war had undoubted! v for its aim 
 the perpetuity of slavery, and yet the results of it has been that, bv reason 
 
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90 
 
 THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
 of that war and the conquests which were acquh-ed, and the outstripping of 
 the Southern people by Northern emigration, the next war came, and you, 
 schooled by it, were the means, in the hands of Providence, of bringing 
 back the revolted States into the Union and overthrowini( slavery. 
 
 " But these soldiers and officers came here not for speech-making, and I 
 will not weary you with it They came to shake you personally by the 
 hand and to wish that the prosperity and honor which Providence and the 
 people of this country have lavished upon yovi may abide in your house 
 and may descend to your posterity. Therefore, without wearying you more 
 with remarks, I shall take pleasure in introducing, one by one, these com- 
 panions in arms of your early remembrance." 
 
 After the customary hand-shakings and greetings which followed were 
 over, the veterans returned to their quarters at the palatial Grand Pacific 
 Hotel and passed several enjoyable hours, in the course of which they were 
 favored with a spirited address by the Honorable H. L. Morrison, who woke 
 up the old martial spirit and carried them back in thought to the days of 
 Scott and Taylor, when they tramped across the sands and pushed on to 
 Mexico. This meeting was followed by the 
 
 RECEPTION AT THE GRAND PACIFIC. 
 
 Here for the first time General Grant in reality shook hands with 
 Chicago, and for that matter, all the surrounding country, for the crowd at 
 the Grand Pacific Hotel was thoroughly cosmopolitan, and represented the 
 people as they are. After receiving the difterent veteran organizations 
 during the first days of his stay here, it was eminently proper that an 
 entire afternoon should be devoted to the people, irrespective of organiza- 
 'tion or condition. The reception was not by any means devoted to those 
 who walk in the lower levels of society, but, on the contrary, those re- 
 ceivea fitly represented a metropolitan city and its homogeneous popula- 
 tion. It was the first purely popular reception given by the General, and 
 was appreciated as such. The crowd embraced high and low, rich and 
 poor, young and old, big and little. All were given a brief opportunity to 
 gaze on the General's face and shake the hand which received Lee's sword 
 at Appomattox. " The doors ot the Grand Pacific were thrown open to the 
 world, and the General received as a man of the people. 
 
 The hour set for the reception was 2 o'clock, but fully an hour earlier 
 than that the crowd began to gather in the rotunda. The arrangements for 
 keeping the press in order were simply perfect, and the spacious area of the 
 Grand Pacific is admirably suited for receptions of this kind. By a close 
 computation at least 4,500 people passed through. 
 
 The detail from the Union Veteran Club was present in accordance with 
 the expressed request of Mr. Drake, the patriotic host of the Grand Pacific, 
 and not as a continuation of the .military receptions of the previous nights. 
 
 The decorations were unpretending, and just sufficient to attract atten- 
 tion to the place of reception— or, at least, where it was to take place. The 
 pillars of the first main hall were hidden in red, white and blue buntmg, 
 and the same material hung in profusion from the ceiling in festoons and 
 evergreens blended with them. In the centre of the main parlor similar 
 decorations were pendant from the ceiling, which came to a focus at the top 
 of the chandelier near which the General did the receiving. 
 
THE GRANTT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 9I 
 
 General Grant arrived promptly at 2 o'clock, accompanied by Colonel 
 Fred Grant, U. S. Grant, Jr., and Mr. Thomas Hoyne, James P. Root, S. H. 
 Kerfoot, E. F. C. Klokke, the members of the Citizen's Executive Commit- 
 tee, who had escorted the General from Colonel Fred Grant's residence on 
 Michigan Avenue. The Veteran Club guard was an effective organization, 
 and did much towards preventing confusion. They brought with them 
 Captain Brownell, the avenger ot Colonel Ellsworth, and it is a singular 
 fact that the man who really commenced the w^ar and the great hero who 
 closed it, on this occasion, for the first time came publicly together. 
 
 The reception closed promptly at 5 o' clock, and all who had the pleas- 
 ure of having participated in it went away satisfied. 
 
 AT POTTER PALMER'S. 
 
 The reception given in the evening by Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer to 
 General and Mrs. U. S. Grant, at their residence, was fully up to the high 
 order of entertainments which have been given to the great warrior since 
 he first planted foot in Chicago. The spacious parlors, on either side of the 
 wide hall, were artistically adorned with the permanent ornaments belong- 
 ing thereto, and the floral decorations, although extremely simple for the 
 most part, were tasteful and produced a charmirig efiect. 
 
 In the main parlor was the crowning glory of the floral display. This 
 consisted of a bank of red and white carnations, resting upon the mantel 
 and extending upward about eighteen inches or two feet. The white and 
 red flowers were arranged in stripes alternatelv, and there was a liberal 
 sprinkling of tuberoses which gave character and fragrance to the whole 
 piece. 
 
 Delicate wreaths of smilax were entwined about the chandeliers in all 
 the roorns, furnishing green enough to brig'nten the efiect of the ladies' 
 dresses and the light surroundings generally. 
 
 General and Mrs. Grant arrived early from the Grand Pacific, where 
 they had dined, and were accompanied by Colonel and Mrs. Fred Grant. 
 The guests commenced to arrive shortly after S o' clock, and they continued 
 to come until about half-past nine, when, although many who came earlier 
 were going home, the parlors and drawing roo-r.s were denselv thronged. 
 There were probably between 600 and 700 people presented during the eve- 
 ning. Still, many a gentleman appeared alone, the ladies having become 
 worn out with the constant round of pleasure to which they had been sub- 
 jected during the week. 
 
 It was anticipated by many that General and Mrs. Grant would mingle 
 with the people, and that the reception would be rather informal, in view of 
 the fact that they had made the acquaintance of nearlv all of those present 
 before, but this was not the case. Mrs. Grant was in full evening dress, and 
 the affair was fully as formal as any of its predecessors. 
 
 The display of elaborate and costly toilets outshone anv previous display 
 of the week, and each lady seemed to vie with the other in the elegance of 
 her costume. 
 
 The following were the most conspicuous: 
 
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 Mrs. General U. S. Grant wore an elaborate toilet of white satin, with 
 white duchess lace front and shirred bottom, black drapery of lace and 
 trimming of rich embroidery and pearls, verv low corsage and short sleeves; 
 heavy wrought gold bracelets, and diamond and pearl ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Potter Palmer was richly dressed in a white satin plaited skirt^ 
 trimmed with wine and gold brocade; superb diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Colonel Fred Grant wore a rich robe of white satin, covered with 
 Spanish lace; gold coronet and diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. General Sheridan was tastefully attired in a plain black cashmere 
 dress, cut low, and trimnied with duchesse lace; jet ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. W. W. Kimball wore an elegant reception-dress of black velvet and 
 brocade, trimmed with pink satin; diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. General Babcock, of Washington, was attired in a light blue satin 
 dress, cut en traine, and trimmed with white point lace; diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Henry Payson was elegantly attired in a creain silk dress, with 
 black point lace overskirt, made by Pingat ot Paris; diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. General Logan wore a superb reception-dress of black silk velvet 
 brocade; diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. S. P. McConnell was richly attired in a heavy white silk, cut low; 
 diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Richard Gregg wore a heavy robe of brocaded silk ; cameo orna- 
 ments. 
 
 Mrs. Faulds, of Louisville, displayed a superb toilet of point lace over 
 lavender satin, court train; diamonds 
 
 Mrs. Dole was attired in an ashes-of-rose silk, with trimmings of maroon 
 velvet and heavy maroon silk fringe ; diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Joseph Kirkland wore an elegant toilet of mauve silk, maroon vel- 
 vet trimmings; diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. T. W. Harvey wore a light blue silk and satin robe, white lace trim- 
 mings; diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. General Chetlain was eleganty attired in an elaborate toilet of 
 figured blue satin, court train, white lace trimmings; white coral orna- 
 ments. 
 
 Mrs. Phelps wore a rich black silk dress, white lace trimmings; jet 
 ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. General Small was attired in a light blue satin princesse dress; 
 diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Augustus Eddy wore an elegant reception-dress of cream satin 
 embroidered with flowers, court train; diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Arthur J. Caton wore what was the most elaborate toilet displayed. 
 It was a light blue robe, embroidered in silver, court train, low corsage; fk)- 
 ral and diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Judge Dickev, wore an elegant cream silk robe, trimmed with white 
 Creton lace; court train. Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Wilkinson was attired in a pink satin reception dress, with maroon 
 velvet and lace triinmings. Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Matthew Laflin wore a superb reception dress of chocolate and drab 
 silk; lace tie; no ornainents. 
 
 Mrs. Dexter wore a dark -blue satin, trimmed with duchess lace, and iri- 
 descent beads. Diamonds. 
 
 . Mrs. Dr. Locke wore a reception dress of blue brocade: blue satin bonnet, 
 and lace. Pearls. 
 
 Miss Wentworth was elegantly attired in a reception dress of light blue 
 silk, trimmed with Pekin lace. Diamonds. 
 
 Miss Towne wore a pink silk robe, cut en train, and trimmed with 
 duchess lace; pearl ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. W. F. Tucker exhibited a rich toilet of heavy black silk, with trim- 
 mings of red velvet; diamond ornaments 
 
 .Mrs. Henrotin wore a combination reception-dress of pink and blue; 
 diamond ornaments. 
 
THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
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 Mrs. John Clark was attired in an elegant light pink peach-blossom satin 
 dress ; court train ; pearl ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. George H. Rozat wore a combination reception-dress of white and 
 black silk and velvet; jet ornaments. 
 
 Prominent among those present were the following: 
 
 Judge and Mrs. Skinner, Mr. Milling, Mr. and Mrs. William Whitehouse 
 Mr. C. B. McDonald, Mr. Nate Honore, E. Chatfield, the Honorable John 
 Wentworth, Miss Wentworth, Mr. and Mrs Paul Cornell, Mr and Mrs. 
 Robert W. McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. George L. Dunlap, Dr. Isham, Mr. 
 and Mrs. Enos Johnson, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs Clinton Locke, Mr.Jand Mrs. 
 Edmund Norton, Colonel and Mrs. P. P. Oldershaw, the Rev. H. G. Carroll, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Smith, the Honorable and Mrs. Thomas Hoyne, Mrs. 
 Faulds, of Louisville, Baron Van Jeinson, of San Francisco, General and 
 Mrs. A. L. Chetlain, Mrs. John M. Rountree, Dr. and Mrs. Johnson, Gen- 
 eral and Mrs. Small, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Tuttle, Judge and Mrs T. Lvle 
 Dickey, Mr. Thomas Hoyne, B. H. Campbell, Mrs. General Babcock, 
 Judge"and Mrs. Williams, Mi". S. S. Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Reniple, Mr. 
 Arlington Lunt, Miss Lena G. Lunt and Miss Nellie Cook, Colonel Apple- 
 ton, Mr, and Mrs. W. M. Hoyt and Miss Landon, Captain Valkmar, Fifth 
 Cavalry, Mr. James Faulds, of Louisville, Mrs. J. W. Harvey, of Louisville, 
 Mr. and Mrs. G. Farnsworth and Miss Farnsworth, Colonel and Mrs. Fred 
 Grant, Henry J. Raymond, Mr. and Mrs. Legrand Burton, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Jerome Beecher, Judge and Mrs. Van H. Higgins, Mr. and Mrs. Hunting- 
 don, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wilson, Mayor McM\irrav of Burlington and Mrs. 
 McMurray, Mr. James E.» Dale, Judge and Mrs. Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
 liam Palmer, General and Mrs. Logan, Mr. and Mrs. S. P. McConnell, Col- 
 onel John Mason Loomis, Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Walker, Mr. and Mrs Hen- 
 rotin, Mayor Harrison, Miss Harrison, Mr. Charles Gregorv, Dr. and Mrs. 
 Arthur E. Dyer, Lieutenant Louis D. Webster, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kirk- 
 land, Mr. Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. John Janes, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. 
 Towne, Mr. and Mrs. Eddy, the Hon. John Wentworth, Mr. and Mrs. L N. 
 Ashe, Mr. and Mrs. W'. W. Phelps, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Kerfeot, 
 Mr. Kerfoot, Miss Kerfoot, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Medill, General Georgo A. 
 Forsythe, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Odell, General Murray, Louisville, Kv., 
 Judge and Mrs. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. McCormick, Quartermaster- 
 General and Mrs. McFeelv, Mr. J. M. Jewett, Mr. F. O. Lvman, Mr. and 
 Mrs. J. M. Durand, Mr. and Mrs. William SturL'Css, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. 
 Laflin, Mr. Samuel Johnson, the Rev. H. G. Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. E. I. 
 Isham, Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Lincoln, Mr. and Mrs. L-a Holmes, Mr. 
 and Mrs. Fred. Winston, Mr. M. Laflin, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lightner 
 Mr. W. H. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. D. Shields, Mr. and Mrs. Alva Geddes, Mr. 
 I. N. Arnold, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McKindley, Mrs. Edward Waller, Mr. 
 John F. Nichol, of New York, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Rozet, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Ferd Peck, Mr. and Mrs. J.. G. Coleman. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 MONDAY AND TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17 and 18. 
 
 RECEPTION OF THE SCHOOL CHILDREN; CALUMET CLUB RECEPTION; 
 
 THE SCHOOL CHILDREN'S WELCOME; RECEPTION BY THE 
 
 LOYAL LEGION; 2D REGIMENT RECEPTION. 
 
 I HE reception of the children of the public and private schools of 
 the city b}' the General, which was held in the afternoon at the 
 Exposition Building, was, notwithstanding the inclemency of 
 the weather, a grand success. After an appropriate speech by 
 the Honorable Thomas Hoyne, and a hajipy response on the 
 part of the General, over fifty thousand children passed in review before 
 the reception party. The occasion was a highly enjoyable one to the juve- 
 niles, and was voted a success by their guardians and the school patrons who 
 were present. 
 
 THE CALUMET CLUB RECEPTION. 
 
 It would be unnecessary and objectionable to attempt to make comparisons 
 between the different receptions that have been given to General and Mrs. 
 Grant, but this much may be said with safety, that the gentlemen of the Cal- 
 umet Club had the advantage of knowing exactly what they had to surpass 
 in the way of decorations, and they did not allow this advantage to be wholly 
 neglected. In the floral decorations of their house, on the corner of Michi- 
 gan Avenue and Eighteenth street, and in the ornamentation of the supper 
 table and the banquet hall built for the occasion, the Calumet club made their 
 reception a memorable occasion. 
 
 The main hall, reception room, library and banquet hall were all elabo- 
 rately decorated with magnificent and appropriate floral designs. The music 
 was charming and the banquet superb. The reception as a whole and in 
 detail was an elegantly arranged affair, and constituted one of the most 
 recherche ovations ot the season. 
 
 Among the guests were the following: 
 
 General and Mrs. U. S. Grant, Colonel and Mrs. Fred D. Grant, General 
 and Mrs. M. D. Hardin, Senator and Mrs John A. Logan, General and Mrs. 
 A. Baird, Mrs. General P. H. Sheridan, Judge John G^ Rogers and daughter, 
 ex-Governor and Mrs. John L. Beveridge, Admiral Stevens, Mr. and Mrs 
 
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THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 95 
 
 Wilbur F. Story, Mr. and Mrs. N. K. Fairbank, General Anson Stager, Mr. 
 and Mrs. J. W' Doane, Honorable John Wentworth, Mrs. J. D. Ward, Mr. 
 and Mrs. William Penn Nixon, Honorable and Mrs. William Aldrich, Mr. 
 and Mrs Samuel W. AUerton, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs^ 
 Joseph H. Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Armonr, Mr and Mrs A. J; 
 Averill, Mr. and Mrs. Enos Ayres, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Bigelow, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Charles A. Billings, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Billings, Mr. and Mrs Hugh 
 T. Birch, Mr. and Mrs. Charles \V. Drew, Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Eddy, Mr. 
 and Mrs. R. B. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. George L. Otis, Mr. and Mrs. Ferd 
 Peck, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Seeberger, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Shepartl, Mr. and 
 Mrs. J. H. Skeele, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Wetmore, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Mor-- 
 ley, Mr. and Mrs O. J. Stough, Mr.and Mrs. George P. Gore, Mr. and Mrs.- 
 J. J. Borland, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Briggs, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cassidy, Mr. 
 and Mrs. A. J. Caton, Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. William Chisholm, Mr. and 
 Mrs. John M. Clark, Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin 
 Cobb, Mr. and Mrs. Silas B. Cobb, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Coburn,- Mr. 
 and Mrs Joseph G. Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Comes, Mr. and 
 Mrs. E. M.Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Counselman, Mr.and Mrs Alfred. 
 Covvles, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Page, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Libby, Mr. and 
 Mrs. C. P. Libby, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Billings,- 
 Mr. and Mrs. J."B. Runnion, Mrs. Frank Wentworth, Mr. and Mrs. Miller, 
 Mrs. Dr. Woodward, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. C. Grannis, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. 
 Gray, Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Hanford, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Hibbard, Mr. and 
 Mrs". T. M. Hoyne, Mr. and Mrs John B. Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. 
 Hutchins, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Janseh, Mr. and Mrs. Noble B. Judah, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Albert Keep, Mr. and Mrs. Chauncev Keep, Mr. and Mrs, Fred A.- 
 Keep, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Kimball, Mr. and" Mrs. W. W. Kimball, Mr. and 
 Mrs. John T. Lester, Colonel and Mrs. Barnum, Mrs. Colonel Mul- 
 ligan, Mrs Lillie Barry, Mrs. Faulds, of Louisyille, Miss Nugent, Mr. and' 
 Mrs. Bonfield, Mrs. Philo Beveridge, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Frank J. 
 Magin, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Asay, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Moore, Mrs. JameS' 
 Steele, Mr. and Mrs. N. V. Titus, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Barker, Mr. and Mrs. 
 C. H. Bartlett, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Fuller, Mrs. J. B. Stubbs, Rey Frank 
 B. Fleetwood, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Locke, General George A. Forsythe, Mrs. 
 John B. Lyon, Mrs. Boals, Mr. and Mrs. X. L. Otis, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. 
 Phelps, Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Sawyer, Mr. and Mrs. George Schneider, Mr. 
 and Mrs. A. F. Seeberger, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Stearns, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 
 A. Stone, Honorable and Mrs. Emory Storrs, Mr. and Mrs. George Storrs, 
 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Tuttle, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Walker, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Joel C. Walter, Mr. and Mrs Clifford Williams, Mr. and Mrs. H. N. 
 Wheeler, General and Mrs. J. T. Torrence and Miss Norton, Mr. and Mrs. 
 William Henry Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Price, Mr. and Mrs. N. C Draper, Mrs. 
 Charles Fargo, Mrs. Fleetwood, Mrs. Hayden, Mrs. D. O. Hall, Miss Bessie 
 Tiernan, of Evanston, Miss Chatterton,'of Springfield, Miss Ada Badger, 
 Miss Bertha Cobb, Miss Bertha Smith, Miss Fannie Fleetwood, Miss Schuy- 
 ler, of St Louis, Miss Lewis, of Albion, N. Y., Miss Ab le Hamilton, Missi 
 Betty Hamilton, the Misses Campbell, the Misses Otis, the Misses Corwith,. 
 Miss Neallie Morton, Mis~, Annie Stager, Miss Maggie Enders Miss Mollie 
 Mitchell, Miss Grace Hodges, Miss Jessie Jenks, Miss Genie Hoyne, Miss 
 May Buel Miss Josie S.wift" Miss Nellie Marshall, the Misses Be"yan, Miss 
 Mary Cook, Miss Lina Harrison, Miss Mamv Brvan, Miss Florence Bryan, 
 Miss" Strong, Miss Bell Jansen, Miss V.'askell, Miss Mattie Dole, Miss Beers, 
 Miss Marrian Mulligan. Miss Allie Smith, of Lake Forrest, Miss Hattie 
 Fuller, Miss Lottie Goodrid^e, Miss Libby. the Misses Hibbard, Miss Mamie 
 Kimbark, Miss Law, Miss Virginia Clavton, INIiss Annie Gorton, Miss Emily 
 Lyon, Miss Gertie Derby, Miss Helen "Thomas, Miss Gillett, Mi.ss Chappell, 
 Miss Julia Rogers, Miss Julia Hunt, Miss Katie Tatuni, Miss Jennie Cox, Miss 
 Beers, Miss Grace Storrs, Miss Kay, Miss Van Shaack. Miss Spaulding, 
 Miss Coolhaugh, Miss Pierce, Miss "Florence Arnold, Miss Stough, S. J. 
 Jones, Henry" Keep, Edson Keith, David Kelly, S. D. Kimbark, W. S. 
 
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 THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
 Knight, Robert Law, Anson Gorton, John M. Loomis, John J. Mitchell, 
 Phiki A. Oti-, John L. Feck, R. E. i-'erry, James H. Rees, A. L. Rockwell, 
 John Roe, William H. Sard, M. D. Gray, Uanicl B. Shipman, F. I. Smith, 
 George N. Stiles, Henry Strong, John H. Hamline, John M. Adsit, Jr., 
 
 .Joseph F. Armour, William Armour, Uri Balcom, T. B. Blackstone, 
 Chauncey B. Blair, Chauncey J. Blair, Watson F. Blair, Captain Volkmar, 
 
 ,J. Ogden Bryant, B. H. Campbell, Jr., Nat Honore, Adrian Honore, James 
 O. Cleaveland Lewis L. Coburn, Lester M. Colleen, Charles J. Connel, 
 Gurden Corwith, Nathan Corwith, John B. Drake, Fred P. Fisher, G. M. 
 Alexander, W. A. Angell, Roswell B. Bacon, J. T. Chumasero, R. W. Cox, 
 Edward Olmstead, Samuel Powell, Henry T. Byford, C. S. Gardner, A. R. 
 Wilson, W. H. Wilson, Charles Fleetwood, Stanley Fleetwood, Robert H. 
 Fleming, F. F. Getchell, Samuel J. Glover, M. B. Gould, H. Hackney, W. 
 S. Hall, C. D. Hamill, S. H. Hardin, Fred T. Haskell, E. F. Henderson, L. 
 Hodges, John M. Holliday, Frank, G. Hoyne, R. W. Hyman, Jr., Henry P. 
 Isham, William J. Johnston, Peter Van Shaack, Moses, L. Wentworth, 
 Philo A. Wilbur, Charles W. Woodruff. 
 
 Some of the more noteworthy among the many rich toilets of the ladies 
 present were the following: 
 
 Mrs. General Grant; magnificent costume of white satin and wine-color 
 «nd white embossed velvet; vest of white satin, drapery and waist of velvet; 
 ^square corsage; diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Eddy; brown velvet and satin, with fan-shaped train; trimmings of 
 iridescent beads. 
 
 Mrs,. Sheridan; black silk, with illusion; diamonds. 
 
 Miss Grace Hodges; white satin, with muslin over-dress. 
 
 Miss Fannie French; white muslin toilet. 
 
 Mrs Fred Grant; wine-color velvet, and old gold; fan- shaped trimmings 
 caught by head trimmings; gold Jewelry. 
 
 Mrs. Wilbur F. Story; elegant imported toilet of black velvet and satin, 
 with trimmings and vest of amber satin, and rich embroidery of iridescent 
 beads; train of velvet with satm folds; front of folds of satin, with bead 
 headings; corsage square, with point lace; elbow sleeves, with bands of bead 
 embroidery; coiffure elaborate, with diamond ornaments; necklace, earrings 
 and other ornainents of amber. 
 
 Miss Schneider; toilet of white cashmere and satin; demi-trained skirt, 
 with double row of pleatings; panier drapery, with revers of satin; coiffure 
 high, with pearl ornaments. 
 
 Miss Sanderson; beautiful- toilet of pale blue satin and muslin; skirt 
 trimmed with seven rows of narrow knife-pleatings; pleated panier, with 
 border of white lace; pointed corsage, with half vest of satin; square neck 
 ■with lace; blue satin bag pointed with daisies. 
 
 Mrs. Charles Crane; princesse dress of pale blue silk and cardinal satin; 
 train composed of alternate folds of the two shades; front trimming of 
 pointed revers of cardinal with duchess lace. Garlands of blue and cardinal 
 flowers. Diamond ornaments. 
 
 Miss Libby; short toilet of white satin and brocade; skirt of brocade 
 ■with knife pleating; polonaise of satin with lace edging, embroidered with 
 seed pearls; waist shirred at waist-line; scarf trimming m front, fastened 
 with pearl buckles, and ornamented with pearl fringe. Square corsage, back 
 and front, with pearl embroidered lace. 
 
 Miss Carrie Howard; quaint costume of cardinal satin and pompadour 
 foulard silk; plain satin skirt, watteau-pleated polonaise, of the foulard-edged 
 with Breton lace; pointed corsage in front, with surplice-folds of shirred 
 satin; coiffure high. 
 
 Mrs. Libby; elegant toilet of pale-blue satin and brocade; knife-pleatings 
 around the bottom ; pleated satin front with paniers and draperies o brocade 
 exquisitely embroidered in crystal beads; square corsage, with point lace and 
 
THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 97 
 
 -bead embroidery ; elbow sleeves with ruchings of lace. Exquisite dia- 
 monds. 
 
 Mrs. George Storrs; exquisite toilet of pale pink silk and embroidered 
 white muslin; flounce of muslin; side paniers of muslin, back draperies of 
 the same with loops of satin ribbon; basque of muslin over pink silk, satin 
 belt. Pearl ornaments. 
 
 Miss Mabel Libby; exquisite costume of white satin and figured Pekin 
 stripe; short skirt of white satin in box plaits; front shirred from the waist 
 to the knees; polonaise of Pekin with satin belt. Coiffure high, with white 
 feathers and pearl ornaments. 
 
 Miss l>irdie Cobb; handsome toilet of white silk and brocade; short 
 skirts of the latter with pointed bouffant drapery of silk; square corsage, 
 ■elbo-v sleeves. Diamonds 
 
 Miss Norton; beautiful toilet of white satin and chenelle cloth; skirt short, 
 with flounce of satin, gathered front of satin, pointed side paniers, with lace 
 bouffant drapery; front of corsage shirred and pufted, square neck filled in 
 with lace; sleeves of bands of lace and satin. Pearl ornaments. 
 
 Miss Belle Jansen; short costume of blue satin and cashmere; frontshir- 
 red and pufled, panier shirred at intervals; basque shirred with clusters of 
 roses. 
 
 MissArrick; handsome toilet of white satin and cachmere; skirt trim- 
 med with knife pleating of satin, with ruffle above of cachmere; paniers 
 bouffant, with pleatings of satin; pointed corsage, elbow sleeves. Coifture 
 high in front, with chatelaine braids. Diamonds. 
 
 Miss Josie Swift; pleated skirt of white silk, bouffant panier of cashmere 
 with shirred front; point V-shaped corsage with illusion, and illusion 
 •sleeves. 
 
 Miss Beven ; toilet of white satin and Spanish lace, plam-trained skirt 
 •of satin with scarf drapery of lace and illusion; square corsage filled in with 
 pearled lace, sleeves of the same. 
 
 Miss Marv Bevon; costume of wine-colored silk; knife-plaiting on skirt, 
 bouffant panier; square neck; trimmings of brocaded ribbon; short sleeves. 
 Hair in puffs. 
 
 Miss Ada Badger; simple toilet of white muslin; double flounce in front 
 ■of embroidered muslin; back in loose folds, falling from a shirred band at 
 the belt; plain w^aist over low-neck silk corsage. "Hair in chatelaine braids. 
 
 Mrs. General Babcock : costume of cream silk completely covered with 
 black lace; V-shaped waist. Pearl ornaments 
 
 Miss Nellie Morton; beautiful toilet of white satin and grenadine; skirt 
 short and plain, with bouffant polonaise of grenadine, bordered with lace, 
 headed by pearl embroidery ; coiff'nre high. 
 
 Miss Emily Lyon ; short skirt of white silk with knife-plaiting, with 
 pointed heading; scarf drapery of Spanish lace; V-shaped waist; sleeves of 
 lace. Hair in braids. 
 
 Miss Chatterton, of Springfield; combination toilet of pink and blue silk, 
 •double ruffles of blue around skirt; overdress of pink, with pearl fringe; 
 pointed side paniers of blue with fringe; drapery of the two shades; low 
 neck and short sleeve corsages Clusters of cardinal roses. Diamonds. 
 
 Miss F'leetwood; handsome toilet of pale blue Pekin stripe; side pan- 
 iers with rich trimming of lace; square corsage. Diamonds 
 
 Miss Bryant; toilet of la^-ender satin and brocade; satin skirt with 
 shirred flounce and double box plaitings; waist overdress of brocade; short 
 sleeves; square neck. 
 
 Mrs. Allerton; black velvet petticoat; vest of light blue satin; court 
 train of satin, hand embroidered, point lace and diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. John T. Lester; costume of velvet richly trimmed with thread lace; 
 V-shaped waist filled in with point lace. "Diamond locket and ear 
 rings. 
 
 Mrs. Howard; wine color satin skirt, quite plain, with polonaise of uncut 
 velvet. Point lace and diamonds. 
 
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 The grAnt reception monograph. 
 
 Mrs. Pray; elegant costume of black. Point lace and diamonds. 
 
 Miss Bessie Tiernan, of Evanston; exquisite costume of white satin 
 and apple blossom brocade; short skirt of satin, with dainty bouffant pol- 
 onaise of brocade; white lace scarf. Pearl ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Colonel Mulligan; simple princesse dress of black silk and bro- 
 cade; front of silk, with side paniers, ornamented with jet; square corsage 
 filled in with Spanish lace. 
 
 Mrs. R. B. i\Iiller; costume of black silk and brocade; skirt with knife 
 plaitings of silk, with pointed heading of brocade; side panier with jet 
 passementeries. Coifture high, with pearl and gilt ornamens. 
 
 Miss Gertj Derby ; white brocade silk and overdress, with square cor- 
 sage of blue. Ornaments, diamonds. 
 
 Miss Strong; dove colored silk, with cardinal satin. 
 
 Mrs. A. D. Lamb; elegant toilet of blue silk, satin and velvet; train of 
 folds of velvet and silk, elaborate embroidery in cream silk. Point lace; 
 diamond pins in hair; diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Enos Ayer; costume of black silk and velvet. Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. General Baird; coNtume of white satin, with overdress of Spanish 
 lace. Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. EiTiory A. Storrs; toilet of white satin and toile de religteuse, elab- 
 orately trimmed. Diamond ornaments. 
 
 Miss Grace Storrs; white muslin over pmk silk. 
 
 Mrs. Noble Judah; white satin skirt, with knife plaitings of satin; over- 
 dress and waist of white muslin. 
 
 Mrs. Asay ; elegant toilet of wine color brocade and silk 
 
 Miss Belle Gray ; Grecian dress of white cashmere. 
 
 Mrs. F. G. Magin; short skirt of bronze brown satin; overdress and 
 basque of brocade. Coiffure elaborate, with gilt ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. Thompson; black silk and velvet, elaborately trimmed with jet 
 ornaments. 
 
 Miss Bertha Smith; exquisite toilet of pink satin, with knife plaiting 
 extending around the bottom; panier of satin and grenadine, with deep 
 pearl fringe; V-shaped waist of same materials; ornaments, clusters of 
 autumn leaves and diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Charles Gunther; toilet of black satin and brocade, knife plaiting 
 around the skirt; panier trimmed with jet passementerie; ornaments, clus- 
 ters of scarlet flowers and foliage leaves. Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Hey worth; brown silk and brocade, with pointed trimmings of 
 fringe; revers of brocade, and the waist elaborately triinmed with lace. 
 Diamond ornaments. 
 
 Miss Enders; beautiful combination toilet of white satin and cashmere; 
 the skirt of satin, and panier of cashmere; the waist plated. Pearl 
 jewelry. 
 
 Mrs. Sheppard ; plaited skirt of white satin ; shirred polonaise of cash- 
 mere trimmed with white satin ribbons. 
 
 Miss Lina Harrison; pink satin costume with an apron front of white 
 point lace; bertha of the same. Diamonds. 
 
 Miss Mollie Mitchell; combination toilet of cream colored satin and 
 maroon velvet; the panier and waist of the maroon velvet; the trimming of 
 embroidered daisies and field flowers. 
 
 Mrs. N. V. Titus; rich toilet of white silk; knife plaited skirt; pointed 
 trimmings on panier, with an under flounce of lace; V-shaped waist, filled 
 in at thelhroat with lace, and finished a^ the sleeves with the same. 
 
 Miss Emma Smith; comhinntion suit of cream colored brocade and 
 maroon satin; p5ain skirt of brocade with fan-shaped 'plaitings of maroon 
 satin set in around the bottom o' the skirt; short panier and plain basque 
 with half belt of maroon. Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Co'eman: stvlish toilet of changeable silk and brocade; the skirt 
 of the chansjenble silk plaited and the bouffant polonaise of brocade. Dia- 
 mond ornaments. 
 
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 Mrs. R. S. Tuthill; cream colored brocade; skirt with double row of 
 plaiting; shirred panier and groups of shirrings around the skirt; square 
 corsage. Diamonds 
 
 Miss Betty Hamilton; Pekin stripe; skirt of box plaitings; bouffant 
 drapery w ith lace. 
 
 Miss Oliie Lay; pink silk and brocade; plain skirt of silk; ])ointed 
 ravers of brocade, caught with bows of satin ribbon; pointed paniers of 
 brocade; V-shaped waist. 
 
 Miss Russella Campbell; plain white satin skirt; waist of brocade 
 trimmed with lace. 
 
 Miss Corwithe; quilted skirt of blue satin, with panier of blue silk, 
 trimmed with fringe. Diamonds. 
 
 Mrs. Frank Wentworth; black silk velvet with long court train; trim- 
 mings ot thread lace. Diamond ornaments. 
 
 Mrs. J. M. Mooi-e; bridal robe of cream colored silk; plaited skirt; 
 V-shaped corsage filled in with lace; trimmings of orange blossoms. 
 Diamonds. 
 
 The brilliancy of this reception was all that wealth and beauty could 
 impart, and is associated v/ith recollections which the honored participants 
 will doubtless long cherish with pardonable satisfaction. 
 
 tue.sday's programme: reception by the loyal legion; second reg- 
 iment RECEPTION. 
 A reception was tendered General Grant in the afternoon of the iSth by 
 the Chicago Commandery of the Order of the Loyal Legion, at the Chicago 
 club house. The affair was well conceived and happily executed, and did 
 honor to the noble guest. 
 
 THE SECOND REGIMENT RECEPTION. 
 
 In the evening the General attended a reception at one of the theatres 
 of the city, as the guest of the Second Regiment and the Owl Club. The 
 theatre was tastefully decorated for the occasion, and the production in fine 
 style of Max Maretzek's new opera, " Sleepy Hollow," rendered the occasion 
 at once a pleasant and memorable one. The audience present was composed 
 of the elite, of the city, and the most distinguished visitors, civil and military. 
 This brilliant affair was the last in the series of public receptions tendered 
 the General during his visit to Chicago, and on the following day, the dis- 
 tinguished tourists left the city and the metropolis which for a Aveek had 
 been given over to king carnival, began graduall}' lo doff its holiday garb 
 and to assume its accustomed every day social and business routine. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 GENERAL GRANT'S RETURN. 
 
 4i 
 
 HIS ARRIVAL IN CHICAGO; RECEPTIONS; THE CHICAGO COMMERCIAL. 
 ,_^^^ CLUB BANQUET. 
 
 ■W\\ (^ HE General left Galena, upon his eastward trip, Wednesday, 
 
 ^ December 3. The train which bore him from that city to 
 
 ^^jyt^^Y Chicago was furnished b\ the Chicago and Northwestern 
 
 Vi^ f?w) Railway Co., and everything in the power 01 the ofhcers of 
 
 jv- --^J-s tj^is corporation was done to render the trip a pleasant one. 
 
 Mr. G. M. Pullman placed his private drawing room car at the General's 
 
 disposal, and nothing which could contribute to comfort and luxury was 
 
 wanting. 
 
 The train left Galena by the Illinois Central Road. The officers and 
 managers of this railway are entitled to the highest commendation fur the 
 generous courtesy unceasingly manifested towards the General and his 
 party whenever any act of theirs fcould add anything to the lustre of the 
 magnificent entertainment extended to the noble guests during their visit to 
 this citv, and also for the spi;-'.t of generosity and accommodation displayed 
 towards the general public ol this as upon other occasions. The enterprise 
 manifested by this corporat'on since the early western days, when as the 
 pioneer corporation it begun the development of the gigantic internal 
 resources of Illinois, and moved forward in the execution of that stu- 
 pendous scheme of inter lal transportation, has placed it in the front rank 
 of the colossal railway systems of the age. 
 
 The General and reception party reached the city at 6:25 p. m., and 
 passed the evening at tie residence of Colonel Fred Gran*. Thursday 
 afternoon an informal reception was tendered by the General to the minis- 
 ters of the city. Among those present were many of those holding the 
 highest positions of clerical trust in Chicago. A salutatory speech was 
 delivered by the Rev. I^r. Goodwin in behalf of the clergymen, which was 
 responded to by Genei'al Grant in appropriate words. 
 
 Fridav evening occurred the annual reception of the Academy of 
 Design which claimed a brief visit from the General. 
 
 Saturday, after being present at a very interesting ceremony at South 
 Park, where a tree was planted by the General, he became the guest of the 
 
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 Commercial Club, which had arranged a fitting programme, including a 
 sumptuous banquet, in liis honor 
 
 THE COMMERCIAL CLUB BANQUET. 
 
 The banquet given by the Commercial Club to General Grant, on the 
 evening of the 6th, at the Grand Pacific Hotel, was one of the most sump- 
 tuous affairs ever seen in the west. The very fact that it was a smaller 
 affair than some others, and that it was gotten up exclusively by the heavy 
 capitalists of this western metropolis, made it possible to pay more atten- 
 tion to the perfection of the affair than could be done were the gathering a 
 larger one and more miscellaneous in character. The banqueters included 
 the great majority of Chicago's " solid men," to whom the city is largely 
 indebted for the commanding position it now maintains in the wurld of com- 
 merce. 
 
 The hall presented a scene of rare beauty and an appearance of sump- 
 tuousness. On the left of the seat of honor. General Grant's, sat Mr. J. W. 
 Doane, President of the Chicago Commercial Club; J. W. Chandler, Presi- 
 dent ot the Commercial Club of Boston ; the lion. E. B. Washburne, Gov- 
 .ernor J. D. Long, of Massachussetts; N. K. Fairbank; E. R. Mudge, of 
 Boston; L. Z. Leiter, the Hon. E. O. Stannard, of St. Louis; Governor 
 Bagley, of Detroit; and J. D. Harvey, of this city. On his right sat ex- 
 ■Governor W. H. Rice, of Massachusetts; General Sheridan, Judge Drum- 
 mond, the Hon. F. W. Lincoln, of Boston; Horace Porter, of New York; 
 George M. Pullman, M. D. Spaulding, of Boston; and Marshall Field. 
 
 The presence of delegates from the Commercial Club of Boston, together 
 with representatives from other American trade centres, imparted to the 
 •occasion especial interest and eclat. The guests numbered in all about one 
 hundreu and fifty. Following is a full list of the banqueters present, not 
 including those previously named : 
 
 W. O. Tavlor, Boston; Rev R. A. Holland, Judge L. B. Otis, R. T. 
 Lincoln, W. H. Smith, E. H. Sampson, Boston; E G. Mason, George Hunt, 
 Colorado; J. K. Caird, Glasgow; E. G. Keith; J N. Jewett, John J. Jones, 
 Andrew Brown, C. P. Kimball, C. M. Clapp, Boston; T B. Blackstone, Gen- 
 eral W. E. Strono-, A. F. Seeberger, John M. Durand, General Anson 
 Starrer, Hon. J. F. Wilson, Iowa; H. W.'King, JoHn M. Cl.irke. John Crerar, 
 A. ]. Lieth, M E- Stone, G. L Dunlap, Judge Gary, Perry Smith, Jr., C. 
 M. Henderson, Colonel Fred Grant. E. A. Sticknev, Dr. Charles Smith, A. 
 N. Eddv, E. F Spencer, John Tvrrell, E. T. .Vatkins, J. W.Sheahan, Louis 
 Wampold, D Wallack, New York; Martin N. Kimball, J- W. Oakley, 
 Albert Thompson, Boston; James D. Carson, H. B. Norton, Conn.; J. H. 
 Walker, Murrv Nelson. W. H. Davis, Cincinnati; A. B. Mason, Alexander 
 Geddes, J. W.>reston, T. Albert Tavlor, Boston: C E Culver, George M. 
 Bogue, Hcnrv Savrcs, W. D- Houghtcling, A. M. Carpenter, Charles B. 
 McDonald, W. Scott Keith, E. Burke, A. W. Fuller, O. F. Fuller, E. W. 
 Blatchford. J. W. Scoville, Ezra Millard, Omaha; George Schneider, J. R. 
 Walsh, George C. Walker, Edward F'oreman, William M. Hoyt, O. S. A. 
 Sprague, T. Murdock, J. Spaulding-, Ilostnn; A. A. Sprague, J. W. Sprinkle, 
 S. W. Adar.is, R. T. Crane, R. C. Meldrvim, Franklin MacVeagh, John B. 
 Drake, W. H. Bradlev, William H. Ovington, Henry Corwith, H. C. 
 Durand, John Roper, George C. Clark, j. McGregor Adams, E. J. Warner, 
 Rev. F. A. Noble, W. C. D, Grnnnis. !l. W.Jackson. William Munro,, A. 
 M. Wright, W. H. McDoel, Robert Donahue, Burlington, Iowa; A. C. 
 
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 Bartlett, W. G. Hibbard, Peter VanSchaack, A. H. Jones, J. H. McFarland, 
 Jerome Jones, Boston; E. M. Phelps, Thomas Hoyne, J. Russell Jones, Hon. 
 H. W. Brown, Cincinnati; Judge Redlield, Vermont; W. \V. Kimball, Uri 
 Balcom, E. A. Small, Charles Fargo, C. W. Smith, Charles Colbv, Mil- 
 waukee; O. W. Potter, Frank W. Palmer, E. C. Potter, T. W. Harvev, W. 
 A. Fuller, George P. Denney, Boston; M. D. Wells, F. B. White Boston; 
 Dr. A. E. Djer. 
 
 The doors of the banquet hall were opened promptly at 5 o'clock, and 
 the coinpanv, who had been assembling for nearly an hour, at once filed in 
 from the parlors and the corridors of the parlor lioor. General Grant was 
 escorted to his seat at the head of the room by President Doane and the offi- 
 cers of the club and the visiting gentlemen from Boston, and within a very 
 few moments the seats were all occupied. 
 
 The banquet was formally opened by President Doane rising to announce 
 that the Rev. R. A. Holland would invoke grace, at the conclusion of which 
 ceremony the gastrono:nic exercises were proceeded with. 
 
 The feasting over, the President of the Commercial Club, 
 
 MR. J. W. DOANE, 
 
 called the company to order, and delivered the following address vthich 
 was received with much enthusiasm. 
 
 "Gentlemen: The feelings with which I arise to address you, are those 
 partly of pleasure and partly of regret, — of pleasure, that it has fallen to my 
 lot to have the honor of welcoming our distinguished guest to the hospital- 
 ities of the Commercial Club of Chicago; of regret, that this duty has not 
 been assigned to some one better qualified to perform it, than my sell'. For- 
 tunately ibr me, however, in this case the well-known distinction accorded 
 to our eminent visitor speaks for itself. 
 
 The name of General Grant is as familiar to us all as a household word, 
 aiid his record is known to every school-boy in the land. He returns to us 
 now after a prolonged career of travel, which has been one unceasing ovation. 
 Going abroad to recruit his health after an eight year occupancy of the 
 presidential chair, and preceded by that well-earned fame, achie\ed on 
 many a hard-fought battle-field, wiiei e he led our gallant soldiers to victory, 
 his journej' aromid the globe has been cne continued triumphal progress, 
 in which every court and crowned head in the civilized world have conferred 
 such honors upon him as have never before be n bestowed upon any Amer- 
 ican citizen. We feel, sir, that in honoring you, the nations whose guest you 
 have been, have honored us, and have honored this republic as well; and we 
 cannot doubt that, as one result of your travels, this people will occupy a 
 higher position than ever before among the great brotherhood of nations. 
 Neither is there anv room to df^ubt that our foreign commercial relations (in 
 which we as a club arc more par'icularly interested) will feel the weight of your 
 beneficial influence abroad. For thes ■ reasons therefore, sir, we are proud 
 to welcome vou as our guest this evening. This welcome, however, sir, we 
 desire to extend, after you, to others present. I allude to the many distin- 
 guished gentlemen, from this and other cities, who represent the military 
 and commercial interests of the country, and who, in their several fields of 
 service, have covered themselves with honor, and contributed to the lasting 
 well-being of the co.mtrv at large. 
 
 " Among this number, sir, I would particularly mention our Boston delega- 
 tion, who, with one exccjition, are members of the Boston Commercial Club. 
 These gentlemen have traveled a thousand miles, especially to join in the fes- 
 tivities of the occasion; a:id speaking for them, and for ourselves, and so for 
 the two great commercial centres (around one of which, as everybody 
 knows, this continent, — nay, the globe itself — revolves), I desire to say that 
 
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 we rejoice to see you in our midst, and only regret that your stay cannot be 
 permanent. We read in the newspapers, sir, that great inducements are 
 beino- held out to you to go into railroading, or even into the presidential 
 chair au-ain. I think I can suggest a more attractive future for you than 
 either of these. Just come and settle among us in Chicago as a simple 
 business man, and we will, every one of us, pledge you our votes as Presi- 
 dent of the Chicago Commercial Club. 
 
 " One word more, sir, in conclusion. It is probable that on looking 
 around you, vou will recognize here and there the familiar faces of those who 
 have facetiously been alluded to as members of the ' Galena ring.' Allow 
 me to sav, sir, that while we honor these gentlemen as members and guests 
 of our club, and regret that we have not more of the same sterling material 
 amongst us, to night the only 'ring' that will be perm tted to assert itself, 
 will be that of the applause with which I know these walls will echo when I 
 sav in conclusion that we count it the highest honor this club has ever 
 received, that it is permitted this evening to entertain this country's greatest 
 general and bravest soldier." 
 
 General Grant responded to this gratifying speech oi welcome with his 
 usual directness and brevity. 
 
 "Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Chicago Commercial 
 Club and Guests: The allusions of your president to myself have been 
 very gratifying; and the assurances that he has held out to me, that ft I 
 would settle among you, that I can receive the unanimous vote of this club 
 for its presidency, is the most tempting offer that I have had yet. I have 
 read of numerous places having been cut out for me before; bu-t this is the 
 only one that I have had any assurance of. But in this case, even, I am 
 somewhat embarrassed. My understanding, before coming here this eve- 
 ning, was that to become a "member of this club, a man had to represent 
 some industry or other — some one of the great industries which have made 
 our country so great and so prosperous. And I am at a loss really to know 
 where I should come in. I do see here one or two of the "ring " that have 
 referred to that Galena ring, who I believe have the honor of being en- 
 rolled as members of this club. How they got in is equally puzzling to 
 me. 
 
 "Gentlemen, I thank you very heartily for the honor you have done me, 
 not only in this kind offer you have made to locate me in the honorable and 
 responsible place, but for the way you have received me." 
 
 At the conclusion of General Grant's speech. President Doane intro- 
 duced Mr J. W. Candler, President of the Boston Commercial Club, who 
 in behalf of himself and the Boston gentlemen present, thanked their Chi- 
 cago hosts for the kindly welcome they had received. Referring, in the 
 course of his remarks, to our trade relations with foreign countries, the 
 speaker said, that in the future the free republic of the United States, 
 was not alone to be the home of the e.xile, the refuge of the down-trodden 
 of every clime; it was not alone to be the hope and the land of promise to 
 every lover of constitutional liberty, but also one of the great workshops of 
 the world, and to stand first in the extent of its commercial relations with 
 every other country on God's footstool, and while he said this he remem 
 bared the vast cotnmerce of England, that glorious and grand nation from 
 whom we sprung. 
 
 He believed that all commercial men, when they meet face to face their 
 brethern who toil in the marts ot trade, are inclined to linger over these 
 interesting questions of development and progress, which are every day talk, 
 wherever we are laboring, whether in Boston or New York. 
 
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 After an eloquent speech by ex-Governor Alexander H. Rice, of Massa-- 
 chusetts, Governor J. J. Bagley, of Michigan, entertained the banqueters 
 with an able response to the first toast of the evening, "Inland Foreign 
 Commerce: May our Inland Cities develop and become equal to their 
 Seaboard Sisters." "God Save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts," was 
 the next sentiment, to which Governor Long, ot the old Bay State responded, 
 expressing his thanks for the allusion to his historic State The speech was 
 somewhat lengthy, but was thoroughly appreciated ihroughout, as the 
 ringing applause which frequently greeted the speaker's words attested. 
 
 The Chairman next introduced Mr. Ezra Millard, a prominent merchant 
 of Omaha, Nebraska, who replied to the toast, " Omaha, the Gateway of* 
 the West, through which the Pacific Coast bears its Golden Fruit." Allud- 
 mg to the growth of Chicago, as compared with Omaha, the speaker said: 
 
 "Thirty years ago the good steamer Niagara landed me at the port of 
 Chicago, then a city about the size Omaha is now. Your railroad system 
 which is now the delight of any one who will study it, then consisted of 
 one track stretching westward to Elgin. I did not at that tune patronize 
 the railroad system of Chicago, but, as thousands before and thousands 
 since have done, we outfitted and went West in a covered wagon. I'-utever 
 since that time, like a ripple in a placid lake, where a stone- ha"s gone down, 
 ever increasing in its widening circle, so I and my neighbors, and their 
 neighbors in turn, increasing until it is bounded by nownere especially, 
 have constantly and ceaselesly paid tribute to the railroad svstem of Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 " Nebraska, stretching eastward and westward four hundred and fifty 
 miles, almost fills the space between the Missouri River and the Rocky 
 Mountains. It is fast becoming cover^^d with thritty homes, producing 
 grains and fruits and cattle in great profusion. For natural situation there 
 is between the two oceans, nothing finer than the town plat of Omaha. 
 From our hill we will show you the houses of thirty thousand people, each 
 man owning his own home, with but few exceptions. To one side is our 
 lead works, where by a new and simple process, our lead manufacturers 
 manufacture lead of the finest quality. Ni-ar by is our Omaha nail works, 
 where we have recently commenced to manufacture nails. '1 hen we stand 
 upon the blufi" and look down upon our smelting works, with its se en 
 smoke stacks. Here is refined six millions of silver per annum, and shipped 
 to the East and the West, and in addition to that there is shipped to this 
 market, and to the markets of the East, twelve thousand tens of lead per 
 annum, more lead than is gathered from all the mmes of Wisconsin, Illi. 
 nois and Iowa, and I think I may add, Missouri, too. I will not forecast 
 the historj' of our city. The enlightened mind of the commercial country 
 is fixed upon that it shall be the task of self-reliant men who own the city 
 and who control its destinies to see that the anticipations of its friends are 
 fulfilled and realized." 
 
 The speaker further referred to the great banking facilities of that city, 
 citing as proot of the business prosperity of Omaha, the fact that from $iio,- 
 000,000 to $115,000,000 are annually drawn out as deposits. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Holland was next called upon for remarks and responded 
 with a very lucid exposition of the meaning of the term "blow," as applied 
 to Chicago. He thought from the complaints which come from rival cities, 
 it must be a " head wind. "It plays, as I have seen it," he continued, "with 
 bonds and stocks like autumn leaves. It scatters wheat and corn all 
 over the earth It lays forests low and splits the fallen trees length- 
 
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 wise with the swift edge of its enterprise. It upsets mountains and 
 leaves in their place a level track for travel and commerce, and more 
 particularly for Pullman Palace Cars. It wafts sails over all seas, 
 and from the noise of ovation which his good ship made, wherever it went, 
 there can be no doubt that the breeze of favor which blew General Grant 
 around the world contained a strong magnetic current from Chicago. And 
 when all the other currents had ceased and were silent, and in order to show 
 the full sonorousness of his wealth, Chicago gave him a final blast, a 'booin,' 
 that outsounded them all. None but a trade wind could take so universal a 
 sweep." The reverend gentleman's witty remarks were frequenilv inter- 
 rupted by laughter and applause. The next speaker, General Horace Por- 
 ter, spoke in reply to the toast, "War and Commerce." By wav of ir.tro- 
 duction he congratulated the Chicagoans present on being there, because he 
 was their guest; he congratulated the Bostonians "because there seems to 
 be a prevailing feeling in the western country that Bostonians are generally 
 subjects of congratulation, when they are away from home." The General 
 treated his subject ir^a humorous vein throughout, and his was voted one of 
 the most delightful talks of the occasion. "The Great War'' was the subject 
 of the next toast, to which the Honorable J. F. Wilson responded in befit-ting 
 terms. Ex-Governor Stannard handled the next sentiment, " The Missis- 
 sippi and its Tributaries; the Open Highway of the West to the Gulf of 
 Mexico," with inuch ability. 
 
 The President then announced the next toast of the evening: "Cincin- 
 nati : In embellishing with art a city already so richly endowed by nature, 
 makes her an example worthy to be copied by all her sister cities of the 
 West." To this sentiment the Honorable H. Wilson Brown, of Cincinnati, 
 responded. 
 
 " Our Manufactures the Triumph of American Skill," as the next senti- 
 ment, was responded to b}' a gentleman representing one of the largest 
 manufacturing establishments in New England, the Honorable E. R. Mudge 
 of Boston. Another Boston gentleman, Mr. M. D. Spaulding, then ad- 
 dressed the banqueters, after which Mr. Charles Colby, of Milwaukee, Presi- 
 dent of the Wisconsin Railway Company, replied to the toast, " The Great 
 Lakes and their Outlets; our Mutual Channels to the Sea." The gentle- 
 man's remarks were enthusiastically received. Ex-Mayor Lincoln, of 
 Boston, was then introduced, at the conclusion of whose speech, Mr. E. G. 
 Mason, of Chicago, responded in a happy vein to the sentiment, "The Law 
 the Final Arbiter and Adjuster of Commercial Understandings." This 
 closed the evening's programme and ended the "brightest occasion in the 
 history of the Chicago Commercial Club. 
 
 After passing a quiet day Monday, lunching with the Chicago Club, and 
 dining with the Hon. J. Russell Jones, General Grant took his departure 
 on Tuesday for Indianapolis, on his way toward the East, where, at the pres- 
 ent writing, the populace are taxing their powers to rival the Garden City's 
 reception of the great American. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 THE CHICAGO COMMERCIAL CLUb BANQUET ; TITE DECORATIONS OF 
 "RECEPTION week;" THE GREAT PROCESSION OF WEDNES- 
 DAY, NOV. 12; THE RECEPTION COMMITTEES. 
 
 THE CHICAGO COMMERCIAL CLUB BANQUET. 
 
 THE city's business GIANTS. 
 
 The banquet on the evening of December 6th, reported elsewhere, consti' 
 tuted a fitting epilogue in the brilliant events of two weeks previous, when 
 the great commander met his former comrades of the Army of the Tennes- 
 see. Less in magnitude than the splendid affair in which his public recep- 
 tion culminated, it was not less in elegance, nor in its wholly different way, 
 in profound interest. It had a double meaning, as a gathering not only in 
 compliment of a man to whose at one time almost the life of the nation was 
 confided, but as significant of the unification of east and west in commercial 
 bonds. It was an important gatliering in the sense that it was co.nposed of 
 men, not a few of whom had been distinguished in war, and all of whom 
 control in greater or less degree, the currents of trade which feed the nation's 
 life of to-day. In this view, it is safe to say, that a more important body has 
 rarely been seen between the oceans that wash the shores of this continent. 
 
 Brief mention of the distinguished Chicago gentlemen participating in 
 the banquet, may not be without interest. Mr. J. W. Doane, the President 
 of the Chicago Commercial Club, is noted as one of Chicago's heaviest im- 
 porters ; a man of wealth, ability and superior mental power, his influence 
 in the world of trade is second to that of few men in the country. 
 
 Mr. N. K. Fairbank is a typical Chicagoan; enterprising and energetic, 
 comprehensive in h^s views, of quick, penetrating perceptions, he has suc- 
 ceeded in establishing a business of gigantic and rapidly extending propor- 
 tions, and earned a reputation which honors his name wherever the name of 
 Chicago is known. 
 
 Messrs. L. Z. Leiter and Marshall Field of the colossal firm of Field, 
 Leiter & Co., rightfully deserve the noble appellation of "merchant princes." 
 The growth of this house is probably without a parallel in the commercial 
 history of this or any other country. From a modest beginning it has in an 
 incredibly brief period of time become the leading dry goods firm of the 
 Nation ; to this, perhaps more than other firm, does Chicago ow.e the suprem- 
 acy in this department of trade she now enjoys in the empire of the West. 
 
 Mr George M. Pullman, by his inventive genius and brilliant business 
 attainments, has conferred upon both hemispheres a boon of inestimable 
 value, and indissolublv connected his name with one of the greatest railway 
 achievements of the age. 
 
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THE GRANT RECEPTION MOXOGRAPH. I07 
 
 Mr. A. F. Seeberger, ot the ceiebrated hardware firm of Seeberger and 
 Breakey, is a deserving representative of Chicago tlirift and enterprise, as 
 the magnificent success achieved by liis firm bears ample evidence. 
 
 Mr. Wm. M, Hoyt, has long been prominently identified with the whole- 
 sale grocery interest of the city, and is the fortunate possessor of wealth and 
 great prosperity. 
 
 Mr. Henry W. King, as the head ot an extensive wholesale clothing estab- 
 lishment, enjoys the proud distinction of being one of Chicago's greatest and 
 most successful merchants. 
 
 Mr. C. M. Henderson, of C. M. Henderson and Co., leads the van in the 
 boot and shoe industry of the West; to his sagacity, influence, and ceaseless 
 energy is largelv due the phenomenal success achieved by the West in contend- 
 ing against Eastern competition for the Mississippi Valley trade in this impor- 
 tant department of commerce. 
 
 Mr. John Crerar, of Crerar, Adams and Co., strengthened tlie representa- 
 tion of " solid " business men bj- his presence without ^\•hich the delegation 
 would have been conspicuously incomplete. 
 
 Mr. Peter Van Schaack, of the old established Wholesale Drug House ot 
 Van Schaack, Stevenson and Co., for so many years located, in- successful 
 business, at 92 and 94 Lake St., cor. Dearborn. The public gave this firm 
 the soubriquet of "the old Salamander," (from the mystical animal that passed 
 unharmed through fire ) after their repeated misfortunes in several disastrous 
 fires. Mr. Van S. early appreciated the importance of direct intercourse with 
 the markets of the world, as being one of the most essential steps towards 
 the success which has resulted in making this firm a foremost house in their 
 line in the West. 
 
 The proprietor of the palatial Grand Pacific Hotel, Mr. John B. Drake, 
 . graced the company of banqueters with his genial presence. The munificent 
 liberality of Mr. Drake exemplified by the lavish hospitalities tendered Gen- 
 eral Grant during both his visits to Chicago, is proverbial. The success ot 
 the stupendous enterprise of which he is the head is proot of the gentleman's 
 business genius. 
 
 The Chicago & Alton Railroad Company was represented by its Presi- 
 dent, Mr. T. B. Blackstone, whose administrative ability is conspicuous in 
 the wonderful prosperity enjoyed by the great "C. & A." corporation. 
 
 The wholesale clothing interest of the city was appropriately represented 
 by Mr. Louis Wampold, of Cahn, Wampold & Co., a solid and extensive 
 mstitution. 
 
 J. W. Oakley, of Walker, Oakley & Co., wholesale leather dealers, is 
 one of Chicago's most substantial business men, and may take just pride 
 in having appeared for a house so justly famed for its commanding position 
 in the world of trade. 
 
 Messrs. Murray Nelson, C. E. Culver and A. M. Wright, of the Chicago 
 Board of Trade, the most prominent and extensive operators of that august 
 body, are gentlemen of distmguished ability and justly rank among the 
 wealthiest and most mfluential of tliis city's business men. 
 
 The well-known lumber establishment of Kirby, Carpenter & Co., was 
 
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 represented by Mr. A. M. Carpenter, to .whose executive capacitj, the re- 
 nown enjoyed by his firm is largely due. 
 
 Messrs. O. F. and H. W. p\iller appeared for the firm of Fuller & 
 Fuller, the great drug emporium of the Mississippi Vallev. Progressive, 
 enterprising, fearless and independent, Messrs. Fuller &: Fuller are a power 
 in the drug trade, the force of which is felt from ocean to ocean. 
 
 The two extensive establishments of the Chicago White Lead and OiF 
 Company and the Chicago Shot To^ver Company, w^ere represented by 
 their President, Mr. E. W Blatchford, with whose name the interests of 
 Chicago are so closely interwoven that one is but the expression, of the 
 other. The city is his pride, her future his life. ' A dozen such men would 
 make a city of any place — not excepting St Louis. 
 
 The mammoth wholesale grocery institution of Messrs. Sprague, War- 
 ner & Co.. had a fitting exponent in Mr. O. S. A. Sprague, a stalwart speci- 
 men of Chicago pluck and invincibleness. 
 
 The Messrs. R. T. Crane, S. W. Adams and J. W. Skinkle, represented 
 the great works of the Crane Bros. Manufacturing Company, from whence 
 are obtained the world's supply of the justly-famed elevators bearing their 
 name. The policy of the firm is characterized by a fearless aggressiveness^ 
 based upon equitable business principles, which defies and subdues every 
 form of formidable opposition. 
 
 Mr. W. W. Kimball, as the leading manufacturer of and dealer in mu- 
 sical instruments, holds a high place in the estimation of both the commer- 
 cial and the general public, and ranks among the best known and most 
 popular merchants in this metropolis. 
 
 Mr. Keith was the proxy of the staunch old reliable hardwood lumber 
 firm of Match, Holbrook & Co., one of the heaviest which this vast lumber 
 mart can boast; and composed of just such sagacious, enterprising busi- 
 ness men as have carried Chicago forward to the prominent position which 
 she commands in the world's commerce. 
 
 The Chicago banking interest had a wo'thy representative in the person 
 of Mr. W. C, D. Grannis, Vice President of the Union National Bank, an 
 institution of noted substantiality and wealth. 
 
 The list of notables at the banquet would be incomplete without the 
 name of Mr. W. A. Fuller, of Messrs. Palmer, Fuller & Co., the extensive 
 planing mill and lumber firm. With a robust enterprise and energy which 
 quailed before no difficulties, the progress of that house to atBuence and 
 prestige has been surprisingly rapid; its present rank is as deserved as it 
 is supreme. 
 
 THE DECORATIONS OF "RECEPTION WEEK." 
 
 The decorations Avith which Chicago draped her walls, and festooned 
 her blocks, would rival in splendor the richest displays that classic Rome 
 ever arranged in honor of her conquering heroes. Along the entire line 
 of march rich hued bunting hung in lavish munificence, and innumerable 
 starry emblems of freedom proudly flaunted in the breeze, welcoming to 
 the Queen City of the West the soldier-statesman of the age. 
 
THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. lOp, 
 
 Park Row revealed a gorgeous wealth of decorations, the residences of 
 Joseph Medill and Mathew Laflin being, perhaps, the most tastefully ar- 
 ranged ones in the Row. 
 
 On Michigan avenue, the residence of Honorable Thos. Hojne was 
 most elaborately draped in bunting and evergreen; and the whole avenue 
 presented a spectacle at once grand and inspiring. 
 
 The officers of the Pullman Palace Car Company displayed an exquisite 
 taste in the distribution of stands of colors and evergreen festoons. The 
 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad ofiices were profusely decorated 
 with large and small flags. Sprague, Warner & Co.'s mammoth store was 
 decked out in a profusion of flags, which manifested the patriotism of this 
 gigantic commercial firm. 
 
 The mammoth establishment of Mr. S. D. Kimbark, the famous whole- 
 sale hardware inerchant, was adorned with patriotic embellishments in 
 great profusion, and presented a handsome appearance. 
 
 Michigan avenue presented a striking picture of gorgeous magnificence. 
 H. A. Kohn & Brothers' store proudly flaunted flags from all its windows, 
 while in the interstices were escutcheons and names of some of General 
 Grant's battles. 
 
 The stores of French, Potter & Wilson, DeWilde & Co., and Ilalsey 
 Brothers, were lavishly decorated with the American flag in various sizes 
 and combinations. 
 
 The Washington street front of Field, Leiter & Co.'s magnificent build- 
 ing was very effectively decorated. As became so extensive a facade the 
 ornamentation was very simple in design, the effect being produced by the 
 large size and striking arrangement of the embellishments. The central 
 feature of these was a monster stars-and-stripes extending on a flag staff 
 from the central window of the building front. Two other flags of equal 
 size hung on the sides from the fourth story to the top of the second story_ 
 Clusters of American flags and evergreen designs and festoons ornamented 
 the doorway and the remaining windows. A very fine effect was produced 
 by providing each of the statues on the fifth story of the building with a 
 background of American unions, whose deep blue surface sprinkled with 
 stars, contrasted vividly with the creamy tint of the statues, which they 
 brought into splendid relief 
 
 D. B. Fisk & Co.'s large store, on the Southwest corner of Wabash 
 avenue and Washington street was very artistically embellished. The strik- 
 ing feature of its ornamentation was an immense streamer of red, white 
 and blue, extending from the top corner of the building, and drooping in a 
 huge semi-circle, to the center of the top of the lower story, where it under- 
 lay a handsome bust of General Grant, artistically decorated with ever- 
 greens and flowers. This streamer was crossed by two others, extending 
 from a point in the center of the roof to the extremities of the second floor. 
 American flags fluttering from, all the windows completed the design, which 
 was grand in both its conception and result. The lower stories of the 
 Walton House were very pret^l^ily tricked out iji festooned flags and ever-, 
 greens. 
 
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 At Giles, Brothers & Co.'s, a profusion of flags and streamers extended 
 from the windows, while the pillars of the facade were richly draped with 
 flags. 
 
 The First National Bank was richly embellished Avith simple but large and 
 magnificent designs in drapery of very artistic shape. " Welcome " was 
 apparent here and there. In front of Peck & Bausher's window a platform 
 had been built, whose decorations consisted of flags and evergreens, inclosing 
 the motto, " Zealous yet modest, serene amid alarms, inflexible in faith, invin- 
 cible in arms." 
 
 The Staats-Zeitung building was brilliant with flags, bunting, and ever- 
 green. The American standard of all sizes cropped out patriotically from 
 every available vantage ground, and graceful festoons of evergreen hung 
 from all the windows. The German national flag floated from the central 
 window of the third story, flanked by American flags of large size. A mon- 
 shield of American flags stood behind the statue on the third story. The 
 effect pjoduced by the abundant embellishment of this building was very 
 striking. 
 
 Charley Kern's place was very prettily embellished with bunting, ever- 
 greens, and flags. 
 
 The Journal Building was decked in a becoming manner, the large pil- 
 lars over the entrance being entwined with bunting and gi-een wreaths. In 
 the centre was a picture of the brave General with a double festoon of flags 
 on each side. 
 
 The Crilly & Blair Building on the corner of Monroe Street, occupied by 
 the Jones Publishing Co., Cleveland Paper Co., Gushing, Thomas & Co., the 
 well-known and justly popular pi inters, and other firms, was bedecked in an 
 elaborate manner with festoons of evergreen from window to window. In the 
 centre hung a large picture of General Grant surrounded with flags, and 
 on each side shields bearing the motto "Welcome." The main entrance to the 
 building was tastefully hung with flags and greens. The entire building was 
 decorated in a very tasteful manner the red background of brick showing it 
 oflF to particular advantage. 
 
 Haverly's Theatre, on the opposite side of the street, presented to the eye 
 a beautiful sight. Large flags were festooned around the building, and 
 around them again were twined wreaths ot evergreens. Shields bearing 
 appropriate mottoes were placed between the windows, the whole being 
 arranged in superb taste. 
 
 The State Street front of Field & Leiter's building was the most artistic 
 piece of decoration on that street. Long folds of magnificent colors hung 
 from story \o story, intermingled with drooping cedar. The statues in the 
 recesses of the mansard were backed with silver stars in a blue field. 
 
 The First National Bank was tastefully draped with the tri-color looped 
 with evergreeens. 
 
 Charles Gossage & Co.'s store presented a handsome appearance, being 
 elaborately decked out in large and small flags. 
 
 Probably the most artistically decorated building in the city was that of 
 the Tribmip.. From the Madison and Dearborn Street corner of the roof 
 hung a large evergreen shield, draped with parti-colored bunting, and having 
 
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 a background of the same material. At the street entrance to the building, 
 on the same corner, a large arch fifteen feet wide had been built, which stood 
 out ten feet from the building. This structure' was twenty-four feet high» 
 surmounted by a large gilt eagle standing on a globe, and holding in its beak 
 streamers of various colors, the whole being surrounded by a wreath of ever- 
 greens. The top of the arch was in the shape of a canopy, and was covered 
 with red, white and blue bunting, and festooned with evergreens, as were also' 
 the pillars supporting it. Two stands of flags were draped to shields. There 
 was nothing cheap or tawdry at any point, and the effect of the whole was' 
 indeed magnificent, and won the admiration of the procession and the surg- 
 ing crowds that filled the streets. 
 
 The Times Building was tastefully embellished with a fine display of flags 
 and bunting, producing a pleasing eftect, and setting oflf to advantage its 
 magnificent proportions. 
 
 A. Booth's place was handsomely decorated with flags and evergreen, and 
 showed a fine and extensive front. 
 
 Van Schaack, Stevenson & Co.'s fine building was gaily tricked out with 
 handsome flags. 
 
 One of the most elaborately decorated buildings on Lake Street, was that 
 occupied bj- Fairbanks, Morse & Co. The rich and costly shields, flags, fes- 
 toons and rosettes presented a royal appearance. 
 
 A tastefully arranged drapery of the national colors over the entrance, 
 and a magnificent display of flags at the windows, rendered the Howe Scale 
 Co.'s place of business a noteworthy object of interest. 
 
 The Inter-Ocea7i Building was decorated in an artistic manner. On the 
 fourth story and nearly covering that part of the front, was a representation 
 of the Goddess of Liberty standing and crowning General Grant, who kneels 
 to receive the wreath. A long, rectangular space on the second story was 
 occupied by two festoons of red, white, and blue bunting, intersected by two 
 inverted festoons of similar material, the whole being crossed by a long> 
 broad vertical strip of bunting. At each end of this rectangular space were 
 parallel bars of red, white, and blue bunting. The lower story was also pret- 
 tily draped. 
 
 The Grand Pacific Hotel was elaborately trimmed. Over the main porti-- 
 CO was a large picture of Grant, neatly wrought, resting on a blue back- 
 ground, with evergreen neatly festooned about it. On the smaller porticos 
 were living cedars with a background formed of the National colors, and 
 from the windows were flags of all sizes. The exhibit was beautiful and at- 
 tractive. 
 
 The large building of C. M. Henderson & Co., southeast corner of Alon- 
 roe and Franklin streets, looked gorgeous in its di-css of bunting, flags, and 
 wreaths. 
 
 The building of Selz, Schwab & Co., southwest corner of Monroe and 
 Fran'siin streets, was also handsomely decorated with flags and bunting. 
 
 C. P. Kellogg's establishment, was richly decorated with flags, wreaths, 
 and evergreens, and made a fine appearance. 
 
 Henry W. King's building was gorgeously draped in a profusion of flags 
 and bunting. 
 
113 THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
 Many other more or less prominent firms lavished money freely to lend 
 to the city an appearance of magnificence and splendor which had but to be 
 viewed to become indelibly stereotyped in the memories of all beholders. 
 
 THE GREAT PROCESSION OF WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12. 
 
 The procession of Wednesday, Nov. 12, was the longest this city has ever 
 witnessed, and one of the most imposing. The first division embraced the 
 State Militia. The second division was headed by its chief, Captain John C. 
 Nealy, with his staff", after which came Loesch's band, followed by the car- 
 riage containing General Grant, Mayor Harrison, and the Honorable Thomas 
 Hoyne escorted by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. Then came 
 in order the veterans of the Army of the Potomac, veteran associations, the 
 Army of the Cumberland, and finally the Grand Army. The third division 
 included all civic organizations, the fourth division, the fire department, fol- 
 by \'arious civic societies. The representation, by teams, of prominent mer- 
 cantile houses is perhaps worthy of mention somewhat in detail. 
 
 The turnout of Messrs. Hibbard, Spencer & Co., was an imposing one. 
 This house is eminently deserving the honor it enjoys of being probably the 
 most extensive hardware establishment in the West. Their spacious build- 
 ing at the corner of Lake Street and Wabash Avenue, is possessed of a 
 solid grandeur characteristic of their trade, and constitutes one of the chief 
 attractions of commercial Chicago. 
 
 The Howe Scale Company was represented by one of the trucks of their 
 agents, Borden, Selleck & Co., on which was represented General Grant 
 being weighed at the Paris Exposition. In 1878 General Grant visited the 
 Paris Exposition, and while examining the exhibit of the Howe Scale Co., 
 was weighed on the Scale that took the Grand Gold Medal. He weighed 
 167^ pounds. 
 
 Another prominent business firm represented, was the B. L. Anderson 
 "Company, Manufacturers and Dealers in Lumber. As a firm, the name is 
 famliliar throughout the Union. It has been for years intimately associated 
 with this great Chicago interest, and has been, through all its business stages 
 "regarded as a representive commercial house. As shown in their display, 
 their specialties are Muskegon Pine Lumber, and the old reliable 
 '" Peck's Perfect " Shingles. Their exhibition of Dry Pressed Lumber, in 
 the preparation of which they are specially fortunate and successful, was 
 also commendable. Mr. B. L. Anderson, the popular president of the com- 
 pany, is a pioneer in this branch of Chicago's trade, having been engaged in 
 the yard trade here for nearly twenty-five years. 
 
 The Garfield Manufacturing Company made a highly creditable showing 
 with their decorated wagons, and the musical bells with which one of their 
 vehicles was elaborately adorned chimed harmoniously with the music of 
 the bands. Theirs was one of the largest and most gracefully displayed 
 turnouts of the occasion, and afforded an illustration of the tact and enter- 
 prise of this prominent firm as displayed in the management of their exten- 
 sive manufacturing interests. 
 
THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. II3 
 
 Another interesting feature of the display, was the tasteful turnout of 
 Messrs. Moody & Waters, the well known enterprising manufacturers of 
 pies. This firm is one of the largest in the city, engaged in this line of busi- 
 ness, and their numerous delivery wagons dispensing their cargoes in all 
 portions of the city, is an index to their thriving prosperity and enterprise, 
 which were also clearly evinced by the quota which they furnished to the 
 procession. 
 
 Soper, Brainard & Co., the great lumber dealers, were well represented 
 by a fine deputation of wagons loaded with dressed lumber bearing some 
 very humorously appropriate inscriptions as " For new U. S. Capitol at Chi- 
 cago, Grant opening March, iSSi," and others, equally good. 
 
 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Co., was represented with 
 an imposing turnout bearing the motto, " We unite in welcoming the return 
 of America's hero and statesman, the honored guest of the world." In the 
 expression of this welcome the popular " Rock Island " Company uncon- 
 •sciously bestowed upon itself a well deserved compliment, in that the com- 
 mercial greatness of this Nation, for which the country's representative, when 
 abroad, was in no small degree honored is lai'gely due to the enterprise and 
 energy of that corporation. This great line has now in operation 1,400 
 miles of road, and is rapidly extending the lines and branches in all directions. 
 It is the direct route from Chicago to Peoria, Rock Island, Des I^Ioines, 
 (the capital of Iowa) Council Bluffs, Omaha, Atchison, Leavenworth, Kan- 
 sas City, Denver, Pueblo, San Francisco, and all points in Nebraska, Kansas, 
 Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, California, Oregon, and the West 
 and Southwest. This line is noted for the excellent equipment and perfect 
 management. The larger "portion of the line is laid with steel rails, and the 
 passenger cars are models of beauty and excellence. Palace sleeping cars, 
 and dining cars ( devoted exclusively to this purpose ) accompany all through 
 trains making a trip by this line over the broad prairies of Illinois and Iowa, 
 something to be always remembered with pleasure. 
 
 One of the most noticeable displays was that from the old pioneer oyster 
 Tnouse of A. Booth, which sent one six-horse and four four-horse wagons 
 adorned with pyramids of bivalves, and banks of shell oysters. 
 
 W. T. Allen & Co., wholesale grocers, made a fine showitig with six teams 
 •worthily representative of the extensive business carried on by this prosper- 
 >ous and enterprising firm. 
 
 Wm. M. Hoyt & Co., one of the heaviest wholesale grocer firms of the 
 (city, was appropriately represented. 
 
 Perry & Co., the extensive and long established dealers in stoves and 
 lieavy hardware sent four teams as their contribution to the cavalcade. 
 
 R. S. Peterson, of Rose Hill, contributed one four-horse and eight two- 
 !horse wagons each loaded with trees complete from root to branches, 
 bathed in evergreens. 
 
 Three two-horse teams and a brass band was the offering of J. W. Butler 
 & Co., one of Chicago's most extensive paper dealing firms. 
 
 Brintnall, Lamb & Co., the enterprising and prosperous hardware firm, 
 tendered a highly creditable factor to the procession. 
 
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il4 THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
 J. H. Huyck, the well known Manufacturer of Standard Extracts and 
 Colognes, sent a fitting and noteworthy tuj-nout. 
 
 The E. N. Welch Manufacturing Company, sent a large clock appropri 
 ately mounted 
 
 Edmanson Bros, evinced their patriotism by the pleasing combination 
 which they arranged to grace the triumph. 
 
 The Singer Sewing Machine Company sent a four-horse team, profusely 
 decorated with banners, bearing the names of General Grant's greatest bat- 
 tles, and a portrait of the General ; also a tandem team, and nine sewing 
 machine wagons. 
 
 Selz, Schwab & Co. were well represented by wagons, bearing samples 
 of their extensive manufactures in the line of boots and shoes. 
 
 W. T. Blackwell, the veteran Manufacturer of Durham Tobacco, con- 
 tributed an appropriate turnout, and also a thousand pounds of his justly 
 celebrated smoking tobacco, which was lavishly distributed amono- the 
 crowd. 
 
 The Singer & Talcott Stone Company, exhibited their enterprise by a 
 six-horse team, drawing an immense flat stone marked "Our Platform in 
 iSSo— Sohd." 
 
 Sprague, Warnes & Griswold, the grocer merchant princes, sent six 
 teams fittingly embellished. 
 
 Oberne, Hosick & Co., tanners furnished an extensive contribution of 
 teams loaded with green hides and bearing suggestive mottoes. 
 
 The Wilson Packing Company, a firm standing in the front rank in their 
 line of business, was equal to the occasion, and sent a highly commendable 
 delegation. 
 
 D. B. Scully, the prominent wholesale dealer in syrups sent a creditable 
 deputation. 
 
 T. H. Brown's novelty works contributed a handsomely decorated wagon 
 carrying a sulky, upon which was seated a small boy, name unknown. 
 
 The Illinois Central Railroad was represented in a fine showing. 
 
 The Chicago Shot Tower Compijny sent a ponderous six-horse team, bear- 
 ing a fine model of their tower and buildings. 
 
 The Pitt Manufacturing Company sent a full sized specimen of their su- 
 perior threshing machines. 
 
 Fairbanks, Morse & Co., western agents for the Fairbanks Scale Co., 
 furnished an elaborate and tastefully arranged outfit. 
 
 French, Potter & Wilson sent a splendid wagon bearing a crate of their 
 celebrated crockerv. 
 
 Steele & Price the baking powder firm of national reputation sent tliree 
 teams profusely decorated and bearing boxes of their elegant perfumes. 
 
 Scott & Co., the popular hatters, sent a mamoth beaver mounted upon a 
 wagon drawn by four horses. 
 
 Carson, Pirie & Scott, of wholesale dry goods fame, were represented in 
 a princely fashion by a number of profusely embellished teams. 
 
 The turn out of Culver, Page & Hoyne, the extensive wholesale stationer^, 
 was last but not least in this mammoth and memorable triumphal procession. 
 
THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. UC 
 
 THE RECEPTION COMMITTEES. 
 
 Committees .—The committees to whom were entrusted the arrange- 
 ment and execution of the Grant reception, comprise Chicago's most promi- 
 nent citizens, and some of lier staunchest business men; and to them must 
 be ascribed the magnificent success which crowned the Herculean under- 
 taking. 
 
 Below are given the names of the Chairman of the several committees, 
 and the names of the members comprising them : 
 
 Lieut- General Phil. H. Sheridan, Chief Marshal; Honorable Thos 
 Hojne, President; Honorable Geo. R. Davis, Secretary; W. H Bradley' 
 Treasurer. ^'' 
 
 Committee ox Address of Welcome .—Honorable Jas P Root 
 Chairman ; O. H. Horton, Wm. J. Campbell, E. A. Small, E. B. McGai-e 
 Honorable Wm. M. Robinson, Honorable Lambert Tree. 
 
 Committee on Invitations.— Honorable Elliot Anthonv, Chairman- 
 Honorable E. B. Washburn, Honorable Carter H. Harrison, Geo Armour' 
 Honorable Thos. Hojne, Honorable John A. Logan, Honorable John Went- 
 worth, T. T. Gurney, Jno. B. Drake, Marshall W. Carter, Marshall Field 
 Honorable J. Y. Scammon, Gurdon S. Hubbard, B. W. Raymond Louis 
 Hutt, Adolph Schoeninger, J. H. McAvoy, F. H. Winston, R. T. Crane F 
 V. Kellogg, Chas. Fargo, Maj. W. M. Taylor, Frank Parmelee, Adolph 
 George, Michael Keeley, Chas. E. Cook, General A. L. Chetlain Conrad 
 Furst, L. J. McCormick, Jos. Medill, Wm. Floto, Irus Coy, W. F'storv T 
 V. LeMoyne, Herman Raster, D. R. Cameron, E. M. Teall, W. K. Sulli'van 
 Dan'l Shepard, M. A. Delaney, Robt. T. Lincoln, H. G. Loomis, W. j! 
 Onahan. •' 
 
 Committee on Procession .—General Jos. Stockton, Chairman- Gen- 
 eral Jos. T. Torrence. Colonel E. D. Swain, General Herman Lieb, General 
 A. L. Chetlain, Colonel W. H. Thompson, General O. L. Mann, General 
 M. R. M. Wallace, Colonel Jas. Quirk, Capt. Jos. Nealie, Colonel Louis 
 Schaffner, Colonel S. B. Sherer. 
 
 Committee on Decorations : E. F. C. Klokke, Chairman ; Geo. M. 
 Pullman, Edgar Sanders, Louis Kurz, John Mattox, Potter Palmer Tno B 
 Jeffrey, R. W. Bates, Honorable Jas. P. "Root. 
 
 Finance Committee.— Hon. Wm. H. Bradley, Chairman; Geo. C. 
 Clark, L. Z. Leiter, Murray Nelson, Jesse Spalding, N. K. Fairbank, Enos 
 Ayers, T. W. Harvey, Wm. C. Seipp, Lyman J. Gage, Samuel W. Allerton, 
 Henry Corwith, J. K. Fisher, Perry. H. Smith, H. J. Willing, John O'Niell 
 John V. Farwell, Joel D. Harvey, Clinton Briggs, D. B. Fisk, John B. Lyon. 
 
 Committee on Transportation.— Honorable Perrv H. Smith Chair- 
 man, Marvin Hughitt, Joseph Tucker, C. W. Smith, J. C. McMullin, T. R 
 Chandler, W. W. Chandler. 
 
 Committee on Music— S. H. Kerfoot, Geo. F. Root, Christian Wahl, 
 John G. Shortall, J. L. Woodward. 
 
 Committee on Decoration of Shipping and Tugs.— Captain John 
 Prindeville, Chairman, T. M. Bradley, O. B. Green, Captain David bail, 
 Captam Wiley M. Egan, T. R.Jenkins, Major John T. Fitch. 
 
 Committee on Salute.— Honorable B. H. Campbell, Chairman, Col- 
 onel Francis Lackner, Capt. Wm. V. Jacobs, Wm. G. McCormack, Col. A. 
 C. Ellithorpe. 
 
 Committee of Reception.— Geo. Annan, Geo. Adams, W. K. Acker- 
 man, T. M. Averv, Wm. Aldrich, John Anderson, B. F. Aver, Isaac Arnold 
 Frank Adams, H. C. Aver, A. J. Avenll, T. S. Albright, C. G. Aver[ 
 Samuel Apph-ton, J. L. Allen, J. L. Beveridge, Thomas Brennan, Caspar 
 Butz, H. W. Blodgett, Wm. Blair, Frederick Baunian, John Buehler, Aug- 
 
tl6 THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
 ust Bauer, Wm. Bross, Joseph Blanchard, J. W. Brockwaj, H. W. Bishop, 
 Ir A. H. Blackall, J. B. Bradwell, Uh-ich Busch, John Brennock, T. B. 
 Blackstone, A. Baird, W. H. Bolton, W. H. Barnum, Hiram. J. Barber, Carl 
 Cur J. J. Borland, C. C. Bonney, S. E. Barrett, C. Beckwith, Geo. Blanke, 
 L. L. Bond, E L. Brown, Wm. Baker, Henry Booch, Ph. Bartholamse, H. 
 H. Babcock, Eli Bates, D. W. Bash, Alvert Boese, W. L. Barnum, L. H. 
 Bi'sbee, E. Burling, F L. Barrett, Theodore Blushardt, G. M. Boyne, Aug- 
 ust Beck, John R. Bensley, Rudolph Bie>ler, James Bradley, Jacob Boser, 
 Lorenz Brentano, Andrew Brown, E. B. Baldwin, W. T. Baker, Martin 
 Beem, J. Leroy Bennett, F. A. Bragg, Captain L. Bander, H. B. Brayton, 
 Lathrop Bryan, W. N. Brainard, Colonel Wesley Brainard, A. H. Burley, 
 Tudo-e Bailey, C. Busbv, J. Biedler, J. H. Brown, C. Bendley, J. Bueher, E. 
 Bo.riing, A. Booth, C." B Blair, E W. Blatchtbrd, J C. Brooks, A. M. Bil- 
 Hnc^s, G'' W. Barrett, T. Bass, M. Brand, H. Benze, P. Buscherah, J. I. Ben- 
 net't, J. Berfildt, I. W. Buel, A. B. Boldin, Jas. H. Bourn, Wm. A. Bond, D. 
 C Cregeir. A. L, Chetlain, S. B. Cobb, C. E. Coburn, B. C. Cook, C. R. 
 Corbin, B. H. Campbell, J. D. Caton, Paul Cornell, W. T. Collins, T. C. 
 Chandler, Alfred Coles, John Clough, Rich T. Crane, D. W. Clark, Wm. 
 Campbell, Alex Cook, E. B. Chandler, Robert Glark, John Campbell, H. Z. 
 Culver, Harvey Colvin, George. C. Clark, Marshall Carter, H. Clausemus, 
 R. S Critchell, E. D. Cook, D. R. Cameron, A. B. Condit, H. H. Cohn, 
 E W Chamberlain, John Crerar, John M. Clark, Nathan Corwith, G. W. 
 Couch, Eugene Carev, C E. Culver, T. B. Chase, J. S. Curtice, W. C. Car- 
 roll, E. B. Cook, Saniuel Collier, A. L. Coe, J. W. Connett, A. A. Cameron, 
 G. R Connerow, W. Chisholm, E. S. Chisburgh, J. Couch, H. Corwith, P. 
 M Clearv, F. L. Chase, C. H. Case, E. Cunn ngham, G. C. Campbell, A. C. 
 Calkms, C. A. Crook, C. E. Crook, W. W. Calkins, J. L. Campbell, A. Chasier, 
 M. E. Cole, G. L. Dunlap, Thomas Drummond, Duane Doty, A. Ducat, 
 Emil Deutsch, M. A. Delaney. George R. Davis, John B. Drake, James H. 
 Dole, Gustav Demai-s, Wirt DeV:ter,:0. P. Dickinson, Arthur Dixon, Jas. H. B. 
 Dalv" J. W. Crane, T. Lyle Dickey, John W. Durand, B. H. Dyer, S. K. Dow, 
 Emil Dreier, John DeKoven, J. H. Durham, C. H. Durphy, Asa Dow, E. 
 S. Drier, J. R. Doolittle, J. C. Dore, L. H. Davis, S. J. Doggett, Chas. M. 
 Dalv, J. A. Enander, Wm. J. Eschenburg, J. G. Everst, A. H. Eddy, H. M. 
 Eldridge, Thos. Egan, Arthur Erbe, Aid. J. D. Everett, H. F. Fames, J. A. 
 Ellis, Christian Erickson, John V. Farwell. H. W. Farran, Wm. Fitzgerald, 
 Wm Floto C B. Farwell, Conrad Folz, Jacob Frankenthal, W. W. Farwell, 
 D B Fisk' Conrad Furst, M. W. Fuller, N. K. Fairbanks, Ch. E. Felton, 
 W'm Forrest, A. B. Fiedler, Ch. H. Fargo, Marshall Field, J. R. Floyd, 
 John A. Farnsworth, W. A. Fuller, J. A. Fitch, Dr. D. B. Fonda, G. Fore- 
 man, F. Farnsworth, S. Florsheim, F. F. Curney, Joseph E. Gary, J. S. 
 Grinnell Geo. E. Gooch, Adolph George, Henrv Gleason, W. C. Goudy, 
 A T Gallowav, Jacob Gross, N. T. Gasette, R. W. Goodwille, B. G. Gill, 
 Victor Gerardin, W. C. Grav, Chas. Gossage, Frank Gilbert, Harley Green, 
 D. H. Gill, L. O. Gilman, Captain Gale, George Gardner, Lyman J. Gage, 
 S C Grio-o-s J. L. Galzert, W.C. D. Grannis, H. Greenebaum, J. O. Glover, 
 F S Gravt O. B. Green, A. Grannis, General C. Grover. Carter H. Harrison, 
 Monroe Heath, G. S. Hubbard, C. M. Henderson, A. Horton, J. J. Healy, 
 Washinoton Hesing, Max Hjorstsberg, John Hoftman, Gilbert Hubbard, 
 Chas. Hitchcock, C. N. Holden, Chas. Henrotin, R. C. Hamill, H. C. Hamil- 
 ton Seth Hanchett, V. S. Hurlbut, B. P. Hutchinson, Louis C Huck, Jesse 
 S Hildrup J D. Harvey, Dr. Hinckel, Ph. A. Hovne, J. L. High, Geo. M. 
 Hoftman, Captain Peter Hand, Patrick Howard, J. Hagson, Emil Hochster, 
 M. C. Hickev, John Hertino, Sol Hopkins, W.J. Hines, H. B. Hard, F. A. 
 Hoftman, Tames Hoge, J. R Haverlv, Hy C. Hill, Martin Howard, Thos. 
 Hovne, J. H. Hobbs, A. Hurlburt, S: Hoerd, H. N. Hills, W. M. Hoyt, A. 
 M. Herrin^rton, K. Hawes, E. H. Haddock, C. H. Howe, F. Hartwane, H, 
 Hi<^fnns, T. W. Higgins, A. Hart, W. D. Houghtelling, A. Holtinger, C. R. 
 Hemck, Henrv L. Heitz, P. L. Hawkinson, John W. Hersey, Captain F. 
 G. Hayne, Edmund Jusssen, John M- Jewett,John A. Jameson, J. R.Jones, 
 
THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. I17 
 
 A. Jacobson, David A. Jones, R. E. Jenkins, Wm. S. Johnson, H. A. John- 
 son, J. M. W.Jones, Wm. T.Johnston, T R. Jenkins, L. Jacobs, John T. 
 Jones, W. L. B.Jenny, tJ Johnston, J. D. Judson, O. R. Keith, J. C. Knick- 
 erbocker, S. H. Keribot, C. Kallednidt, Jas. S. Kirk, E. F. C. Klokke, Albert 
 Keep, Chas. Kern, T. H. Keith H. A. Kohn, Edson Keith, W. H. Kino-, 
 Fred Krambs, W. B. Keeler, L. J. Kadish, F. H. Kales, Thos. S. Kirkwood, 
 Miles Kehoe, Justus Killian, Peter Kiolbassa, O. E. F. Koeler, W." Kimball, 
 S. Knopf, S. Keith, A. Keith, J.J. Knickerbocker, John A. Logan, C. B. Law- 
 rence, L. Z. Leiter, E. C. Larned, Robt. T. Lincoln, B. Lowenthal, 
 Bei man Lieb, Victor F. Lawson, Henry J. Leuzen, C. R. Larrabee, J. m! 
 Loomis, Robert Law, Mason B. Loomis, Francis Lackner, Matthew Lafiin, 
 James R. Lake, J. B. Lake, Carl Laux, Nile Lindstrom, J. B. Lyon, Carl 
 Latz, Adolph Lobe R. Latholz, A. G. Lane, W. E. Lewis, Joseph Medill, C. 
 H. McCormick, W. K. McAllister, J. H. McVicker, Luther L. Mills, .S.'m! 
 Moore, Truman W. Miller, Andrew McNally, Rich Michaelis, John McCaf- 
 frey, J. T McCauley, F. Mahla, Franklin McVey, Patrick McCleary, A. B. 
 Mason, James Morgan, Thomas A. Moran, Simon Mever, B. V. Monroe, 
 C. Mears, Frank Milligan, B. D. McGruder, H. J. McFafland, Adolph Moses| 
 Stewart Marks, M. J. McGrath, E. B. McCagg, John A. McDonald, B. S. 
 Morris, Simon Mandel, John H. McArthur, Fred Marcus, F. Modlener, John 
 Mattock, O. L. Mann, George Muirhead, A. H. Morrison, Geo Mason, Otto 
 Matz, John McEwen, August Meyer, Adam Miller, Samuel Medill, Henry 
 Mengel, M. A. Morse, Emil Manhardt. James N. Munn, J. H. Manning, W. 
 H. Miller, D. W. Munn, Carl C. Mueller, Nathan Mears, L. H. McCrea, 
 Harvey G. Miller, A. A. Munger, A. B. Meeker, J. T. McAuley, A. Mills, 
 B. McVicker, M. A. Meyer, J. McKinley, J. A. Markley, J. Miller ,T. Mackin, 
 N. Matson, C. R. Matson, A. Mueller, R.J. McBride, D. W. Mitchell, Wil- 
 liam Penn Nixon, S. M Nickerson, C. B. Nelson, A. M. Nevmann, J. C. 
 Neeley, John T. Noyes, W. R. Nixon, H. C. Norris, Andrew Nelson, Wil- 
 liam J. Onahan, J. E. Owsley, L. B. Otis, M. D. Ogden, W. H. Ovington, 
 G. M. Pullman, C. D. Peacock, E. M. Peace, Ferdinand Peck, C. F. Pietzsch, 
 Potter Palmer, F. W. Palmer, Thomas E. Patterson, C. F. Peterson, G. A. 
 Pierce, R. N. Pardee, D. K. Pearson, C. Price. Max Pollachek, M. M. Pow- 
 ell, William Prescott, George Prussing, L. Proudfoot, R. N. Pearson, Wil- 
 liam Pynchon, G. L. Paddock, Gill A. Pierce, E. C. Pope, D W. Pa^re, H. 
 Potwin, F. B. Peabody, W. W. Phelps, W. F. Poole, E. W. Peet, Homer 
 Potwin, W. C. Parker,"'B. Quirk, James Quirk, J. H. Rees, Herman Raster, 
 Julius Rosenthal, J. G. Rogers, J. T. Rawleigh, James P. Root, H. N. Rust, 
 Julian S. Rumsey, Joseph Reynolds, Hugh Riddle, John M. Rountree, I. P. 
 Rumsey, Charles Randolph, Charles Reno, Charles H. Reed, O. E. Roler, 
 Jacob Rosenberg, Charles H. Rand, J. P. Reynolds, J. C. Reichberg, John 
 Relphs, S. D. Rawson, P. W. Raymond, W. H. Reed, J. A. Roche, A. N. 
 Reene, J. F. Ryerson, J. O. Ru^er, G. F. Rumsey, M. W. Robinson, F. K. 
 Root, George Rahlfs, Peter Schuttler, Perry H. Smith, George Schneider, 
 W. F. Storey, John Stephens, A. A. Sprague, W. E. Strong, Andrew Shu- 
 man, Louis Schaftner, S. G. Seaton, A. C. Senne, M. C. Stearns, Joseph 
 Stockton, Theodore Schintz, W. K. Sullivan, E. A. Small, Sidney Smith, 
 Anson Stager, Mark Skinner, M. W. Squires, William C Seijj, Frank 
 Schweinfurth, M. Selz, J. W. Shetan, Daniel Scully George W. Spofford, D. 
 J. Sweeney, William Stewart, Gen. S. B. Sherer, Colonel E S. Swain, 
 Daniel Shepherd, John B. Seerman, Leonard Swett, William Henry Smith, 
 I. N. Stiles, D. L. Shorey, Phillip Stein, R. W. Snnth, Sol. A. Smith, C. 
 Schutte, E. B. Sherman. Max Stern, Walter B. Scates, Colonel Owen Stuart, 
 Frank T. Sherman, John F. Scanlon, George W. Smith, John F. Stuart, C. 
 J. Sundell, Emory A Storrs, D. B. Shipman, P. A. Sundelins, George Sher- 
 wood, C. S. Squiers, P. Schoenhofler, John Southworth, H. M. Singer, Hon. 
 John Stillwell, Wiles S. Scribner, fohn G. Shortall, Ira Scott, John W. 
 Stewart, J. Y. Scammon. George B Swift, G. Struckman, F. J. Smith, O. S. 
 Sprague, John W. Smythe, M. E Stone, Gray Scott, S. Sturgis, G. Sturgis, 
 Sabin Smith, F. Sturgis, L. Silverman, E. H. Shelden, F. C. Smith, A. J. 
 
Il8 THE GRANT RECEPTION MONOGRAPH. 
 
 Snell, C. Schuth, C. A. Street, C. S. Stettauer, J. Stettauer, J Summerfield 
 K. G, Schmidt, H. E. Seelej, Peter Swanoe, Lyman Trumbull, V. C. 
 Turner, M F. Tulej, Abner Taylor, Fred. Tuttle Jerry Terwil- 
 iger, John Thompson, E. H Talbott, R. S. Tuthill, J. L. Trumbull, 
 H. II Thomas, D K. Tenny, W. H. Thompson, A. G. Throop, J. A. Tyr- 
 rell, E. D. Taylor, L. Tree, Captain Tobey, E S. Taylor, Major O M Taylor 
 Clark W. Upton, Benjamin W. Underwood, Chas Vergho. J. M. Van Osdell,. 
 Wm. Vocke, J Van Inwagen, Henry Volk, A. H. Veeder, John Vander- 
 pool, S. Van Benscholton, E. B. Washburne, Christian Wahl John R. 
 Walsh, John Wentworth, W. H. Wood, M. D. Wells, M. R. M. Wallace, 
 Norman Williams, Henry Waller, J. M. Wilson, J. E. White, Geo. E White 
 A. M. Wright, Colonel A. N. Waterman, Emil Wilke, James M. Walker, 
 E S Williams, Charles S. Waller, Adam Weckler, John Wilkinson, J. F. 
 Wethrow, Willard Woodard, S. N. Wilcox, E. E. Wood, George Webber, 
 Julius White, George T. Williams, William E. Wheeler, P. Wetterer, Wm. 
 E. Waite, George A. Weiss, John A. Wilion, E. C. Waller, James H. 
 Walker, E. T. Watkins, Honorable J. G. Wilson, W. Whitehouse. R S. 
 Williams, Colonel L. H. Whitney, H. Whettemore, Honorable Moses Went- 
 worth, P. L. Zoe. 
 
CARDS OF LEADING CHICAGO HOUSES. 
 
 119 
 
 PRESTON, KEAN & CO., 
 BANKERS, 
 
 100 E. Washington Street, ChicagfO. 
 Deal 11 u. s. bonds and other go 'd in- 
 vestment SECtiKiTiEs, includinif Town, 
 County, City and School 5, 6, 7 and 8 per 
 cent, bonds. Draw bills of exchange on 
 London, Paris, Berlin, and other Europtan 
 citie.. Make cable transfeks, and fur- 
 nish LETTERS OF CREDIT to travelers. 
 
 FIRST NATIONAL BANK 
 Do A General Banking Business, 
 Buy and Sell U. S. Bonds. Dealers in For- 
 eign Exchange. 
 
 GREGORY, COOLEY & CO. 
 
 Commission Dealers in Live Stock, 
 
 Room 5S Exchange Building, 
 
 Union Stock Yards. 
 
 ~~ L E W I S H U T T , 
 
 dealer in 
 LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES, 
 
 Grove Street, Footof'igth. 
 
 ' C. M. HENDERSON & CO. 
 
 Manufacturers of and Jobbers of 
 
 BOOTS AND SHOES. 
 Corner Monroe and Franklin Sts. 
 
 Established in 1853. 
 RUMSEY BROS. & CO., 
 Commission Merchants, 
 
 Grain and Provisions. 
 
 "" SWEET, DEMPSTER & CO., 
 
 Hats, Caps, Furs, 
 
 Straw Goods, Buck Gloves, Mittens, Etc. 
 
 216 and 2i3 Monroe Street. 
 
 *" MICHAEL GREENBAUM, 
 
 agent. 
 
 Iron, Stfkl and Heavy Hardware. 
 
 Wagon and Carriage Stock, 
 
 Wheeling Nails. 
 
 M»DONALD & ROE, 
 
 dealeks in 
 
 LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES, ETC. 
 
 C(jr. Buach and H .rri-on Sis., West 
 
 end Harrison St. Bi idge. 
 
 r PHILIP A. HOYNE, 
 
 Commissioner of Deeds for Every 
 
 State and Terkitoky. 
 
 (j. S. Commissioner, Comiiii sioner of U. S. 
 
 Court of Claims an ^ Passport Agen^. 
 
 CHARLES RAY & CO., 
 
 Suf•ce^sors 10 SteV' ns, Deane & Co. 
 
 Commission Merchants, Grain and 
 
 Pkovi-^ions. 
 23 Chamber of Commcrc , Chic'go. 
 
 I Chamber of Commerce, M Iwaukee. 
 
 SMITH & LIGHT NER, 
 Commission Merchants, Grain & Provisions, 
 128 LxSalle St. 
 References— John DiKovm, Esq., Hugh 
 Adams, Esq., Muns/cr, Whe'ler & Co., 
 Nor hwestern National B nk, Perry H. 
 Smith, Esq., G. L. Dunlap, Esq. 
 
 FULLER & FULLER, 
 Wholesale Druggists, 
 
 22, 24, and 26 Market Street. 
 
 HAIR & ODIORNE, 
 
 LUM B eR, 
 
 Paulina Street, Sonth of 22d Street. 
 
 ~ JOHN SHERIFFS & SON, 
 Dealers in 
 Saginaw Lumber, 
 Corner Beach and Taylor Sts. 
 
 W. W. KIMBALL, 
 
 Manfr. and 
 
 Dealer in Pianos, Organs. 
 
 Cor. State & Adams Sts.j 
 
 SHUMWAY, BURGESS & CO., 
 
 Bolt Manufacturers, 
 
 Cor. Michigan and Franklin Sts. 
 
 THE INTER OCEAN. 
 The Leading Republican Newspaper. 
 20 cents per Week, 
 
 85 cents per Month. 
 
 WOOD BROS., 
 
 Commission Merchants, 
 
 For the sale of all kinds of Live Stock. 
 
 Union Stock Yards. 
 
 BARNUM BROS., 
 Importers and Jobbers in Notions and Drug- 
 gists' Sundries, Toys and F ncy Goods, 
 113 and 115 Wabash Ave, 
 
 DAKE bakery. 
 BLAKE, SHAW & CO., 
 
 Manufacturers of Crackers. 
 N08. 24 and 26 N. Clinton St., 
 
 And 195 to 202 Clark St 
 
 CHARLES J. L. MEYER, 
 
 Manufacturer of 
 
 Sash, Doors, Winds, Mould iugs, Lumber, 
 
 Lath and Shingles, 
 
 Office, North Pier, foot of Michigan St. 
 
 The H. WITBECK COMPANY, 
 
 Manufacturers an 1 Dealers in 
 
 LUMBER, LATH. SHINGLES, ETC. 
 
 Yard and Office, 
 
 • 310 West 23d Street. 
 
 CULVER & CO., 
 
 Commission Mekchavts, 
 122 and 124 Washington St., Chicago. 93 
 Michiu-an Si., Milwaukee. Room 3 Mer- 
 chants" Exchange, Kansas City. 
 
 Advances made on Consignments. 
 
 Established in iS;?. 
 
 P. M O R A N .< CO. 
 
 Commission Mercbanls. Dairy Products a 
 
 Speciilt''. Consignments Solicit d 
 
 Orders to purchase Grain, Provisions Etc., 
 
 will receive prompt attention. 
 
 107 ;iJid 109 S. Water Si. 
 
I20 
 
 CARDS OF LEADING CHICAGO HOUSES. 
 
 \VM. T. ALLEN & CO., 
 
 Successors to Day, Allen & Co. 
 
 Wholksale Grocers, 
 
 Importers of Teas and Dealers in Fancy 
 
 Groceries. 
 
 67, 69 and 71 Wabash Ave., 
 
 And 34 and 36 Randolph St. 
 
 FIELDHOUSE, DUTCHER & BELDEN 
 
 Manufacturers of 
 
 Wrought Iron Pipe, Fitting-s, Globe Valves, 
 
 Brass Goods, Pumps, Registers, etc. 
 
 Works, 109 S. Canal St. 
 
 """gOLDMAN BOOT & SHOE CO., 
 
 Manufacturers of 
 
 Chicago Hand- Made Goods, 
 
 38 Madison St. 
 
 Branch, Louisville, Ky. 
 
 G. HETZEL & CO.. 
 
 Manufacturers of their Exclusior Brand of 
 
 MINCE MEAT, 
 
 Jellies, Fruit Butter, Etc. 
 
 30 S. Market St. 
 
 DEWEY & CO., 
 
 COAL AND PIG IRON, 
 
 27 Kingsbury St. 
 
 HENRY MARTIN, 
 
 AGENT 
 
 UNION CEMENT CO. 
 Akron and Buffalo Cement, Portland Ce- 
 ment, Michigan and New York 
 Stuccco, Hair Etc. 
 98 Market "St. 
 
 ROBERTLAW, 
 Wholesale Dealer in Lackawana, Lehigh, 
 Blossburgh and Briar Hill Coal. 
 Offices; — zSo Madison St. V26 So. Clark 
 St. 300 Lumber St., and North Pier. 
 
 STOVE REPAIRS. 
 ' Repairs for Stoves made at Troy, Albany, 
 Rochester, Cleveland, Buffalo, St. Louis, 
 Quincy, Chicago, Milwaukee, and else- 
 where, at 
 
 W. C. METZER'S, 
 
 127 W. Randolph St 
 
 HIBBARD, SPENCER & CO., 
 
 Jobbers of 
 
 Tinners, Stock, Hardware, Nails, 
 
 Cutlery and Agricultural Implements. 
 
 Lake St., and Wab.-ish Ave. 
 
 THE CHICAGO LEGAL NEWS CO. 
 Printing, Stereotyping, 
 
 Binding and Blanks. 
 47 and 49 - Dearborn St. 
 
 JAME S H. RICE, 
 
 Importer of 
 
 Polished, Rou'.h and Crystal Plate, 
 
 English, French and American Window 
 
 Glass, French Mirrors, Cut and 
 
 Enameled Glass. 
 
 80 and 82 . Adams St. 
 
 DEVINE'S 
 STEAM BOILER WORKS. 
 
 Manufactiire all kinds of Marine, Locomo- 
 tive and Tubular Boilers. 
 59 to 63 W. Polk St. 
 
 JONES & LAUGHLINS, 
 
 Manufacturers of 
 
 Iron, Nails, Spikes, Cold Rolled 
 
 Shafting, Etc. 
 
 Dealers in Steel, Heavy Hardware, etc. etc 
 
 Corner Jackson and Canal Sts. 
 
 The LUDDINGTON, WELLS & VAN 
 SCHAICK COMPANY, 
 Lumber Manufacturers, 
 Mills, Menomonee, Mich. 
 
 Office, 244 South Water St. 
 
 S. D. KIMBARK, 
 
 Iron, Steel, Nails, 
 
 Carriage and Heavy Hardware, Trimmings 
 
 and Wood Materials. 
 
 80, 82 and 84 Michcihigan Ave. 
 
 WESTERN COFFEE & SPICE MILLS 
 
 38, 40 .t 42 So. Water St. 
 
 THOMSON & TAYLOR. 
 
 Manufacturers for the Jobbing Trade 
 
 exclusivelv. 
 
 JOHN C. NEEMES, 
 
 Manufacturing Confectioner, 
 
 28, 30, 32 & 34 Michigan Ave. 
 
 LIBBY, McNEIL & LIBBY'S 
 
 Cooked Meats 
 
 In Hermetically Sealed Cans. 
 
 Compressed 
 
 Corned Beef, Beef Tongue, Turkey and 
 
 Tongue, Boneless Turkey and 
 
 Lunch Tongues. 
 
 Establislied 1849. 
 
 M. SHIELDS, 
 
 (Successor to Dawson & Shields.^ 
 
 WHOLESALE CONFECTIONER, 
 
 43 & 45 State St. 
 
 PARKHURST & \yiLKINSON, 
 
 Dealers in 
 
 Iron, Steel, Heavy Hardware, Wagon 
 
 and Carriage Wood Stock and 
 
 Trimmings. 
 
 184 to 190 Lake St. 
 
 j7b, TASCOTT & SONS, 
 
 Manufacturers of 
 Tascott's Enamel Paint, 
 
 Write for Sample Card, 
 ig and 21 South Canal Street 
 
 BRADNER, SMITH & CO., 
 Paper Makers, 
 119 Monroe Street, 
 
 2, 4, 6 and 8 Custom-House Place 
 
 ~ CHAS. GOSSAGE & CO., 
 
 106, 108 and no State St., 
 
 56, 58, 60 and 62 ^Vashin^ton St. 
 Dry Goods, Carpeting, Upholstery, 
 Fine Shoes. 
 Mail Orders Filled Subject to Approval. 
 
 KIRK'S SOAPS 
 
 Recognized in all Markets of this Country 
 
 as the Standard of Excellence, for 
 
 Absolute Puritv, Real Worth 
 
 and Genuine Washing Qualities. 
 
CARDS OF LEADING CHICAGO HOUSES. 
 
 121 
 
 THE CHICAGO GROCER. 
 
 Independt nt, reliable and popular. 
 
 The Western Retail Merchants' Journal. 
 A 33 page weekly. Si. 50 per annum. 
 
 WILSON BROS., 
 
 Importers and Jobbers ol 
 
 Men's Fine Furnishing Goods. 
 
 And Manufacturers of 
 
 SHIRTS. 
 
 Larffe Stocks on hand and orders promptly 
 
 filled. 
 
 113 Stats Street 115 
 
 GOSS & PHILLIPS MFG. CO., 
 Manufacturers of 
 Sash, Doors and Blinds, 
 
 Stair Work, Mouldings, Etc. 
 
 All descriptions of House Finish, 
 
 Dialers in 
 
 LUMBER, LATH and SHINGLES. 
 
 West 32d Cor. Fisk St. 
 
 P. C. HANFORD & CO., 
 
 Manufacturers' and Kefiners' Wholesale 
 Agents for Standard lUuminatina: and Lu- 
 bricating- Oils, White Lead, Varnishes, 
 Glass, Axle Grease, Turpentine, Rosin, etc. 
 I, 3 & S Wabash Ave. 
 
 HUGH TEMPLETON, 
 
 Wholesale Baker, 
 
 313 Randolph St. 
 
 Manufactures every variety of Chicago 
 
 Crackers. Kenosha, Graham and 
 
 Milk a Specialty, 
 
 " SCOTT & CO., 
 
 WHOLESALE & RETAIL HATTERS, 
 
 135 and 137 Madison Street, near Clark. 
 
 Branch Stores, Cor. Lake and Clark Sts., 
 
 Cor. Halsted and Harrison Sts. 
 
 Grant's Tour Around the World. 
 The only Grant's Tour readv for delivery. 
 Fifteen thousand now ready. Contains tull and 
 graphic description of Gt-n. Grant's rece' tion 
 ■in all the cities he has visited in Europe and 
 Asia, and includes receptions in California. 
 Every person should possess this account of 
 the most remarkable tour on record. One 
 1. rg-i' octavo volume. Nearly 450 pages, 25 
 illustrations. Price $2. Agents wanted. 
 Sendfor terms. J. FAIRBANKS & CO., 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 GUSHING, THOMAS & CO., 
 
 steam printers. 
 
 Book Binders, & Blank Book Manufacturers 
 
 163 & 165 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 
 
 A. B. MEEKER & CO., 
 
 93 Dearborn St. 
 
 Pig Iron and Rails. 
 
 A full stock always on hand at current 
 
 market rates. 
 
 HANNAH, LAY & CO., 
 
 Lumber Manufacturers and Dealers. 
 
 Planing a Specialty. 
 
 Office and Yard 7S Lumber St. 
 
 THE DRUGGIST 
 
 AND 
 
 PAINT AND OIL REVIEW, 
 
 41 WABASH AVE. 
 
 H. H. Chandler, G. P. Engelhard, 
 Manager, Editor. 
 
 The leading Pharmaceutical Journal of the 
 West. 
 
 JULIUS BAUER & CO., 
 
 Pianos, Organs, and 
 
 MUSICAL MERCHANDISE, 
 
 184 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 THE 
 
 National I>ife Insurance Co., U. S, A, 
 
 Capital $1,000,000 full paid 
 Chartered by Congress. 
 
 157 to 163 La Salle St, 
 
 ADVERTISE in theI'TNTER-OCEAN," 
 Leading Republican paper of the West. 
 L. E. Adams, Agent, 
 Also Gen. Advertising Agent, 
 
 154 Madison St. 
 
 AGENTS WANTED. 
 Canvassers and dealers in town and coun- 
 try to sell new styles handkerchiefs, size 
 18x18 inches, put up in packages of one doz- 
 en, assorted patterns; $500 can be made in 
 the next ninety days selling them, as every 
 family "ill buy from one to six dozen when 
 they see them and hear the price. A pack- 
 age of twelve handkerchiefs, showing just 
 what they are, wilh wholesale price list, 
 sent by mail for eight 3-ccnt stamps; no at- 
 tention paid to postals in fhe future. 
 WM, N.WISEMAN, 
 
 Box 125, Chicgao, EI,