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killing his fellow-citizens in a civil war, all traces of 

 which America wishes to obliterate, but upon the words 

 he said now and then. His "Push things!" will influ- 

 ence Americans when Vicksburg shall be forgotten. 

 " I propose to fight it out on this line " will be part of 

 the language when few will remember when it was 

 spoken ; and '■'■ Let us have peace " is Grant's most last- 

 ing monument. Truly, both the pen and the tongue 

 are mightier than the sword ! 



The drive from Warwick to Leamington is famous, 

 but not comparable to that between Leamington and 

 Coventry. Nowhere else can be found such an avenue 

 of stately trees; for many miles a strip about two hun- 

 dred feet wide on both sides of the road is wooded. In 

 passing through this plantation many a time did we 

 bless the good, kind, thoughtful soul who generations 

 ago laid posterity under so great an obligation. Dead 

 and gone, his name known to the local antiquary and 

 appreciated by a few of the district, but never heard of 

 beyond it. "So shines a good deed in a naughty world." 

 Receive the warm thanks and God bless you of pilgrims 

 from a land now containing the majority of the Eng- 

 lish-speaking races, which was not even born when you 

 planted these stately trees. Americans come to bless 

 your memory ; for what says Sujata: 



" For holy books teach when a man shall plant 

 Trees for the travellers' shade, and dig a well 

 For the folks' comfort, and beget a son, 

 It shall be good for such after their death." 



