i8o Grant 



guard. While an armed foe was in the field, it never 

 occurred to Grant that any question could be so im 

 portant as his overthrow. He felt nothing but impa 

 tient contempt for the weak souls who wished to 

 hold parley with the enemy while that enemy was 

 still capable of resistance. 



There is a fine lesson in this to the people who 

 have been asking us to invite the certain destruction 

 of our power in the Philippines, and therefore the 

 certain destruction of the islands themselves, by 

 putting any concession on our part ahead of the duty 

 of reducing the islands to quiet at all costs and of 

 stamping out the last embers of armed resistance. At 

 the time of the Civil War the only way to secure 

 peace was to fight for it, and it would have been a 

 crime against humanity to have stopped fighting be 

 fore peace was conquered. So in the far less impor 

 tant, but still very important, crisis which confronts 

 us to-day, it would be a crime against humanity if, 

 whether from weakness or from mistaken sentimen- 

 talism, we failed to perceive that in the Philippines 

 the all-important duty is to restore order; because 

 peace, and the gradually increasing measure of self- 

 government for the islands which will follow peace, 

 can only come when armed resistance has completely 

 vanished. 



Grant was no- brawler, no lover o>f fighting for 

 fighting's sake. He was a plain, quiet man, not 



