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seeking for glory; but a man who, when aroused, 

 was always in deadly earnest, and who never shrank 

 from duty. He was slow to strike, but he never 

 struck softly. He was not in the least of the type 

 which gets up mass-meetings, makes inflammatory 

 speeches or passes inflammatory resolutions, and 

 then permits over-forcible talk to be followed by over- 

 feeble action. His promise squared with his per 

 formance. His deeds made good his words. He 

 did not denounce an evil in strained and hyperbolic 

 language ; but when he did denounce it, he strove to 

 make his denunciation effective by his action. He 

 did not plunge lightly into war, but once in, he saw 

 the war through, and when it was over, it was over 

 entirely. Unsparing in battle, he was very merciful 

 in victory. There was no let-up in his grim attack, 

 his grim pursuit, until the last body of armed foes 

 surrendered. But that feat once accomplished, his 

 first thought was for the valiant defeated ; to let them 

 take back their horses to their little homes because 

 they would need them to work on their farms. 

 Grant, the champion whose sword was sharpest in 

 the great fight for liberty, was no less sternly in 

 sistent upon the need of order and of obedience to 

 law. No stouter foe of anarchy in every form ever 

 lived within our borders. The man who more than 

 any other, save Lincoln, had changed us into a na 

 tion whose citizens were all freemen, realized en- 



