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met except at the reception given to Grant at the house of the American Minister.
There the crowd was so great that no especial conversation was possible, so that Grant never got a chance to see much of his great English compeer.
Among Gladstone's highest claims to honor hereafter will be the fact that he avoided war with America by consenting to atone for a national wrong, while the glory of settling peacefully a tremendous difference with to us at least the most important of modern nations will be Grant's greatest proof of statesmanship.
For given all the honor they deserve to Fish and Schenck and Evarts and Bancroft Davis and Cushing and Waite—and no other Americans have earned equal credit in our day for any single act of civil life—still Grant was the head; it was for him always to decide.
If he had been backward or uncertain, if he had failed in judgment or nerve or sagacity or decision—the achievement would have been impossible.
If there were no other measure of his Administration worthy of praise, this one makes it well for America that Grant was President
S. S. Scranton and Co., Hartford, 1887.
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