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120 GRANT AND LINOOLiN. took the hand of another great general, (R. E. Lee), at Appomattox, and who told the surrendering soldiers to take their horses and mules home so they could have a stake to commence Mf e with, retired to civil hf e, notwithstanding he had an army of devoted soldiers who at his hidding could and would have con- fiscated the lands and stock of the subjugated states. He later as President of the United States, did all in his power to protect the South from the vultures. denoted "Carpet Baggers." All haU Grant! What a pair they make when they stand side by side,-^Liincoln and Grant, — the civil and military! No controversy ever will arise relative to the genealogical tree of the Abraham of modern times. It does not require a Genesis to recite who begat "Abe"; but he, like his general was given a chance, and of the result all nations are informed. There is another lowly character who was scoffed at while living; he was as poor as poor can be, and so wrought up were the stupid people that they actually accused him of treason and dragged him before the chief magistrate; and he, although fully realizing thai; no offense had been committed, yet for the reason that the accused one had no funds with whidi to retain counsel and grease the machinery of the Jus- tice mill, and being unable to deliver material favcws, the' court waived jurisdiction and permitted the daft rabble to give the man a trial by ordeal, and yon know how they nailed him to chunks of wood and taunted him about his character, and yet this same man is now talked about, his name being upon the tongues of mUlioas. And what did they kill him for?