. A tour around the world by General Grant. Being a narrative of the incidents and events of his journey . reception in India. It was pleasant for us to meet in LordLytton a nobleman who not only knew America in a public way,but had a familiar acquaintance with Washington City. TheCapital when Lord Lytton lived there and the Capital to-day are,as the General told the Viceroy, very much changed. The floodhas come. The Viceroy spoke of Everett and Webster and 590 AROUND THE WORLD. Clay and the. men he knew; of ladies and gentlemen who flour-ished under Tyler and Fillmore, and were leaders of soc
. A tour around the world by General Grant. Being a narrative of the incidents and events of his journey . reception in India. It was pleasant for us to meet in LordLytton a nobleman who not only knew America in a public way,but had a familiar acquaintance with Washington City. TheCapital when Lord Lytton lived there and the Capital to-day are,as the General told the Viceroy, very much changed. The floodhas come. The Viceroy spoke of Everett and Webster and 590 AROUND THE WORLD. Clay and the. men he knew; of ladies and gentlemen who flour-ished under Tyler and Fillmore, and were leaders of society, butwho have vanished. It was pleasant to hear the Viceroy speakwith so much cordiality and good feeling and appreciation ofAmerica, and when our talk ran into political questions at home,and party lines, it was gratifying to hear him say that he couldnot comprehend how an American who believed in his countrycould sustain any policy that did not confirm and consolidate theresults of the war. Whatever the merits of the war in the begin-ing, the end was to make America an empire, to put our country.
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