Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-06-03
TEE NEWS.

We once used the expression that Grant
was rearing his ladder against Richmond -
We like the alluSiOn better than at first He
is on the ladder and making good Roadway.
Have you ever seen in the gymnasium the
ascension process known as hand over
hand" That is Grants. lie is doing lust
that, mark it. He makes a strong grasp of
the round on which he is to swing forward,
then leaves it completely to swing boldly up
on the next. No brcathesS dangling between
bat steady, strong, resis,less sweep to-
ward the end. He left Washington and
ciutched his first rounds so stoutly that Lee
did not attempt to check him until midway
the ladder. How he succeeded is recorded
in the week Of battles that brought our army
out Of the Wilderness. There Grant grasped
at the next round of the ladder. leaving all
behind him to the play of lesser eymnaSts.
He fastened himself on the shortened land
communications by Fredericksburg, utterly
abandoning the railroad route by Manassas
A little ull in arms, and by this new line our
many thousand wounded were all sent up to
hospitals AID well cared for, our prisoners
sent to safe quarters, our rations rcplenished,
and cartridge boxes filed, and then the strong
athlete gathered himself for another swing.
lie has done it grandly. He has now car.
ried himself to new point Of progress,
where he clings with faster hold than before
Go in, Mostly. Burn, kill and destroy, rough
riders in bu,ternut. You can harm the V r.
ginia scheme no more by raids on our late
Fredericksburg and Aqua Greek line, than
could you on the far off Indian border -
Grant has fast hold on the new round at Port
Royal on the Rappahannock. Thither flock
the gunboats and the transports, aud swing
ing from this new point, the army will soon
get fast hold further on, when in its turn
Port Royal and the Rappahannock will be
left to whom it may concern. The next round
to be grasped will be West Point, at the
mouth OF the Panunky, unless now comes
the final, .rcsistless swing clear into Rich.
mond. This is Grants "hand over hand "
process. I'D. ...a..-. .
But mark how splenddly it is being done
Were it to end now in defeat on the South
Anna, not the CRIME and stain of battle
lost could smear out the glorious achieve
meats already reached. There is poin!
where, though the strong gymnast drops
spent and brcathless, applause goes up from
the lockers On. The laurels are dea:ifless,
won at Wilderness, Spottsylvania, and in the
mastery opening of new base of supplies
from Port Royal on the Rappahannock. But
We have compared great things with the i'm.
measurably less. These operations have been
in the highest range of intellect and strategy
| They will become part.of the future text
books of the art Of war. There have been
sharp magnificent collisions, as the lists o.
casualties attest, but the grandest spectacle
of all has been the struggle Of intelltc
against intellect by these two great masters
in the art of war, Lee thus far losing heavily
in the game, both in men and positions -
Our dispatches prepare usto believe that tht
great combat is now opened on the bank Of
the South Anna. lee knows he is lost i
once enclosed within the defences of Rich
mond, and the gage Of battle is offered anC
taken without reserve, while the nation
stand GREATNESS spectators Of battle OF
whose issue hang mighty events. God
| Grant Victory" is at once a prayer an'
watchword for the momentous hour.-Chi
aago Tribune. .....