Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-03-18
Here WorahIp.

GnAEaCtet uVte HnINeEseI lnAu- any oLnerI
it must be the blind resolution continually
exhibited 10 make somebOdy 8 hero. l,
has been 50 all tbrOsgh the var. When.
ever anybody, BY good management OF
good luck achieved victory of moderate
dimensions, forthwith all the newspapers
and ueWEpaper correspondents, and yearly
all those who read neWspHpsrs, vent Sys-
tsmaticSlly and peTsisIentIy TO work 70
praise him and make hero ont of him
Thus they rnissd public expectation to s0eh
pitch that the least lapse Of their hero
ruiDed him, add be had to give usy TO
some one else destined to similar expert.
snee.
Just nov the popular hero is General
Grant-jast IS it vas At one time Gen.
NecIeiIGO, Al another, Gen Pope, aud At
another Gen. RoBeeraus. The nevspapsrs
cannot praise him enough, and the bigbsSt
boa0rs in the gift of Congress are freely
bestowed upon him. His commentators.
TOO, is in the mouths of all the people
In respect of It's justice We fiud no fault
with ali this. Gen. Grant has won a clear
title TO the profound gratitude of every one
who wishes the success Of the Union; and
we accord him most heartily aud cordially
all the thanks and hOnors that can be fitly
bestowed on any one; and eertaiuly he
Wears his honors medestly aud more like
atrue hero than any one who has preceded
him. Yet the people and the public press
go to extremes 10 their laudation. IL has
been said that we ought never praise 4
man till he is dead. Within certain limits
this maxim is just. We ought, under NO
circumstances, praise man sztravaSantly
until he is dead. Then he is beyond the
reach Of circumStancss; but until man is
buried We never know what he may do.
EzIravagsut laudationr as general
thing needs bat little aid from untovard
circumstances TO bring about reaction.
followed by extravagant abuse. This fs
the paturalfesult ofexciting unreasonable
expectation. The public soon wearies Of
pFSising any one. Some lit4le misfortune.
totally unavoidable, it may be, places the
popular hero uuder cloud. Pickle public
sentiment is dissatisfied, then disappointed.
then cast down, then diSpIeAssd, and 80 on
BY grAdhtiOoS tilt IL becomes eIauorous
for some one else Of whom 70 make hero;
and It's earlier idol is forgotten and con.
Sigued 70 obseurity OF sent TO the north
WsSt 70 eight the Indians.
The average American character, I,
must be confessed, IGcks something Of
S'sadineSs. We are too exsitabls; toe
Su6jectto fluctuations; too easily elated
and too soon cast down. We do not e1
-hi6tt the steadinesS OF such An abidipo
confidence 10 ultimate success as oul
Chancss of success aud the justice of GU,
cause sntitls Us to feel
We desire not to be misunderstood il
Onr alluSionS to General Grant. We dc
not mean to intimate any lack of faith il
him. From what be has done-from the
way he keeps his sesrets-from the IN.
doubted earneStness with which he goss
about his work, We can allow no one 10 90
beyond US 10 our faith that he IL above . II
others Rtted to be the leader of allSour
armies. But We WOuid counsel a moderate
and SIeGdfast, rather than extravaeaat and
6ekls exhibition OF that faith. II il .pos.
d6ls General Grant may meet with disas.
ssFi he may lose a battle; aud vel i
mightbS Still the fitteSt man in The nation
for the position heholds. Would the pre.
scot foolish aud tickle pGblioe mind allow
even Granite retain command, il he losl
great battlea We believe not. - .fF
We would like to see the public pres.
and the people animated and inspired by
calm, hopeful, reasonable ecp6deaee in
their chosen leaders, an @h6yieldiug faith
in the purposes and results Of the war,
and firm and Stsadfast spirit under even
the most adverse eircumStaoees. such AZ
would lessen disaster aud disarm even de.
feat of half It's evil consequences.
KAHknn ingenuity il equal 10 iaast lux i /;
An ies.msFchept In Hsllham, Mass. n.