The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-04-18
LIEIT.-GEyERiL GRANT.
His Claim INDICATED TO the Title Of
the Grefest Soldier Living.


From the New YORK World
General Grant. history should teach 1s to
discriminate better than We Americans are
apt 70 do between gliftered sad solid work
Oar proneness 70 run after densgc cues and
sp4nters NAV fni q wholesome corrective in
the study Of such a character ss bic. The
qualities by which great things are accom-
plishsd are here seen 10 have 10 necessary
connection With snowy and superficial accom-
plishnsuts. When the mass Of men look ~
On such character they may learn q traer
respect for themselves and each other; they
are taught By il that high qualities and
great abilities are consistent with the sImpiIc-
iry Of taste contempt for parade and piaIune=s
Of manners with which direct and earnest
msn have q strong natural sympathy. IiTs-
ses Grant she tanner Ulysses Grant the IN
successful applicant for the post OF city sur
Feyor OF S. Louis. Ulysses Irant, the driver
into that city OF his r~e horse team with
load Of wood to sell. had within him every
manly quality which vii cause the name OF
L1eutenant General Grant 10 live forever IN
a.=corT. H. career s lesson IN practical
der,ocracy IL IL & quiet satire on the dandy
ism, the pGpgJism, and the shallow affection
Of our fas nlonable EXCLUSIVES as well g. up0n
the swaggsr of cur plausible, GLIB tOHgaad
cemegogaes. Not By any means taAs great
qualities are inc0nsisten with cultivated nan
ners aud fluent sloeuGioa; bur that such So
parhclal accomplishments are no measure Of
worth or ability.
Gen, Grants last brilliant campaign sets
the Enal seal upon bis repotsti0n Ifstamp,
him as the superior of his able antagonist IS
well a. Of ali the comrades who have serr-
ed wrrh or under him IN the great cam aigns
Of the last Year. Il ~ not necessary To sacrI-
fee any part Of their well earned reputation
- his. Sherman and Sheridan deserve all
taas has been said in their praise but there
has never been a. time, since Grant was made
Lieutenant Genera, when any body bat She--
man, on our Vie, could nave been ciassed
with him Since She-man's bold march
through Georgia, and ME capture Of Savsn-
nah and Charleston, there have been MANY
who. n their strong admiration of his
grea. achisensnts inclined 10 rank him az
the greater general Of the two. That judge
ment, we take it. is now reversed by the
court Of final appeal; not by dwarfng the
reputation Of Sherman, which suffers NO jus:
abatement, but by the expansion into grander
proportions Of that Of Grant.
Grant stands preeminent among the gener-
ais who have served in this war in the conn
pIeteaess Of his final results.
He has owed nothing to accident: and both
in the West apd-the East, he has ACCOMPLISH
ed the rncst arduous things that were 70 be
done. The great thing in the West. without
which the rebel power could never have been
broken In that vast region, was the reopepinp
of the Mississippi: the great thing in the
East, the taking of the rebel capital. Rich
nond was the right leg of the rebellion, and
the Mississippi river its left. Both were con-
tested by the rebels with full appreciation
OF their value. The resistance was, in both
cssss, powerful and obstinate enough to pas