The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-01-05

. Commissary storer, will soon eneble oar
: Loys to renew thrir fashionable suIis. (
The fashionable world gocs yesrly %
. the sea side. Tire elite Of our great
\ army h.s madca grand oxeufsien, and
, reached il, too, and though its vis'ge 10
Z, rough aud iis garments worn, no company
more noble ever looked upon the waves
Of old ocean before. 49,
, AZ ARMY rsDtID. &
/ Those who are privilege to look upon
c ,hi, hos,, may cease all further search
# knovinq thai an army, In every sense oi
( fbat p6werful nhdtsffible word, has pss.
, ,od before them. No wonder that re.
!. bsIlion hiss tremblcd and hid its face
/. while this magnifccnce swept by. All
r that makes an army Of strength 10 n ma.
= tiap, and q seourge tolitsdoes, this, army
. li.. In power of eduranec, in fighting
, spiri,, in rapidity Of maj ch, in Thorough CT
, pnnizition. In onencs, or purpose, In
, harmonious uc,iun, in confidence in Itself
and enthusiasm for ia leaders ~ stands
, unriyallsd.
From the day il lef, Ringgold til It
rested in Atlanta .hc sound Of battle
never ceased alopg its- lines; and while
these weary months wero possing, every
element Of weakness was being pruncd
7 sway. Those whom disease could shake
reluctantly turned their faces backward;
those whose hearts lalter found means
of withdrawing Themselves; cowards
were siftedout by the free winnowing
which ssperitcs completely ssch chsff
from such grain; ard 40, from The great
thrcshing floor Of all Western butticfie'ds,
the golden grain, the hncst Of the wheat,
had been galhertdi up; and Sherman,
bearing this precious seed with him, a,
plouyhng the whole land a. he marched
along, found few spots for patriots
graves aud dropped .sgmp seed therein,
but based his hopes 'of sure harvest Of
National ,uccfss upon thrse fertile f Ids
by the Southern sea. And here il shall
grow, rank, and strong, aud nou:ishing.
The memories Of all its past shall bruod
OVER il like dew from Heaven in the day
of its glad Spring. The certainty OF the
great future fast approaching shall be as
the strength ol summer to IL; the sure
iorcrunnor Of that ripenod autumn, when
thc Harvest Home Of Freedom aud Vic
tory shall be shouted, .mskug glad the
people OF tho csrth.
ITS oru;ERs.
At i,s head tho most brilliant and
dnshing of all the chciltains Of this heroic
aye. What Sheridan does with his cav
! .ry---and whn bu, knows what he has
done Ssh 'rman acoompl ishes on n
griuder scale with his n'sntry. sweeping
, on ss the storm sw ,eps, "blowing where
he lis,erh," none staying his progress, -
from Nicksburg 10 Chattanooga to
. KnoIyille-irom Vicksburg far toward
, Montgomery from Knoxville 10 Atlantis
, from Atlanta to the sea.
The writer well remembers when .
plain quiet man passed q Southern Mill.
, tsry School, on his way to take shsrgC
, Of the Statc School Of Louisiana. lie
, came ard spent day in obscrvatiun.-
al the head Of the school was one oflhu
most talented men that West Point ovc.
pruduc ID, aud his wife was one UG The
gifted among women; yet both wsrc
steepcd in the bitter hntc which slavery
aud the nristoc-acy founded upon il cou'd
feel for Northern n; aud 50 this
silent man was trented with marked cln .
tempt, yet he made his observations aud
went his way.
For him has not time made something
oven! That lady Witnessed Shermsn's 's
triumph, aud Went to her grave cordial
. b tier ol her coun,ry's ha.. Her husband
is dragging out n mis- rsblc CT stcncc, u
disappoiut ID aud ruined MN; the insti.
. tuition he presided over is broken up, aud
{ hsle It's scholars ars IN traitors graves
How has Sherman strobe on, digging the
grave Of this old aristucracy, cushing it.
lifa out, aud burying il out OF sight.
FOR .he other offisora, space would fai
to DO them juslic,, Brave and noble
and deserving are they all, aud il any
have fsulls.--and who 10 free therelrom--
!. the nalurnofthcr sorvfce III CREST par,
atones for then, unless they be such us
bear heavily upon the men whom they
command. II shull be honor enough 70,
them when the story Of the war i, told
to have il said that they were emci
, worthy to scrye with Sherman. These
arc Prominently befurc lhe public, or at
least before the communities Ia which
! they reside. There their merits are ful.
ly known aud their reward 10 SUR. So
, We turn 10
lH n TfIE PRIVATE soLpIBRs,
Those WHO bcr aIit suffer, md die per.
haps, unhcruldcd, save as the great deeds
of their army are sounded abroad, Woull
that ary words of mine could iaintly set
kthcir virtues forth. yRucs didI sayl--
n Yes such gho''ncas and nobleness, such
intelligtnc, aud true manhood, SO littIr
= vice und 80 much moral worth, as never
gathered in camps before since wars b..
lgan. q,
, least the insinuption OF, adcmorslixi.
tion." Kissing hot, back into the laces OF
those vino charge il. That vice in hid.
ecu, forms does cIis, among the few, |
grant you, but sti'lassert that, the mos.
Iupworthy,soldier, be he stepped | c7re
not how deeply in sin, nor how fonl the
pool Of his guilt msy be, 1.-The yet follows
the ilig and fights for his country, pac-
ing his nil, corrupt IN past though il be,
on the altar, he 10 a nobler mHn, his
hopes OF Heaven are iRirer, than any who
stay at home aud scuif at him. The body
OF Amerieau soldiers are meu ma nosl
sense of the term. The great issue. of
. this contest are topics OF d,ily thought
, with them, and their minds have OK pand
ed with The yastness of the subject. In.
; tcllectually, The army occupies far high.
f or level than at first il did. War is 1.
, stern educator. An its lessons ara
, practical, and our soldiers have learned
them we'll Mary have fallen BY the
way, victims To temtptions which civil
, lite knows nothing of, but the whole
pathway OF the race is sttewn thickly
, With such wrecks, and surely the track
ofan army cannot DO FREQ therctrom. -
Still tho mass has entered upona nobler
. life, aud ,o-day are better citizens, with
clearer views Of government and law,
and II higher respect for il. than IL this
2 war had never awakened their powers
u Hhn Ninnrnna hfr nf In N ,tinr, k,nl. In