The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-12-29
Grant and Schurz on the Condition Oi
The gnnfhern Sfafes

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Shurz has done thirty times less fgh
ing than Grant, and so it is only prope
that be should do thirty times as muc
writing. This viii preserve an eQuilil
rum Schurz has hitherto been di
hnguished for what he has write
about the battle Of Chancellorsvill,
de was in the very midst of that mel.
our readers viii remember, and led th
way to the rear with magnificent in
petuosity. he led his division ava
from the enemy in such fine style tina
he forced backward q whole army
II he had only had the sense to 90 i
the Other direction he might have ha,
a glorious victory at the price he pai,
for shameful disaster. His principa
object in life ever since has been {,
prove that he did not run away, ans
that there was no defeat He has writ
ten his theme up snd down and cross
wise, Just as Butler wrote and argue,
20 prove that Fort Fi1hor could not b,
taken. Butler did not stop his argu
ments about Fort Fisher even Wher
the thunder of saluting cannon an
nounced its capture. Nor would Schuri
give way to equally oOgent evidence q,
to the Charlottesville defeat He
wrote 50 fercely about it that he wa.
once more intrusted with the command
Of troops, and 50 it happened that he
was at the battle Of Gettysburg. There
his blundering permitted half his com.
mand to fall into the hands Of the enc
my, Since that Schurz has kept out OF
sight with some success, and now he
comes forward with his voluminous re-
port.
Like all Schurzs efforts, his report
amounts to very little. He kicks tre-
mendOusly at the dead lion, and to no
purpose. Was there not a want of del.
leacy, of manly courtesy, towards q
brave foe in sending a person like
Schurz to examine into the condition of
that foe after the battle? The South
could receive Grant as the soldier who
had beaten it down fairly in good fight
Hundreds Of others it could have look
ed upon in the same spirit But the
sending of the eVer-beaten Schurz it
might Justly look upon SIS an indignity,
He went, however. He had tried 70
penetrate the Southern country several
times, and always in vain. But one
day the Southern soldiers laid down
their arms, and then Sehurz went
ahead. He wandered about in the cot
ton. States for three months, and he
wrote for three months more. Six
months were thus occupied in order
to tell US q very little, and that
little we knew before he told il His
tedious report does not even give
the results of his own observation
poor as they might be. 1t gives instead
a rehash OF what he heard. It echoes
the grumblings Of all the soreheads he
met on his travels 1t is a tedious
rigmarole Of Mere gsbble, and only
touches points of interest by accident.
There is not fresh idea or a practical
suggestion in this vast agglomeration of
words. His reasons against the rehab.
ilitation of the State governments and
the Withdrawal Of the troops are lost in
the last stage Of puerility. He would
delay the restoration of civil authority
for reasons such as these II Because
there are men in the South who ridicule
the oath of fallegiance. 2. Because they
call the Northern people Yankees land
probably called Schurz Dutchman(. 3
Because there are some foolish persons
who believe the South ought not to pay
taxes, and ought to be paid for the mig
ger 4 Because the Southern people
Selieye a free niger won't work if he
eau help it ). Finally, because the
Southern people love the persons they
suppose to be their friends better than
those they have fought against for four
years
just such empty nonsense makes up
the report. Schurzi is lauded as a radI-
cal, but he has made sad havoc with the
radical arguments against rec5nsIuc-
ton, and that merely by admissions
from which he could not escape. He
leaves them only this point 70 stand
upon that we must occupy the South
ern States with troops merely because
the Southern people do not love the
United States government with the
same devotion with which the North
ern people love it. He says that all
Southerners are agreed that further
resistance to the power of the national
government is useless, and submission
to its authority matter of necessity"
He thus bears testimony that the South
accepts the supremacy Of the govern
ment as a fact; only he considers that
it does not accept this fact in the right
spirits 1t does not do it gracefully.
It does not bow to Gesler's cap exactly
as Sohurz fanoies it ought TO. viii
Schurz tell US what the government has
cot 10 do with spirits, and what it re
Guires of the people more than the re-
cognition Of its authority aud submis-
sion TO it 2
Here are the words of Gen. Grant,
telling in three sentences more than
SchurE tells in his FIVE hundred pages
of foolscap: am satisfied that the
mass of thinking men of the South &C
cept the present situstion Of affairs in
good faith The questions which have
hitherto divided the sentiments Of the
people of the two sections-slaVery and
State rights, or the right of State to
secede from the UniOn-theY regard as
having been settled forever by the high
est trlDuuhl-dEul6-tnh man can Ie-
sort to- was pleased TO learn from
the leading men whom I met that they
not only accepted the decision arrived
1t as final, but now the smoke Of battle
has cleared away and time has been
given for reflection, that this decision
has been fortunate one for the whole
country, they receiving the like benefits
rom it with those who opposed them
n the field and in the council" The
writer's Of these two reports on the
South are both military men. Sehurz
ran sway, and then covered acres Of
Rhite paper in trying TO prove that he
lid not run away. Grant has never
lad to argue on such q point, but his
statements have always been found to
lgree with the facts, and we believe
he public will put rather more credit
N what he says in relation to the South
than il viii in the statements Of SchurL
-Ksl0 York Herald