Litchfield enquirer., 1866-08-02
Gen Sherman.

The following are a few extracts from Gen. is man who never talks without meaning something, though at times, like most extem- poraneous speakers, saying more than he means. Of his early army life he says;
 "I was sent to. various places, and finally brought up in Charleston, South Carolina, and while in that section wandered through the marshes of the Santee and Edisto, and ob tained knowledge that afterward became of value to the nation. [Applause.] At a later period l was providentially, as it would now seem. sent to take testimony about some lost saddles and br,dles. value nothing neverthe Jess those lost saddles and brides led me to A region, a knowledge of which afterward proved to be of great importance te you here l in New Hampshire and to the whole civil ized world, went to Altoona. to Chatta- | nooga and to Bellefonte. on the Tennessee ri yer, and think that in the short period | was there gained knowledge which paid the government back all they paid me for trans portation ten times over. [Lssghter and ap- plause. r - He thus graphically sketches our leading military men and sets forth the results to be accomplished by mere force of straight-for- "oAu perseverance,
 "You will see that in the progress of the war able men rose up one by one until it's close. You may consider, young men, what were the characters of those men whom the war developed. Just such as yours are Look at General Grant-(great applause)-a mod est. .''plain. bold, brave, untlinching gentleman with the simple idea of doing what is right, and letting no man turn him aside from it (Renewed applause.) Look at George Thomas A more modest gentleman exists not on earth. l (Applause.) Were he present you could not get him to stand up here. Phil Sheridan would infinitely rather, sabre in hand, ride (Laughter.) General Mesde is g fgentleman and an accomplished scholar. think he would fill this place far better tbanf I can
 I Thus you.see that in military life men we risen 10 the highest eminence and d(stand there now, who not only are not. but dd not pretend tO te more than you may become From this l wisl yAa to derive this simple ;lessonI.5ean.aa
 ls Rand any man of honesty of purpose and ordinary in tellect can master every problem of life that is brought before him, if he goes atit with the purpose and determination to master it.
 At any rate, in the military profession. on
 which so many honors are now showered, on- ly nerve and courage, and that faith in the flag which wins and wins always, are neces- sary. ... ."+.-'. ..."
 True as these encouraging words in the main are. they must be taken with many grains ofallowance. man of real genius, who has done great things is mot always, we think the safest of teachers. He knows we'll enough the tremendous amount of hard work he has had to do but he is generally un- conscious that only through his genius has he been able to work to the purpose He knows much better how many blsws than how hard blows, he has struck. .s Il We are not surprised therefore when Gen Sherman, whom we take to be man of genius in his profession, tells young men they have only to go strai ght ahead and they can "mas- ter every problem of life that is brought be- fore them" The trouble is that few men have the power of going straight ahead in the right direction and there will always be 8 vast differencebetween what indefatigable man without genius like Philip II, or an indefatig- able man with genius, like Napoleon Bona psrte, can accomplish. sa -.f
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 g@- terrible riot occurred in New Or leans on Monday Governor Wells had called together, the Constitutional Convention of 1864. which it was feared would allow negroes to vote. se- # ..n .ii Mayor Munroe, bitter ex-rsbel assumed the responsibility of breaking up the Convention and arresting it's members A mob joined l the police in their attack on tba f.onv.,t;o,, shooting Union men and negroes iudis. crlm'nately, for some hours, till the military arrived. s..- ,.t f',,.....-.
 The members of the Convention were all arrested. Two policemen, 30 negroes and l. member of the Convention reported killed. and many of the latter wounded President Johnson telegraphed to the military to support Mayor Munroe. -@? '1."72 D@ The Philadelphia Convention bids fair to be & very remarkable conoI op,orat;o, }i r..