Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-03
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r10S or THE SOUTHERN STATES
Two military men--Gen. Grant ard
Gen. Schurz-hRve written reports on
the condition of the Southern people.
The reports differ somewhat, which Is,
lpcrhaps. not remarkable, as the men
differ a little also Grants is very short
and Schurz's is imme3suraby long
thirty times longer than Grants. nus
is perhaps, natural too. Sehufz mas
done thirty times less flghtlng ulail
Grant. and 50 it is only proper that ne
should do thirty times as much wriung'
This will preserve an equilibrium.
Scburz has hitherto been distinguished
for what he has written about the battle
of ChancellOrsVille. He was in the very
midst OF that Uefse our readers viii re-
member, and led the way 20 the rear
with magnificent impetu0sity. He led
his division away rom The enemy in
such fine style that he forced backward
q whole army. II he had only had the
sense to go IN the other direction he
might have had a glorious victory at the
pr.ce he paid FOR shameful disaster.
His principal shject In life ever since has
been 10 prove that he did not run away
and that there was no defeat He has
written his theme up mddOwn and cross
wise, lust as Butler wrote and argued
30 prove thGt Fort Fisher could not be
takCu Butler did not stop his argu-
ment about Fort Fisher even when the
I thunder of sallting cannon announced
/ IT, capture. Nor would Schurz give way
tn equally cogent evidence as TO the
. Clsneell0rsville defeat. he wrote SO
I iercely about it thaU he was once more
IutEustad with the command OF troops,
and So I'd happened That he was at the
/ battle of Gettysburg. There mis- bluuGer-
/ ing permitted half his command 10 fall
/ into ihe hands OF the enemy. Since that
Schurz has Kept ont OF sight with some
I success, and now he comes forward with
/ his volumiuOus report.
Like all Schurz's efforts, his report
I amounts 10 very little. He kicks ire
mendously al the dead lion, and TO no
. pHralsa Was there not a want Of deli
rucv, Of manly courtesy, towards a
brave foe i'm sending a person ike
/ ~-hurz to examine into the condition of
that foe after the batle3 The South
could receive Grant rs the soldier who
] had beaten it down fairly in good fight
/ Hundreds of Others it could have looked .
upon in the same spirit, But the
sending of the evec beaten SchurZ il
might Justly look upon as an iudignity. I
He went, however. lie had tried 10
penetrate the Southern country several I
times, and always in vain. But one day
T the Southern soldiers laid down their .
arms. and then SchurZ went ahead. te /
wandered about IN the Cotton States for /.
/ three months, and he wrote for three |
months more. Six months were thus oc- /
cipied in o-der 10 tellus very little, and .
/ that little we knew before he told il. His .
F tedious report does not even give the re- .
suits of his own ohseryatlon-poor as T.
they might be. Il gives instead q rehash .
of what he heard. II echoes the grumb- (
/ lin.s of all The soreheads he met .
on his travels. IL is n tedious .
rigmar0le of mere gahble, and only .
touches points of interest by accident.
There is not a fresh idea or q practical .
suggestion IN this vast aggiOmeratIOu OF /.
words. His reasons against the reha-
Diitatiou of the State governments and .
tle withdrawal OF the troops are lost in .
tle last stage OF pueriiity. lie would /
Ieiay the restoration of civil authority .
for reasons such as these -. Because /
tIgre are men in the South who ridicule /
the oath OF allegiance >. Because they
call the Northern people Yankees and .
probably called SehurZ Dutchmanl. 3.
Baca1lze there are some foolish persons
VINO believe The South ought not 20 pay
taxes, and ought 10 be paid for the mig
urr. 4 Because the Southern people be-
Iicve a free Uiggcr won't work If ne can
help it, D. Finally, because the South
efn people love the persons they suppose
30 be their friends better than those
they have fought against for fuur years.
just such empty nonsense makes up
the report. -churZ is lauded asa radical,
but he has made sad havoc with the
radical arguments against recUnstruc-
4 80 .Err s1Fslfl lone f-rT
which ne could not escape. He leaves
them only this point TO stand upon that
We must occupy the southern states
with troops merely because the South
ain De0Die do not love the United .
states Government with the same .
devotion with which tle Northern .
pe1ple love ii. He says that all I
/ -0utaerners are agreed that "turther .
4 resistance to the power Of the national .
government is useless, and submission To .
/ Us authority "a matter Of necessity he .
thus bears testimony that tie south ac- .
I ecDts the supremacy Of the government .
a4 a fact only he considers that II does .
NOT accent this fact in the right spirit /
/ III does not do it gracefully. II does not
I bow 10 Gesler's cap exactly as @chuTz
Eaucies ii OUGHT 10. VIII SchUrZ
/ tell Us what the government has got lo .
! do with Spirits and what 1t requires OF
/ the people more than the recognition Of
! iLs authority and submission tOits
Here are the words of Gen. Grant
I .sIlinr IN three sentences more than
~churz tells in his five hundred pages
OF ioalscap: "I am satisfied that the
mass of thinking men of the South ac-
reDt the present situation of affairs in
good faith. The questions which have
hitherto divided the sentiments Of tine
people of the two scctions-siavery and
state rights. or the right Of a State to
sycedc from the Dninn-they regard as
having been settled forever by the high
est tribunal-arms-that man can re-
sort 20. ] was pleased 10 learn from
the leading men whom I met .hat they
NOT only accepted the decision arrived
4t = final. but now the smoke OF battle
has cleared away ana time has been
given for reflection, that this decision
has been a fortunate one for the whole
country, they receiving the like benefits
from IL with those who opposed them
I'M the field and in the council The
writers of these two reports en- the South
are both military Gien. Schurf ran
away. and then covered acres OF while
paper in trying 10 prove that he did not
lrm away. Grant has never had TO argue
ON such a point, but his statements nave
ALWAYS been found TO agree with the
facts, and we believe the pusiic viii put
rather more credit in what he SAYS in re-
iation TO the South than il viii IN the
-fatemeut- OF Schurz.