The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-04

will perish more quickly by the bullet. Be-
tween the two weapons-good will and ill
will-they will soon be wasted away from the
continent.
OvatiOns to Grant and SherIdan-Grant
and Sheridan for the Future.
From the N. Y. Herald.
General Sheridan, on his way from Louisiana
to Washington, was the subject of a splendid
demonstration at every important point on the
route; and now again on his way to the West
he is receiving in all our great cities ovations
of the most brilliant, positive, fattering, and
incomprehensible character. In all affairs of
this kind, of course the prime movers are the
political hucksters-the keen fellows who
gather around rising men in the hope that they
will be remembered by-and-by when Offices
are to be given out. But in this case the poll
ticians have been crowded out of sight by the
masses thronging to do honor to a man who
has done the State substantial service and the
mean voices of those who bid for Office are lost
in the grand roar of enthusiasm, paying the
peoples tribute of admiration to one Justly
accepted as type of all that is noble, gallant,
and pure in patriotic soldier. Sheridan's
public services are such as to give him a full
claim to the nations warmest gratitude. He
has served with a bold heart and ready hand,
with clear eye and upright soul, in fields
where death was everywhere, and in fields
that might have had still greater terrors to
one less ready to repeat the course of Alex
aXder in disposing of the Gordian knot of
political difficulties 1t is a pleasant sight,
therefore, to see the people so broadly and
warmly acknowledging the nations debt to
her heroic son.
But, looked at closely, it will be seen that
there is a still deeper significance in all these
cheers, receptions, and other mo les Of ex-
pressing the popular sentiment. Taken as
whole, all the Ovations from st. Louis to
Union Square by way of Washington are one
tremendous and magnificent endorsement of
Grant. They are the general declaration of the
country that Grant was right. They are the
common recognition of Grants craftsmanship,
his administrative ability, his genius to rule,
as illustrated in that rare talent of great rulers
the perception of mems true powers and the
sagacity to put in every place the man most
fit to fill it. Napoleon Bonaparte permitted
DessaiX to win battle that he had lost, &C
cepted strategy from Moreau, made Murat com
mander of the cavalry, Talleyrand Minister OF
Foreign Affairs, and FOuch6 Minister of Police
From facts like these arose his most wonderful
success and the success of every great ruler
is in proportion to his ability to put men in
their proper places. IL Is the aplhty 10 organ
ize 1t is craftsmanship, and that truly prac-
tical part of it where it comes in contact with
| facts SheTidan's position to-day is the evil
| dence of the degree in which Grant possesses
| this high quality. When Sheridan first fell
under the eye of the great leader, he was
| commissaIy in Missouri. He might have been
| a cOmmissary still, with all his rare qualities,
if the War Office had had its will. What man
ner of man had Stanton in the sort of post to
| which Grant eventually advanced Sheridan
| StantOn's man for Sheridan's places was
| Sigel In the face of such fact, is it strange
that the war dragged its bloody length
through so many years? But Grant insisted
| that the Sigels and Buffers should go to the
rear, and he kept the Sheridans in front. His
persstency in pushing Sheridan gave us Win
chester, Cedar Creek, Five Forks, and hually
! gave us Sheridan at New Orleans; and the
| people, in cheering the hero for his achieve
| ments at all those places, record their judg-
| ment of the great abilities of him who, in his
own modest words, ''gave Sheridan an
opportunity"
Another point in these demonstrations is
| that Sheridan has made himself nspicuous
and dear to the popular heart in the uneX-
pected character of great logical interpreter
of the Constitution, who, out of his own sim
| pie honesty, has said and done more for the
vindication of that instrument than all the
lawyers together He showed the necessity
of adherence to the Constitution as all the
legalists and hair.splitters in Christendom
| cOulu not nave uOue D6IW6ou tllo anu uOOhAo-
day, He went to New Orleans, and in down
right earnestness enforced the late Reconstruo-
ton laws of Congress. He proved in that
way, as it never could have been proved in
any other, the enormity of those laws. He
executed them to the literal extremity of their
provisions. He did not bear lightly on their
offensive points to make them seem other
than they Were, and so commend them to
, /, laVor; His simple enforcement of those laws
was lhe most complete possible vindcation OF
, the constitution they defed. He did not prate
OF lhe laws; he executed them, and their effect
) stitution; he showed what il was to govern
D a part OF the country without II. In this
= way to-day he stands up as the foremost
4 friend of the Constitution, and the man who
/. has done more than any other to show tbe
people the danger of departure from its prin,
, oiples.
# Grant and Sheridan, therefore our tive
g greatest practical statesmen-have exhibited