The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-10-03

OSatiOns 10 Grant and Sheridan-tsrnnt
aud Sheridan for the Future.
General Sheridan, on his way from Louisiana
TO Washington, was the subject of 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
ncomprehensible 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 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 Alexander in disposing
Of the Gordian knot OF political difficulties 1t
is 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 still deeper significance in all these
cheers, receptions and other modes Of express
ing the popular sentiment Taken as whole,
all the ovations from st. Louis to Union square
by way Of Washington one tremendous
and magnificent endorsement of Grant They
are the general declaration of the country that
Grant was right They are the common re-
cognition of Grants craftsmanship, his admin
istrasive ability, his genius to rule, as illus
trated 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 ill it. Napoleon Bonapartc permitted
Dessaix to win a battle that he had lost &C.
cepted strategy from MORGAN, made Murat com
mandcr OF the cavalry, Talleyrand Minister OF
Foreign Affairs and Fouche Minister of Police.
From facts like these arose bis most wonderful
success, and the success of every great ruler
is in proportion to his ability to put men in
their proper places. II is the ability to organ
ize. It's craftsmanship, and that truly practical
part OF ii where it comes in contac. with facts.
Sherdan's position to-day is the evidence of
the degree in which Grant possesses this high
quality. When Sheridan first fell under The
ego of The great leader he was commissary
in Missouri. He might have been a commits
sary still, with oil his qualities, if the War
Office had had its will What manner OF man had
Stanton in the sort Of post to which Grant
eventually advanced Sheridans Stanton's man
for Sheridans places was Siegel! In the face
Of such fact is 1t strange that the war dragged
its bloody length through SO many yearss But
Grant insisted that the Siegels and Buffers
should 60 TO the rear, and he kept the Sheridans
in front His persistency in pushing Sheridan
gave US Winchester, Cedar Creek, Five Forks,
and finally gave us Sheridan at New Orleans |;
and the people, in cheering the hero for his
achievements al all those places, record their
his own modest words, "gave Sheridan an
opportunity"
Another point Ia these demonstrations Is
that Sheridan has made himself conspicuous
and dear to the popular heart in the unex-
pected character of great logical interpreter
of the constitution, who, out Of bis own simple
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 a. all the
legalists and hairsplitters 10 Christendom
could not have done between this and dooms-
day He went to New Orleans, and in down.
right earnestness enforced the late recon-
struction laws of Congress- He proved In
| that way, as il never could have been proved
in any other, the cnormity OF those laws.
He executed them to the literal extremity
o. their provisions. He did not bear
lightly on their offensive points to make them
seem other than they were, and so commend
them TO favor. His simple enforcement
OF those laws was the most complete possible
vindication Of the constitution they dehed. He
did not pirate Of the laws be executed them,
and their effect was seen. He did not apos-
trophire the constitution; he showed what II
was to govern part Of the country without it.
In this way he stands up to-day as the foremost
friend Of the constitution and the man who
has done more than any other TO show the
people the danger Of departure from its prin-
ciIlaa.
Grant and Sheridan, therefors--our two
greatest practical statesmen--hsve exhibited
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