Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-07-11
From the New York Tribune.l
GENERAL GRANTS SPEECHES.

q predict disaster 10 the country ~
the election of q man who they say
cannot make a glittering. GRAFTON. One
Of these carping critics is Gen. s. b.
Buckner, now the editor Of the LOUIS
rifle Courier, the chief Pendleton Demo
cratic organ Of Kentucky. Editor
Buckner sharply reviews Gen. Grant
style and ideas, and thinks be Won't 40.
But Mr.. Buckner possibly may remember
one little speech or composition OF 1en'
Grant. II was as follows:
HEADQUARTERS ARMY IN II FIELD
CAMP DoNELsoN, Feb. l6th, l862'-1o
Gen. S. B. Buekner, Confederate Army /:
Yours of this date, proposing an arms.
tice and appointment of commissioners
to settle terms Of capitulation, is just
received. No other terms than an uneondi-
tonal and immediate surrender can De ac-
copied. I propose TO move Immediately
anon vour toorks. I am, sir, very re-
specially, your obedient servant,
U. S. GRANT,
Brig. Gen. U. 8. A., Commanding.
General Buckner called these terms
unpenerous and u~ncivil but he made
haste TO accept them. For once, at least,
he clearly comprehended Gen. Grants
style.
Some time a%fterward, Gen. Grant was
visited in his camp before Vicksburg by
Gen. Pemberton, who was anxious TO
know upon what terms that city could
be relieved from o siege just then pend
ing. Here are the speeches:
Pemberton.-Gen. Grant, l meet you
in order to arrange terms for capitula'
ton. What terms do you demand?
Grant.-U~ Unconditional surrender.
Observation-Disclosures surren-
der Never, so long as ! have a man
left me. I will fight rather.
Grant.-Very well.
But Gen, P%emberton reflected n little,
and as soon as the full force OF Gen.
Grants brief speech became clear to
his mind, he, too, made haste to comply.
Again, On the road to Richmond, after
the battle of Spottsylvania Court
House, Gen. Grant INDUCED in q speech
or dispatch, in these tolerably clear
words
eve have now ended the sixth day
of very hard fighting, and the result to
this time is much 10 our favor. \ n /
propose to fghtt out on this line III takes
all Summer"
We believe General Lee was in no
doubt as to the meaning of his speech.
II he was, those doubts were settled by
the next which we shall quote Of Gen.
Grants speeches. The scene this time
is at Appomattox Court House
az propose to receiue the surrender Of
tho Army of Northern Virginia upon the
following terms
We need not quote the terms. 1t is
enough to soy that Gen. Lee very clear
" understood them, and lost NJ time in
complying.
Since that time Gen. Grant has made
few speeches but few and brief as
they are, they are by no means so am
biguous as these Democratic critics
would have US believe. His latest and
noblest speech reads as follows:
Mr.. President, and Gentlemen Of the
National Union Convention: I will en-
deavor in a very short time to write you
n letter accepting the trust you have
imposed upon me. [Applause.] Ex-
! pressing my gratitude for the confidence
| you have placed in me, I will nov say
but little orally, and that is to thank
you for the unanimity with which you
have selected me as q candidate for the
Presidential office. can shy, in addi-
ton, l looked on during the progress Of
the proceedings ut Chicago with q great
deal Of interest, and am gratifed with
the harmony and unanimity which seem
to have governed the deliberations Of
the Convention. If chosen to fill the
high office for which you have selected
me, I will give to its duties the same
energy, the same spirit, and the same
will, that I have given to the perform
ance of all duties which have devolyed
upon me heretofore. Whether shall
be able to perform these duties to your
entire satisfaction, time will determine.
You have truly said, in the r ofyour
address, that I have no policy Of my 10 TO
enforce again,t the WiN Of the people.
We have had four Generals in the
Presidential chair, not n of whom was
brilliant as an orator. George Wash
ington, when given the command of the
Revolutionary army, could scarcely say
" / thank you" The only real speech
he ever made VAS written by Alexander
Hamilton. Andrew Jackson was no
orator; but when he said "By the
Eternal | the Union must and shall be pre-
serped!" he was very fairly understood,
ever in South Carolina. Gems. Harri-
son and Taylor were men of little ora
torial ability, yet they made out to use
ineligible English. Julius Caesar was
an Indifferent speaker, yet there was
solid pith in his Veni, vidi, piei!"
Napoleon the first was a wretched
orator, and still men of every tongue
found no difficulty in getting at the
meaning Of the few brief speeches be
had occasion to make. There are other
notable examples that "speech is sill
very but silence is golden" These,
however, will suffice and as to Gen.
Grant, we think our Democratic friends
will manage to understand what he may
hereafter say, quite as clearly as they
did his humble efforts at Fort Donald
son, Vicksburg, Spottsyivania and APP
pomattox. Meanwhile, we recommend
them to o careful study of his very latest
effort-the brief and noble letter ac-
cepting the Republican nomination, the
text of which is in these words:
To Gen. Joseph r. Hawley, President
National Union Republican Convention 4;
In formally accepting the nomination Of
the National Union Republican Conven-
ton of the 2lst Of May inst, it seems
proper that some statement of views be-
yond the mere acceptance of the nomi-
nation should be expressed. The pro-
ceedings of the Convention were marked
with wisdom, moderation, and patriot
ism, and | believe express the feelings
of the great mass of those who sus-
tanned the country through its recent
trials. / indorse the resoluhons. If
elected to tho Office of President Of the
United States, it will be my endeavor
to administer all the ldws in good faith,
tcih economy, and pith The uiew Of giving
peace, quiet and projection epsrywhere.
In times like the present it is impossi-
BILE, or at least emiuently improper, to
lay down a policy to be adhered TO, right
or wrong, through an administration of
four years. New political issues, not
foreseen. are constantly nriaino. tho