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The Honest and Partizan Opin-

the General. The former is full, complete
and an honest opialion; the latter short,
crispy and un.enerous. We ask for these
articles a careful reading and then pres
ervation for future reference.
The World is the textbook for Dem
ocrats in this region. aud no doubt it will
DC full OF attacks on General Grant rs the
political battle becomes exciting, on the
very points on which it has once spoken so
fairly and honestly. Therefore always be
ready to quote the World Of 1865 against
the World Of 1868.
We take these articles from the Tribune.
which has done the party a good service in
republishinS them.
From The World. May 81, 1868.
1t was possible tor Grant. at
ter his failure .to f sht it out on one line ~
in his advance Of 1864 upon Richmond. to
lavish the lives Of thousands of American
soldiers and to expend huudr eds OF thou
sands Of dollars of the nations treasure up
on u new campaign, and SO fiually wear
and worry down the strength of the rebel
ion which had already been mortally
wounded by Meade at Gettysburg.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL GRANT.
From the World, april. IL. 1865.
Gen. Grants history should teach US to
discriminate better than we Americans
are apt to do between glitter and solid
WORK. Our proneness to run after delpa
gogues and spouters may find a wholesome
corrective in the study Of such character
As his. The qualities by which great
things are accomplished are hero seen to
have no necessary connection with snowy
and superficial accomplishments. When
the mass Of Men look upon such eharac
ter, they may learn truer respect for
themselves and each other; they are taught
by it that high qualities and great abilities
are consistent with the sympathy Of taste.
contempt for parade. aud plainness of man
ners with which direct and earnest men
have strong natural sympathy. Ulss-
SEES Grant. the tanner. Ulysses Grant, the
unsuccessful applicant for the post of City
Surveyor Of st. Louis, Ulysses Grant, the
driver in:o that city Of his two horse team
with load Of wood to cell, had within him
every manly quality which will cause the
name of Lieutenant General Grant to
live forever in history. His career is IL
lesson in practical democracy; it is quiet
satire on the dandyism. the puppy;sm, and
the shallow aifectation of our fashionable ex
quisites as well as upon the swagser Of our
plausible. glib tonsucd demagogues. No,
by any means that great qualities are in
consistent with cultivated manners and
fluent elocution but that such superficial
accomplishments are no measure of worth
or ability.
zen. Grants lastbrilliant campaign sets
the final seal upon his reputation. 1t
stamps him as the superior Of his able an
tagonist as well as OF all the commanders
who have served with or under him in the
great campaigns Of the last year. Itis not
necessary to sacrifice any part Of their well
earned regulations to his. Sherman and
Sheridan deserve all that has ever been
said in their praise; but there la. never
been a time. since Grant was made Lieu
tenant General. when any body but Sher-
man, Oh our side. could have been classed
with him. Since Shernan's bold march
through Georgia. AID his capture of Sayau-
nah and Charleston, there have been MANY
who, in their strong admiration of his
as the greater general OF the two. That
Judgment. we take it, is now reversed by
the court of final appeal not by dwaring
the repstation OF Sherman, which suffers
nc just abatement. but by the expansion
into grander proportions of that Of Grants.
Grant stands preemineut among all the
generals who have led our armies in the
tate war. in that he has exhibited the ut
most strength of will Of which the highest
type OF manhood is capable. The defrn
SEES OF Vicksbury and the defenscs of Rich
nond were both deemcdimpregnable, and
were defended with proportionable con-
iidcnce and ohstinacy F; Tut they both yield
ed, at last, to Grants ma,chless persis
teuce aud unequailed strategy. And, in
both cases. he not only took the long-con
tested positions, but compelled the surren
der OF the whole force defending them
Nothing could be more clean and com plete,
even in Imagination, than Gen. Grants
mastery execution. He did not merely
in each case, acquire y position which was
the hey OF a wide theater Of operations he
did not merely beat or disable the opposing
force; he left no fragment of it in existcnc.
except as prisoners OF war subject to hi,
disposal.
If anybody is so o5tuse or so wrong
: headed as to see nothing great in Gen
Grant beyond his marvellous tenacity O
: will, let that doubter explain, if he can
how it has happened that, since Gram
rose to high command, this quality has al
ways been exerted in conspicuous energ,
precisely at the point On which evcrythin.
in his whole sphere Of operations hinged
There las been no display of great quail
ties on small occasions; no expenditure VI
, hercuiean fort TO accomplish objects MOI
Of the first magnitude. 1t is only very