The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-10
comprehensivene.s which had been lacking I'LL

comprehensiveness which had been lacking I'LL
then
"Ony one man united these conditions
General u = Grant. For Two years MS nane
ibe snScesses of our armies in the West.
Battles, under his command, were characterl 'su
by him had always been fertile in great results.
He had conceived extraordinary enterprise es.
and executed msrvell0us labors. In this point
OF view, the history of Grants campaigns on
the Mississippi must remain the most singular
Illustration OF the American character auu
genius applied to the art Of war"
And, after sketching the means used and
the results obtained, General de Trobrland
adds
"This series of operations, conducted with as
much perseverance energy; these obstacles
met on all sides; these enterprises followed up
nv every agency these battles succeeding
battles and victofies linked with victories; and
this pei sistency of effort, never satisfied while
any thing remained to do-there you nave Gene'
raj Grant"
There is reason, it would seem, to suspect
that the Worlds correspondent in Paris, per-
haps by not understanding the peculiar dialect
there spoken, has confounded two very differ
ent men. There are two candidates for the
next Presidency, and there is one of them,
not General Grant, for whom it may be said,
without serious violence to truth, that "the
utmost contempt is felt in Europe" The fact
is that public opinion there does not respect
highly any man of any nation whose sympa-
thies are with the enemies OF his country;
whose victories are the defeats of his fellow
citizens.
- But our business now is merely with
French military criticsm aud its highest
authority, General de Trobriand, has a word
to say on the attitude of the Governor of New
York in the dark days of the Union, the sum-
mer of 1861
"The Governor, Horatio Seymour, whose attl-
tude and conduct towards the national Govern
ment had been of character to encourage
raf than TO DrpVent the riots. had no Thought
except, in concert with his party. to make
capital of them in order TO hinder the enrol
ment. Under the pretense OF ascertaining
whether some error had not stolen into the reck-
oning of the States contingent, and of waiting
until the question of the constitutionality of
the law could be submit ed 10 judicial tribunals,
he demanded of the President the indefinite
attempt is plain. 1t was to dry up the source of
the reinforcements necessary to the army. in
order 10 lessen, If not destroy the results of the
while the Confederate Government should
renew its forces by universal conscripttou, TO
reduce our forces by stopping the draft and dis.
coursging volunteering. These were the means
by which the Peace Democrats of the North
aitemp pied to obtain either the final reco2ni
ment of new Union, founded on the subordi.
nation Of the free States to the supremacy of
the slave States"
Does not the World admire the frank, direct
way those French military critics have of
speaking their minds? What everybody here
knows to be true, bat nobody is quite disre-
spectful enough to say, they put in the plain
est language, without ciroumlocution. To this
critic, Mr.. Seymour's attitude is simply one
circumstance in the conduct of the war; Gene.
raj Grants character is simply another circum-
stance; and without a vestige of personal or
partisan feeling, the cool, straightforward
man of military business tells what they were,
as he would mention the width of a river to
be bridged, or the strength of battery to be
silenced. utmost contempt" is scarcely
the phrase to express the French officers ap.
probation of these things; IAN exact appre-
hension of facts as they are" conveys the idea
better