The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-06-02

consistent with the simplicity OF taste,
contempt for parade, and plainness of
manners with which direct and earnest
men have q strong natural sympathy.
Ulysses S. Grant, the tanner, Ulysses S.
Grant, the unsuccessful applicant for
the post of City Surveyor of st. Louis,
Ulysses ). Grant, the driver into that
city of his two horse team with load
of wood to sell, had within him every
manly quality which will cause the
name of Lieutenant General Grant to
live forever in history. His career is a
lesson in practical democracy; it is q
quiet satire on the dandyism, pupyism,
and the shallow afectation Of our fash
ionable exquisites as we'll as upon the
swagger of our plausible, glib tongued
demagogues. Not by any means that
great qualities are inconsistent with cul-
tivated manners and fluent elocution
but that such superficial Accomplishments
are no measure of worth or ability.
Gen. Grants last brilliant campaign
sets the final seal upon his reputation.
1t stamps him as the superior Of his
! able antagonist as we'll as of all the
| commanders who have served with or
under him in the great campaigns Of the
last year. It is not necessary to sacri-
| fee any part of their well-earned repu
tations to his. Sherman and Sheridan
deserve all that has ever been said in
their praise: but there has never been
a time, since Grant was made Lieutenant
| General, when any body but Sherman,
| on our side, could have been classed
| with him. Since Sherman's bold march
through Georgia, and his capture Of Sa-
vannah and Charleston, there have been
| many who, in their strong admiration of
his great achievements, inclined to rank
him as the greater general of the two.
That judgement, we take it, is now re-
versed by the court of final appeal: not
by dwarfing the reputation of Sherman,
| which suffers no just abatement, but by
the expansion into grander proportions
of that of Grant
Grant stands pre- eminent among all
the generals who have led our armies in
the late war, in that he has exhibited
the utmost strength of will Of which the
highest type Of manhood is capable.
The defenses of Vicksburg and the de-
lenses of Richmond were both deemed
impregnable, and were defended with
proportionable confidence and obstinacy,
but they both yielded, at last, to Grants
matehless persistence and unequaied
strategy. And, in both cases, he not
only took the long contested positions,
but compelled the surrender Of the
whole force defending them. Nothing
could be more clean and complete, even
in Imagination, than Gen. Grants mas
terly execution. He did not merely, in
each case acquire position which was
the key of wide theater of operations,
he did not merely beat or disable the
opposing force: he left no fragment of
it in existence except as prisoners of
war subject to his disposal.
If anybody is SO obtuse or so wrong
headed as to see nothing great in Gen.
Grant beyond his marvellous tenacity of
will, let that doubter explain, if he can,
how it has happened that, since Grant
rose to high command, this quality has
always been exerted in conspicuous en-
ergy precisely at the point on which
every thing in his whole sphere Of opera
tons hinged There has been no dis
play OF great qualities on small occa-
sions no expenditure of herculean ef-
fort to accomplish objects not of the first
magnitude. It is only very clear
sighted and very comprehensive mind
that could always thus have laid the
whole emphasis of an indomitable soul
so precisely on the emphatic place
How, if he be not general Of the firss
order of intellect, as we'll as of the most
heroic determination, does it happen
that in assigning great and brilliant
parts to his subordinate comman ders,
| he has never, when the results of his
strategy were fully unfolded, appeared
in the picture except as the central fig
ure? However it may seem during the
progress of one of his great combined
campaigns, it always turns out at last,
when it reaches that completeness and
finish in which he contrives to have his
campaigns end, that we see him standing
in the foreground, and that the grouping
is always such that the glory of the
other generals instead of eclpsing his
own gives it additional luster. It is this
sureness of judgement which sees pre-
cisely what are the objects that justify
the utmost stretch of persistence it is
this ability to take in the whole field of