The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-06-09

General Grant has said some very effective
things, as plainly appears from the following
extract from the New York Tribune:
The Democratic journals are greatly exer-
cised about Gen. Grants speeches, and predict
disaster to the country in the election of a
man who (they say) cannot make a gltterlng
| grafton. One of these carping critics is Gen.
| s. b. Buckner, now the editor of the Louis
vile Courier, the chief Pendleton-D Democratic
organ of Kentucky. Editor Buckner sharply
reviews Gen. Grants style and ideas, and
thinks he won't do. But Mr.. Buckner posi-
bly, may remember one little speech or compo-
sitlon OF Gen. Grant. 1t was as follows:
HEADQUARTERS ARMY IN THE FIELD.
CAMP NEAR DoSNELsoN, Feb. 16, 1852:
10 Gen. S. B. BUCKNER, CoyedeTdte army: yours
OF this date, proposing an au @ ~
inst received NJ other terms than unconditional
and immediate surrender can be accepted. pro
nose 10 more Immediately on your aUOrks. am sir,
very respectfully, your obedient servant.
Brig. Gen. u S. A. Commanding.
Gen. Buckner called these terms ungener-
Gus and nncivil; but he made haste to accept
them. For once, at least, he clearly compre-
hended Gen. Grants style.
Some time afterward, General 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 a
siege just then pending. Here are the
speeches:
Pemberton.-Gen. Grant, 1 meet you in Or
der to arrange terms for capitulation, What
terms do you demand?
Grant.-Uncondition Surrender.
Pemberton. Unconditional surrender! New
er, So long as have man left me. 1 will
fight rather.
Grant-Very WELL
But Gen. Pemberton reflected 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, General
Grant INDUCED in a speech or dispatch in
these tolerably clear words:
We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy
fighting and tie result to this time is much in our
fit takes all summer.
We believe Gen. Lee was in no doubt as to
the meaning of this speech. If he was, those
doubts were settled by the next which We
shall quote of Gen. Grants speeches. The
scene this time is at Appomattox Coui
House:
L propose to recei0e the surrender Of the Army OF
Northern Virginia upon the following terms.
We need not quote the terms. 1t is enough
to say that Gen. Lee very clearly understood
them, and lost no time in complying.
LOVE IN MUSICIAN ingenious Partisan
makes an attack upon the custom among COM
posers of giving the tenor the role of the low
er He has published dictionary of music as
applied TO love, in which he says: at may be
demonstrated, physiolegcally, that an init
mate connection exists between the gravity of
the voice and that warmth of blood and ner-
vous impetuosity which determines vehemence
of sentiment. TO initiate nature, the part of
the lover should be played by the baritone, or
even the bass. 1t is notorious that nature has
endowed with more generous traits the crea-
lures who possess deep voices, while those
whose voice is shrill and high are generally
dangerous and perfdious. Compare the New
foundland dog (bass) with the cur (fasetto)
and say whether you would rather be shut up
in a cage with duck (barltone) or with SER
pent (soprano)."