Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-08-26
Gurou1kT on Grant.

The late Count Guiokski was one Of
the shreEdest observers end OF the bes
judges of men, and during the wal
was constantly at Washington in the
highest society, and with every oppor
tunity of learning the truth. March
"a, 1861, the following striking allusior
was made in his diary to the man who
is to-day the Republican candidate fol-
President:
Grant will not be intoxicated with
fattery, as was Mcclellan. L never
met with a man of so much simplicity,
shyness and decision.
April 5th 1864, occurs the following
remarkable passage in his diary:
Grant has lost nothing of his fresh
ness of mind and ingeniousness. He
avoids Washington and its various cor
rupting allurementg, nay, he rum away
from them. And Grant is right; his
good genius inspires him. Grant is es.
sentially a soldier for the camp and
field. All Grants predecessors in com
mand of the Army of the Potomac
several commanders of the corps,
divisions, brigades and regimsnts-in
one word, msny officers, and even
the rank and file, came to grief and
were ruined by Washington inhu-
ences. Even Mcclellan was ruined
by his sojournin Washington, provi-
ded that there was anything whatev-
er TO be ruined in Mcclellan. When
with the army, the thought and mind
of Grants prede cessors were not in the
camp, but in Washington, in its various
attractions and i~ntrigues. The COM
manders, Generals, &C., visited and Wis
it Washington when they can /; its va
rious attractions ruin them.
April s., 1854. Gurowski draws the
following admirable ~pen-and-ink por-
trait of Grant:
How fond this giant is of violating the
easy militsry regulations Therel-
Grant establishes his headquarters ten
miles nearer the army than Meade had
his. Grants headquarters are almost
amidst the soldiers. That is q Western
custom, and not 8 Potomac army Gus
tom. Bad precedent, and certainly an
anti Mcclellan one. Then Grant tray
els with the simplicity of a second lieu
tenant, without fuss, with q small trunk
which he forgets in his room, and, to
save time, goes off leaving his trunk
behind. Mcclellan, although not a
lieutenant general, had splendid trav-
cling equipages, carriages, &c.-all this
for a campaign of one hundred and
twenty miles space, and in a country
with railroads. That was commander
likel
II Grant fails, then curse is on this
Potomac army. Grant is a soldier to
the core, and a genuine democrat mot
in the party sensel commander of a
democratic army from a democratic
people. Further, Grant sends off his
wife to the farm of her father, some
where in Missouri. If all this, to be
classical and hIfaluting, is not Roman,
Cincinnatus, and ~matronlike. then /
am at a loss for precedents and for his
torical illustrations.
P~ereontra: Mcclellan tried as much
as he could to ape a%ristocratic Europe.
Brilliant receptions, representio-I,
servility surrounded him, and he thirty
ed on them.
The final question is: VIII Grant
remain a diamond, resisting the dis
solving Washington acids?
April II. 1864, Grant again graph
cally depicted;
From what l can learn of Grant, he
is no more afraid to take the respon-
sibility of a million men than of a sim
gle company. This is a very praise
worthy feature in his character, and
the more so as it is not generated by
conceit or indifference.