New-York tribune., 1868-05-27
rrs OPINION OF TIE COM.
AIANDER OF THE ARMY.

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Americans are APP TO do
between glitter and solid
work. Our pr0neness 10
run after demagogues and
spOuters may tiud a whole
some corrective in the
study OF such a character
as his. The qualities by
which great things are ac-
.COmplished are hcEe seen
Ito have no necessary con-
.nection with snowy and
superficial accomplish
.ments. When the mass OF
men look upon such a
character, they may learn
Ia trner respect for them.
selves and each other;
they are taught by IL that
high qualities and great
abilities are consistent
with the simplicity of
taste. contempt for parade,
and plainness of manners
with which direct and
earnest men have u strong
natural sympathy. Ulysses
Grant, the tanner, Ulysses
Grant, the unsuccessfulap-
plicant for the post OF
CITY Surveyor OF st. Louis,
ULYSSES Grant, the driver
into that city of his two
horse team with q load
of wood to sell, hadwithin
him every manly quality
which win cause the name
of Northumberland
Grant to live forever IN
history. His career is a
lesson in practical demo-
cracy; it is a quiet satire
on the dandyism, the pup
pyiSm, and the shallow
aiIoctatiOn of our fashion
able exquisites as well as
upon the swagger OF our
plausible, glib-tongued
.dcmagOgues. Not by anV
means that great qualities
arc Inconsistent with cul-
tivated manners and a
fluent elOcutiOn but that
such superficial accom-
plishments are no meas
ure of worth or ability.
Gen. Grants last bril-
liant campaign sets the
final seal upon his repu-
tation. 1t stamps him as
the superior of his able
antagonist as well as OF
all the commanders who
have served with or un-
der him in the great cam
lpaigns of the last year. 1t
lis not necessary to sacrl-
lice any part of their we'll
learned regulations TO his.
sherman and Sheridan de-
serve all that has ever
been said in their praise
lbut there has never been
la time, since Grant was
lmade Lieuteuant-General,
when anybody but Sher-
Imam, on our side, could
have been classed with
him. Since Sherman's bold
march through Georgia,
and his capture of Sa-
lvannah and Charleston,
There have been many
who. in their strong all
ImiratiOn of his great
achievements, inclined to
rank him as the greater
general of the two. That
Judgment, we take IT, Is
.lnOw reversed by the
court of final appeal ; not
-lhy dwarting the reputa-
Ition of Sherman, which
suffers no just abatement,
,lbut by the expansion into
.lQandeT proportions OF
lhat Of Grant.
! Grant stands preemi-
lnent among all the gene
trails who have led our ar
lmies N the late war, in
THAT he has exhibited the
utmost strength of will of
(which the highest type of
manhood is capable. The
idefenses Of Nicksburg and
the defenses OF Richmond
were both deemedimpTe
Unable, and were defended
! with a aprOpOTtiOnable con-
Iidence and Obstinacy; but
,lthey both yielded, at last,
Ito Grants matchless per-
isistcnce and unequaled
STRATEGY. And, in both
leases, ne not only took
1.-THE lOng-c0ntested posi-
ltiOns, bnt compelled the
surrender OF the whole
.force defending them.
Nothing could be more
lclean and complete, even
lin Imagination, than Gen.
Grants mastery eXecu-
Ition. lie did not mere
Ily, in each case, acquire
a position which was the
key of q wide theater of
operations; be did not
merely beat or disable the
opposing force; he left no
fragment Of it IN existence
except as prisoners OF
war subject 10 his dis
lpOsal.
If anybody is so obtuse
lOr so wrong-headed as to
see nothing great in Gen.
Grant beyond his marvel
lOus tenacity of will, let
that dOubtef explain, if
he can, how it has hap
Ipened that, since Grant
rose TO high command.
this Quality has always
been exerted in con-
,spicuOus energy precisely
'at the point on which
Everything IN his whole
lspheTe Of operations
hinged. There has been
mo display of great quail
tics on small occasions; no
Expenditure of herculean
effort to accomplish OBJ
|iects not Of the first
magnitude. 1t is only a
very clcaT-sighted and a
very comprehensive mind
that could always thus
have laid the whole
emphasis Of an indomita-
.ble soul so precisely on
the emphatic place. How,
.if he be not a general of
the first order OF intellect,
.as well as of the most
heroic determination, does
it happen that in assign
ing great and brilliant
parts to his subordinate
commanders, he has never.
when the results of his
strategy were fully un-
folded, appeared in the
picture except as the CEN
tral figure : However it
may seem during the pro-
gress Of one Of his great