The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-06-19

utmost strength of will of which the high
est type Of manhood is capable. The de-
lenses of Vicksburg and the defenses of Rich
were defended with proportionable conf
dence and obstinacy but they both yielded
at last, to Grants matchless persistence
and unequallrd strategy. And in both
cases, he has not emily taken the long con-
tested positions, but compelled the surren-
der of the whole force defending them.
Nothing could be more clean and complete,
even in imagination, than Gen. Grants
mastery execution. He did not merely, in
each case, acquire a 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 exist
ence except as prisoners of war subject to
his disposal.
Ifanybody is so obtuse or so wrong headed
as to see nothing great in General Grant
beyond this 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 energy precisely at
the point on which everything in his whole
sphere of operations hinged. There has
been no display OF great qualities on small
occasions no expenditure of herculanean
eGorts to accomplish objects not of the first
magnitude. 1t 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 net gem
eral of the first order of intellect. as well as
Of the most heroic determination, does it
happen that in assigning great and brilliant
parts TO his subordinate commanders. he
hon r. of tratp
we're fully unfolded, appeared in the picture
except as the central figure: However it |
may seem during the progress of one of
his great combined campaigns. it always |
turns out at last, when it reaches that COM !
pleteness and finish in which he contrives !
10 have his campaigns end, that we see him
standing in the foreground, and that the
grouping is always such that the glory of
he other general instead of eclipsing his
own gives it additional lus:ro. 1t is this
sureness Of judgement which sees pre-
,isely where lies the turning point; which
sees precisely what are the objects that JUS
ify the utmost stretch of persistence it is
his ability to take in the whole field of
lew in Just perspective and due subOrdina-
ion Of parts, that is the mark of a superior
mind. Gen. Grant has taken out of the
lanj Of all critics the question whether it
.elongs to him. He has won his greatest
riumph over the most skillful and accom-
plished general on the other side; over a
General who foiled him long enough to prove
.is great mastery of the art of war: and the
completeness Of whose defeat is testimony
o Grants genius such as victory over ,
ny other general of the Confederacy. or
ven an earlier victory over Lee himself,
ould not have given. ,
Apply TO General Grant what test you /
Fill, measured him by the magnitude of :
he obstacles he has surmounted, bv the !
alue of the positions he has gained. by the
anne of the antagonist over whom he has ,
riumphcd, BY the achievements of his H.
ustrious co-workers, BY the sureness with t
hich he directs his iHdomitable energy to {
he vital point which is the key of a vast 7
ED of operations, or by that supreme test '
t consummate ability. the absolute com !
leteness Of his results, and he vindicates I
is claim TO stand next after Napolean and c
ellington, among the great soldiers Of
lis century, if not on level with the
liter. r
We do not qnote this just tribute to y
eneral Grant because it helps US to v
ny new or oil proof Of his greatness Il
; a soldier. not because of the accepta- D
ilty of the authority from which en- !,
mates for the World will doubtless n
II lis words, if it has not done SO s
ready, and join in the general Dem. a
ratio cry Of detraetion bat that the t;
all and its fellows may be answered W
o'ce ard fully hv the Jupiter Tonans a
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