Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-06-04

GENERAL U. y. GRANT.
His Brilliant Record MS "a Soldier Accord
Ing to the Democratic Newspapers.

The following is from the New York
World, of April llth, 1861
Gen. Grants history should teach us to
discriminate better than we Americans are
apt to do between glitter and solid work.
Our proncness to run after demagogues and
spouters may find wholesome corrective in
the study of such character as his. The
qualities by which great things are accom-
plisbed are here seen to have no necessary
connection with snowy and superficial ac-
complishmcnt. When the mass of men look
upon such character, they may learn
truer respect for themselves and each other;
they are taught by it that high qualities and
great abilities are consistent with the SIM
pcity of taste, contempt for parade, and
plainness of manners with which direct and
earnest men have strong natural sympathy.
Ulysses Grant, the tanner, Ulysses 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 a 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 Il les
son in practical democracy it is quite sa-
tire on the dandyism, the puppyism, and the
shallow affectation of our fashionable ex-
quisitcs as well as upon the swagger of our
plausible, glib-tongued demagogucs. Not
by any means that great qualities are incon-
sistent with cultivated manners and fluent
clocution; but that such superficial accom-
plshments are no measure of worth or abili-
ty.
Gen. Grants last brilliant campaign sets
the final seal upon his reputation. 1t stamps
him as the superior of his antagonist as well
as of all the commanders who have served
with or under him in the great campaigns of
the last year. 1t is not necessary to sacri-
flee any part of their wel-earned regulations
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-G General, when anybody
but Sherman, on our side, could have been
classed with him. Since Sherman's bold
march through Georgia, and his capture of
Savannah and Charleston, there have been
many who, in their strong admiration of his
great achievement, inclined to rank him as
the greater general of the two. That judg-
ment, we take II, is now reversed by the
court OF final appeal; not by drawing the
reputation of Sherman, which suffers no just
abatement, but by the expansion into grander
proportion 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 Vicks-
burg and the defenses of Richmond were
both deemed impregnable, and were defend
ed with proportional confidence and obsti-
macy; but they both yielded, lat last. to Grants
matchless persistence and unequalled stra-
tegy. 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 General
Grants mastery execution. He did not
merely, in each case. acquire a position
which was the key of wide theater of op-
erations 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.
II anybody is so obtuse or so wrong-head-
ed as to see nothing great in Gen. Grant
beyond his marvellous tenacity of will, let
that doubtcr explain, If he can, how it has
happened that, since Grant rose to high
command, this quality has always been ex-
erted in conspicuous energy precisely at the
point on which everything in his whole
sphere of operation hinged. There has been
no display of great qualities on small occa-
sicns; no expenditure of herculean effort to
accomplish objects not of the first magni-
tude. 1t is only a very cear-sighted and
worry comprehensive mind that could always
thus have laid the whole emphasis of an in
domitable 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
assigning great and brilliant parts to his
subordinate commanders, he has never, when
the results of his strategy were fully unfold
ed,appeared in the picture except as the cen
tral 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 completeness and finish in
which he contrives to have his campaigns
end that we see him standing in the fore
ground, and that the grouping is always such
that the glory of the other generals instead of
ecpsing his own gives it additional luster.
1t is the surcness Of judgement which secs
precisely where lies the turning point; which
sees precisely what are the objects that JUS
tlfy the utmost stretch of persistence it is
this ability to take in the whole field of view
in just perspective and due subordination of
parts, that is the mark of superior mind.
Gen. Grant has taken out of the hands of all
critics the question whether 1t belongs to
him. He has won the greatest triumph over
the most skillful and accomplished General
on the other side; over General who foiled
him long enough to prove his great mastery
OF the art OF war; and the completeness of
whose defeat is a testimony to Grants genius
such as victory over any other General Of
the Confederacy, or even an earlier victory
over Lee himself could not have given.
Apply to Gen. Grant what test you will
measure him by the magnitude of the obsta-
cles he has surmounted, by the value of the
positions he has gained, by the fame of the
antagonist over whom he has trlumphed, by
the achievements of his most illustrious CO.
workers, by the sureness with which he di-
rccts his indomitablc energy to the vital
point which is the key of a vast field Of op-
erations, or by that supreme test of cosun,-
mate ability, the absolute completeness of
his results, and he vindicatcs his claim to
stand next after Napoleon and Wellington,
among the great soldiers of this century, If
not on a leYel with the latter.
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Anything made known to everybody in
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