The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-04-10

Surlng oil, nay, convincing all that tue he-
public WAS safe. Was this accident great
nossp II not greatness, why did not some
other man Of hundred great mon in the
capital calm the elements and give con.
6ieuce to the c0uutryG II accident,
IL was such one, as retrieved tho mis-.
fortunes of Shiloh, stormed the fortrcsses
Of Nicksburg, pushed Lee from the wilder
ness, and finally broke his sword at Five
Forks.
Some mch are born great others have
greatness thrust upon them, whilc others |
again wiring greatness from the world. To
the lattor class emphatically belongs |
Ulysses Grant; and yet il may with truth |
be said that he belongs to the second class,
for being as modest ms he vas great he |
c aimed nothing for his services, and hon
ors and greatness had to be thrust upon |
him. We are nobodys puher, we do not
say these thugs of Graut TO bring him ont
Tor the Presidency. To commend him TO the
American people would be like recommend |
ing Alexander, or Caesar or Napoleon 10 !
historians as subjects worthy of their con
sideratinu we do not say them for the pur
pose OF carrying favor with Grant, or oh
taiuing an office, for we already have q
higher Office than We ever Hoped to fill; we
do not say them because We like Grant,
say them because he is personal friend or
ever did us service. for he is not aud
once Internationally it is hoped) did us a
great injury We do not say them FOR any
4, fish or improper reason but We utter
hem because we believe them TO bc true,
because We think Grant great and good
mau, because we admire him as soldier
and q statcsman, and feel grateful to him
tor rc.estahlshing the Union OF these
States aud 'hus prescrvin ing for Ills and our
children the Government which our faith
ers founded. What Washington sstab.
lished, he, with his mighty sword, has pre-
served, aud hereafter the names ot Wash.
iugton and Graut will stand side by side,
aud in marble aud brass Til every niche Of
our comtry's fame TO the latest posterity.
However great men may become, we have
no faith in great boys. Babies ard boys
are all very much alike, aud until they
grow to br men there is little or nothing
remarkable about them, Four or five lads
who viii he President in the beginning OF
1900 are running about loose somewhere,
aud yet il we were to catch all tho smart or
remarkable youths in the nation, we would,
in all prot ability, tail to get hold of u fu
ture Irehident. Grant is one OF those re-
markoble examples presented by TO ccun.
boy rising from his individual exertions to
be the head of (3s .000,000) thirty eight mil
lions OF people. lie does not seem to have
been a remarkable baby or wonderful boy,
aud despite tho stories told of bis early
life, we are constrained to believe he was
vory much like other boys, a little smart,
pretty bad, aud very lazy. He has pro-
posed since lie grew up to fight it out on
one line il il took him all summer and yet
his own father haH told us that every time
bark was to bc ground in the tonnery, or
hides to be scraped, Ulysses would break
| for the village like a quarter horse. How
many lads have run off aud LAIN in the
woods all day rather than go to school, hid
| in the hay nov when stunc were TO be
picked or grown suddenly sick when the
grain was to be gathered on a hot day.
| These things are common To youth, and
| Grant was no exception TO the general rule
! That hatchet story has done great deal OF
good for Washington, but il is remarkable
that his mother could not rccollcct it, and
no one ever heard Of until after George be-
came great man. The praying III the
woods was all well enough, but Madison
! tells an auecdoto about Washington ours
lug funously aud kicking his servant down
stairs one morning because his unfortunate
! darkey set Georges new portrait so close
/ to the fire as to blister the oil upon the il
| Iustrious face. Yet the fine stories TOLD
| about Washington have made thousands OF
la BOYS better, and we hope the truth Of
them will be doubted Some one said
we tol the same story of the early
| lfe OF Ben Wade that was told of AOra
| ham Lincoln; we hope so, and trust
that story will last long enough to I've of
service to several more poor boys who may
chance t. become great men. We consider
IL a misfortune to the rest OF American
! youths ;hat the Ratchet story OF Washing
ton became so prominent as to prevent The
possibility OF telling II again in their cases
should they become great.
! A pious person, who ia great friend o
| Mr.. Wade, has been to the trouble tn write
US letter aud assure MS We should no
have told that the great old Statesman
swore sometimes; this pious friend, would
we suppose, have had us tell a lie about It
! for everybody knows Wade is in the hubi
| of swearing sometimes. We advise oui
| pious correspondent to carry his practca
deau OF deula stll further, and have care
fully expunged from App!eton's new edi
! tion OF the Bible that passage which speaks
of Chrisl's conduct in the Temple, tor sc
assure him the Masters rage, smashing o.
the tables and buuting ont of the money
changers, nay prove Objectionable to many
mild and good Christsus.
We assert it again. lhat there is nothing
in the lives OF boys by which one can cal
culate with any degree of certainty theil
future uSeiulness or positions III He. We
once new smart boy IN Pittsburg, who, {
good many people said, if lie lived, woulc
be President, but he forged q note on hi'
father, aud is now. we believe, in the Peni
Tertiary we knew another boy in Belle
fonte, Peunsy lvania who was remarkably
/ talent d, but he took to drinking. and
died at 25; we had school fellow who
was wonderful boy his chief amusement
II tie summer tic was fighting buinblv
lbres ia tho meadows. Often have we seen
hls pngnacous youth, in the hoI days o
August, tniling for hours IN the unequal
contest with hundreds os enraged bees
Now aud then. by way OF a change, he
would attack black hornets nestj and
Ihen, with ewes aud face sweled up like q
prizs lighters, ho would come home anc
Law for DAYS on his bed. when his mother
baving reduced the swelling with plantaiu
aves so he could see, he would sally lortl
aga N I, renew The battle, determined Il
liz ht all summer on that llbe or XII oil lh'
lees. la winter time he engaged the bel
icose rams aud bulls in the heighberhood
aud we laugh still when we think OF no"
one day Phillip sheunebarger's = ram butte'
him down the ldll into the creek.
When the war broke out, we learne'
This remarkable youth desired to enter th
army. aud we runhed of to the State Capita
to get him commission. and secure, !