Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-06-18

told you how we expect at the coming
election to roll out the votes for Grant, I
Colfax and Victory, but | know have
already wearjed you and will close by |
promising at some future time to write ,
you again. Yours, &C., II. C. d.
Gen. Grants Speeches.
From the n. y. Tribune.
The Democratic journals are greatly |
exercised about Gen. Grants speeches,
and predict disaster to the country in
in the election of man who (they say
cannot make Offering oration. One
of these carping critics is Gen. s. B.
Buckner, now the editor of the Louis
Vile Courier, the chief Pendleton-D Demo-
cratic organ Of Kentucky. Editor Buck
ner sharply reviews Gen. Grants style
and IDEAS and thinks he won't do. But
Mr.. Buckner possibly may remember
one little speech or composition of Gen.
Grant. 1t was as follows:
UEADonS ARMY IN THE FIELD. !
CAMP NEAR DoNELsoN, Feb. 10, 1862.
TO Gen. S. B. BuCKNER, Confederate
army: Yours of this date, proposing an
armistice and appointment of commits
sioners to settle terms Of capitulation, is
| lDSG fttGlNcu. w OEtCf ttfUto ttttb 'tt
unconditional and Immediate surrender
can be accepted. L propose to move i'm
laediateiy upon your eooTks. am, Sir
| very respectfully, your obedient servant,
u. S. GRANT,
Br.iy.-Ge,a. z. s. A., Commanding.
Gen. Buckner called these terms un-
! generous and uncivil; but he made haste
to accept them. For once, at least, he
clearly omprchended Gen. Grants style.
Some time afterward, Gen. Grant was
visited in his camp before Vicksburg by
Gen. Pemberton, who was anxious to
know upon what terms that city could
be relieved from siege just then pend
ing. Here are the speeches.:
PEMDERTON.-Gen.G Grant, L meet you
in order to arrange terms for capitula-
ton. What terms do you demand:
GRANT, Unconditional surrender.
PEAIBERToN.-Unc surren-
der! Never, so long as have man left
me. will fight rather.
i GRANT.-Very well.
But Gen. Pembertop reflected little,
and as soon as the full force of Gen.
Grants brief speech became clear to his
mind, lie, too, made haste 10 comply.
Again, on the road TO Richmond, after
the battle of Spottsylvania Court-House,
Gen. Grant INDUCED in speech or dis
patch in these tolerably clear words:
ave have now ended the sixth day
of very heavy fighting, and the result to
this time is much in our favor.
/ propose to fght il out on this line II ii
tales me all Summer"
We believe Gen. Lee was in no doubt
as to the meaning of this speech. If he
was, those doubts were settled by thu
next which we shall quote of General
Grants speeches. The scene this time
; is at Appomattox Courthouse:
81 propose to receive the surrender o
the Army of Northern Virginia upon tht
following terms"
We need not quote the terms. 1t ii
enough to say that Gen. Lee very clearl,
t understood them, and lost no time il
, complying.
,, Since that time Gen. Grant has mad
5 few speeches; but few and brief as the!
| are, they are by no means so ambieuou
as these Democratic critics would hay
ms believe. His latest and noblest speecl
reads as follows;
4 Mj. President, and Gentlemen Of tn
: National Union Convention: L Will Ell
Y deavor in a very short time to write yo
i a letter accepting the trust you have I'm
t posed upon me. Applause.l express
0 ing my gratitude for the confidence yo
: have placed in me, will now say bu
= little orally, and that is to thank you 10
5 the ananimity with which you have Sc
Il lected me as a a.candidate for the l'resl
S DENTAL office. l can say, in addition,
looked on during the progress OF tue pft
?. eeedings at Chicago with great deal
4 interest, and am gratified with the hai
i mony and unanilnity which seemed Z
It have poyerned the deliberations of til
It Convention. If chosen to fill the hig
e Office for which you have selected me,
d will give to its duties the same enere,
"a the same spirit, and the came will, tht
/, / have given to the performance OF a
% duties which have devolyed upon m
p heretofore. Whether shall be able
l. perform these duties TO your entire satl
y faction, time will determine. Yoit hdl
y truly said, in the cotdrse Of yo,er dddres
10 that + shall hare no policy Of my ops
20 enforce against the s0iN Of the people.
= I'VE have had four Generals in Il
y - Presidential chair, not one of whom WI
5, brilliant as an orator, George Was
D. ington, when given the command Oft
= = Revolutionary Army, could scarcely 81