Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-09-25

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knelt at Lizzie Howard's feet, an,
she took him by the hand and let
HIM out OF the shadow into glowing
sunshine--into perfect peace. Did i
make Hal Beavers sin the less
Important Letter from
General Grant.
The New York Tribune, ofthe 18th
Instant, publishes highly impor.
tant letter from General Grant to his
father, prefacing its publication by
saying: '"The following letter has
been placed in our hapds by a gen.
tleman who furnishes 1t from col.
lection of autographs. II was writ.
ten by Major General Grant, TO his
father, from Miliken's Bend La, du.
ring the Vicksburg campaign. We
print it just as 1t is, word for word.
We have no hesitation In saying that
a more remarkable document, and
one that reflects more credit upon
the illustrious writer, has not been
given to the American peoples"
MILLIKEN's BEND, La,
E...# April 2lst, 1868.
DEAR FATHER-Your letter of the
7th Of April has just reached me.
hasten to answer your interogations.
When / left Memphis with my past
experience, / prohibited trade below
Helena. Trade to that point had
previously been opened by the treas
ury department. / give no permits
to buy Gotten, and Ii 1 find any one
engaged i'm the business, / send
them out of the department., and
seize their cotton for the Govern
ment. have given few families
permission to leave the country, and
to take with them so far as Memphis
their cotton. In doing this i have
been deceived 10y unprincipled spec
ulators, who have successfully Snug
gled themselves along with the army
In spite of orders prohibiting them
aud have been compelled to suspend
this favor to persons anxious to get
out of Dixie. -* " serve .g7@
/ understand that Government
has adopted some plan to regulate
getting the cotton out ofthe country.
L do not know what plan they have
adopted, but ann satisfied that any
that can be adopted, except for Gov
ernment to take the cotton them
selves, would be bad one. feel all
army followers who are engaged
specializing Off the misfortunes of
their country, and really aiding the
enemy more than they possibly could
do by open treason, should be draft
ed at once and put In the first forlorn
hope.
/ move my headquarters 10 New
Carthage tomorrow. This whole
country is under water, except strips
of land behind the levees, along the
river and bayous, and makes opera
tions almost impossible. L struck
upon plan which / thought would
give me foothold on the east bank
of the Mississippi before the enemy
could offer any resistance. But the
difficulty of the last one and half
miles next to carthage makes IL SO
tedious. that the enemy cannot fail TO
discover my plans, / am doing my
best, and am full or hope for complete
success. Time has been consumed,
but IL was absolutely impossible TO
avoid ii. An attack upon the rebel
works at any time since / arrived
here must inevitably, have resulted
In the loss of a large portion Of my
army, IL not in an entire defeat.
There were two points ofland, Hains'
Bluff and Wick sbnrg itself, out of wa
ter at any place from which troops
could march. These are thourough-
ly fortified, and 1t would be folly TO
attack them ns long as there In q pros
pect of changing their position. i
never expect TO have an army un-
der my command whipped un less 1t
Is very badly whipped and cant help
it, but / have no idea OF being driv.
Ell to u desperate er foolish act by the
Fhowlings OF the press. It Ia painful
to me, as matter OF course, to see
the course pcrsued by some Of tho pa
pers. But there is no one less dis
turbed by them than myself Il have
never sought large command, and
have no oainbitiousends to accomplish.
Were ii not for the very natural de-
sire of proving myself equal TO any
thing expected OF me, aud the evil
dence my removal would afford that
| WAS not thought equal to 1t, i
would gladly accept less responsi-
bic position. i have no desire to be
an object of envy orjealousy, nor to
have this war continue. i want, and
will do my part toward 1t, TO put
down the rebellion in the shortest
est possible time, without expecting
or desiring any other recognition
than quiet recognition of my course.
/ beg that you!will destroy this let
ter; at least do not show It..
julia aud the children are here,
but will go up by the first boat.
sent for her to come down and getin.
structions about some business /
want attended to, and see no imme-
diate prospect Of attending to my
self. leHt ULYssEs.