Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-06-19
The National Democratic Organ on
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Grant.
On the 11th of April 1865 the n. Y,
World, the ablest Democratic paper
in the Union. contained the editorial
below appended. in praise Of General
Grant That the pen which wrote
this IS now being devoted to the abuse
G Of the General and decrying him as an
incompetent blockhead will not di-
minish its truthfulnes5 or force We
appeal from Philip drunk to Philip
sober.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL GRANT
General Grants history should
teach US to discriminate better than
we Americans are apt TO do between
glitter and solid work. Our proneness
TO run after demag0gues and spouters
+. may find a wholesome corrective in
the study of such a character as his. /
The qualities bywhich great things are 1
accomplished are here seen to have no 1
necessary connection with snowy and /
superficial accomplishments. When 1
the mass of men look upon such a /
character. they may learn a truer re
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they are taught By it that high qualities /
and great abilities are consistent with 4.
the simplicity of Taste, contempt for
/ pride, and plainness Of manners with 4
which direct and earnest men have
strong natural sympathy. U, 5. Grant,
! the tanner, Ulysses Grant, the unsuc-
/ cessful applicant for the post of Cliy
j Surveyor of st Louis, Ulysses Grant, the
driver into that city of his two-hoTse
/ team with q load Of wood to sell, had
/ within him every manly qualify which
will cause the name of LieUteaDt-Gen
eral Grant to live forever in history.
His career is a lesson In practical De-
mocracy it is a quiet satire on the
dandyism, the puppyism, and the shall ]
low affectation of our fashionable ex- !
quisites as well as upon the sWagger
of our plausible, glib-tougued dema
gogues. Not by any means that great
qualities are inconsistent with cultIva
ted manners and a fluent elOcutlOn
but that such superficial accOmplis, !
ments are no measure of worth or s
ability
Gen. Grants last brilliant campaign ;
sets the final seal upon his reputation. :
1t stamps him as the superior Of his
able antagonist as we'll 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 sacrifice any part of their well earn
ed regulations to his. Sherman and
Sheridan deserve all that has been said a
in their praise but there has never !
been a time since Grant was made i
Lieutenant General when anybody but V
Sherman on our side could be elassed t
with him Since Sherman S march a
through Georgia and his capture of '
Savannah and Charleston, there have Z
been many who, IN their strong ad T,
miration of his great achievements, \
inclined to rank him as the greater q
general Of the two That judgment, Isl
We take it, is now reversed by the n
court Of final appeal not by dwarf a
ing the reputation of Sherman, which 4
suffers no just abatement, but by the 4
into grander propositions of n
that of Grant.
Grant stands pre- eminent among all q
the Generals who have led our armies IIe
in tue late war, in that he has exhibi- II
ted the utmost strength Of will of a
which the highest type of manhood is Il
The defenses Of Vieksburg c,
and the defences of Richmond were n
both deemed impregnable, and were Z.
defended with a proportionable conf =
dencG ana ObsTtnaUy;- but they both -
yielded, at last, to Grants matchless ii
and unequaled strategy, m
and in both cases, he not only took the Y
positions, but compel
led the surrender of the whole force
them. Nothing could be n
more clean and complete, even in i'm
agination, than Gen. Grants mastery
execution. He did not merely, in
each case, acquire position which was ia
the key of wide theater of Operations d.
be did not merely beat or disable the Sc
opposing force he left no fragment of Il
tin existence except as prisoners of -,
war subject to his disposal. II II
Ifany body is so btuse or SO II
as to see nothing great pl
in Gen. Grant beyond his marvellous
tenacity O. will, let that dOubter ex- Il
plain, if ne can, how it has happened q
that, since Grant rose to high com n n
mand, this quality has always been ex- N
erted IN conspicuous energy, precisely
at the point on which every thing in fc
his whole sphsre Of operations hinged. II
There has been no display of great u
on small occasions no ex- =
penditure of berculean effort to accom- ~
plish objects not of the first magni
tude 1t Is only very clear sighted o.
and very comprehensive mind that a
could always thus have laid the whole y
emphasis of an indomitable soul so y
precisely in the emphatic place. n
How. if he is nOta general of the d
hrst order Of intellect, as well as Of a
the most heroic determination, does it Il
happen that in assigning great and n
brilliant parts to his subordinate com u
he has never, when the re- 8,
suits of his strategy were fully unfold ty
ed, appeared in the picture except as V
the central figure However it may I'll
seem during the progress of one of his h
great combined campaigns, it always
turns out at last, when 1t reaches that ~
and finish in which he n
contrives to have his campaigns end, d
that we see him standing in the fore h
ground, and that the grouping is al
ways such that the glory Of the other 8
generals instead of eclipsing his own =,
gives it additional luster. n
It is this sureness ofjudgment which y
sees. precisely what are the objects that fl
Justify the utmost stretch Of persis-
tence it is this ability to take in the g
whole field of view In just perspective
and due suboTdination Of parts, that is T!
the mark of a superior mind. Gen. g.
Grant has taken out Of the hands of n
all critics the question whether it be- "
longs to him. He bas won his greatest II
over the most skillful and ac- V
complished General on the other side;
over a 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