The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-09-10

The New York World, for the basest of 20.
iltical reasons, devotes q large space every
day to the abuse and vllihoation Of Gen.
Grant. Not content to pour out upon his head
the ISLANDERS which are manufactured In this
country by as mean set OF charlatans as ever
walked the earth, II has a pretended CORE
spondent In France who In all probability
writes his contemplate and silly criticism In
the World office and trots out an article which
1t pretends came from the military critic Of
France. The New York Ercning Post thus
dlsposes of this foreign critic of our great
General;
The World follows up its personal abuse OF
the greatest soldier OF the republic BY print
inc a letter dated Paris. "from our own CORE
spondent," which bcgins thus
"Pubuc opinion throgghopt Europe !; eisted
with hopeSo seeing the RspubIiran SnarSn ~ ~
fell in Europe Tor Gen Grant The French ohcers
are unanimous in denying him military talents ,,
' Of the war their estimate OF him SINKS
AsFrance is the most military nation in
Europe, and the criticisms OF her scientinc OF
| ncers are deservedly esteemed as hnal, when
made with care and candor, any general 10
whom they are "unanimous In denying mill.
tary talents" must be admitted to be OF small
note 1t 10 with curiosity, therefore, that one
turns, after reading the World, to such book
as Major General Regis de Trobriand's QUA
tire Ans de Campaigns a L'Armee du Poto-
months ago, is already the accepted expression
Conduct rrfaeo Of the ists war of the Enion U
The terms in which General de Trobriand
expresses his "utmost contempt for General
Grant" and "denies" to him any military
talents" are SO striking that 1t 10 worth while
to give = literal translation OF them:
~ 1t was necessary, above all, In 1854, to call
| to the supreme command OF all the land forces o
EA2;s w SSS ,S be sTsSey Rs
successes and one capable Of directing the opera
ness S"' Which, t9S had been lacking iii then,
only one man united these conditions: Gen;
s.dy srSwn In .plSndof he fame Of he
| cesses Of our armies In the West Battles, under
HI. command were eharssiesed ~ peGIa yIsT.
been fertile 10 great results He had conceived eK
nSST. a. hi. pGm Of s9a SSy
campaigns on the Mississippi must remain the mos!
singular illustration Of the American character and
| genius applied TO the art Of war
| And, after sketching the means used and the
results obtained, General de Trobriand adds:
This series OF operations, conducted with as
| on ali sides; these enterprises followed up by
Win esr@s aI th
| ency Of effort, never satisfied while anything re-
NAMED to do-there you have General Grant ~
| There IL reason, IL would seem, to suspect
that the Worlds correspondent in Paris, per
| haps by not understanding the peculiar dia-
| lect there spoken, has COMPOUNDED two very
different men There al are two candidates tsn i0r
l
| not General Grant, for whom II may be said
| without serious violence to truth, that the
utmost contempt is felt in Europe" The
fact is that public opinion there does not re.
| spect highly any man OF any nation whose
| Hympathles are with the enemies Of his coun'
try; whose victories are the defeats OF his Eel
| low-citiZens.
But our business now is merely with French
military criticism, and its highest authority
General de Trobriand, has word TO say OF
the attitude of the Governor of New York
| in the dark DAYS of the Union, the summer o
1S63:
1.-THE Governor, Horatio Seymour. whose stti
tude and conduct toward the national UOyernmsn
had been Of character to encourage rather than t
prevent the riots, had no thought except, in COO
S s Pbe 81 the
| Of ascertainiRg whether some error had not stoeI
wt S 1b %, NE % he
| Of the law could be submitted to judicial tribu
postpOnement Of the draft The object OF this at
tempt Is plain. 1t was TO dry up the source Of tht
lessen, Il not DESTROY, tie results Of the vctSre.
Of Gettysburg and VI Cksburg aud, viii lie the Con
federats government should renew its forces by a
topping the draft and discguraging volunteering
Gratis Of the North attempted to obtain either ID,
nnai recognition of southern Conted,racy or The
sqbordinauon Of the free States to the supre macy
| Of the slave States. ~
Does not the World admire thu frank, dircc
way those French military critics have o
knows to be true, but nobody Is quite disre
spectful enough to say, they put in the plain
est language, without cIrcumloCutIon. Tt
this critic DIR. Seymour's attitude Ia simpl!
| one circumstance in the conduct of the war
General Grants character IL simply alothe
circumstance; and, without a N-stige Of pei
sonal or partisan feeling, the cool, straightfor
; ward man Of military business tells what the
were, as he would mention the width Of
river to be bridgcd, or the strength Of u bal
terry to be siIenccd. Utmost contempt"
: scarcely the phrase to express the French o
fcer's appreciation of these things; ian cxac
: apprehension OF facts as they are" conveys tn
idea better.