The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-06-03
THE WORLD ON GEN. GRANT.
From The World, May 81, 1868.


the strength of the rebellion which had
already been mortallv wounded by
Meade at Gettysburg.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL. GRANT.
From The World, April, II, 1866.
Gen, Grants history shonld teach
us to discriminate better than we
Americans are apt to do between gilt
ter and solid work. Our proncncss to
run after dcmagogues and spouters
may find a wholesome corrective in the
study ofsuch a character as his. The
qualities by whica great things are ac-
complishcd are here seen to have no
necessary connection showyand super
fetal accomplishments. When the
mass of men look upon such a charac-
ter, they may learn a truer respect for
themselves and each other they are
taught by it that high qualities and
great abilities are consistent with the
simplicityNof taste, contempt for pa
radc, and plainnc,s Of manners with
which direct and earnest men have n
strong natural sympathv. ULYSSES s,
Grant, the tanner, lTlysscs s Gront
the unsuccessful applicant for the post
Of City Surveyor Of st, Louis, Ulysses
Is. Grant, the driver into that city Of
his two-horse team with A load Of wool
TO SELL had within him every manly
quality which will couso thc name If
| Iieutcnant-Geueral Grant TO live for
eyer in history His corccr ;s = lesson
in practical Democracy il is n onict
satire on tbc dondvism tbc nunnvism
and thc shallow oHrctotinn IF onr
fashionable cvonisitcs nc we'll os unon
thc eworgor df our nlops;hlo cI;h-
toncucd dcmorooucs NOT hv onv
means that Great onalitics are neon
sistont with cultiva4od manners and =
fluent elocntion but that sucb super-
fetal accomnlisn,ents are no measures
of worth or ability.
Gen. Grants Last campairn sets the
final seal upon his reputation. It
stamps him as the superior of his able
antagonist as we'll as of all the COM
manders who have served with or un-
der him in the great campaigns of the
last year. 1t is not necessary to
sacrifice any part of well-earncd
regulations to his, Sherman and
Sheridan deserve all that has ever
been said in their praise; but there has
never been a time, since Graut was
made Lieutenant-General, when any
body but Sherman, on our side, could
have been classed with him. Since
Sherman's bold march through Gcor-
gia, and his capture Of Savannah and
Charleston, there have been many who
in their strong admiration Of his great
achievements, inclined to rank him as
the greater general of the two. That
judgment, we take it is now reversed
by the court Of final appeal not by
dwarfing the reputation of Sherman
which suffers no just abatement, but
by the expansion into grander pro-
portions Of that OF Grant.
Grant stands prominent among all
the generals who have led are armies
in the late war, in that he has exhibit
ed the utmost strength of will of which
the highest type of manhood is capable.
The defense of Vicksburg and the de-
tense of Richmond were both deemed
inpregnable, and were defended with
a proportional confidence and obstina-
cy; but they both yielded, at last, to
Grants matchless persistence and un-
equaled strategy, And in both cases
he not only took the long-contested
positions, but compelled the surrender
of the whole force defending them.
Nothing could be more clean and
complete, even in Imagination, than
Gen. Grants mastery execution. He
did notmcrely, in each case, acquire DO
sitfon which was the kew of a wide
theater of operations he did not mere
| ly beat or disable the opposing force :;
he left no fragment of it in existence
except as prisoners of war subject to
his disposal.
Ifanybodv is so obtuse or so wrong-
headed as to see nothing great in Gen
eral Grant beyond his marvellous ten
acity of will, let that doubter explain,
ifhe can, how it has happened that
since Grant rose to high command,
this quality has always been exerted in
conspicuous energy precisely at the
point on which everything in his
whole sphere of operations hinged.
There has been no display of great
qualities on small occasions no ex-