The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-04-07

officers from that time even to the fill
of Vioksburg. lie refused to fight &C.
cording to the prescribed rules of war
as laid down by the red tape maytinets
in Washington, and worked out tprob.
lens of his own, sometimes with par
tial and at others with complete sue
cess. lie discarded the old rules and
tactics of European as our own regular
armies &C being entirely unadapted to
the habits and nature of tho newly
developed American soldier; and hav.
ing the instinct to discern the ability
of his officers and the disposition of
his troops he had tho sagacity to use
him to advantage and the genius to
reap thercfrom legitimate fruits. Be-
ing an even-tempered and unambitious
man he reconciled differences which
otherwise might have lead to serious
embarrassments and ripened into ma
tional disasters. All this time he
was, for obvious reasons, encountering
hostility in high OH ,ial quarters, and
it was not until his triumphant ban
nors entered Richmond and the rebel
lion was pronounced extinct that this
hostility ceased.
AS General Grant commenced his
military SO has he commenced his po-
litical career. 1t is not brilliant.-
His first movement, like that at Bel
mont, was comparative failnrc. His
Cabinet hitched. Icrc was bother,
If not Il bfalndcr. lie had to make a
retrograde movement and re. form his
lines. He finally succeeded in organ
izing his staff Of official couusellors
and began the work Of his political
campaign. Here he was met by tho
odious Tenure Of Office act; and here
he finds that, as in his military carecy
he had to encounter the opposition of
officials in high quarters in the War
Department in Washington, he has
now to be embarrassed with q similar
hostility, through the ambitious de-
signs of tho oligarchy in tho United
States Senate. Tho old politicians,
too, are annoying him by their endea-
vors to circumvont his plans and to
make him believe that party is supe-
rior to country and that public plum.
der is the proper reward of those trad
ing partizans who helped to elevate
him to tho Presidency. We believe
he hos a harder fight now than he has
ever had in the field, and that he
would any day rather face tho blaze
of an encmy's battery than undergo
the daily ordeal of meeting tho bat
tnlions Of officc-scekcrs that invest the
White House. But his day is coming,
just as surely Us his standard rose
above tho capital city Of the foe. lie
is abused now as he was on his partial
successes during tho war, and the
abuse that is now bestowed upon him
will in the end, rs it was In the end of
the war, be turned to pnns Of praise.
llc will overcome obstacles that the
cnvious, tho fanatical, tho ambitious
or the treacherous may cast in his path.
llo will have political Ricksburg as
hc had military one; ho will have
political successes similar to those mil
itary successes which followed in re-
gular train on tho peainsular in Vir-
ginia, eliminating in grand and
final political Appomatox. The vote
on the Tenure of Office not shows
that he has the House with him, land the
temper of the Senate is exhibited in
its action yesterday. He cannot be
impeachcd, because the House would
not originate tho proceeding. There
foro he might as we'll go Gu, make his
appointments, let the Senate slide,
and, after dcmoralizing tho radical
party by magnificent stragetic move
ment, erect party of his own that
will rally around him in any emer-
gcncy. Thus will his political mis-
sion-beginning, like his military ca
reer, in somewhat bungling manner
end rs that did, in an effulsent ray
of slory, imparting alike union and
harmony, confidence and prosperity
all over tho country.