New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-07

Bismarck, AfoItke ard PHI Sheridan.
The following from that stern Republican
journal, the Lou;s;ana State Register, is well
worth perusal:
Phil Sheridan is placed in the foreground
of two pen pictures drawn by Murat Hal
stead, Of the Cincinnati Commercial, which
he does not fill as another man might have
filed them. In one of these pictures Sheridan
is riding in the carriage of the great Prussian
Chancellor, Otto Won Bismarck, toward the
field of GravellOtte. In the other King
William and his staff of civil and military adj
visers, including Moltke and Won Bismarck,
are assembled on the crest OF q hill, over
looking the fearful fight which spreads for
miles in front of them: Armies are contend
ing, artillery is playing, charges are max
ing, masses Of soldiers are falling. All the
Prussian officers are discussing the conflict
at their ease, Bismarck is resting quietly,
his eyes half shut, with his face away from
the fight Phil Sheridan stands in front,
swinging his field glass from point to point,
inspecting the movements. Bully, am IL I
Well, every man to his taste. Perhaps
Murat Halstead painted the picture 10 let
MS study the scene, and, as we are in the
vein, let us realize the idea OF the cores
pondent.
Bismarck, in tho first place, has mind 80
much suDerior to Sheridan's that we can
conceive of no sympathy OF thought between
the two men in the carriage. Sheridan
could not even comprehend the interests or
emergencies of petty little State Ike
Louisiana, and to escape from crisis that
! he ought to have seen, and perhaps did see.
| was inevitable in New Orleans in 1866. he
| fed to Texas leaving no memoranda behind
| as to how to avoid the trouble threatened
| nv the convention then about to be
called together. Bismarck, on the con-
| trary sweeps over continent, ana
combines in his magnificent plans
| the suppression Of empires abroad,
| and the preservation OF peace at nome.
! One Of these men comprehends all subjects,
| and the other is % mere surface actor One
| has mind and the other is mere q bundle of
muscle. What community of ideas, then,
| existed between Bismarck and Sheridan.
| If it had been Sherman in that carriage the
| Interchange of words. and even the solemn
| silence itself. would have been worthy OF
consideration, for Sherman is man OF
| brains and head like Bismarck we leave
| the American people to consider how poor,
| ly they were represented IN the carriage VI
| the Prussian Chancellor.
! Now. as to the scene on the hilltop, that is
| still more disparaging to our selt-esteem
| While real talent shows itself in the calm,
| ness and confidence Of the true heroes and
| stratecists of the European war, our cOios
sus straddlcs over the ground and can only
satisfy himself by seeing the tragedy: His
position, poised on his short legs, behind
big spy glass. is that OF a man without
mind incapable of comprehendins what he
can not see. Moltke and Bismarck do MOI
need to look at the battle to under
stand its merits. They have inward
eyes that sweep over maps and accom-
pany surcing armies. Moltke knew where
the fight was raging, and felt the shock o
battle through a superior lens than that o
a mere tube with concave and convex erys
tails in it. And no doubt these real soldiers
felt that America had been nightly over
rated, if this "Peeping Tom was the hes
General she could send to overlook contes
which involves principalities, and blaze
along miles of moving soldiers. What ha'
the mere physical eye to do with such
fight! None but q physical soldier woul'
ence to investigate the rise and progress o
| a great battle.