Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-03
From the Chicago Times. i7th.
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ring the visit Of his excellency WI
have obtained at some length hii
general opinion Of matters on tht
Rhenish frontier.
The general in response to {
question as TO his opinion OF mat,
ters between France aud Prussia
said that neither party understands
wal as be understands it.
Here the reporter of the Times
ventered to assert cordial indOrse.
ment Of the remark of his eXcellen.
cy.
"Permit me, General" said Mr.
S%cammon, ito ask you to point out
what you conceive TO be the CHIEF
plumbers ofthe campaign thus far
"France," said the General, as he
lighted a fresh cigar, "made a blum.
der in commencing war upon a PEG.
pie of equal size and strength. The
true way to make war is to always
have three TO your enemy's one.
An illustration of the fact wa.
given at Shiloh. The enemy there
was within a third as large as my
own force. Hence, the disaster
which bciell me-
"But General said the reporter,
shave you no faith in mancuvcring
or in strategy, whereby intcriOrly
in point of numbers can be equal.
lied by superiority OF brains
"Nonc whatever, Sherman played
that out in his march 10 the
sea. You see the Confcdcrary was
only a shell, and that is why he met
with such success. lie had no OPP
position. My own experience
proves this. In all cases where
attempted any of these ncw.iaMgled
operations, | was beaten
Here Mr.. COlfaY, with a very
sweet smile, enquired as to what the
General thought should be done
by Napoleon.
"My idea" said the general. "s
that he should get Butler and Banks
to command army corps in the Prus-
sian forces. Then he should con-
script every Frenchman hat can
carry a musket, and send him in.
Prussia has only 30,000,0O0 inhabi-
tants, while French has 100000.
This is a clear difference in favor
Of France Of l0,0O0,0OO. Now let
Napoleon keep %hammering away at
the Prussians, if it takes all sum-
mer. am Of the opinion that the
superior activity OF the French,
aided by their chasscpot. their
clan, their traditions, and their SUI
perior navy, will enable them to kill
a Prussian as often as they can
a Frenchman. Hence it is a
clear case that if Napoleon
hammers away till all the Prus-
slams are killed oil, he will have
100000 left. In other words, his
cats tail is the longest"
"What is your opinion Of Napo.
leon personally Z" asked Mr.. Joseph
Medill.
"Heis a great man. lie smokes
always, and never says anything
lie was once in humble circum-
stances. lie was never, however,
in the hide busines except so far as
hiding himself is concerned
HereGeneral Dent broke into up
roarious laughter. He altcrward
remarked TO our reporter that he
was hired to laugh at Grant jokes /;
and, he added, lie llattered himself
he was doing Il very extensive bus
mess on a very limited capital.
General Grant pulled stoically un
til Dent had finished laughing, and
he resumed
Napoleon is my model. | have
stood before his portrait by the
trying to mould my coun.
tendnce into the stony incXpress-
iveness that charactcriZcs his. |
am not certain but that | shall imi.
tate his coup dc etat. lie rose from
obscurity TO be President. 20 did
/. lie rose from President 10 b. En-
peror; and if don't follow suit it.
will be because Congress took the
out Of my hand
"Well, now, General tell Us what
you think OF the Prussiau,,@ SAIL
Mr.. Greenbaum.
"Don't like 'em,' he responded
3cntentiously,
"Why not, your exccllency?
"WelI, | don't. They want Office
90 much. Why, | have had more
han Il hundred thousand apglicI-
ions from Dutclmca for office,
whose only accommodates wa,
hat they fought mi, oigcl,' ~
| have no objection to them.
the war they stole every
SO that a native had no
,hacue."
The general proceeded to com.
nent on Prussian strategy. lie did
lot like il, he said. They were too
much in a hurry. Here, now, in
ess than a month, they have hardly
million men in the field, which
vas a shorter time, he said, than he
'equired to move his army from
Fort Henry to DonelsOn-a dis
ance of only thirty miles. This
.elerity, he remarked, is dcstruct-
We Of all precedent. The Prus-
ians have gone farther IN ten days
han he went in ten months when
moving on Richmond.
He further thought the Prussian
move a blunder. In place of going
owards Paris, by way of Metz,
hey ought to cross the James river
nd 90 around by way of Peters
Iurg. There are neither dignity
.0r sense In this way of rushing
sat Paris with o big army,
he runssian leaders ought to hold
n aud see who is to be the next
resident, This making war for