Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-07-18
GENERAL GRANT.
What He is His Great QuaIities-Hs
Genius-Pre.emtn ent Among AL Gen
erals HIS Heroic Determinations
Surene.. Of nd z ment, ETC .Etc., Ect.

General Grants history should
teach US to discriminate better than
we Americans are apt TO do between
glitter and solid work. Our prone
ness to ruD after demagogues and
spouters nav find wholesome cor.
rective in the study Of such a char
acter as his. The qualities by which
great thugs are accomplished are
here seen TO have no necessary con
nection with SNOWY aud superficial
accomplishments. When the mass
o! men look upon such a character
they may learn a trurr respect for
themselves and each other they ar"
taught bv it that high qualities snd
great abilities are consistent with
the simplicity Of taste, contempt for
parade, and pIannr8s Of manners
with which direct and earnest men
have a strong natural sympathy.
Ulysses Grant the tanner Ulysses
Grant the unsuccessful applicant for
the post Of Civil Surveyor Of st.
Louis, Ulysses Grant, the driver INTO
that city Of his two.horse team with
a load Of wood to sell, had within
him every manly quality which will
cause the name of Lieutenant Gen.
eral Grant to live forever IN history.
His career Is lesson in practical
democracy it Is a quiet satire on
the dandyism, The puppylsm, aud the
shallow Alteration o! our fashionable
exQuistcs as wei as upon the swag.
ger Of our plausible, glibtongued
demagogucs. Not by any means
that great qualities are Inconsistent
with cultivated manners and fluent
elocution; but that such superficial
accomplishments are no measure Of
worth or ability.
General Grants last brilliant cam.
paign sets the final seal upon his
reputation. 1t stamps him as the
superior Of his able antagonist as
well as Of all the commanders that
have served with or under him in the
great campaign, Of the las; year.
1t IS not necessary to sacrifice any
part of their well earned regulations
10 his, Sherman and Sheridan de.
serve all that has ever been said IN
heir praise; but there has never
been Il time, since Grant was made
Lieutenant Genera when ANYBODY
bat Sherman, Oh our side, could have
been classed with him. Since Shcr,
mans bold march through Georgia,
ssd his capture Of Savannah and
Charleston, there have been many
who, IN their strong admiration Of
his great achievements, inclined to
rank him az the greater General OF
the two That judgment, we take
At. is now reversed by the court of
Gnal appeal; not by dwarfng the
reputation OF Sherman, which suffers
no just sbatement, bu. BY the ex.
psnsion into grander proportions
~ that OF Grant.
Grant stands eminent among
All the Generals who have served in
this war in the completeness cf his
final results. He has owed nothing
10 accident, and both IN the West
and the East he has accomplished
the most arduous things that We're
TO be done. The great thing in the
West, without which the rebel pow.
er could never have been broken in
that vas, region, was the rropeuing
Of the NJ .sslsslpW the great thing
ia the East, the taking of the rebel
capital. Richmond was the right
leg Of the rebellion, aud the MisSis.
s,ppi river its left Both were con.
tested By the rebels with a luil ap.
Freciation Of their value. The re.
s,stance was, in both ca.cs, powerful
aud obstinate enough to put the most
heroic teracity Of the most in1om,
stable mind to proof sufficient to
test its quality, General Grant has
exhibited the utmost strength Of VIII
Of which the highest type Of man.
hood is capable. The defcnscs Of
vicksburg and the defenscs of Rich.
mond were both deemed imprcgua
BILE, and were defended with pro.
portionAbIe confidence aud obstiua.
cy but they both yielded, at last,
to Grants matchless persistence aud
Snequaled strategy. And, in both
cases, he not only tool; the long con.
tested positions, but compelled the
surrender of the whole force defend.
ing them. Nothing could be more
clean and complete, even in magma.