The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-09-19
failing to seize the eye of the passer-by.

failing to seize the eye of the passer-by.
GRANTS INTELLECT AND TEMPERAMENT.
When we consider U. 8. Grants mental
and moral characteristics, we discover
more which pertains to the great general
and successful President. And even Of
these it is probably the perfect balance of
all. rather than the special development
sof any one, which has brought their pos
SCISSOR such uniform success. Grants tenn
% rament is combination of the various
orders, though perhaps the phlegmatic
predominates and his intellectual quali-
ties seem constructed, like his physical, for
enduring great and long-continued pres
sure. Those who have been much with
him have almost incredible accounts to
give Of his capacity for carrying on sever
al mental operations at the same time; as
of hearing report from an officer, and
writing simultaneously an important or
der on totally different subject; and of
retaining in his mind all the details per-
tanning to a great battle, without a past
event misplaced, or singular particular
of his plans crowded out or jostled in the
least. His mathematical mind seems nev
er to become confused, and his impulses
are SO balanced by judgment as never to
step in and upset the plans which his cal
culation had arranged.
GRANTS LEARNING.
It cannot be claimed in behalf Of Gen.
Grant that he is deeply read in abstruse
sciences, even in those which Mr.. Sumner
would consider indispensable to states
manship but it is true that he is no igno-
ramus in such matters, and that what
technical knowledge he does possess is
not so much a damage to him, as that pos.
sessed by some of his enemies and rivals
is to them. A President should not be a
theorist or book-worm. His lore should
not be gulped down from musty books,
where it was distilled full -havored-and,
perhaps, poisoned in the 1avoring-years,
perhaps ages, before. 1t should be gath
cred, as the bee gathers its honey, IL actu-
al contact with men. Thus acquired, it
is assimilated with the Judgment and be.
comes faculty of instantaneous percep-
tion-an instinct, almost. The difference
between Grants life and that of such a
man as Charles Sumner, is expressed in
these opposite sets of circumstances
While Sumner, born to plenty and reared
in an atmosphere of scholarship and
sem-aristocratic ease, became at once a
book worm, and learned nothing of men,
because he never came in contact with
but single point of their natures, Grant
was thrown from the first among practical
affairs, and passed through an almost un~
intermitting school of human life and
experience, calculated to develop those
practical qualities essential TO a good Ex-
ecutive. While Sumner was immersed in
books, books, DO ks, Grant was every.
where encountering men, men, men; stud
ying their strong and their weak points,
and learning lessons from both. That be
improved his opportunities is shown from
the quickly, keenly penetrating common
sense" which he, as President, has brought
to bear, almost unerringly,upon the ques
tions of state which have presented
themselves for his solution A man of
practical common sense, and of well bal
anced impulses is better in the Presidents
chair than man who has Vattel at his
tongues end and Grotius dogs cared in
his library.