New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-08-22
From Tho Baltimore American.
Per and Contra.

1t is no new thing in the history of the world this sci
leep indebtedness that nation feels towards sued
'enerai AS is the gratitude of individual towards m
VINO saved him in some hour of peril boundless and 81
ouhu so natural and so fixed is the national sentiment t
nm VINO has conducted its to a happy termination
ny plaudits, but substantial rewards have always beer
eoed 10 such The history Of the world is the history
successful Generals.
Nor less must it be granted that upon these more than
ther beneactors of the has oboquy been heaped
rhine of ngratitude towards their great eivcrers in wd
llways been laid to the charge of republics That na
s Jealousy which the true republican feels towards the
II the one-man power has made him too often unjust O
the hero without whom the republic itself had ceased
There is nothing more painful than the sight of banse
iades, blind Belsarus and murdered Cesar. The m 3
everses OF successful Generals the tragedies of hsto
Let us look for instance, at the Duke of Marlborough
man, who checked the ambitious Of Louis XIV
carried the glory of the English height bef
since attained; who laid France bleeding and cripr e.
plant, at the feet of Queen Anne, the recipient at
Of every possible honor that his country could bestow
'ther the object at which hurled abuse and injury
It any other in England Not from any change in him cur
oboquy partisan malice the cause well told les tina
from small whisper and which grew to the gigantic prOpo
of apocalypc beasts were powerful enough effect this
Marlborough was the victim of the great Tory reaction fro
revolution under William of Orange that nearly swung En-
back into the dark sway of the Suarts The Bourbon
which was the curse of Europe from the day of the
Marlborough down to the great struggle of 49, would
existed the hOrrd need of the French Revolution
wars of Napoleon had England only continued just to her
General
The genius of venal writer contributed tn
the back-star diplomacy of Mrs. Masham, the wea
of the Queens character and the talents of Horley and
John This writer DIR. Jonathan Swift, hardly
in literature except the author of much unreliable ri
and Gulver's Travels.
He engaged by the Tories, just coming again into
to daken the Queens mind and the mind of the English
also against the Duke of Marlborough In one of his paper
Examiner he made out that England had already greatly
paid her great General. He contrasted the emoumcr
Marlborough with those of successful Roman General
wiul Justification of history persuaded the English people
their whistle had cost them too dearly.
And the English people allowed themselves to be pes
that they infinitely nober than the Romans and the
driven from his command at the very time when that
most important to the country. England robbed
substantial fruit of all his victories, the Dutch disappo
Prince Eugene enraged, and the Boubons left in Fran
Spain, and Sicily. The mischief to the country too I'M
liable to recount it here. But the imagination cannot he
writing the history of Europe the suppostion that
borough and Eugene had been allowed to go on to the full
of their great victories.
And now to reap the moral from all this There are
who think that General Grant has been too we'll paid
country. What has he done? What has he received?
shall make out this bill? Our late civil cOsn
country about day. Did the energy, genius,
PERSISTENCE and final of General Grant shorten the
gle by single day? Shall we yield at least this much
the success give liberty 100000 slaves, worth tho
dollars apece-what does that amount to?
But by what possible shall estimate the value
Republcs life saved the worth of the lives of the
of this generation redeemed from all danger of dying in sue
tie? BY what arithmetic make out this per and CO
What is the money value of what General Grant has
What the pary price that he has received? Where is hi
umphal arch? Where the gloes and the trumphs of the
General? Where his Blenhem, his Woodstock, his git
jewels, pictures palaces? Did his place President fall
reward? BY He thrust into it and its
put upon him because the party that put him there needed
And after all what is it worth? We dollar and cent
pie. Let us, then, make out the bill:
General Grant Debtor to The Uni Creditor the Other 81
ted States. To having shortened ii,
Presidency of the United by single day, SO 900 O0
States at $25 900 per annm Redeeming four million
for four years. 100000. by the of the war
Presents from his grateful ications taken, life Of tn
counrymen in 1866 500 900. ton saved all thrown in
possible to be estimated
100000.
Balance on credit side go so