New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-07-24
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CADETS LETTER TO HIS FATHER.
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the eiSrsisr Of A@orc.i
Ash returned from nv walk refreshed by the exercise inspired by the
grand and yaes scsnsy and better PREPARED for my oe pass
the monument erected BY grateful country to the brave hero
liberties Of mankind You remember aher the line that eoorded
VI nm "And Freedom shreied when KosciustO fell"
rendered serious by the impressions that crowd upon me here az
Point Ny thoughts frequently occupied with the hatred am
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der our cOun know fall well bow you vc0 G1's %s I
snty ''' VIC ''0"' "" uIlsrs SIDNEY GHaSr
Had the boy who wrote those letters good 9ndSgeptie
naturei Was he well grounded a1oatf Wheh dlu ho
lose the moral which there speaks outd - -. a.,
the Mexican dean wa He acted It brayy modesy and
well. The Mexican being over bis pay III Ine d
in peace and idoness at the public cost, but, unwilling
to be a drOne, he became a tanner.
GRANTS WAR RECORD.
Mr. Sumner wthers him by reminding us that " nc
tanned hides at Gaena for few hundred dollars
did not figure In EDITORIALS farmer he did not so
round telling "what he about" anything that no
didn't understand himself he minded his own business
and let other peoples business aone out ne "orheu
with his hands newer OF wood which nc sold IN the
market and wrought out living for bis family ana him.
| self. -, =,
"tbrce-told tale"-the world knows IL by heart When
the flag sank at Sumter he did not wait to be called
without commission, command uniform OF snouiaeI
Stripes and carried them through blaze OF victories
such as no mortal before him had won.
While Senators who hawk at him were loling for
fourth term cushions, and eysceratlng encyclo-
pedias books OF quotations. and classical dictionaries
the of Gaena swept Rebellion from the valley Of
the Mississippi and the father OF waters went invoked
lincoln and Stanton, who reposed unmeasured conf
dence in him, called him at from the victorious
mae that Golgotha where army after army, the very
flower OF the nation, had melted away He came
monweath had become the rendezvous of the allied
armies Of Rebellion, and when the Rebel chiefs were
could defy the world in He marched from Wash
ingtOn and he measured backward step until he set
his foot upon the shattered fragments OF the greatest
military power an invading army ever overthrow. He
solved the problem which had bafed all others and
down.
How stood he then The nation leaned and reposed
him as the prodigy and wonder of the age. .
The Democrats sought his consent to nominate MN
declined. His integrity taught him that when party
candidate from the other side, somebody Is to
be cheated and by Grants consent no one ever was or
| ever will be cheated.
| But the Democratic managers adored him. and saw
him only respondent with greatness and with virtues
He not unfit for President then he was the htest
Of all his lie dd not become 9nnt 3
knowledge. He did not become unfit while the patron
age held out and while uncean fingers allowed to
tumble it.
In his recent modest letter of acceptance he SAYS:
Experience may guide avoiding mistakes inevitable
with nOvices in all professions and in all occupations
WHAT HIS OPPONENTS ONCE SAID.
He was "novice" when The Ee,o- York World, then
now the ablest opposition paper said on the 1lh Of
April, 1865:
Gen history teach discriminate better than
apt between glitter and solid work Our
to run after demagOgues and pqpierS may ind Wholesome eoee in
accomplished here to have no necessary connection with
Ulysses Grant the tanner Ulysses Grant the unsuccessful applicant
that city Of his twoorse team with load Of wood to sell bad WITHIN
him manly quality which viii cause the name Of Lieut. Grant
quiet satire ne dsnim the EuPpym and the shallow sac
Apply 70 Gen Grant What you will him by the m,gq
obstacles he has surrounded BY the value Of the positions he
gained the fame Of the antagonist whom he has trumPhe
with which bis Ddomitable energy the vital point which
mate ability the completeness Of his results
his claim stand neIi ser Napoleon and Wellington among the great
soldiers Of this country if not on level with the latter
He was not quite novice when Horace Greeley said
Giant and bis policy deserved the very highest credit
him since Donon and Ncksbu they do not know bis SANDER
While asserting the right Republican to his untrammeled
venture better qualified
We srr led b him taught to conquer in the West
and subsequently in the Bat also Richmond would not come to Us qn
defeated will be- lie will be great and successful on the
Ye, Cen Grant has failed crafty ASPIRATIONS and has
aud his Administrators will least equally vital We shall bear
lsmenhon his failures from wish
Their strong trunPhaa'y casa
White House. and they still uPuOd and sustain hm and they
failed n will
He was not altogether novice when in September,
1871 Mr.. Greeley wrote and TO the Republican State
Convention for adoption these resolutions:
H. II this alarming crisis in c and state affairs the Republican
4 faes and support this campaign, formally
opening, Of the honest men against the thieves
II led in the suppression of the Rebellion
promptly reduced the forces thus required for peace
hs reduced the debt over s2soOOO three ye,
has simultaneously reduced public taxation S2O0OO per
IL has preserved peace on the border.
Ls friendly adjustment Of the threatening troubles with
III For its conspicuous share this benefcnt ndOrse
These resolutions written only little while ago,
and all the ISLANDERS TO this day invented against the
President had long been current then.
THE GIFT-TAKERs OF HISTORY
But let us 90 back a moment, TO Grant before he
ously thought OF being President, and when he only
the idol of the nation. Returning from the field,
cred with glory, but poor in money the auent, whose
fortunes he had saved met him with munlGcent offer
ings In this they followed the customs Of ancient and
modern times.
The austere republics OF antiquity enriched and en-
nobled their heroes returning from victory. England
with an unwritten Constitution and Ominpotent
Parliament, which lawyer SAID "could do any
thing but make man woman, has enriched her gem
erals both by acts OF Parliament and by voluntary sub
scriptiOns.
In United States the Constitution does not permit
Congress to i'll such matters here they rest wholly
in the voluntary action Of individuals and that puoc
presentations to heroes involved urpude in gvers
recipients has been first found out by the spurious
formers and hbelers now clanOring for notice.
Wellington received from his Government, and his
neighbors than $3OOOOO0. British citizens Cal
cutta made him presents the officers of the army
him $1,000 the House of Commons voted him 100000,
and a mansion and estate were purchased for him by
subscription at cost of 81 10000 Besides this, he
three times ennObed twice by England and once by