The New York herald., 1878-08-14
GRANT and The Third Term.
His denomination an Issue in the
Fall Campaign.
GOVERNOR RICE's OPINION.
The Ex-President Advised to Resume
the Sphinx-Like Role.


wHo CONCEIVED THE CAMPAIGN IN rxNxxs-
ssE-A DISCREPANCY BETWEEN GRANT AND
HIS Observation-Disclosures OF OPINION
8zrwxEx TEE Ex-rsEs1pxNr AND SHERMAN.
From the Chicago Times, August Ill
Grant just now IL making . serious strategic mis-
take By the aid Of q lieutenant who commands
certain unmber OF newspaper columns he 10 nghsing
Ger bis campaigns, which. since he must censure
some associates directly BY Implication and wound
others BY silence which may be the result Of care
lsssnsss. but will DO taken extensively sgnihoant
10 . blundsr tn q veteran who means to appeal once
again 10 popular favor. And ne Ii now light
ing too far from his base Of supplies, and, be-
fore he is relieved BY friendly crtosm, viii fall Into
tho hands Of the Philistnes. Hs has sid that there
was no battle a. Lookout Mountain worthy Of the
name. II he had consulted his o~n dispatches OF
tho time he would have seen that he officially re-
ported sucn battle and complimcutcd tho troops on
its successful issue. To ialsify history aud offend
Hooker may bs nothing in Grants view. but tho man
ssers of the third campaign will hnd that
large number OF veterans whose boast 1t is that they
fought above the clouds at Lookout win not relish
this rude raid upon their laufes whether well or III
SaTncd.
Tho General acknowledges that he felt coolness
toward Sherman whom tho latter's memoirs" ap.
psarsd and he was given to understand that they
asctsd upon him; but having carefully gone over
the0 ~ Long Branch, he found, so ne said at Ham,
burg John Russell Young. tnst che approved every
Word-that u was true book, an honorable book
myself psreaiarly sojuss sacn book a: expected
Sherman TO write' II was accurate, because SheS-
n,H =. -. very accurate man.
clers than Young Adam Badeau wrote Grants
b.oEs.pny. with the Generals active aid and on some
6iosrsphsl. Young % are widely T apart Boynton, the
Warrington correspondent who attacked tho accuracy
ance from the prose, and may have been responsible
for Grants temporary feeling OF hostility TO the Gen.
intsrssied 10 pontng out serious discrepancies be-
tween the book whch Grant now tndorses true and
honorable. the book which Badssa wrote under his
HERALD. tfi hst
sherman gives Halleck fun credit for the movement
the inception and execution OF tn" campaign for
Grant. hs that Grant visited 8 Louis Tor
siIeneed 50 quickly ana snarpIy that hs said no
more on tho matter, ana went bncs 10 Cairo with
,Ssa o.
whose "Msmoirs are Endorsed fully and cordially oy
va: So
had c.piursd Fora Henry. and before his
succsss was known 10 st. Louis. Haleck
Them E soua .is yo1 s.n.y cut Ss
o he sSs.Ssa so sS..n
vile aad cut on railroad communication so a. 70
battle. lev hoars ISs .f.sr % s:ndns ibis S..ps,sh'
vhioh on hls at Washington, halleck received from
Grant the Information thai Henry Was reduced and
sherman, writing win fun access to thsss. des-
patches assigns the credit OF the Tennessee csmpagn
p Hailsck. Bsdeau, writing from, material supplied
BY GRAFT assigns tho glory or It's conception 10 Grant
rhs latter now says that Sherman wrote just and
accurate book. Badsau, thon, vas unjust and inac-
eurato =
In hts 'Memoirs" Sherman claims that he himself
originated tho idea OF the march to tho BY In
oofs'ng shis just TO his com2anions-'to my
self particularly so'-Grant alsines his decara.
Houss cno,Dnat ~ Meres isss s,s ,nsso,on 81
marching through the Conederacy TO the soa Shcr-
man says tnat the idea Of the long march came TO MIN
eeptsmbcr oi 1864, and fully deter By
h'm - tho 3oth a October following UEcal records,
Bcyuton asssris shsw THAI g. ans madc known 10
1854 and that he formally mmunicated to Haleck
Thomas suaShsrman upon assuming connand Of all
accuracy q hissorias Do6s no mean y surrender
she lauees he formerly claimedr
ss :ns sSos q nH e'wu
Grant asserted ~ Hsmburs recently :-"rnsrs was
surprise aSoa. ~ sxcsp,, perhaps, 70 me aswspspor
bsfors We wers attacked. Al nIgnt, before Bueils
army came up, was 90 well satsned with tho results
vt,heus Bssrs aid, tina, 1 went in person 70 each
Asvta1ss osmmsn1es aad ordered an advance along
ss:s 4. s.o:: mo assa.a sSnUa ass So
shsrnsn, expressed on sns Atm. thai no prob
:s,.. Ss on III. ssS
hsss aud oeAourrsd with him In his judgmsnl On
the same night Grant tssgrsPhsd " kaissok that
upon his troops but announced mis- preparation should
such IN event occur. IL did occur And when John-
was uniwpsdsd by rine pit OF q fellcd tree a
vigiiaas .ssnmanasr. Aud u was not until eight
Of a
our left fSopt IN tho woods, and became satisfied for
the nfst time that the enemy designed detsrminsd
Buell. saved sh,leb, but Buell. is silent, and Of
Shiloh shermaa and Grant would do well TO say
Ntie. Their lsures we're not won as Pttsburg Land
Grant approves sherman's book as Just to his CON-
panops, yet officers 70 whom Grant inclined TO bs
kindly Sherman desounoss OF snsers At
IL may occur 70 the peripatetic General, upon re-
role s that Of The SPHINX When ss oos
cludes 10 dIsmlss his phonograph and wrap himself
in nssse Grant vail nGht out on the limo ~hch has
GOVERNOR HrcE, or MASSACHUSETTS, CON-
srDERs GRANT THE STRONGEST CANDIDATE
~ THE COUNTRY.
From the New York Tribune, August l3l
osvsrnor Rco, Of Massachusetts,, has been visiting
Saratoga Tor few days He has loag been one Of the
msst prominent leaders Of sbs republicans In Massa-
chusetts and his years OF service Congress his
three Nrnss - Governor show how ssrong hts hold
10 upon their esteem and support His views in re-
ward TO tho condition oil public sentiment will,
therefore, com mand attention.
In the course OF conversation with the Governor
p wa a.ksa hsv sassaehu useis repuslosns regard
The pessiblny Of movsness iss . thxd torn Ior
al don't ihisk, !" Governor Rico replied, .tbss the
matter bas been very deeply or Widely considered By
republicans In Msssachu usetta II The suggestion was
formally made " would arouse ceAsidsrabe OPPOSE
lion tor many people are adverse 10 giving than
Two Presidential terms TO any man. Nevertheless n
"a In n out tran
ddaie IN the country II cannot b. denied that cap.
ta IL tfmid. thM there 10 some apprehension about
tho future, that there is widespread iseIing that
strong 10 needed. Many thousan d. people who
would N}enaYal IL hA hal