The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-06-19
NORTH AND SOUTH.
Gen. Grant on Their Relative
Power and Resources During
the War.

We never overwhelmed the South, and
| am only sorry we could not have done
50 aud ended the war and It's miseries.
What we Won from the South we Won by
hard fighting, and the odds, when they
were odds, were never decisive. We had
TO Fl Eht the Southern States. They were
unit and we We're divided. Every
able bodied male in the South from four
teen TO sixty was in the army, or was
supposed to be there We had to depend
upon the volunteers and the conscrip
ton. The South had 1000, 600 of ne
grDes. These negroes kept the farms,
protected the families, supported the ar
mics, and were really a reserve force, a
most important reserve force IN fighting
nation. Those + 900, 600 of negroes did
a work that white men would have been
compelled to do. Yet they are never
counted in any summary Of the forces Of
the South. They are forgotten as if they
had never existed, and yet they kept the
acre green and the harvest growing while
the white men were in the war. Men,
women and children went into the fields.
The South was really an organized army.
During the war in the South ali progress,
tbII iIlNAuSAil NtNlAiC " Il IeNltt anu
was allowed to interfere with the war.
Even now the South suffers from war
stagnation, from war paralysis. In the
North industry was never more brisk; all
the arts of peace were cherished; society
moved on; inventions were discovered,
the genius of the country was as keen as
ever. We supported an army and Il
bIockading feet. We never tagged in
cur industry. We kept our place as a
manufacturing commercial power. Cities
like Chicago, New York, San Francisco
grew and grew, while Savannah, New
Orleans and Charleston languished. We
not only supported our part in the war,
but all that was required for peace. In
spite of all the drain upon the resources
of the North we were more prosperous,
more powerful, more respected and fear
ed by the nations than when the war
broke out Remember, as [ have said,
that we had by no means united North,
while the South was a unit We had to
send troops to suppress riots IN New
Y ork; we had enemies in our midst In
every Northern State there was a strong
party against the war; voting to paralyze
our forces; ready for any concession or
surrender. This party was strong in
every State-strong enough to carry
States like Indiana, Pennsylvania and New
York during the war. Nothing but
Morton's courage saved it from making
Indiana a Rebel State like Kentucky.
This was the party that voted the war was
failure at the time Sherman was setting
out on his march to the sea, at the very
time when that general and his great ar
my were about to cover our arms with
imperishable renOwn. You can imagine
the effect such a resolution must have had
upon the enthusiasm Of an army, for 1t
was a mistake to imagine that such things
did not affect an army. They did affect
it, as | know we'll During our war there
was scarcely a wind that came from the
North, from our own homes, that did
not laden with calumny and disparage-
ment. The Southern generals were
models of chivalry and valor-- our gen
erals were venal, incompetent, coarse. L
am speaking now of our own people, of
writer's and speakers who were loyal and
to a certain extent Republican. Every
thing that our armies did was wrong
could have been done 50 much better.
Everything that our opponents did was
perfect. Lee was demi-god, Jackson
was a demi god, while our generals were
brutal butchers.