Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-12

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conspicuous and even eminent, and enjoy
with keen delight the admiration and APP
plause of their own generation, but their
names, and those Of the great mass of men
are forgotten soon after they and their con-
temporaries are gone. But our country,
although it is yet young among the nations
of the earth, has already produced men
whose names will 60 down to the latest pos
terity. The names of Washington, Lincoln
and Grant will be familiar to the world in
the centuries that are yet unborn. The last,
aud it may be said with becoming reverence
for the illustrious dead, not the least of the
three, is still spared to his country. He re-
turns to US from his extended travels abroad,
where honors and attentions have been
showered upon him BY the hereditary gov
rnments ofthe other hemisphere, and with
q love for his " country and q confidence
in its institutions which have been strength.
ened and confirmed by his observations and
experience in foreign lands. His career
was not that of a cruel and ambitious con-
queror engaged in the selfish and reckless
pursuit of glory over the PROSTATE bodies Of
his countrymen. On the contrary, few have
done so much for popular liberty, or con-
tributed so much to the happiness of the
human race. By calling into action his
matchless powers the war enabled him to
win undying fame in the service of a great
cause, and in doing SO he has added luster
to the American name. His extraordinary
courage and 6rmness, united with a cool
and unerring judgment, elevated him at once
above rashness and INDIGESTION. He always
knew when to decide, and nothing"
said Napoleon, "is so difficult, and at the
same time, SO important" His exalted
patriotism, his ~uuwavering faith in the ul-
innate triumph Of our cause. his ability TO
forming his W plans, gained for him the
implicit confidence of the army OF the Teu-
nessee; while his candor, his simplicity,
his warm heart and his capacity tor con-
slant and uusel6sh friendship enlisted its
loyal aud devoted affection. Detraction
and the Savage envy of aspiring ounces"
may do their worst. they may Hsperse his
motives, and they may attribute his grand
achievements to sheer luck, but the world
knows better. Men do not sustain them
selves in positions Of great eminence and
responsibility without great talents. One
who is not equipped by nature for the com
mand of meu. could not have retained the
esteem and confidence Of those subordinates
of acknowledged genius and spirit who
were led by him, and tried by the test of
success. When and where has the world
produced one greater in arms than Grant?
Onr next great commander has also
earned a name and made q record that 1.-THE
world will not willingly let die" His ar.
cent and intrepid nature, and his extra.
that will inspire orators aud poets in the
ages to come. Deferred BY no obstacles
and dismayed bv no dangers. be moved
forward with q steady and resistless force
which the enemy was never long able to
Withstand. The historian of our time will
dwell long and admiringly upon the bril-
liant career of William T. Sherman.
1t was predicted during the war that
whatever might be its result our free ins,i-
tutions were doomed that menj familiar.
lied with danger, and accustomed to the
discipline of the camp. were to be dreaded by
the people, and that q turbulent and indo.
lent soldiery would never again patiently
submit to the restraint Of law. Little did
they who INDUCED in these %forebodings
understand the character of the men who
composed the Union army. When victory
finally crowned their efforts the patriotic
citizen soldiers, proud of their achievements,
and conscious OF their power, submitted to
the order of dissolution without a murmur,
and quietly and contentedly resumed the
v%ocations of civil life. When the people
we're enslavea by ignorance and supersti-
tiou. and had little spirit or capacity /; when
the rights Of humanity and the principles
of government were imperfectly under
stood, the army represented lawless power.
But since the intellectual quickening of the
fifteenth century. there has been wonderful
progress in all departments of knowledge,
and in none of them has 1t been more sub
stantial or striking than in that of political
science. The rights Of mankind and the
, axioms of popular liberty are now generally
understood. We are not to be judged BY
| the times when communities went down
, bstore soldiers who made war
j, trade. knowledge 10 M longer monopo,
LIKED by the few, and until printing becomes
. one of the lost arts there is no danger In
{ this country of the civil being subordinated
to tho military authority. Liberty has
= nothing to fear from our gallant and patri-
otto little army. and 1t il sheer clap-trap &c
: pretend that our institutions are threatened
from that quarter. Instead of being TOT
!. large our military force is too small, ani
they who love their whole country and ar
patieLce to the grOundless and sensationa
predictions of alarmists who seek to advanc
their own ends by exciting adistrust of GU
!. small standing army. The friends of lev
and order in this beautiful and prosperou
city will not soon forget the feelings of re
70 lief and sense of security with which the
welcomed the trrival of . few companies @
70 regular soldiers In 1877, when its citizen
n we're threatened with . fate worse than thu
u Of 1871. Instead Of personal liberty, th
., rights Of property are now threatened. Dot
ID trines subversive o! the right to acquire sn
hold property. and. therefore, subversive Z
10 socisty, are boldly proclaimed In Chicag
Dc and elsewhere. With our large cities "a
III OF these dangerous agltators-the dread {