The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-27
GRANT,.

ureS to QlHer as one SIaF ulHeTetu
from another star in brightness; at
the same time each creature and
each star can accomplish the end and
fill the sphere for which they were de.
signed. Two people view the same
object at the same time from the
same stand point, and see it differ
emily. Two sight-seers will describe
in glowing colors the grandeur, sub
Unity and glory of the moutain and
its shaggy, rugged peaks as they
pierce the vaulted dome above.
The one will only take in the out
lines of the big pile of earth and its
dimensions and grandeur to the mats
ural eye. The other in addition to
this, will see beyond and behind it
all, the finger of God, the hand of
Divinity.
Two people may stand, and be-
hold the Niagara Falls. The one can
only see the surging, foaming waters
as they rush, leaping down the preci-
pice into the seething, boiling basin
below. The other sees all this, and the
power, the wisdom, the goodness, the
greatness, the loving kindness, and
the tender mercies of the God of
Creation.
Two men are set to watch the ca
| reer of one, at the end let each write
the biography of the one. You would
think it the life and history of two
separate, distinct individuals. The
causes of these differences and dis
crepancies in the Impressions made
upon the minds of different men from
the same stand point, viewing the
same objects, and why they arrive
at judgments SO entirely different,
We shall not stop to enquire, but as
sert the same to be true. And if
| what we have stated were not so,
then we would be irresistibly driven
to the unwilling conclusion that a
large body of the American people
are very dishonest, hypocritical,
| and sycophantical. Now we admit
there is not much virtue in the polit-
ical world that will bear the crucial
test,yet we believe there is a remnant,
out whether this remnant is sufficient
to save the whole, we arc not yet pre-
pared to say. We have known mighty
big endings from mighty little begin
nings. Since one has said "tall acorns
from little oaks grow, and large
fountains from little streams fow.'
The cackling of goose is said to
have saved Rome, but she was after.
wards destroyed while her king sat
playing the fiddle. We are told in
sacred history that, the shepherd
boy, David, conquered a people and
saved Nation by the we'll directed
aim of single stone. So if we have
given any thought to nature and to
history, we ought not to be staggered
at the happening or not of any pos
| sible thing in life.
| Yet for the life of US, we can'tlbal
ance on either perpendicular nor
horizontal line, when We read in
print, from the pen of men raised
! South, and fought in the
last war between the States, that Hi.
ram Ulysses was the biggest anc
i grandest man the war produced, thu
greatest general and statesman OF
this continent, and the most mag
unanimous and generous hearted mar
in the country, and "sich like stuff.
IL the anne of all that is holy, Civ,
TO Grant all that he deserves. w,
believe he was the hardest front fight
er on the Northern side, outside O
this, if he excelled, or even came
up to Mcclellan, Thomas, Rosen-
Grams, Hancock, Sheridan, and NOR,
than dozen other commanders @,
the Union side in generalship, W,
: are not aware of it. We believe
, material and men could have bee,
furnished him in quantities sufficien
he could have conquered the world
But he would have lost four men t.
the worlds one.
| The thought of saving life, Of
strategy, of maneuvering, to deceive
and mislead an enemy, and to gain
victory without loss of blood neve
entered General Grants brain durin.
the war. nor up to the time of hi
death. He was not great General
and history will not so style him
And no people know this better thai
the Intelligent people of the North
and none SO we'll as the General
in the Northern army and the South
ern people.