The Press., 1885-04-16

 IErom tho New Orleans Times Democrat.l GENERAL GRANTS LAST CAMPAIGN.

Day by day the county watches with anxious interest for the latest bulletin from that quiet home in New York city which is unhappily believed to be the base of a great soldiers last campaign on earth-a hopeless warfare, because waged against that grim enemy whose final assault no man or leader of men was never able to withstand against that mighty general, Death, the all-conquerer of humanity.
 Even as the world regarded the gallant Gordon, shut up in far off Khartians, sur rounded by relentless savage and san- guinary horde of barbarians, with no hope of succor save under conditions that would amount to miracle, and yet hoping against hope, so the same world looks upon Grant in his sick room, doomed by disease. and yet heroically and with resignation in- creasing the sum of his bodily sufferings in the attempt to complete his life-work ere yet practicable breaches in the walls of his citadel shall be wide enough for his in exorable foe to enter and put the garrison to the sword. Yet the people of this and other nations are hoping against hope that the one ally before whom even death re- treats may put forth his hand and stay for time the forces of the destroyer.
 It is hard that we should feel impelled to speak of one who is yet among the liv-
 
 ed with the departed, but the sad state ments as to the present condition of Gen. 1 Grant leaves little choice. Medical attend ants upon the great are not prone to ad- vertise alarming reports, and when we are told officially that the sufferer may possi- ! bly last five or six months and may die within 8 few weeks it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that there can be but small ground for any hope. At such time it is we'll to say that among all the friends who have shown themselves true through good rand evil report, through prosperity and diversity, there are none who feel more deeply for the general and his family in his and their deep afiiction than the gal lant men of the south, who fought him nobly while they had means and forces with which to fight, and whose arms he did so much to vanquish They know and remember more clearly than the rest of the world how as soldier he was stark and in battle terrible. But they can never forget that when that last vail of our bugles had called the sons of the south to ground their arms before his victorious legions, he show ed himself no longer the stern enemy, but at once assumed the role of a 'sfriend in need'' to the boys in gray. The mild terms which Grant extended to the deci A1dUCNA nAAly Ol SCH Lec bue CttT6 uG UODh to make the occasion of the surrender as little painful to the defeated as might be and finally his grand and determined atti tude when prospect appeared that the prosecuting sentiment of portion of the people might result in the denial of those kindly terms-all these tidings will be treasured in his honor and glory as long as the memory of the dark hours that wit messed the closing scenes of our struggle shall last, and if we have known times since when Ulysses s. Grant has appeared in public or private capacity to be ill-ad vised as the victim of self-seeking and de- signing associates who were capable O. clouding his fame to achieve their owr questionable ends if we have entertained strong political antagonisms toward tht political party of which Gen. Grant wal once the representative as its elected chic magistrate of the country, and identified him with the methods and measures tba we abhorred, it is not time to recall suct thoughts but rather to remember only tha if fierce adversary in fight he was man ly and kindly victor. Twice an hundred tIrOuSssIIu oOrSt1xO=xx will be gpieyet on the days the news shall come that th4 twice hero of the Appomattox has handed his trrlsty sabre to the universal victor.