Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1885-08-12

tary tactics and affairs which, aided by
lndomitable will, an almost unerring
Judgment, supplemented by his expert
ence i'll Mexico, made him, during the
late war, the greatest, grandest Cap.
tain-General ever known in history;
towering above an Alexander, IA Cesar,
a Bonapare, or a Wellington Alex
andcr conquered the world and wepl
that he could mol duplicate the bloody
deed, committed 10 satiate morbid
thirst for gore and tame Cesar
crossed the Rubicon and conquered
Rome, that he might be her master IN
the exercise of unhridled imperial
power, at the sacrafice of the liberties
of the people in their enslavement, for
which he could render no sound apollo
gy. Bonaparte shook Europe from
center TO circumference, and amazed
and alarmed almost The entire civilized
Bonaparle, regardless of It's c0nse.
quences to the family of nations. He
Wore The buskins of an unsanclficd
ambition stepped in blood, and essayed
to ascend throne of imperial power
ON stairway OF human skulls, over
the wrecks of dissolving empires.
Wellingion-lhe hest Of the Trio
fought under employment and The
command of bis rsigning sovereign
Vice Regent OF England for insane
George The Third, afterward George
the Fourth. The ruling motives Of his
actions were pay for his services and
obedience to the imperial command.
Perhaps he may have INDUCED the
hope that the condition of Britannia
would not be made worse by the
results of the Napoleonic war Pos
J., sibl; he thought Of lis effects ON some
of the appendsge, OF the British Isle,
but ii is safe To assume thai he did not
hope "r fight for The beiterment of
| their condition IN the enlargement of
their liberties and governmental privi-
leges. AT least, it was not that British
+ subjects might be more free, but that
| they might not have their allegiance
, transferred by wager of battle.
We have now hurrled,y followed the
cradle to the threshold Of our late var
We remember that some seven years
before its outbreak he had resigned
from the regular army and severed all
connection With tho military arm of
tie government, lie was then pri-
/ vatc citizen, II civilian. But when the
news OF Sumpie1's Bombardment, ON
April H. 1861, was sent over the land
and thrilled the masses like an electric
shock; when The martial music Of fire
and drum began 10 peal forth; when
the bugle's sbrill notes. in unison with
the Executive Proclamation, called To
arms. the soul OF our hero was at once
, aroused and ON fire; every fiber OF his
ardent nature was intensified; his
patriotic heart was filed to repetition
| with love of Liberty and Union, then
: ami forever, one and insep, rabie," 10
/ such an extent that. though ut would
) have broken with more, it could not
, have lived with less" At once the
sounding, smoking, crimson-dyed con.
, | tocf From f'lonp ltanno r., tl,f, M,yi.nv,
. cap a, rose wildly before his mental
vision, and he longed for the tented
field, the musket, the sword, the par
ale. The drill, the mach, the sangui-
, mary co1liicl and the h aven. sanlioned
$ victory. They came all ireip HE'D with
Results and consequences. We know,
, from history, that General Grant made
I Il somewhat lengthy and earnest
, struggle before he WAS permitted to
] in the seyried hosts of those who, at
the first bugle blast, FASTENED To The
, defense of the Nations integrity, honor
5 their tiresides and upon the altar of
heir country, by the God Of Sshaoh,
, that The Union must and should be
preserved, that liberty, which, as had
been believed for over three quarters
, of century, had found asylum, Il sure
foundation for her feet and downy
pillow for her head should not be
ruthlessly robbed of her newly
acquired possessions.
General Grant finally gained admis-
sion to those panoplitd ranks. What
then must have been his feelings? All!
) my friends, it is no strain upon lust
credulily to believe that, he would not
; have willingly exchanged his then
, proud position and privilege, for the
very zenith of AleXander's power; for
the achievements of a Marlborough, a
Frederick, or II Wellington, nor for all
that Napoleon hoped for, or Cesar
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