Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-30
THE DEAD WARRIOR.
SOUTHERN EDITORIAL COMMENT ON his
DEATH.
Charleston Ne,vs and Courier.

ago, Gen. Grant belonged to the victorious
North. In his last days he was the fore
most citizen of these United States-of
North and South alike. Nowhere was the
discriminating regard for him more tender
than in the States which used to be describ-
as "lately in rebellion" The country is
reunited in spirit as in word, and the sue
cessful generalissimo of the Union forces
is mourned by South and North together
There is so much in Gen.
Grants career that is pleasant to remember.
Why should any one seek further his frail-
ties to disclose? Long ago, in a message
to the people of United States, he used
words which seemed a mockery. There
was then a peace which was worse than
war; but peace has come at last. There is
peace throughout the land; peace in the
North, and peace in the South. The coun-
try is one again, in heart and thought and
hope: The great soldier who laid in blood
the foundations of this second and more
enduring Union is now at rest. "Let us
have peace" he said years agone, and
peace his people have. In their hearts and
minds, N this time of peace, there is naught
but regard and regret for him for whom
strife and disquiet are no more. The 'good
will of all, whether heretofore friends or
not" was his in agony, and will abide with
his name forever.
Jacksonville, F2a., Times Union.
Southern soldiers and commanders land
the world never saw better) tested Gen.
Grants strong points, and it is peculiarly
gratifying at this solemn moment to re-
call the fact that not from them came
the voice of detraction. Lee and Grant
and the officers and men on either side
chair generals who kept carefully in the
rear of the war, that DETAINED and belittled
both. n Gen. Grant is dead and around
his bier let US remember only that he was
the greatest citizen of the Republic in our
day, that his career is part of a national
history, and that his fame is a precious leg
acy to his countrymen.
Richmon Jtate.
Steady and direct was his rise, till at the
close of the great civil war he was general.
in-chief of the successful army. There will
be few who know the history of our times
who will refuse to acknowledge with chiv-
alrous remembrance the business, fairness
and honorable spirit of Gen. Grant at the
end of the war. Of Gen. Grants civil Ca
reer the careful historian cannot speak in
measured praises. A soldierborn and train
ed, Gen. Grant was not iron-clad to the
aims of men who took advantage of his
sincerity to further their own ends, and in
like manner was he made the victim Of
others that he trusted in the business trans
actions Of his later life. But the people of
this reunited country, the people of the
Southern, no less than of the Northern
States, are in no mood at this hour for crit
ical analysis. They stand around his bier
en- body of the departed Garfield, all thought
of war, all thought of party buried. In all
the days of Grants sufferings those who were
once his foes have been his most steadfast
sympathizers. They have felt the God
blessed touch of nature and wished for his
relief with all that better and tender feeling
that comes of woman and never wholly
leaves her child.
Richmond Dispatch.
In our opinion not only is his one of
the few immortal names that were not born
to die, but his is one of the still fewer names
that are entitled to immortality upon earth.
He is not only one of the immortals, but
he is one of them by right. He was an
Agamemnon, King Of men. He was 80
pervaded by greatness that he seemed not
to be conscious that he was great. He
was magnanimous, modest, faithful to his
friends, Just to all men as far as his sur
roundings permitted, above similation or
assimilation, self-poised and equal to every
occasion. He was one Of the greatest Of
generals. There was nothing small about
Gen. Grant-no perfidious element, no jeal
Ousy. His chivalrOus spirit would not per-
NIT him to ask Lee or his officers for their
swords, or Lees men for their horses. Go
in peace was the substance of his treat
ment of the heroes who surrendered at Ap-
pomattox Courthouse. His fidelity to not
only his assumed or presumed or supposed
obligations, his loyalty to truth and justice
caused him to forbid that Gen. Lee should
be arrested or annoyed by the Federal au-
thOritieS
Savannah, Ca, Ners.
Gen. Grant was a great soldier. In the
opinion Of many he was the greatest soldier
developed by the civil war. Regulations
are made by success, and he was successful.
He started at the bottom of the ladder and
climbed to the top steadily, and he remain
ed there. Even if history should not give
him the first place among soldiers of the
civil war, it will rank him with the great
soldiers of the world. Gen. Grant achieved
nothing in civil life that added to his fame.
His two terms as President were not dis
tinguished for anything that indicated that
he possessed the qualities of statesman.
now that he is dead, that he ever turned
away from those who had claim upon him.
There are those who were against him in
war to whom he reached out the helping
hand when war was over and when they
sadly needed help. He was popular with
soldiers because he knew how to appreciate
soldierly qualities. His magnanimity at
AppomattoX showed that he was as gener-
Gus as he was brave.
atlanta Constitution.
With the the clearing of the early mists
of yesterday morning which hovered over
Mount McGregor passed away the soul of
Gen. Grant, the most distinguished of liv-
ing Americans. General commanding the
victorious armies of this country and twice
President of the Republic, Washington alone
of all men in our history has equalled him
in honors. Gen. Grant was a great COM
mander. The operations of the war, in
which he was the leading figure of the Union
armies, were colossal. Its expenses to his
Government were over ST, 900, 900 day. In
the siege of Richmond he lost 10000 men,
and in single charge saw 5000 men struck
down. The comprehension that grasped
this tremendous situation and the fortitude
that endured its awful disasters was of itself
greatness. The clear-sighted sense that
moved straight forward amid these beWil
dering scenes, undeterred and undertaking,
was military genius. Gen. Grant did not
have the tactical skill, vast resource, superb
inspiration and finer qualities of leadership
that Gen. Lee had, in our opinion, in richer
measure than any man that ever led men to
battle. He lacked the audacious spirit that
made Stonewall Jackson irresistible. In
the place of either of these generals he
would have fallen short of what they ac-
less armies of the North, he was the iron
willed and absolute master to hammer these
legions against the valiant shell of the Con-
fp6aracy He was a man of nerve, AS