Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-31

and tributary inland waters, and it is
sought to make his proclamation square
with his manifesto by assuming that he
had conquered India. Take even the
great Napoleon and we find bis con-
quests were bounded at the extreme by
the Tiber and the Vistula; for, after he
passed the latter streams, he fell into
that step which he himself said is all
that separates the sublime from the
ridiculous, and he fell like Lucifer,
never to rise again. Taking all these phe.
nominal characters OF history and throw
ing them in with the sporadic episodes
of At.ila ard Alaric, we find that Gen
eral Grant held command at one time
over a larger region, geographically,
than dominated by them all collectively.
and that his word was supreme over a
million of men. When the Intelligent
brain tries to grasp this latter PROPOSE
ton it realizls the force of General
Lees compliment to Grant, when the
great confederate leader said that his
conqueror was the greatest general oil
ancient or modern times. Gen. Grant
not only commanded a million of men,
but he did it successfully. Out oil
the nettle danger, not only as re.
spects his personal reputation, but the
peril of the nation, he pluked the
flower safely. To employ vulgar
form Of speech, whenever he started out
for any point he "got there 1t is in
one of the vagaries of the moiern day
to assume that Washington WIS com
monplace man. There was atone time
a strong effort made to supersde him
Many eccentric theorizers of the Gay
refer the victories of Napoleon Bona
parte to Ney, Dessaix, Launes and sc
on to the end of the chapter. Precisely
in the same vein Of depreciation the sue
cess OF Grant referred to Rawlhs, Sher.
man, Mcpherson. But these tlings are
simply vagaries. The popular sense is
always unerring. 1t has madt Caesar,
Hannibal. Alexander, Frederck the
Great and Napoleon Bonapare great
generals, and so they remain to the
crack of doom, with Grant addd, carp
ing critics to the contrary notwith'
standing. Judged by the magnitude
and complexity of the militry oper'
, ations which he controlled at 0e time,
Grant was the greatest genera of the
lot. He emerged from the dvil wal
which made the factional fightof bott
the Eastern and Western Romn EN-
pires seem like mere shindies-- demi
god of war as compared with ay man
As to both the magnitude andsigniti
: cauce of his military operatins, ht
= realizes the force of the poetica simil,
which DIR. johnson said was Tie fines
: in the English language. Coirasted
. with the ordinary cunqueror, ,e may
say of him:
$ Like some tall cliff he lifts his anvil form
!. Swells from the vale and midwa leaves
the Storm"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AS TO GRNT.
O The truth is that there haze beer
/ very great misapprehensions as tGrant
i General Robert E. Lee once 3und i
( coterie of the ex.C5nfederates dicussipe
aud belitting the Union general Gen
tlemen, " said Lee, "You pay very
poor compliment to me and thenatcA
less army which command wen you
undervalue General Grant. In my
opinion he is the greatest geeral o.
ancient or modern times" Theecont
great m,sapprehension of the great
/ iNaoSl Ndo obC NlliCh lfUnltcs
l. that l myself have shared, viz That
:. he was dull man in conversabn and
l. not apt in repartee. Since his iLess,
# have studied Grant far more digen;ly
than ever before. All sensibl men
modify their opinions. The trth is,
that General Grant is the amor o.
m more bright sayings than another
4. military man Of whom there any
.. r. cord. always with the excepon oi
|? Napoleon Bonaparte, whose corersa
II tious al ST.. Helena, with the Cont De
Ie Las Casas and with DR.. O'Mera ,e in.
Q describably profound, metaphsical,
!. wise and witty, and Julius Caesa who
d was sui generis. A broachure cold be
a made of the new, neat and pi,hy lings
Y which Grant threw off. 81 prop,e to
i. move upon your works." 81 wilfigh,
l. it out on this line if it takes alsum-
d mer, "Let us have peace" arepeci
k me1s of them. The nimble facy OF
}. Veltaire could not have devised lttier
= or more compendious forms of eoress-
If ion than those common to Grant. They
II hit the nail on the head, and hit ihard,
e and drove it home. The most digent
70 student of the sayings of Wehgton
e cannot hnd more than two OF three
|, bright thirgs which he utteredn the
:. whole course of his life, whileGrant
has given currency to thousanpitby
@ pregnant things. Wellington Ole saw
S a topheavy collegian, and he id ex-
It citedly to friend: "Do you S, that
t man? He has been educated eyond
the capacity of his brain to bes" 1t
$ may be said of both Wellinga and
Y Grant that they never iopsid, from
E collegiate lore, and they were bo the
;. better for it.
= SOMETHING ABOUT GRANTS PEDNAL
HISTORY.
j. Grant was simply, in early lfen or.
] dinary American rustic youth. + came
/. from good New England stock, ,nd re-.
Y joiced in tanner father who wmedol.
entity vulgar as the heart of th most
0 atfectionale son could desire. Iu $ mil
I itary career the future hero of Alomat.
9 | tox was fortunate in that, fro Palo
/ Alto to Chepultepec, he won aputa-
tion for personal gallantry. Rsgning
r from the army i'll 1884, be aft@ards
became woodchopper in st. Lop, and
an assistant lff> the tanning bpsess OF
his father in Galena, Ill. The obreak
5 Of the war gave him his oppor,uni, and
} as relief from knotty problem ovei-
, nor Dick Yates, of Illinois, turn over
to him an lnsubordinate regiment,ou BIT.
, less wishing that both Grant aud reg.
inest were at Sheol. Here was thppor-
tunity of the einchoate conqueror. hders
of history will recall these chaprs of
, Bourrienne's Memoirs Of Napoln in
which the biographer tells of theecu
, iary straits of the future Empero then
} a sub.lieutenant, who was glado be
, furnished with few francs by ) old
/ college companion. Grant hadgone
, through substantially the same peri.
ence. But Just as Napoleon was de to
recoup fate by Toulon. Areola ANNA
range, Grant was made the center the
: war of the rebellion by Forts hry,