Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-01
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nothing"
AT the date of that letter, September
9Th, there was to be a meeting of the
society Of the Army Of the Tennessee at
Chicago September 8, 10. 1885. Gen
Sherman was at Lake Minnetonka, and
being summoned by the family OF Gen
Grant at his death, July %, 1885, went
to Mt McGregor aud remained there till
his body was entombed, August s, 1885.
Compelled to travel from New York to st.
Louis, to Lake MiDnetonka, to Chicago, to
st. Louis, back again to Chicago for the
army meeting. he was forced to collect
materials for bis address on the wing
That address was the result of this CORE
spondence, and it has been universally
copied and was in the hands of Gen. Frye
when he composed his paper for the North
American Review OF December, 1885. Ut
terly ignoring their public address, which
was
TIE CONCLUSION
| had reached from correspondence and
from personal knowledge. Gen. Frye
segregates single paragraph from one of
many private letters of inquiry, to which
he became possessee wrongfully and now
wants to prove to the world that General
Sherman lied, actually resortipg to police
methods ofreproducipg pho togrsph copies
of paragraph in a letter which he could
we'll understand. Gen. Sherman had for
gotten, and which in the aggregate was
most eulogistic of Gen. Grant.
Any lawyer or logician reading the whole
of the correspondence, not the garbled ex-
tracts, will see that on the 9th of Septem.
Der, 1885, my mind was working ont the
sntitheses to be used at Chicago only three
days later before my comrades and friends,
sll of them ardent friends of General
Grant, to contrast the Grant Of Donaldson,
February, 1862. and the Grant Of Apo
mattox and the dead hero of 1885, are in
tervals of twenty-three long eventtul years.
As to General Halleck, / had the most IN.
bounded confidence in him in 1862. he
was
THE BEST INFRoNED SCHOLAR
of the military in America Mcclellan ex-
cepted. ! knew him Familiarity at West
Point for three yesrs, sailed with him
around Cape Horn in 1916 on board the
Lexington, was associated with him in
California for four years Of the Mexican
war and knew him for another six years
when he vas member Of the law firm of
Halleck, Peschy, Billings & Park.
But war is terrible test
Halleck old Dot stand this
test, whereas Grant did. Hslleck was q
theoretical soldier Grant was a practical
soldier. In February, 1862, Gen. Hsllecds
fame and power were trsnscendent and
that Of Grant hardly recognized, whereas
in 1864 Halleck bad dwindIed into mere
chief of staff and Gen Grant bad cared
such renown that he was enabled to dit
tate his own terms to the President and
Secretary Of War. We are now told that
THE ROAD TO FAME
and public favor in America is strewn with
classes of men who write letters This is
true-aud it is equally true that YOU cannot
pick up handful of sol! which does not
contain some part of what IVES once hui
man being full of the life. hope and fear
which we all feel. The very bresd on our
tables contains the, phosphstes which !
once was part of the embodiment of an i'm
mortal soul. Nevertheless must We, in
our short sojourn on earth deny ourselves
the happiness and pleasure OF social inter
course and correspondence. Must We
abstain from all communication with family
and friends because some one may impru-
IDENTIFY or malciously reveal our secret
thoughts?
Even among the twelve disciples one
proved false while the eleven remained true
aud spread the gospel of peace to all the
world Does the enlightened press OF
America own that no honorable man can
serve the Government? Is this to be the
result OF our free government? These are
questions which we can leave to our sue
eessors in the next war.
! remember only too well that in the
last war, in the mids: Of gloom and tribu.
lstion, derived from the public press but
little encouragement, but from such men
as s. s. L. l.. Hommedisn, Charles An
derson, Silas F. Miller, Of Cincinnati;
James F. Yeatemsn, Rev. W. G. Eliot and
Henry Turner, Of St. Louis, my heart
warmed.