The National tribune., 1886-06-17
PERSONAL.

The approaching removal of Gen. Sherman from
ST. Louis calls forth from the 81. Louis papers the
warnIest expressions of admiration for the old
hero. and of regret that he is to separate from
them. Certainly graceful q tribute TO his char
aeter has appeared in any paper is con-
tanned in an editorial in the St. Louis Republican,
paper which during the war favored secession, and
is now the organ of the men who were the seces-
sionists of years ago. Some expressions from this
editorial as follows The stirring events of his
long lifetime have developed him into one of the
strongest characters in American history, and the
house he is about to vacate in st. Louis will be
pointed out hereafter historical landmark.
The children of this generation will show it to their
grandchildren, and If they have the leader of
the March to the Sea, will tell of it with pride. The
rugged simplicity of Gen. Sherman's character and
his unbending will would have made him a re-
markabe man without fortnitous circumstances,
and when such circumstances aided in his develop
ment he exerted a power over them great and so
marked that his worst detraetors have never been
able to charge him with being the creature of his
surroundings. Such marked individuality as his
gives its pOssessor power events and fits him
to be leader of men where leadership involves
command. His old-school Americanism lends itself
to make him still more striking figure in the eyes
of this generation, based ID is on the singular
blending of the Democratic spirit of equality and
the individual self-assertion which made Andrew
Jackson at once q thorough Democrat and thor
ough autoerat. Gen. sherman is perhaps thor
Oughly neither one or the other of these, though
he may fairly be suspected of tendencies towards
both by those who, knowing him as "a military
commander, have seen him since his retirement
trudging along in a civic procession in the ranks
with his old soldiers, refusing to be anything
more than their equal. Gen.
sherman has lived to see the weakening of
antagonism-the strengthening of admiration to-
wards him. However little he may have changed
in 20 years. not year has passed without giving
him more friends and fewer enemies. As he has
walked the streets of St. Louis erect and vigorous
with gray hair which makes him venerable with
out suggesting infirmty all eyes have turned upon
him the embodiment of so much that is interest
ing historically. The city was proud to claim him
absence 1t viii be unwilling to eoncede that il has
wholly given him up"
The Herald, St. Joseph Mo-. speaks in very com
plimentary termsof the floral Offering ON Memorial
Day of Mrs. O. p. KiDgsbury of Custer Relief
Corps. 1t eight feet high, and rested on a
basis two and half feet square, and was composed
of the rarest and most beautiful flowers 10 bore
the inscription To unknown dead, and those
who sleep on Southern battleielcs."
General and Mrs. Sheridan have gone to West
Point
Admiral Jouett has been detached from COM
mand of the North Atlantic Squadron and ordered
TO act President of the Board of Inspection with
headquarters at Washington
Col. Ingerson was elected President of the To-
ledo. Cincinnati y St. Louis Railroad, at the same