Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-09-03

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where be waa severely wauu1ad. He -
giRned fEom the array - lA5a. an1 VS.
appointed 81 Pres dent ki1Ec1 H5Eer2ur
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GgysFnoF BE- was Distinguished for IA
yizur and eAeEy II The co1duot e -
Indian war indeed. + y sid Be o9eEed
and paid 3 reward for Indian head8
with as manh indiderencs IS Turk
ish Paahna id for these EebelliOus
B1iRaRian8. He vas involved -
cunfisi with tbs Chef Justice u the
IeErisnry, EduxEd LAndeE. DECLARED TIE
TsFrifnrY uuder martial law and Hay
7ih, 1886. arrested Judge Lander IL tael
esurtroom, bar his action wee dlsap-
proved b the nnthoFiiies 81 washing
ton- He subsequently, represented
Washington IexFisory - DeieRnfe n
Congress for I've terms. de vas mana-
Der Of The DemooEstis Naiional Gown.
ton that met il Charleston u 1850. sup
ported tie nominafion Of breckenrl1ae,
and vas ChaiFman Of the breekenKldzs
Executive Committee Is Washington
bus when she ssaasion % the 6o1tnekn
states vas immi1euf be strongly advised
Praadonf Buchanan % dismiss score
iaKies Floyd and Thomps0n- BENG on
he Pacific Coast when be heard Of the
fall Of sampler. be hastensd % WASH
inRton, Was Appointed Colonel q the
seventy New York. and septem
Der 18th, 1851 vas appointed BriRedlef
General. He vas % Distinguished fer
aalls1fry and ability during F0pe's
campaign that, had be survived 4, Pres
idsnt Ldncoiu intended 20 appoins him
C0mmandeF o. The Army Of the Pc
toman.
stevens vas distinguished for the very
qualities that McCiellaa lacked. The
equal Of MeCleilan as an engineer and
military student. be vas nan Of re-
markable energy, viRor, courage and
pignaoity, bold, independent ready,
even anxious to assume and dischaEge
responsibility. he died the same day
that PM KeaEny fell, rallying his
troops and saving q defeatsd army
from jackson, Whs had been sent By
Lee 20 smash Pope's accommodations
With Washington.
The imagination naturally inquiries
what WoRld have been The resnlt II this
stevens, this happy blending OF milf
tary 90 olaR and strategief, with the
talents Of Q skillful taetician and daring
fighter had lei our army at Ankieeam,
insfsad Of Mcclellan, the Athelstaae,
the Unready Of the great var for the
Union Stevens vas q type Of ultra
bilious energy and courage, and had be
been at the head Of the army Of the R0-
tomao for the year that began with
Antietam it Is quito likely that Grant,
sherman and Sheridan would have
missed many bFillians la1rels that they
finally cropped. Sherman thought the
death Of o. =. Smith gave "us younger
fellows all our brilliant opportunities, !"
and II this could be predisted Of Smith
il certainly oonid Of Stevens, who had
all the executive ability and energy Of
smith, joined 10 a military scholarship
and engineers eye shat Saith did not
possess. Byron wrote OF Napoleon that
. q single step into the right had made
this man the Washington OF worlds be
trayed,n and another year Of life might
have made Stevens the conQuerlng hero
Of the var; the victorious leader Of the
Army Of the Potomac; the splendid
cross Of bulldog and greyhound that
hunted Les to death. II Stevens had
lived probably be would have testified
Lincoln's confidence, and been elected
President IN 1858. The imagination
again inquiries what Weuld this old-kime
Breckinridee Democrat have done with
reconstruc ion 2 Would the var have
converted him as il did Stanton, an
other Breckenridge Democrat, into a
radical Republican, or would be have
run back, as Hancock did, after the war
70 the Bourbonism Of Seymour, Hen
bricks and rilden ? Stevens was but As
when be fell be had the Wilfulness, the
capacity and courage, the energy, the
pngnacity, the aggressive fierce Of char
acter and the superior military scholar
ship Of sherman, and there ia no reason
for doubling that had Lincoln been able
70 fulhli bis purpose Of placing Stevens
ct the head Of tbs Army Of the Potomac
be would have found the man for that
awful hour Of uncertainty when it
looked as II the Confederates might
stable their horses IN the Capitol, even
as the British did in the old south
church Of Boston.
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