Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-28

a
1r;yate letter, publishes it to to
world garbled and makes 1t tex
for q sermon to Gen. Sherman, ana Wnei
nolitely asked for the source of his quota
tion, he answers coolly better let the Gag
rest where it is If he thinks ne hai
achieved cheap newspaper victory owe
Gen. Sherman, he is welcome. The MAJ
who got off with my overcoat may keep 1t
for | have bought new one. Now m!
friends, l want to direct your attention q
all there is in this csse-'Much ado abou
nothing" c
At the date of that letter. September
9Th. there was to be meeting OF thE
society Of the Army Of the Tennessee q
Chicago, September 3, 10, 1885; den
Sherman was at Lake MinRetonks, and
being summoned by the family OF Gen
Grant at his death, July %, 1885, went
to Mt. McGregor and remained there TIL
his body was entombed, August ., 1859
Compelled TO travel from New York to St
Louis, to Lake Minnetouks, to Chicago, to
St. Louis, back again to Chicago TOR 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
ruE CoNCLUs1oS
| had reached from correspondence and
from personal knowledge. Gen, Frye
segregstes a single paragraph from one OF
many private letters of inquiry, to which
he became possessee wrongtully and now
wants to prove to the world that General
Sherman lied, actually resorting to police
methods ofreproducing pho togrsph copies
of paragraph in 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 out the
antitheses to be used at Chicago only three
days later before my comrades and friends,
ali OF them ardent friends of General
Grant, to contrast the Grant OF Donaldson
February, 1862 and the Grant Of Apo
msttox and the dead hero of 1885, are in-
tervals of twenty.three long eventtul years.
As to General Hslleck, | had the most un
bounded confidence in him in 1862. He
was
THE BEST lNFRoMED SCHOLAR
of the military in America, Mcclellan ex-
cepted. knew him familisrly at West
Point for three years, 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 Blk years
when he was q member Of the law firm of
Halleck, Peachy, Billings & Park.
But war is a terrible test.
Halleck aid not stand this
test, whereas Grant did. Halleck was a
theoretical soldier, Grant was practical
soldier. In February, 1862, Gen. HallecG's
fame and power were transcendent and
that of Grant hardly recognized, whereas
in 1864 Halleck had dwindled into mere
chief of staff and Gen. Grant had earned
such renown that he was enabled to die
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" D" This is
true-and it is equally true that you cannot
pick up handful of soil which does not
contain some part of what was once a hu-
man being full Of the life, hope and fear
which we all feel. The very bread on our
tables contains the phosphates 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 mahciously reveal our secret
thoughts
Even among the twelve disciples one
proved false while the eleven remained true
and 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
cessors in the next war.
! remember only too we'll that in he
last war, in the midst OF gloom and tribu-
lation, l 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 E. Yesteman, Rev. W. G. Eliot and
Henry Turner, Of St, Logi5, my heart