Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-02
New Series, Vol. %, No. 3.
GRANT AT SPOTSYLVANIA.

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In the February Century Gen. Sher
man contributes an article on "GranG
Strategy of fhe War;" from which We
quote the following: with the month
of May, came the season for action. The
army of Butler at Fort Monroe was his
left, Meade's army the center, and Sher-
man at Chattanooga his right. Butler
was to move against Richmond on the
south of James River, Meade against
Lee, intrenched behind the Rapidan, and
Sherman to attack Joe Johnston and
push him to and beyond Atlanta. This
was as far as human foresight could
penetrate. Though Meade commanded
the Army of the Potomac, Gen. Grant
substantially controlled it, and on the
4th of May, 1864, he crossed the Rapi-
dan, and at noon next day attacked Lee.
He knew that certain amount of fight
ing, killing had to be done to accom-
plish his end, and also to pay the penal
ty of former failures. In the wilder
ness there was no room for grand STRAIT
egy, or even minor tactics; but the fight
ing was desperate, the losses to the
Union army being, according to Phister-
er, 37,737, the Confederate loss H.
400-the difference due to Lees in
trenchments and the blind nature of the
country in which the battle was fought.
On the night of May 7th both parties
paused, appalled, by the fearful slaughter;
but Gen. Grant commanded Forward
by the left flank That was, in my
judgment, the supreme moment of his
life; undismayed, with a full cOmpre-
hensiOn of the Importance of the work
in which he was engaged, feeling as
keen sympathy for his dead and wound
ed as any one, and without stopping to
count his numbers, he gave his orders
calmly, specifically, and absolutely
Forward to Spotsylyania.
THE death of Garfield's hOnored moth
er has called forth numerous kindly
expressions from the press. The New
York Tribnne says:
On the day that James, as she al
ways called him in her simple way, was
inaugurated President of the United
States, and turned, upon taking the
oath, to give her his first kiss, it is safe
to say that, in the joy and pride of that
moment, she felt repaid for all the pri-
vatiOns and hardships of those years
when she was straining every nerve to
clothe, feed and educate her children.
Stories like this represent everything
that is best and most hopeful in Ameri-
can life"
Thus the Albany Journal refers to the
noble woman:
"The picture so often drawn of the
young wife of Abram Garfield, the father
of the President, who with her husband
left an Eastern home and went to the
wilds of Ohio, there to literally cut out
a home in the wilderness, is no fancy
one. Garfield himself told it often and
rejOiced in it. The kiss that the martyr
President gave his mother March 4, 1881,
in the presence of thousands gathered
to see the ruler of fifty millions of peO-
pie inaugurated, was but trifing recOg-
milton of the efforts made by that aged
mother in his childhood to make him
worthy the honor of the Nation"
THE following are taken from sam
pie batch of envelopes addressed to the
President:
Governor Grover Cleveland, first Dem
ocratic President.
To His Excellency, Mr.. Cleveland.
Hon. Grover Cleveland, Esquire.
To his Honor, G. Cleveland, President
of the United States.
Col. G. Cleveland, President.
To His Highness the Honorable Pres
ident of these United States.
Hon. Mr.. Cleveland, ESQ.,, at Presi-
dents White House.
Gov. Cleveland, President of the Uni
ted States.
To the President.
Mr.. Grover Cleveland, White House.
His Excellency, the Hon. President
of the United States.
G. Cleveland, Esq, President.
Mr.. Grover Cleveland, President U. s.
His Honor, Judge Cleveland, the Pres
ident. Evidently an application for a
post-office.)
To our President, Gov. Cleveland.
General Cleveland, the President.
(Private.)
Right Hon. Grover Cleveland, the
President, at White House &c.
IT is not many years since the South
ern Railroad was constructed; yet the
steel rails, which were far inferOr to
what are now manufactured, cost eighty
dollars per ton. There were few steel
rail mills in the United States at that
time. Stimulated, however, by the pro-
tective duty capitalists turned their at
tention to the business, and now steel
rails, of superior quality, home made,
are sold in this country at thirty dollars
per ton. But for protection no steel rail
mills would have been built in the Uni
ted States, and but for the enormous
growth in home production the price of
rails would be ten to twenty dollars per
ton above current figures. American
has forced the reduction in
the price of foreign rails. Abolish the
protective duty, our mills would close,
the demand for English products would
and prices would go up. This
is short argument, but it is effective
in favor of prOtection.-Cin Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette.
YARMOUTH WILL RUN,
AND THE REPUBLICANS DON'T INTEND
TO HAVE ANY COUNTING OUT.
New Orleans telegram, Jan. %.
The Times Democrat tomorrow will |
publish an interview with Ex-Governor
Yarmouth, in which he states that he
has decided to accent the Rennhlican |