The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-06-11

Pope laughed and sneored Ct XaSiborough,
Who never lost battle, as . commonplace.
iHiterase fellow. just = Cromve seemed
to the scholar yane. and yet Cromwell
vas keen enough 70 make the scholar.
John Milton, his secretary. The famous
German sif. poet aud satirsst, Heine, ridi-
culed Wellington. even as Thomas Car
lyle did Washington and Lafayette. Jeffe.-
son and Henry Clay both hated and
feared Andrew Jackson rs "a mere
military chieftain," and John Quincy
Adams deemed his great political
rival nothing but . soldier" Webster
could not conceal his contempt and anger
when the Wings nominated Gen. Taylor
in is4s and Gen. Scott in 1852 The poiiti-
cal prejudice against Grant was very great
in isss; the nomination of Hancock in 1850
was made against the protest of leading
politicians OF his party. and the strongest
influence against Grants nomination in
1850 was the appeal to the old Mugwump
Republican prejudice against him a
nothing but soldier"
There is stupid depreciation Of the tall
ent Of the soldier. who preserves and de-
tends the states which politicians often
misrule: who protects from destruction
the wealth gathered by tho trader. This
feeling is Of kin to the contempt that
farmers and mechanics not seldom express
for lawyers, preachers and writer's as nom
producers. Nevertheless eminent and able
men. as We have seen, have not been free
from this instructive hostility between
men who win in this world by executive
force Of performance and men who win by
arts Of speech. political craft. business 50
gacity or literary skill.
The fighter holds lightly the writer. the
orator and the politician, whose chief
work he thinks il to stimulate mankind
to civil commissions and disorders from
which they suffer until some soldier like
Napoleon, or statesman of soldier temper
like Bismarck brings tranquility out Of
chaos with the sword directed by unre-
lenting win and practical talent Napo-
leon at st. Helena boosted that from the
day he scattered the mob of Paris with "a
Whit Of grapeshot" in 1795 France had
nothing to fear Of Jacobinism. Napoleon
hated and despised literary men a. cor
daily as did old Simon Cameron. and he
particularly hated literary women like
Nine. de Stael, because he could not
afford to put woman in Jail for her in
cendiary scribbling and Cabling as he
could man.
Charles Sumner hated Grant and felt
al Co. -
coin. who shocked Sumner as he did Rich
ard H. Dana by his iev,ty. his passion for
anecdotal illustration. and. above all, BY
his proposition that Sumner should "meas-
ure backs with him." On the other hand,
Grant and Lincoln got along admirably
together. Grant, a. . Western man Of
military experience, was not shocked at
Lincolns indifference to superficial dig
nifty Of manner, and his own sense Of
humor was keen. Furthermore, Grant
was in full sympathy with Lincoln's
rugged. earnest patriotism. Lincoln was
liked By the military men on both sides,
because ne was an intensely practical
statesman, gifted with all the qualities
that are necessary to make shrewd and
successful soldier.
The antipathy between Sumner and
Grant was instructive; 1t was the dislike
Of the soldier for the scholar. Grant was
creature Of the hard. grim. Cromwell
mould, and Sumner was critical. senti-
mental, impracticable. like vane. Sum-
ner's speech concerning the Alabama
claims brought US near to war; Grants
moderation secured decent settlement
with Gladstone.
The disposition to depreciatc and deride
those powers Of mind and character that
are necessary to great soldier, competent
to march, feed and fight q great army. is
born Of gross ignorance and class preiu-
dice. To command an army Of SO, 600 men
with success in war is the severest test
that man can be subjected to in the prac-
teal affairs of life; it needs the brain,
Of q Commodore Vanderbilt.