The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-04-26

NEW YORK. April 2S.-LIeutenant-
General John N. sehoaeld. United States
Army, (reurud), has accepted the invI-
tatlon of Mayor Strong on behalf Of the
city OF New York, to be one Of the cIty's
guests at the ceremonies attendant up
on the dedication of the Grant monu-
ment
In accepting the city Invitation, the
general has written letter concerning
General Grant As will be remembered
General schoheld was not under GeneF-
al Grants immediate command in the
field, but was intimately associated
with him. both during and since the
war. Al one time. during the closing
months OF Johnson's administration, he
was secretary OF war. and, therefore,
for the time being, was Grants official
superior. Their relations we're always
OF the most intimate and confidential
nature and General sehoheld's views OF
Grant should be most interesting at the
present time. In his letter the general
says, In part;
"The greatest Of all the traits OF
Grants character was that which lay
always on the surfacs. visible to all who
had eyes TO see IT. That was his moral
and intellectual honesty, integrity. sin
certify, veraclty and justice, He was In
capable of any attempt TO deceive any
body, except for legitimate purposes, as
In military strategy; and above oil. he
was incapable OF deeeIvtng himself He
possessed the rarest of all human fac
unIes, the power OF perfectly accur-
ate estimate OF himself, unInlnenced by
vanity, pride. ambition. fiatterY or self
interest Grant was very far from be-
ing q modest maa, as that word Is gen.
orally Understood. His Just selr-esteem
WAS as far above 1t Os It was above Hat
tery.
when Cunts attention was called
to any mistake he had committed, he
would see and admit It as quickly ana
unreserVedly as II Il had been made by
anybody else, and With q smile which
expressed the exact opposite OF that
| feeling which most men are apt 70 show
under like circumstances. His love OF
truth and Justice were 50 far above az
personal considerations that he showed
| unmista kuble evidences OF grathcatlon
when any error into which he might
| have falleh igdB corrected.
"Hls pride IN his own mature opinion
was very great, In that he was as tar
as possible from being q modest man
This absolute confidence in his own
| Judgment upon any subject he had
mastered and the moral courage 10
take upon himself alone the highest re-
sponsibllty and 10 demand full author
ity and freedom 20 act according to his
/ own judgment, without interference
from anybody, added to his accurate es-
tImate OF his own ability and his clear
perception Of the necessity for undivld-
ed authority and responsibility In the
conduct OF military operations, ana IN
all that concerns the efficiency OF ar
niles in time OF war, constituted the
foundation Of that very great character.
att has been said that Grant, ike
Lincoln, was n typical American and for
that reason was most beloved and re-
spected by the people. That is true OF
| the statesman and the soldier as well as
/ OF the people, if II Is meant that the
highest type that ideal which com.
uIands the respect and admiration OF
the highest and best in mans nature,
however far above himself. Soldiers
and the people saw In Grant or In Lin
coin, not OF themselves, not plain
man OF the people, nor vet a superior
beinE whom they could not understand,
/ hut the personifcatiOn OF their highest
ideal OF a citizen, soldier, or a states.
| man. a man whose greatness they could
sec and understand as plainly as they
| could see anything else under the sun.
| Aud there was no more mystery about
Il than there was in the popular mind