The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-01-27

Roderigo-all resources We're avail
able to him-whilst Lee stood with
ragged army, half fed, half clothed
and often barefootcd. VIII few re
sources, in his rear and with country
blocka3ed as to every port without
manufactures of arms or munitions,
and having only such supplies as he
wrested from his enemy-yet, hurl-
ing back armies larger than his own
until exhausted by the attrition Of
armed men Can there be any com
parison between these two: Ulysses
s Grant coming from the West with
the reputation Ct never having been
defeated, although or one or two oc
casions he had approached slngularly
near to that unfortunate condition,
with entire command of all the
United States; with his lieutenant,
Sherman, in the West cutting of sup
plies Of men aud materials or even
provisions from Gen Lee with an
army outnumbering his opponents
on every field with disposition
proaigally to expended the life blood
of his soldiers, knowing that while
he could reinforce his depleted ranks,
his adversary-to use bis own words
chad robbed the cradle and the
grave to organize the force he then
held in the field Z" Iet. notwith
standing ali this, it is matter Of his
tory, admitted to be true on al sides,
that from the day when, in the spring
cf 1864, Gen Grant appeared in
front of Lee in toe Wilderness. until
DE close OF the campaiga in 1861 at
Cold IIarbor, Gen Grant lost more
m4n in killed wounded and missing
than Lee had ii his army, and it is
absolutely true that, although Gen.
Grant had announced his determine
ton to reach Richmond on the line
he had taken up, if i; took him all
snmmer," yet he utterly failed TO
keep this promise. and the summer Of
1864 closed with Grant beseiging tie
cities of Petersburg and Richmond
and constantly extending his left
flank as fast as rcintorcements came
to hlm. whilst his opponent held q
weak line of thirty miles in length,
with force utterly inadequate Gen
Grant called to his aid the soldiers
Of fortune ffom all over the world,
ard his country rewarded them with
bouniics which the South Coz ID NOT
pay. IIe summoned the engineering
skill Of the miaer ana through the
bowels Of the earth he tuanei'cd a
pa;!. terminating between the bat
:csies Of lis foe. 1t daylight he ex
.loded one hundred tons Of gun
powder beneath The lines OF his ad,
verSaty AID .novcd 5000 faen to
enter ike a wedsa into tile cre"asse
tjus rI;:,le But wien the morning
sur rose on chat beautiful June day
it reflected back the serene brow OF
Robert Zee as he with bis full and
entire staff, rallied his soldiers, and,
after desperate conflict, reinstated
his lines with immense slaughter Of
Gen Grants troops--a slaughter so
great that Gen Burnside was Court
martiaIed for the ruin brought 20 his
division on that bloody day
That Lee was finally Compelled TO
surrender the remDaht of bis army is
90 proof that Grapt was the greater
general. aud such has not been the yer
dict Of mankind Hannibal stands
to day immensely higher iu the worlds
estimation than Scipio. who conquered
him at Zama The three buodred
Spartaos who fell at the Pass Of Their
mopplae. upon whose monument is in
Scribed these words: "Oh, stranger
tell it to the Lacedemonians that We lie
here in obedience to ber precepts: have
done more TO make the name Of Greece
famous than all the glories shed
dIGuUC 'nc p!diD VI VI 'd!DOH anu INC
Cape of Salamis [; is in the fires of
adver-i,y that The nature of laau IS
purified and rrfaei '.The Stubborn
metal Of i4e ln:ae mast burn before lis
~urface same . /. wa. Indeed IN
defeat ana with a hear: broken by the
ai>forupeS Of his copatryHl"n faa:
Gen zee reache.i .Le highest pinuacic
of his :7ua grcafic-> When the war
was ov~r he was ot!erci positions Of
great cmolumea,, 4 he wcuIi suffer his
name to be used IL any commerciaI en-
'4rpri>e. but drm :.- granite rock he
stood against al! tcmpfasiao, ap;i ,!!c-
It'd the baiar,c .: his lie, - short,
to tie eeiuc:..!on q Il. youth {: his ccun.
ny Ks tue ;aae; often ':i@aeI.. ti.' cloud :
Of 'iari, ais!l, aae >;.ii.e@ i. EJaria
i,ea'.ty, So eld the exau p.. q Robert i.
I. calm she >totm~ "a the popular
,e,li. aa,; made 5 : ,a.her:, mea
ai'ilcita 20 rash ana &. perata, ;i.e ex-
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