The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-18
CHARLES A. DANA IS DEAD
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 itary operations were somewhat at va- riance, and this disagreement resulted in the resignation of MT, Dana, after fifteen years service on the Tribune. lie was at-ence employed by Secretary stanton on special work of importance for the war department. and in 1865 was appointed assistant secretary of war, which office he held until after the surrender of Lee. His duties as the representative of the civil authority at the scene fo military operations brought him into close personal relations with MT. stanton and MT. Lincoln, who were accustomed to depend upon his aecu- rate perception and just estimates of lnen and measures for information of the actual state of affairs at the front. At the time when General Grants char acter and probable usefulness were un- known quantities, MT. Danas conf- dence in Grants military ability prob- ably did much to defeat the powerful effort then making to break down the rising commander Of this critical per iod General sherman remarks in his i Memoirs One day early in 1863, l was up at Grants headquarters Cat Niekshurg), and we talked over all | these things with absolute freedom. Charles A. Dana, assistant secretary of war, was there, and Wilson, Rawlins, Frank Blair, McPherson, etc. We all l knew, what was notorious, that Gcner- al McClearnand was intriguing against l General Grant, in hopes to regain com mand of the whole expedition and that others were raising clam2r against Grant in the newspapers of the north, Even Mir Lilcon and General Halleck seemed to be shaken but at no instant i did we (his personal friends) slacken in our loyalty to him" MT. Dana was in the saddle at the front most of the time during the campaigns or northern Mis- i sissippi and Vicksburg, the rescue of l Chattanooga, the marches and battles of Virginia in 1884 and 1865. After the war his services were sought by the proprietors of the Chicago Republican, a new daily, which failed through caus- es not within the editors control. Re- turning to New York he organized in 1867 the stock company that now owns the Sun and became it's editor The first number of the Sun issued by MT, Dana appeared on January 27, 1867, and for nearly thirty years he had been actively and continuously engaged in the management of that successful journal, and solely responsible for its conduct. He made the Sun democrat ic newspaper, independent and out spoken in the expression of it's opinions respecting the ahairs of either party. His criticisms of civil maladministration during General Grants terms as presi- dent led to a notable attempt on the part of that administration in July, 1873, to take him from New York on a charge of libel, to be tried without q jury in Washington police court. App plication was made to the United Stat g district court of New York for war rant of removal; but in memorable decision, Judge Blatchford, a jus tice of the supreme court of the United States, refused the warrant, holding the proposed form of trial to be uncon- stitutiohal Perhaps to a greater ex- tent than in the case of any other journalist, Mr Dana's personality is identified in the public mind with the newspaper that he edited. He had re- corded no theories of journalism other ] than those of common sense and human Interest. He was impatie of prolixity
 cant and the conventional standards of news importance. Mir Dana's first book was a volume of stories translated from the German entitled The Black Ant (New York and Leipsic, 1S4S}. Tn 1855 he planned and edited With George Ripley, the New American Cyclopae- dia'' The original edition was com pleted in 1863. It has since been thoroughly revised and issued in new edition under the title of The Ameri- can Cyclopaedia" GIG volumes, New
 York. 1S73-6.) With General James A
 Wilson he wrote Life of Ulysses S
 Grant" (Springleld, 186S.) His House. hold Book of Poetry, q collection of the
 best minor poems of the English Ian
 guage,' was first published in 1857, and
 has passed through many editions, the
 latest, thoroughly revised, being that
 of 1884 He had also edited with RUs.
 sitter Johnson, Fifty Perfect Poems,
 (New York. 1SS3.)