The Newtown bee., 1901-06-07

1000 feet above sea level; and two niles to the east layiMissionary Ridge, 500 feet high. On these slopes Bragg was encamped, strengthened by fortl fications, in a position that seemed i'm After Vicksburg nothing was impregnable to Grant. His men captured the rifle-pitS at the base and charged up the craggy slopes, bristling with cannon, and drove the enemy from their position at the point of the bayonet. Nothing in all history IS more inspiring than this charge. Bragg's men could not believe their eyes. They thought every man of them must be drunk. The COnfeder- acy was now divided in the East; when Grant struck blow it was blow that told
 You have watched the coming in of mighty tide, how, impetuous in it's on-moving, it sweeps all before it; so now the tide of popular clamor that | Grant be made commander-in-chief of | all the armies of the Nation could not | 
 general, which had only been held by one commander, Scott, since the time of Washington, was revived, and Grant was placed at the head of all the armies The modest captain who could only make three sentence speech at the Galena meeting, had at last found his true place. No man felt more pleased at his promotion
 than President Lincoln. ''Grant is the
 first general I've had," he remarked to friend. "YOu know how it has
 been with all the rest. AS soon as l put a man in command of the army, he
 would come to me with plan, and
 about as much as say, Now don't be-
 lieve I can do it, but if you say so I'll
 try it on,' and so put the responsibility
 of success or failure upon me. They all wanted me to be the general. Now
 it isn't so with Grant. He hasn't told
 me what his plans are. don't know,
 and I don't want to know. I am glad
 to find a man who can go ahead with
 out me-" It is not necessary for me to l ,
 familiar ground. Grant at once saw
 that the stonewall of the Confederacy
 had too broad and firm base to be
 battered down by a single blow; only
 s'hammering away" would avail, and
 Grant was the man to do that. Dur
 ing the anxious days that followed the
 Battle of the Wilderness Frank B.
 Carpenter, the artist, relates that he
 asked President Lincoln, "How does
 Grant impress you as compared with other generals?" 'The great thing
 about him." said the President, "is
 cool persistency of purpose. He is not easily excited, and he has the grit of a
 bulldog. When he once gets his teeth in, nothing can shake him of. '' Reverses came for the Union armies. There was the disastrous affair at Cold Harbor; but all the North felt that there was steady resistless force back
 of the Union armies, pushing them ever on toward Richmond. Grants losses in the final campaign were heavy, but limitless resources were be- hind him; while Lees slender re- sources were drained to the very last } supply. Those in Lee ranks were the children of the Soil, and when they fell there were none to replace them Grant changed his base to the James and attacked Petersburg. Things be- , came desperate for the COnfederacy. An officer who was there testified l shortly after the close of the struggle that every cat and dog for miles around had been caught and eaten. Grant was pressing on; Sherman'S famous r march to the sea had shown the Con . federacy to be an egg-shell; Sheridan ! U splendid cavalry was ever lowering around the last defenders of the bar 7 and stripes. Grant saw all was Ovel . and called upon Lee to surrender History has no greater example O. magnanimity on the part of the victo | handed Lee back his sword that ha( just been surrendered and said: ''KeeI the sword which your valor has st bravely defended"
 There have been many causes which
 have contributed to the peace we now
 enjoy, to that wonderful revolution o1 . sentiment in the South which has made the ex-Confederate as devoted t< : the Union as he who wore the coat O. = blue and which has made it pOSsibl, l for us to be to-day, North, East, Soutf West, one great country; but chic among these causes hold has been tn, o example of Ulysses s. Grant.
 HEwAs A WARRIOR BY PROFESSION and education, but he enlisted in va ! only that peace might come. Whel President be held out both hands tt those who had been his former foes , Accepting the nomination for the Pres , idency he said, 'Let us have peace.'
 When on his dying bed at Mount Nc . Gregor, now too weak to speak, as ar 7 ex-confederate soldier sat beside hin he took pen and wrote: "I suffer ter
 ribly; but I am willing to suffer ii s thereby my country be united. Wo<
 be unto that man, North or South
 who dareS to raise his voice or use hi! pen to reopen wounds long since heal , ed. "InStead of having as we do to-day
 nation of sovereigns where every
 man is king, there might be to separ
 ate sovereignties placed side by side, harboring mutual jealousies, nursing old animosities, cherishing bitter feuds. Let us thank God that SC