Year: 1864

soldiers killed in battle during the rebellion His object
is 10 give them places in Pos, o0ce. on producing
sahcient evidence of good character


General Grants PosiGton-The Admin
fstration, tho Radicals and the Man
of the People.


General Grant has left the national capital
and hastily gone West, entrusted, we are told,
with full power to reorganize our armies in
the West and Southwest" Was it necessary
for the supreme actual commander Of our
armies to go to Washington in order that he,
might get the power to reorganize the armies
with which he has already achieved such great
results! He was suddenly summoned from his
visit to the army of the Potomac and hurried
away West on account Of secret intelligence
received by the Secretary of War. For the
first time in the history of the war the War
Department. has received intelligence of the
movements Of the enemy upon which 1t has
thought it necessary to act at once. By this
fiction of great necessity for his immediate
presence in the West the Directory has, for the
time, got rid Of Grant. The first victory is
theirs, though it is contemplate one With
out any change in the actual condition of af-
fairs on this side the country they have got
their favorite organs had already begun to
mutter, and the country is left to understand
that the arrangements of the Directory remain
as they are, with Grants approval. che has
been here and seen ALL" they seem to say,
land he has gone and left us as we werer
And with this they fancy they can quiet the
country. But the trouble is deeper than they
suppose, and their small victory is only an
additional evidence that they have already en-
tered upon the struggle of intrigue against
Grant that we have declared inevita-
BILE. Grant cannot be- in Washington, as
they already see, with any safety to their
views and hence this momentous "secret in
telligence." Grant, they perceive, is now in
our history less man than q power, and with
a deep instinct of hostility they array them
selves on the other side and begin to act at
once Grant is indeed power in our his
tory-just such power as Scipio Africanus
was in the history of Rome and for the par
ticular instruction Of the Directory we may in
dicate some points Of similarity in the histories
Of the two men.


Scipio, at the commencement of his opera
tons against the Carthaginians in Spain, was
ordered by the Roman administration not to
have any plans Of his own for the conduct of
the war. He was bothered by all kinds of ad-
ministrative interference-tied up by all
manner of instructions was even ordered
positively to carry out the plans of his prede-
p,,t o;c;a boJ IL
nevertheless; and as the theatre of war was far
removed from Rome, he took advantage of that
circumstance to prosecute the war as he
thought best By a bold piece of strategy he
suddenly moved upon and attacked at once by
land and water the prime stronghold of the
enemy--a position OF immense Importance to
them base that commanded a rich country
and as depot of stores and supplies. Though
it was desperately defended and he was re-.
peatedly repulsed he carried the place by as
sault. He next defeated the enemy in two
great and sanguinary battles in the open coun-
try. Having now earned the right to do
as he chose he was left alone; for the Ro-
man Senate had some sense. As consequence
he eventually destroyed the Carthaginian



ate in the temple Of Bellona that there was no
enemy in Spain. His appearance in the capi-
tal was the signal for the most enthusiastic de-
Illustrations in his honor He was receivedby
the people as man who had performed for his
country the most extraordinary services, and he
was appointed to the supreme command of the
Roman armies. Naturally the people now re-
garded him as the man who could drive the
enemy out of the country in the immediate
neighborhood of Rome as easily as he had
driven them from Spain; and SO great was the
public confidence that the people were ready
to give him unqualified power to do SO. But
there was party that opposed the wishes/d
the people.
Hannibal, il should be understood had held
his place face to face with Rome against gene
raj after general. He had beaten the incapa-
BILE Flaminius, the elder Scipio, Emiius and
Varro, and had only been prevented from de-
stroying Rome by the cautious but expensive
strategy of Fabius. Now he was to be attempt
ed by a general who had learned the art of war
against Hannibals countrymen, but in a dis
tant part of Europe. Scipio had q definite idea
as to the weak point Of the enemy and as to
what should be done. But the party that had
hitherto carried on the war, though il had
proved its complete inability to drive Hanni-
bal out Of Italy, still insisted upon its right to
dictate how Scipio should do IT, Before Scipio
could begin against the open enemy he had to
fight the Fabian policy in Rome. He was op-
posed by party with one idea, that, jealous
and fearful Of his fame, hardly listened to his
clear and cogent arguments. His opponents
denounced bis plans insisted upon their own,
and would have the war prosecuted only in
their way. They became clsmorous and made q
direct issue on this point, and then scipio was
ready to appeal to the people. His opponents,