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Show LET U8 BE JUST. Uooilwin'B Wuckly rccentlj had an urtlclo on tho great Confcilurnto General Gen-eral Lee, In which ho wns mndo to Buffer In compariRon with Grant, while tho routhern chletuln was In tho main Hpoken well of, all tho prnlso wnB din-xlpatcd din-xlpatcd by tho association. Such articles ar-ticles aro unfair and against tho unprejudiced un-prejudiced Judgment of tho best critics crit-ics of tho period. Grant wns a gieat man, beyond question, and never i greater than during and following tho surrender of Leo; hut, ho was neither n military genius nor an overly clov-r clov-r strategist. Johnston whipped him to a finish at Shlloh and ho was boat-en boat-en in every action ho engaged In whero his numbers and ndvantnges wero not greatly superior to tho enemy's. ene-my's. In tho prolonged struggle at Petersburg tho ndvantago In every day's fighting up to tho finish was decidedly de-cidedly with Leo, who had but ono starved soldier to Grant's seven well-fed well-fed ones and no reinforcements whatever what-ever when tho final stress came. Iloth men wero big enough, each In his way; and It Is scarcely worth while to Ignore a part of tho record for tho pur-poso pur-poso of giving moro credit to either sldo Is fairly due. |