| Show tny THE BRITISH PRESS ON 0 i GEN GRANTS CAMPAIGN the london daily news loews says 11 grant possesses military skill and moral power which have been hitherto unknown on the federal side even the brilliancy of lees leea achievements does docs not ilot surpass tile masterly skill with which grant lias has arranged ike 4 ina yom a ta sf trap tr wp frow from the frontier of f georgia to the banks of the potomac the crushing crus vigor which has directed his blows in in the field and the dogged tenacity which refuses to admit tile the necessity of retreat or the th possibility of disaster prove him to be of the right star stamp rip in face grant has fixed his hig teeth in his adversary and with sleepless tenacity he clings to him nor have ila ve all the efforts of southern skill andall the desperate courage of southern chivalry been able t to 0 shake oil off the sturdy northerner or even make hirn him relax his hold 2 the london daily telegraph edited b by y thornton hunt a man who during the present rebellion has omitted no opportunity to manifest his hostility to the bedet federal al government speaks as follows of gen grant whom the writer a year ye ear ago considered as aa inferior in ill milli tary capacity no vulgar man no mere idol of the hour is this ulysses S grant who by sheer hard work and honest fighting in 0 lias has raised himself from a position or of obscurity to one of almost unlimited command wh who has if some reports concerning him be true achieved tae th c rreta creot or a over ove r himself hi and liis his desires and who a virtue not often possessed by the military celebrities of the united states is isa still till modest and unassuming nor has lie he yet in any way compromised pro the reputation which lie ho worthily earned alike by honorable service in the field and by exemplary civic conduct A j man of merely ordinary calibre would scarcely scar eely have dared to accept flace pt the glorious glo rions but terrible responsibility lity which grant has quietly taken upon himself as became a good soldier who was bound to fear no peril either mental or mural i in his count rys I 1 cadde caus 11 |
