Show an eastern piper paper remarks that all tho the speeches delivered lit at ilia alio recent gathering fathering of 0 thu the army of tennessee failed khan wm bang discus discussed sod and declares that tho the truo true OX explanation of tho the secret ot of gries GP strength was that the north was conscious of its superior strength and grast wag wa the tha first commander who gave it assurance asfur inco that ho he would uso lisa that strength tor for what it was worth it was because they tho bad found after lis assault upon donelson bonol Donel scia sou that thai ho at lual least was nas a I 1 nan man who would not compromise who ito would take every foit foil that canto in liia his way and boat beat down by sheer force ol of numbers Q n guns and nion aion the th technical tind and strategic ot of tho the tho north nor ti know k it had tho the mon man and the money it wag willing to spend both and nd was wa the tha first deloral general who inspired Is it confidence cooC deuce as ono who would not shrink from any sacrifice of blood and treasure necessary to victory it the foregoing oren oln Is ii only in a measure true there was waa a time when mcclair had the confidence of the tha north very much more mora than gitlit lor for years had GRINT GRANT work woo not only because ho he had the d Is position to conquer bit but the be had the ability in the foregoing extract will bo be traced the tha old disposition to acor at GRA GRAST GRAIT IT and to carry the idea that be uc coded ceded only because ho he had superior forces and did not aro ro about the tha sacrifice of life and that bis big victories wore won by sheer force of numbers in mon men and guns without technical or strategic devices the struggle to give that reputation has baa beta been going on over since the day that lie he first paralyzed the south by capturing fort donelson Dou ehon although the tha soldiers lold lora within the fort outnumbered his bis and had all the protection of the fort in ID their favor the truth it Is won because he wits was infinitely the iha biggest general of tho the war on either tide side many people will wil I 1 doubt that in this generation not oue one will doubt it in the next hla vicksburg campaign from the boci to thu the surrender cur rendor wi was equal to anything an thing over performed by C by naroi eoy or the great ho he had bad in hit his command as treat great soldiers as the confederacy fo possessed they all opposed his vicksburg campaign soma game of 0 them openly predicted failure allure but lie ho nover never wavered never gave up hla plans that triumph when it came was as glorious as there Is any record ot of la III all the history ol of the again his bis fight at chattanooga was perfect it was carried on as though by clockwork clock work and the effect wm was one ot of tho the decisive ones of theace the age thou then when transferred and put pat in command of all tho the armies of tho the union arid with the army of the potomac directly under his eyet eyes the confederacy ledo racy knowing something of him drained all its southern armlon to give to general lre LEI sufficient force to meet and turn back that army of the potomac its is it so co frequently had done before lim LEG for or the most part fought behind do tenses his was the inner line and there was nothing to do but to pulverize bis army thoro Thero was no other man to do that except GRANT whoa when ho he fastened his bis fangs upon the army first although the tha hemorrhage was wag dro dreadful adful though lils own army suffered immensely bo be thought once of giving up or reforming he be never thought of retreating lie ho never turned his faco face away from his bis toe fee he never relaxed ono one cord of the cordon that ho bo drow drew around his enemy until unlit the remnant surrendered it Is all very well to talk about superior numbers and about winning battles by main strength but GRANT shows this record that he ha never in all his bla career attacked attack eil an army that ho he did not repulse or capture it the only army that ever got away aroas him in fact was the ilia remnant that ibal landing and the other remnant that drew away with him from chattanooga lie he seized upon fort henry and captured I 1 it L ho he seized upon fort donolson Do and camtu captured r ad it through 16 series of battles ho be drow draw his bis lines around vicks bur burg and thoy they were double lines fronting both ways the ibo one besieging beal the city tho the other roady to drive back any approaching tou rou from the outside and io ho novar never relaxed his araia until it tell foil thon his attention ile iia found thoro there beleaguered beleaguer ed by overwhelming forces iio took his own army and bulling it with that which had been iss in one decisive battle he utterly broko broke the arm of tho the coony then turning to the east ho he commenced that Rich riehmond monjI campaign bad and there virtually repulsed every dy day tor for eight dayt days he kept pressing on until at last laet hi bo cooped hla his enemy up rp and hold him thero there until la in a vain attempt to escape ho he captured tho the remnant there la Is no other record of ar my r other soldier like ilka that aud and boulo of his were marvels pr par ticul arly wo we think hit big vicksburg which will go 90 into history as the most magnificent of modern times and aad ono which required reoul red generalship of a higher order than was over ever before displayed in america and equal to anything to be b unearthed from the tha records of tho the i bid world |