Show i W REID The Sun in its own cynical way vay points a little j sarcasm at the Hon Whitelaw Reid Whitelaw-Reid Reid United States to the court of St. St James It is doubtless doubtless doubt doubt- I less inspired from the fact that Mr DIr Reid has given t 4 many ny banquets in n London H He is very verj rich his 1 wife is js very rich and it is possible that Mr lr Reid ha has discovered that the English people like banI banquets banquets ban ban- I and they have a a. great awe if not Dot respect for forI I tremendous wealth We We Wedo do not th think Whitelaw Reid is a a. a perfect man t 1 i it is is possible he is a little proud of ot his own achievements achievements achievements achieve- achieve ments but we will say this for him When he was 1 a as green young man when as General Grant said he was with the army army of the Tennessee and was chiefly remarkable for parting his hair haar in the middle i a and p wearing w aring a high collar at that very time White White- 1 itc- itc J Jaw w v Reid wrote the best description if tf f the capture 01 of Vicksburg that e ever er was written It reads like 1 j O em II that is not all it is so plain and aud direct i 1 t th that t itis tr s perfectly easy following the des description on 1 I j to take in the whole field and begin to appreciate f r. 1 I tho the tremendous difficulties there were in accomplishing accomplish- accomplish ing that capitulation and how masterful must have been the genius that it and carried it through because Grant made five or s six sis failures in trying hJ to capture Vicksburg Except that Mr Lint Lin- Lin t coIn had been patient with him he would have lost the command and Vicksburg would ol d not have been I taken and even after he had started on n his final tremendous effort to subdue the place and at the I same time stand off General Joe Johnston and his forces in the rear his nearest officers even en Sherman Sherman Sherman Sher Sher- man did not believe that the result would be a suc suc- cess And nd there is no official communication no other private correspondent that depicts the thing as it was half hal as clearly dr-arly half as carefully as did Whitelaw Reid Again he was transferred across the mountains and he wrote up tho the battle of Five Forks in the same lucid clear way and made the field neld which is confused confused confused con con- fused under the pens of most writers clear as the noonday That was nearly half a century ago and the Sun when it makes fun of Mr j Reid should keep in mind that before he was old and rich when he did not know that he ever er would be rich fresh from school he wrote better war descriptions than any other correspondent and better than an any general in the field I |