Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1888 — Historical Cads. [ARTICLE]

Historical Cads.

Robert Louis Stevenson seems to regard Napoleon as the ideal cad of history, so far as absence of gentlemanliness. Grant, he thinks, could not be called a fine gentleman, but he can be called a great one; citing as proof his adroit mode of. avoiding to humilate Lee at the time of surrender by taking the sword that had been presented to him, instead of which lie overcame an awkward situation by saying all officers were to keep their side arms. “Scott, Gordon, Wellington in his bold way, G rant in his plain way, Shelley for all his follies, these were clearly gentlemen. Napoleon, Byron, Lockhart, these were surely cads, and the first two cads of. the first water.”