Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1888 — A Cute Yankee in Morocco. [ARTICLE]

A Cute Yankee in Morocco.

One very good story is told by Mr. Radford illustrating the “go-ahead” character of the American, says the Liverpool Mercury. There is only one machine mill at Morocco. It belongs to an enterprising citizen of the United States named Cobb. Its erection was utterly illegal. The prejudice against the machinery among English hand loom weavers. Mr. Cobb’s application for the authorization of his mill was rejected, The prime minister would not bearpit, the saltan absolutely forbade the new fangled method of grinding corn. Mr. Cobb, however, went right ahead. He built his mill, he put in his machinery. Only one finishing touch was necessary. The grinding stones were duly delivered at the wharf. But this gave the authorities their opportunity and they calmly impounded them. It was useless going to the Moorish government, so Mr. Cobb applied to the United States representative. He got a formal reply advising him that since the prime minister and tjie sultan had both forbidden the execution of the project it would be idle for him to expect any assistance from .the formal representative of the United States. That letter was all that Cant. Cobb needed. He took it to the local authorities, who had his grinding stones in charge, and asked them if they could read English. “No!” “Then read this,” cried Captain Cobb. There were the arms of the United States; there was an undoubted official signature; and Capt. Cobb said he was going “straightahead” with his mill. Nobody knew what complications might ensue if this determined American were disappointed. The stones were given up, the mill was finished, and the next time the sultan came that way he sent all his corn to be ground by machinery.

Sherman on Grant at Spotsylvania, In the February Century General Sherman contributes an article on “The Grand Strategy of the War,” from which we quote the following: “With the month of May came the season for action, and by the 4th all his armies were in motion. The army of Butler at Fort Monroe was big left, Meade’s army /he center, and Sherman at Chattanooga his right. was to move against Richmond on the south of James River, Meade straight against Lee, intrenched behind the Rapidap, and Sherman to attack Joe Johnston and push him to mid beyond Atlanta. This was as far as human foresight could penetrate. Though Meade commanded the Armj of the Potomac, General Grant substantially controlled it, and on the 4th of May, 1864, he crossed the Hamdan, and at noon next day attacked Lee. He knew that a certain amount of fighting, ’killing,’ had to be done to accomplish his end, and also to pay the penalty of former failures. In the ‘wilderness’ there was no room for grand strategy, or even minor tactics; oat the fighting was desperate; the losses to the Union army being, according to Phiaterer, 17,737, to the Confederate loss of 11,400 the difference due to Lee’s retrenchments and the blind nature of the conn try in which the battle was fought. On the night of May 7th both parties paused, appalled by the fearful slaughter; but General Grant commanded ‘Forward by the left flank.’ That was, in my judgment, the supreme moment of his life: undismayed, with a full comprehension of theimpcrtance of the work in which he was engaged, feeling as keen a sympathy for his dead and wounded as any one, and without stopping to count his numbers, he gave his orders calmly, specifically, and absolutely—‘Forward to Spotsylvania.’”

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