Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 August 1885 — Page 3

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ITHURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1885.

CHOLERA is killing off the Rnssian soldiers on the Afghan frontier

THE President declined Saturday to remove the Republican postmaster at Lafayette, Indiana.

SECRETARY WHITNEY is to take possession of the Roach shipyard and finish those cruisers at the government expense. *v.

MEETING

ANNOUNCING the marriage of Miss Carrie Damm at Cincinnati the other day, the Constitution says her name is known wherever the English language is spoken.

OWING to Democratic apathy the Be' publicans have elected six members to the legislature in Kentucky. As the Democrats will have about 140 mem bers, they are still left with a good working majority.

THB commission sent to South America by President Arthur has made its report. There is absolutely nothing whatever of value in the report, and yet the commission cost the country several thousand dollars.

UNTIL his return in September the White House will be closed to all visit ors, President Cleveland will be within telegraphic communication with th& executive mansion during his absence and the clerks will all be on duty, so that the public business will go right along without let or hindrance.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has announced that the administration will take no hand in the political fight in that §tate. Of course it wont. The national government is not to be used for bulldozing purposes in state elections. That sort of rascality ended when Hayes became president

CHILI and several other of) the South American nations are said to have a sovereign contempt for the United States and would like to engage in a war with us, smash our war ships and loot our cities. Well, let them have their contempt for us. Who cares? Their respect would be of no value ^Equally harmless is their hate.

ISf

of the Irish National

League is called by President Egan to meet at Chicago August 15. One delegate from each state and territory will attend.

ANTI-MONOPOLISTS are tr Iking of running a ticket in New York this fall. The Democratic party is the old original anti monopoly organization with the name blown in the bottle.'

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PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued a proclamation, the purport of which is "ikat the "Bullock Barons," who have been enclosing immense tracts of the public domain and driving out prospective settlers, must themselves get out and that they must not stand on the order of their going, but go at once.

EX-GOVERNOR MOSES, of South Carolina, having served out one sentence for fraud in the Boston jail, has been arrested on another charge. This fellow was foisted on the people of South Carolina as their Governor by Federal interference after the war, and accounts for Bome of the bitterness in that quarter.

QUITE a number of rebel soldiers who were conscripted into the Confederate service against their will and oonvictions, when they were taken prisoners enlisted in the Federal army. Some of them were wounded and are now receiving pensions, as they ought to, of course.

WHEN Gen. Longstreet went over into the Republican camp he failed to take all of his family with him. A son who remained steadfast in the Democratic faith has just been appointed to a clerkship in one of the departments at Washington. The proper thing for the Blainiac press is to sail into the Cleveland administration without gloves for appointing the son of this arch-traitor to office. His crime is that his father was a rebel, for the

SOD

was too young

to enter even the rebel army, which robbed both the cradle and the grave.

JOHN E. OWENS, the most delightful of comedians, is supposed te be dying at his home near Baltimore. He has traveled to his destruction over that same alcohol route which lead poor John McCullough to a mad house. Owens will always hold a warm' place in the affections of Terre Haute people. He it was who opened our Opera House. In view of his prospective death from over indulgence in artificial stimulants it is a melancholy reminiscence that his failure to reach Terre Haute on the opening evening of the Opera House, until far on in the night, was due to the fact that he was on a spree in Indianapolis where he had just completed an engagement previous to coming here.

PARSON NEWMAN.

His Violation of Good Taste and Ordinary Dignity. Philadelphia Times: It has been said of Grant as Artemus Ward said of Lincoln that he never slopped over. So much cannot be said of enlogists and least of all for Parson Newman. This preposterous person slopped over on Mt. McGregor for the space of an hotir and a quarter, and his speech as furnished in advance to the newspapers, makes seven columns of type. They are seven columns of unmitigated rubbish.

What personal charm Mr. Newman may pcssess that, has endeared him to the Grant family and made him their especial confident and spiritual counselor it is not necessary to inquire. They have an unquestionable right to choose their own familiiar friends and we may all feel glad if the ministrations of Mr. Newman have afforded them comfort. None the less must we be permited

express regret that so great an opportunity as was afforded in the funeral oration of

General

from David to Paul, from Paul to Luther, to be deoeived by pretended friends. Caesar had his Brutus, Washington had his Arnold. Christ had his Judas." Mr. Newman does not draw the inference, but he goes on immediately to say that Gen. Grant "knew his power and realized his strength," as he must, if he were wiser than all these. If he had only had the power to stop the sacriligious mouth of Parson New* man he would have done well.

Of the ridiculous rhetoric with which Mr. Newman lays bare the sacred privacies of the family and spreads the little domestic sentimentalities before the world it is impossible to speak with adequate contempt but that is not the serious part of his offense. That he should violate good taste and ordinary dignity was to be expected, and we can simply lament that this kmi of thing has to be and that it

fillsEO

Grant, to ad

dress the listening world in words of truth and soberness, should have fallen

this pretentious blatherskite. It must be said that tnere is nothing mean about Newman. When he undertakes to deliver an eulogy he does it all tho way. Even his $10,000 oration over young Stanford in California was not more unrestricted in its praise or more liberal in its flowery decoration than the speech at Mount McGregor. A man of sense and taste would have spoken calmly of General Grant's life and character, dwelling on those aspects of both that are most are worthy af regard, and enforcing those public and personal lessons which bis career so strongly points. But Newman was there to praise the dead and he did it with an effusion that is simply nauseating. Some heroes, he said, have been men of singular virtue^ Cyrus was distinguished for moderation and courage Aristides for justioe Leonidas for ununselfish patriotism Regulusfor honor Marcus Aurelius for piety and generosity Peter the Great for pride of oountry, and Frederick of Prussia for military prowess: "but this foremost "Amerencan possessed all these and other virtues in happy combination, not like single gems, brilliant by isolation, but but like jewels in a crown of glory, united by the golden band of a complete character." It would be hard to lay it on much thicker than this. ,'-4

Yet Newmah does hot stop here Having

accriDuted

to Grant all the vir

tues of all tha military men that ever lived, he has still to show that he was the greatest of all men in civil life—yes, greater than the greatest. The especial mark of his greatness was that "he discerned character with the precision of a seer," and "the marvel of the ages will be that through along and responsible public career he was so seldom deceived," notwithstanding that "it has been the ill-fortune of the best and wisest of men,

from Moses

to David,

large a place

in the minds of so many people. It is the violence that such a man does to truth and to the serious judgment of the world that makes

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public per

formance on such an occasion not only disgustiug, but positively harmful. When he raises Grant to a superhuman elevation, and claims for him qualities which everyone knows that he did not possess and the absence of which alone explains some es* sential parts of his character and career, we have to conclude either that the preacher is grossly ignorant or that he willfully disregards the truth, and in either aspect the influence of such preaohing must be bad. When he talks of Grant as "the sun of our plenty, the ocean of our wealth and the polar star shining calmly and steadily in the heavens of our Republic"—language which is seldom applied, in preaching, to anyone upon earth—be does not simply offend against good taste, but shows himself so utterly incapable of a right judgment that his fulsome praise is felt to be a dishonor to the dead and an insnlt to an intelligent people that honor their heroes not the lees bec&use they honor the truth and sincerity the more.

West Sullivan Items.

Wheat threshing is turning out ter than was expected. Wes

betBar-

nard has cut and put up 75 tons of hay for his own use.——The oats crop was splendid, the average yield was 40 bushel per acre. Levi Esslinger threshed 200 bushels off of five acres. The G. A. R. post held memorial services here Saturday in honor of Gen. Grant.——Gus Nesbit has ordered a new hay press which will be ready for operation about the first of September. Gus is an enterprising young man

Killed His Sweetheart.

UTICA, N. Y., Aug. 11.—Edwin Preston. of South Otsetic, Chenango county, went to the house of his sweetheart Tilda Manor, this morning and as she sat at the breakfast table, fired three shots at her. The last shot killed her instantly. Preston then put the pistol to his head and fired. He now lies at the point of death.

BigOkU.

Robert Jackson, a farmer living about two miles northeast of the city, raised 2,020 bushels of oats and 20 bushels of wheat on 34 acres of ground. This is at a rate of 60 bushels to the acre.

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MEMORIAL.

Terre Haute's Fart io the National Funeral.

A NOTABLE STREET PROCESSION.

Fine Tributes by Cols. Thompson and Nelson—Resolutions Presented by Col. R. N. Hudson and

Adoption Moved by B. F. Havens.

It is quite certain that Terre Haute has never been so generally draped in mourning as she is today. The whole city seems to have employed its best talent in making the principal business streets of the city do honor to the exPresident. But few business houses along Main street have not displayed some decoration in memory of the dead. Even the new court house building was decorated away up on its unfinished heights by the workmen who were dismissed at one o'clock for the day. The deoorations were so numerous all oveir town that it would be useless to speak of them in any other than a general way.

The line of march was very short extending from Sixth to Ninth on Ohio north on Main and west to the opera house.

The procession marched with slight changes in the order given already in the GAZETTE.

The pall bearers and aides de camp were as follows: Pall bearers -F. C. Crawford, W. H. Armstrong, B. F. Havens. W. R. MoKeen, Jno. T. Scott, H. Hulman. They met at McKeen's bank at 1 o'clock p. m. sharp.

Marshals—W. R. Hunter and A. G. Austin. Aides-de-Camp—W. T. Beauchamp, T. J. Patton, J. D. Patton, J. D. Early, Chas. Baur, Jay Keys, N. Stein, Spenoe F. Ball, David Buntin,Chas. C. Brokaw, L. F. Perdue, Ed Pugh, John Patterson, W. E. Owens, Jas. T. Johnson, Hugo Duenweg, J. G. McNutt, John T. Staff, Harry Brokaw.

The bell of St. Josepo's catholic church was tolledfrom 2 to 2:30 p. m. This afternoon a handsomely draped shaft was placed in front of Shryer Bros.

One of the most carefully draped private residences is that of e*Mayor B. F. Havens.

The chairman of the day was Comrade Geo. W. Midler, to whom the GAZETTE reporter is indebted for favors shown.

CoL R. N. Hudson spoke in a voice so strong as to command the attention of an audience which overcrowded the house and was, of course, uncomfortably warm. The audience seemed to feel that applause was inappropriate at a funeral service, but still there were several moderate interruptions of applause.

At the Opera House. &:

The opera honse had been decorated in most becoming taste by Louis Bagans and WiH Sibley, who were hard at work from yesterday afternoon till noon today. Black oambric was suspended everywhere, eved from the dome in ^the center. Around the family circle and top gallery railings dozens re a were placed, surrounded by groups of small flags. To the right of the speak:, er's table was a large-sized picture of Grant draped heavily in black.' The banner of Morton Post stood in the center of the stage, and blaok was win tip all the pillars on the first floor. At every entrance to "the building the same general decoration was to be noticed, large-sized pictures of the exr President being suspended just above the entrance, and flags and deoorations of mourning making the place look such as never did before and probably never will again.

THE EXERCISES.

"After a dirge by the Ringgolds the offioers of Morton Post solemnly conductedthe ritual of the G. A R., the Davis family sang and the Rev. Dr Delafield led in prayer.

Resolutions expressive of the feeling of the Post, written by Col. R. N. Hudson, were presented and will be found on another page also B. F. Havens' remarks moving their adop.tion After an interval of music Col. Thomas H, Nelson paid a beautiful tribute

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THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY OUZETTE.

FULL REPORT.

From Saturday's daily.

Terre Haute is not behind the other cities of the country in proper observation of the funeral of the successful Commander of all the Armies of the North during the late war. It is this part of his career on which the speakers dwell today and the occasion is regarded as one of national import. Business bouses are all, with few exceptions, draped and many will be olosed until 5 o'clock. Collector Hanlon had the first decoration of the Internal Revenue office removed and a new and much more elaborate substituted.

the

memory of Grant. The address of Col. (Thompson was one of the finest he has ever made and will be read with interest by those unable to gain admission to the Opera House. It is as follows: u,

Col- Thompson's Address.' 'These solemn and impressive cere monies remind us that the nation is in mournihg at the loss of its most illustrious citizen,—that a vast multitude are assembled at this hour to deposit his remains in the tomb,—and that elsewhere, in all parts of the country, like oeremonies are transpiring, expressive of the universal grief. It is sad to realise that one who has filled so oonspicu sr*

ous a place—whose fame is as wide as the world—has passed away from earth while all his faculties were uhdeqayed, and that the spoiler has "set the seal of silence" upon his lips for ever. Amid this sadness, however, we have reason for rejoicing that he has left behind tho fragrance of a well spent life, and a name with no stain upon it That he has fairly won the plaoe assigned him by the universal verdict, we are now assembled, with full hearts, cheerfully to attest.

The death of Gen. Grant was not unexpected. VOB MONTHS HE BOBS THE TORTURES of pain with the courage of a soldier and the patient resignation of a Christian, uttering no words of complaint, and submitting with perfect composure to the Providential will. By the invigorating influence of his courage, his life was lengthened out beyond the anticipation of those who affectionately watched the beating of his pulse, but it was powerless at Last in the presence of a malady which no skill could dure# and of which he ha9 so strayes lte-a come the victim. Occasionally bnrr, ing its progress, there appeared slight grounds of hope that the shaft might be turned aside. But the seeds of the disease were so deeply planted that the liighest science oould not extract thein. Seemingly by the power of his strong will, he bore up until his life£ work was completed, and then laid down to rest with the quietude befitting his character. Death aid not take him by surprise. He was ready for it, and when it came, died like a hero. THE FAME OF GENERAL GRANT IS INTI

MATELY INTERWOVEN

with many of the leading incidents of

NOT CONSPICUOUS,

and furnished no especial evidences of future distinction beyond such as are shown by thousands of young men to be found in all parts of the country and in every condition of society. It is attested by those who remember him that he possessed a good intellect and that strong common-sense which is the best foundation of character. His qualities were such as to attract the notioe of a circle of influential friends, who regarded them as indicating a fitness for the life of a soldier, and thev accordingly, procured him the appointment of cadet at West Point, shortly after he reached the age which entitled him to admission. Notwithstanding this could not have had any significance outside the limits of his family circle, it is proper to consider it the beginning of his career. It placed him upon anew theatre, where his mind found increased opportunities for expansion, and where he was brought to realize his obligations to to the government, whose ward he became. As a student at the military academy he was careful and pains-taking, yet did not rise higher than the average standard. But there is nothing to show that this was owing to any defect of the intellect. On the contrary, if his mind was not as quick and active as the minds of some of his classmates, it was recognized as clear, strong, thoughtful and discriminating. He was

NOT SURPASSED INCAPACITY

for penetrating intricate questions to their depths, and at no time did he display any want of qualities necessary for comprehending the value of great deeds, or for performing them. There were undoubtedly some who became more familiar with the abstract sciences and obtained higher degrees in mere scholarship. But his whole life has proved that he must always have possessed ment&l faculties and capabilities of the highest order. Some men are said to have been born great, "but even the greatest qualities may remain unobserved until some occasion arouses them to practical development. Then they shine out with dazzling splendor—exciting universal surprise. So it was with General Grant, as is well shown by a life in which there were no failures of duty and whioh was gloriously and beautifully rounded off. -.v

The war with Mexico occurred soon after his graduation, and he took part in it as Lieutenant of infantry, although he served as quartermaster and as adjutant. regiment was actively enraged in the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca da la Palma Monterey, and Buena Vista, under General Taylor, and in those of Cherubusco and Chepultepec, under General Scott. In ul these he discharged his duties well and satisfactorily. Whilst, on account of age, he had no opportunity of reaching an advanced position in this service, yet he performed some acts of personal bravery that, caused him to be breveted for gallant conduct, and WON THE CONFIDENCE OF HIS SUPERIOR

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He succeeded in acquiring so much reputation for soldierly bearing, that when he subsequently became distinguished, his army associates were least of all astonished at his success. They had observed his cool and undaunted courage when passing through the redhot flame of battle, and did not marvel that he confronted every danger and ao-

•epted all the hazards of war, with a heroism which grew with every fresh emand. He reaohod tha rank of Captain by regular promotion while his regiment was serving in California after the close of the Mexican war, and held this position at the date of hissubsequent resignation. When he retired from the army he entered upon the life •of a private citizen with the same calm equanimity he always displayed, and discharged his obligations with uncomplaining dignity and simplicity. He possessed that true and manly pride which enabled him to place a just appreciation upon the life of one who labors for subsistance and thus underwent a new course... of training, which was fitting him, unconsciously to himself and others, for the great work he subsequently performed. He had displayed the intrepidity of a true soldier upon the battlefield, but was then required to exhibit that higher courage which supports its possessor when the conflicts of life thicken around him, and enable him

TO BEAB MISFORTUNE,

when it does come, unflinchingly. He became one of the people—mixed with them in their

common

our great oivil war, that terrible drama sentiment of loyalty to it, promptly ten

which so many wonderful parts were played. Weoannot rightfully appreciate his oharaoter without recounting some of them. This, however, will serve the double purpose of impressing our minds with the remembrance of things that ought not to be forgotten, and of showing under what influences his greatness was achieved and his marked characteristics developed, and how, from a a humble and unostentatious position, he became, almost as suddenly as a meteor flashes from the sky, not only distinguished for the possession of the highest qualities, but the "greatest captain" of the age. By this method we shall be enabled to see that amohg all distinguished defenders of the union— whatever their merit—there are none who have higher or juster claims to public gratitude than he, none who strove more unselfishly to preserve the nation's life, and none who more zealously maintained the sentiment of loyalty to the national Union. THE BABLY LIFE OF GENERAL GRANT WAS

avocations—sym

pathized with them in their necessities —shared their toils—learned their wants —and drew from the same source with them that patriotic inspiration whioh filled their minds and his wfren the nation was imperilled. It is fortunate for his fame that the lessons he learned in this school left lasting impressions upon his mind and for the country, that the leader of its armies was both citizen and soldier.

When the oivil war broke out Gen Grant, remembering his obligations to. the Government and impelled by the

dered his services in whatsoever capacity they'might become necessary. He did not ask office or command, but work, in any position, no matter how obscure, where ne could render service to the cause of the Union. His only ambition was to serve the country and to maintain its hoLor. That sentiment was his exclusive guide, and so completely did it take possession of his mind that it contained PO place for selfishness. Hia life had been so quiet and so far removed from publio observation that when he reached Springfield he was entirely unknown. When it was discovered, however, that he bad been educated at West Point and had served in the army dnring the Mexican war, he was assigned to the duty of organizing new regiments of infantry. But he did not serve long in this capacity before the quick eye of Governor Yates discovered that he was fitted for some more responsible sphere of duty. He accardingly appointed him, at the earliest opportunity, to the command of a regiment with which, with all possible expedition, he hastened to the front. Being soon made a Bngadier General by Mr. Linooln, he moved, in November 1861 against the Confederate forces

with only four thousand men, fcnd succeeded in breaking up their encampment, although he retired without occupying the place. This, however, was more a skirmish than a battle, and served only to show to the undisciplined troops, on both sides, something the severe and desperate work that was .? quired.

But it is necessary to turn, for a while, in another direction, in order that the importance of the military services rendered by him may more distinctly appear, and that we may observe the progressive steps of development in the formation of his military character. This method will bring before us some of the scenes which onoe stirred our blood and which now appear to the present generation like an impossible romance. And, besides, it will enable us to review enough of that wonderful history to show how grandly conspicuous was the part borne by our western soldiers, under Grant and other generals, in securing the ultimate triumph of the Union cause. ...

At the time referred to THE MILITARY SITUATION east of the Alleganies was not satisfactory to the loyal people of the North, or flattering to the cause in whioh they were intensely interested. The two contending armies had concentrated large bodies of troops in the valley of the Potomac—one to protect the capitol of the nation at Washington and the 'oLJier that of the Confederacy at Riohmond* These two capitols were so near I each other that the capture of either would have been greatly injurious, if not positively fatal, to the cause of vliich it was the representative. The battle of Bull Run had been fought before either side had thoroughly realized the magnitude of the contest, or had become fully aroused to the deadly and destructive work before it. The united strength of these two armies, gathered almost impromptu, near Washington exceeded half a million of men—the

Union forces commanded by McDowell and the Confederates by Beauregard. In point of fact, neither army was in a condition to fight, considering the stake depending upon the result. If there had been thorough preparation, the battle would have been such a practical test of strength and fighting qualities, upon both sides, that in all probability, it

WOULD HAVE ENDED THE WAS6* almost at the beginning. But the ardor and passion was so intense that these masses of men were hurled together without full preparation, by the force of popular enthusiasm —and whilst, on each side, the highest soldierly qualities were displayed, the result was practically, a drawn-battle—neither army being able to boast of victory and neither suffering positive defeat. Both, however, were taught a lesson by which they undoubtedly profited,—having learned that in the strategies of war the soenes phift so often and suddenly that seemingly victorious columns are sometimes unexpectedly shattered and repulsed. The steadiness with which "Stonewall" Jackson held Manassas while the Union guns mowed down his men with terrible rapidity, gave Beauregard, for a time, the plausible hope that he could close the conflict in complete

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triumph by throwing his forces upon McDowell at Centreville. He did not accomplish what he manifestly expected, but in the execution of this maneuvre Htn end was reached mora disastrous to the Union to the Confederate army. Tho result would, probably, have been otherwise, if Patterson bad succeeded in accomplishing what was expected of him, —that is, in preventing .John Johnson from uniting liis forces with those of

Beauregard. But he failed in this, and Beauregard and Johnson were able to disperse the Union troops at Centerville ana force them back upon the Potomac, although they were not able to follow than and attack Washington, only a few miles distant. If the Confederates had known what they afterwards discovered they might have ventured upon this movement, with the view of OBTAINING THB RECORDS OF THE GOVERN1 MKNT and holding and fortifying the Capitol of the Union. This, however, if it had. been accomplished, would only have intensified the conflict- making it more bloody and destructive. As it was, the battle of Bull Run filled the minds of the Northern people with something like consternation,

The news of this battle spread over the country with the quickness of the electric flash, and its effeot, in both sections, was instantaneous. It caused each section to" realize that it hcd undented the courage of the other, stimulated them to renewed and more vigorous exertions. The struggle immediately became intensly earnest, and businees and pleasure became subordinate to the work of preparation. Itwas considered indispensible on both sides to obtain possession of strategic points in various parts of the country, in order to secure the advantages they promised as the basis of military operations. With this end in view, the west became at onoe, the

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A E O N I

FIELD OF ACTIVE MANEUVERING, notwithstanding its remoteness from the main bodies of the contending armies. In order to maintain their ground within the circle, and make it more dif ficult lor its lines to be entered by the Union forces, it was necessary to the1: Confederates that they should obtain^, and hold in the west certain of these" strategic points. Albert Sydney Johnson occupied Bowling Green, Kentucky, so that protection could be afforded to Nashville and the valley of the Cumberland river, and a way opened for the forces of McCullough? and Price to croes the Mississippi river and join the Confederate army at whatsoever point another great battle might' be hazarded. Buell confronted Johnson and kept him from taking Louisville and transferring the war across the Ohio river, into Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The whole west was aroused. The movements of armed men became familiar to everybody, and the scenes of iv actual warfare through the valley of the Mississippi commanded universal attention. The possession of the Mississippi river promised immense advantages to whichsoever side should obf tainit.. The Confederates held ap»' proaches to it through the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, by means of Fort Donelson, on the former and Fort Henry on the latter.

A MILITARY EYE COULD EASILY SHE

how important these forts were, and how uncertain any forward movement of the Union forwe would be so long as they remained in Confederate possession. How to wrench them from that possession was the first great military problem to be solved in the west, and furnished the first opportunity ifo Grant to display his qualities as a mlitary man. He was the first to point out the necessity of having this problem speedily solved, and proposed at once to undertake the capture of these forts. From this time on, to the end, he became more and more conspicuous, as, at each battle, he displayed qualities which commanded the public admiration. We shall see, as we trace events which followed and observe his connection with them, how, as each step, these qualities

DEVELOPED INTO GREATER AND GRANDER PBOPOBTIONS,

into proportions which justify the as-' sertion that no other man, alive or (lead, ever made for himself a more brilliant military record.

Hallack, who held the chief oommand of the Union forces in the West, was somewhat slow in giving his assent to the proposition of Grant to move upon these forts. But he was stimulated by the earnestness with which the proposition was urged, and although the war had not advanced far enough to establish the qualities subsequently displayed by various Union generals, he knew Grant well enough to know that he could safely entrust to him this important movement—the most important that had been planned after Bull Bun. He accordingly, instructed him to make the attack, whioh Was done with the51 utmost promptitude. With the aid of Foote's gun-boats, then in the Tennes-, see river below, he opened fire upon Fort Henry, which was kept up so vigorously and gallantly by his troops, that it did not take him long to convince its commandant that he had enooun-? tered an adversary who understood the* work he had to perform and was

NO* KNOAOSt) IN OHHib'S FLAY.

At that time Grant must have felt a sense of responsibility such as he had never experienced before. The occasion must have stirred up within him the most intense anxiety, and aroused all the slumbering energies of his manhood, whicn be possessed to a degree probably unknown to himself, as they

certainly

could

Ut-

were to the public generally.

Not only was he, at his own solicita tion, entrusted with the capture of these forts, but a far less sugacious man

have seen that the failure of an attempt to do so would

AID MATERIALLY THB CONFEDERATE CAUSE.

What ever were his feeliugs, however, he kept them to himself and gave no expression to them. So reticent was

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