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Review Of The Generals

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Day
2
Month
June
Year
1865
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Public Domain
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Tliat we Uivü beatiia down tliu armies of the rebi4lion is a pricelo-S b-lesMug. U is a Messing for vvliicli il hecómes u,a to bt liardly less thankful tha.t these uniies have böOD bualeu down, not by morí who M-gaided th rebellson. as a gnat poüüoal oppmrt u:i; j-, btit bj men i who lonked upoo it as a Ittarfu] ] tune, iiiid werë, ubove all things, aoxious to sec h well and hap; il y over. It is sometliiiit; more thau uu acoident that the favoritos and i'tvorers of fanuicism, tho politica] lütnguers, and tho military politiciuns, who scized upon so niLiny of the high places of comtnand iu tlio mtset of tho war, have, without singlo exception, proved their signaj inoapacity in the Huid Nut asa (juestion butwe.öq volunluer offioers and YV(,-.st Puiu,ters at ill - for vvo havo had C'inspicu'ms cxamplos oí military conduel uud ability aaumg oflicors takcu from civil lifo, and 1 : njpieü ivpt Ices oonspicuous o! liisiuiiaa iiübccility inuoug acaclt-uiic sol' .. ijr-ibwi is ll:i!-ti-a;iiig tho vital oou i: v am butwriiii) i'oal prulthsion.l effiuienHd tbe great pqrsooul quiilitios of i "ijsty airi inndoratiou, tlii.i strikicg Sao', oauiiot l too eurucsliy imftresséd iipnu popular it i te.i tí rj . A roll of our broken and dif.cpedited cüunnandors reads like a catalooue ol ii .■■irDors oía Loyal Loaguo. í-jchciick, the viotim of Viontia ; li nier, ilio vio tim of Big1 Baiht-1 aud Fort Fisher ; Mclowel!, the viotim of tho liist Buil Kun; Popo, the victim of the seoond ; BurniJo, the violim of Frederieksburg and the Petersburg mine; Ilooter, the vietiin ol Ohancellorvillü ; Milroy, the viotim of Winchester ; Fromont, the viotim alike of the E8t and the West ; Bauks, the victim of the Potomao a;d the Eed liiver ; Sjgel, Curl Sehurz, Lew. WaiUice, Duvid HuDtor - the lia!, wero it leso instruotive, wauld be as tedious as the signa'.urea of a Utlion Square ineeting uuder thejjairoiíage oí General Pro.-per M. Wetmore. Sotne of th..-se meu ere trained sol iiera froin West Point; others of tliem were adventurers from eivil life ; but all of thoru stand marked in lle biscory of tho war as the advócalas of a ruthU.K aud suvage poli, cy towuïd the rovolted States, aa the darlings of the extreme faoaticisin of tho North, and as violutors, iu tiicir relatiou- with tho civil order, of the rights of loyal citizens, and the principies of free govérnioot in th J.oyiil States. - Couepicuous in the maebiaury by which i conatitutioual opposition ha beoo sought to ba coiifounded vvilh dis!ov!ty, they have led loyai d mocratic goldiera to usekss slaughler iu tho Held, wtiile they turned the bayoneta of therepublio agaiust loyal votéis at the polls. liad such meo achieved any hold upon the public confidunoe by suc cesses in war, #iey would have become permanent and dangerous euemies of the corurncuiweulth ca the return cf peace.. It is not the least, we repeat, of tbe blessings attendunt upon our final victory thai. it configiiH Bueh men, wilh the whole class to which they belong, to a wholesoma obscurity of couteinptuous obliviou. On the other hand, we have McClellaD, who orgunizod our raiv levies into a graat anny, oarriod the soldieis of the Potoinac th.rough the first great catn paign aga'mst Kichuiond, and rallied thein, whea brokeu and dipiri' ed by the fclly of the Cabinet and Iho iuibeoil ity of Pope, to save the repulilio and turu back '.ha victorious advauoe of the rebellion at Antietum : Meada, who haved the repubüa a seoond time at (Jettvsburg aid triumphed vviib it under Graut befiire Kichmond ; Thomas, who a third time s;ived the nation's causo at Chickainiuga, and gave the south. western artuy of the rebellien its dsati bliM befora Nashvilíe; Fárrago tho oouquor#i of ihe Miasisoippi and the Guit ; önaridau, uho e.eare.i the Shenandoah, and drove Lee helpless'y fvward into - the dosing toils of Grrait ; Sherma, whusinoto the Coi:federaoy in twüin, frotn the Alleghanies to the Atlantic; Grnnt, tlie couauminate Captain, whose name is Viotory. 7e &■ not t:l;iinr tb. ut these great S'ldiers huve saved the natiou, because they wore demócrata ; dut we do pLiijn ihat tho temper and the teüdeiK'.io.-i of thought which make Hut-h men domoorats are the temper and the tundencie whioh have fit'.ed tiieni to save ihe natioü

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Michigan Argus