rsey. On October 29th, 1885, he
died at his residence in New York city from the effects of heart
disease.

We do not propose to pose as a champion of McClellan's wrongs, real or
supposed, but in reviewing his life the following facts are worthy of
thought: He was in command at a time when the whole North were laboring
under a delusion as to the requirements of the war, and it is doubtful
if any general would have succeeded at this time. The fact that such an
able general as Hooker was relieved after one reverse, leads one to
wonder what might have been the fate of even Grant had he commanded at
this time. However, it is not for us to say, but certain it is, that no
greater military tactician was to be found among the generals of our
late war, and as such he deserves credit.

ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT.

When a man is energetic and determines to be somebody in the
world--which is praiseworthy so long as that energy is guided by
propriety and a just conception of right--there are always scores,
hundreds, perhaps thousands of people who endeavor to depreciate that
man's reward.

No other excuse can be assigned for the slander and vituperation which
has from time to time been heaped upon the fair reputation of General U.
S. Grant.

Born in obscurity at Point Pleasant, Ohio, April 27th, 1822, his life is
a fitting type of the possibilities of our glorious institutions.
Through the influence of Hon. Thomas L. Hamer he was admitted at West
Point in 1839. Personally, at this early age, he detested war and was
opposed to accepting the opportunity, but his father persuaded him to
go, and his name was blunderingly registered as U. S., instead of H. U.,
hence he was ever after known as U. S. Grant.

In 1843 he graduated, ranking twenty-first in a class of thirty-nine. It
will be remembered that Lee and McClellan each ranked second when they
graduated. At this time Grant was not taken with war, and probably
evinced little interest in army tactics. The Mexican war came on and
Grant here distinguished himself, rising to the rank of captain. After
the war he was stationed at Detroit, and Sacketts Harbor, but this kind
of inactivity was ill-suited to the restless nature of Grant; he
therefore resigned.

Having married a Miss Dent, of St. Louis, he accordingly moved onto a
farm near that city. The next few years he was engaged on the farm, in a
real estate office in St. Louis, and at the outbreak of the civil war
was in busi