The National Republican

Grant's Characteristics.

When General Grant, in a patriotic letter to his father while he was yet achieving his reputation in the West, modestly stated that it was his highest ambition to be equal to any emergency that might be required of him, seems to have unconsciously epitomized the traits that have won for him the confidence of his countrymen and the respect of the world. In all the trying relations in which he has been placed he has never once fallen short of achieving all that could have been reasonably expected of him. He seems to have always set himself to the performance of the nearest duty without a particle of the self-seeking that has proved the bane of so many of our generals and politicians. While others were planning future honors and aggrandizement as the consequence of certain acts, General Grant kept closely to the work on hand, and left the morrow to take care of itself. He also possessed a rare intuition of character that always led him to select the right man for the right work. Of all his generals there is not one who did not prove himself worthy of his leader; none who proved unequal to the duty intrusted to him.

The news of Grant's Election will be hailed with special satisfaction in the humble cabins of the freedmen of the South. These men have waited and prayed for the day which now dawns upon them with faith as unwavering, and patience as sublime, as have ever been recorded of any people. They will now feel that their long agony is over, and that the day of their deliverance has indeed come.