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96 fto j£amilg Hymn for Decoration Day. BY PROF. W. H. VENNABLE. Beneath the summer sky, How peacefully they lie At rest from wars; Oh sacred hold the grave Os each devoted brave, Who poured his blood to save The Stripes and Stars. Their marches now are o’er, They wield thi sword no more To smite our foes; No sound of hostile drum To their low tents may come, Or break the silence dumb Os their repose. But grateful throngs shall bring Each year their offering Os grief and love; Bright garlands should be spread, And tribute teardrops shed For patriot heroes dead,. Their tombs above. To Thee, oh Lord, our God, Up from this holy sod Our voices risf ; Here freedom’s cause maintain. For which our brave were slain, Forbid our n aking vain Their sacrifice. Ode for May The day appointed for decorating, the graves of Union soldiers with flowers. Bring flowers! bring flowers! bring roses red! And dress our gallant soldiers’ bed; In Freedom’s cause their blood was shed. Bring flowers! bring flowers! bring lilies white! Honor the men who fell in tight, Contending bravely for the right. Bring flowers! bring flowers ! bring violets blu i! Them o’er their sacred ashes strew — They stood unflinching, firm and true. Bring flowers! the fairest that appear, To deck their tombs, to us so dear — Our noble dead, reposing here. Do this in memory of the brave; And let the Starry Banner wave Over each gallant soldier’s grave. And should again vile traitors dare Our Union baud apart to tear, Here on your graves we kneel and swear If bloody war should come again, Those sacred rights we wilLmaintain, For which, brave soldiers, ye were slain, [ Thomas Creswell, in Knoxville Whig. More about President Grant. Judgment of Men—Felicity of Language— Genius—Promptness of Decision—Grant and Johnson. There are decided peculiarities of the new President which are in no way traceable to a moral origin. His insight into character, his power of controlling and directing large bodies of men, the marvelous promptness and correctness of his decisions at critical moments, his ability to clothe his thoughts in terse and apposite language, are all traits ofia purely intellectual type. None of these is more universally recognized than his knowledge of character. The generals who became famous under him, who after himself did the most toward terminating the war, were all of his own selection and in great measure owed their rise to him. Sherman was under a cloud when Grant took com mand of all the armies ; but the first demand of the new chief was that the government should place Sherman at the head of the Western forces. Mr. Lincoln de murred; General Halleck doubted. They thought the command too great to intrust to this soldier, untried by any such respon sibilities ; but Grant insisted, and the oppo sition ceased. Grant, indeed, since the battle of Shiloh, where he first saw Sher man’s great qualities displayed, had never wavered in his confidence and admiration. He persisted, whenever he had the opportu nity, in giving Sherman important com mands ; and the result was the famous Atlanta campaign, and the never to be forgotten march to the sea. Sheridan’s name was almost forgotten at the East, when Grant placed him in command of the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac. Grant declared then that Sheridan would make the m st splendid cavalry officer of the war. Winchester and Five Forks, and many less famous but still brilliant fights, afterward indorsed his judgment. But Grant not only possesses the faculty of judging men whom he has known long and intimately, he has a keen insight into the immediate motives of mere casual ac quaintances. He detects at once the object of those who strive to flatter or cajole him. Although he sits so silent, apparently un observant, or bent only on preventing any betrayal of his own opinion, he is all the while observing closely ; he is measuring the man he talks with, who perhaps at the very time considers Grant a dull and sluggish character. In a word or two he will describe a character, in the shortest sentence show an exact appreciation of motives and pur-' poses and plans. For he exhibits at times a rare felicity of language. His words generally come slowly, but they are always to the point, and when analyzed his speech often proves eloquent. His dispatches abound in terse, significant expressions, like the response to Buckner: “No terms other than an uncon ditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.” “I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer,” is historical. “Let us have peace,” uttered by the head of the army, became the watchword of a party. His famous letter to Andrew Johnson on the removal of Sheridan is alive with earnestness ; and his remarks to Presi dent Lincoln, upon receiving command of the armies, are a model of chaste and manly eloquence: “Mr. President, I accept the commission with gratitude for the high honor conferred. With the aid of the noble armies that have fought on so many fields for our common country, it will be my earnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations. 1 feel the full weight of the responsibilities now de volving on me ; and 1 know if they are met, it will be due to those armies, and above all, to the favor of that Providence which leads both nations and men.” Take, again, the short speech he made when he received the nomination for the Presidency : “I shall have no policy of my own to enforce against the will of the peo ple” ; —a sentiment full of wisdom and patriotism, and at the same time the sever est possible rebuke of the President, who strove so hard to force his policy upon an unwilling people. At Galena, when his election was announced, he proclaimed: “The responsibilties of the position I feel, but accept them without fearwhile in his inaugural are opinions worthy to become maxims of public and international law. The truth is, that few men who call them selves orators have made better or more elective speeches than he who has made so few, who never speaks till he has something to say, but who upon due occasions always has something to say that is pertinent and forcible. In this thing Grant is extremely like a man of genius. His wisdom, or courage, or whatever power he possesses, never deserts him at a crisis. Then all .hi 9 faculties are brighter, than at any other time. In battle he is superb ; his manner is slightly inten sified, but his action is neither hurried ncr delayed. An officer comes up with news of immense importance. Grant turns round instantly, but composedly, and directs: “Send Burnside to support Hancock.” “Order Sherman to move at once on the enemy.” Information is brought that re quires thirty thousand men to march in a certain direction. He gives the order at once, without consulting iny one. The night after th battle of Five Forks, Grant sat outside of hi;, t<"it, about twenty miles west of the James, waiting for news from Sheridan. Meade’s aimy and Ord’s stretched in front of the long lines around Petersburg, which had vyithsiood them so long. Another flank movement was making, but thus far with little success. The weather had been miserable; the rains were violent, the roads almost impassable; horses and caissons and army wagons floundered in the quicksands. As far as Grant’s left stretched out, so far Lee still confronted him. Sher idan had been fighting at Dinwiddie, and Lee had reached around almost to Grant’s rear to strike at Sheridan, —had, indeed, dealt him a heavy blow. But to do this, the enemy has been obliged to divide his own force, hoping to get back before Grant could attack the broken front. Grant, however, at once sent an additional corps to the sup port of Sheridan, and. at nine o’clock in the evening, was waiting for details of the battle. He sat wrapped in the soldier’s blue over coat, which he wore in that campaign. Two or three staff officers were near, gathered round a camp-fire in the wet woods. Two had remained all daj T with Sheridan, so as to report to the General-in-Chief the result of the fight at the earliest moment. One of them had already returned, bringing word of success—how complete was not yet known. Finally, the other arrived with a full report from Sheridan. He was in great excitement, having ridden hard, ten miles or more, from the field of victory. Five Forks was won. Grant listened calmly, only now and then interrupting the officer to ask a question. When all was told, he rose, without saying a word, entered his tent, where a candle flickered on the table, invited no one to join him, but wrote a dispatch in sight of the officers outside, and gave it to an orderly. Then, coming out to the fire again, he re marked —as calmly as if he were saying, “It is a attack" all along the lines at daybreak.”" When one remembers what that meant —how many such attacks..had. been made, and how often with little result; in what light the North had come to regard these assaults upon fortified wor.ks; how disastrous repulse would have been at that juncture to Grant, with a part of his army ten miles away—the promptness of the de cision can be better appreciated. But felt that the hour and the opportunity had arrived; he had that intuitive sympathy with his soldiers which every great com r mander feels; he knew that they must be inspired by Sheridan’s victory as much a# the Rebels would be depressed ; and now was the time to take advantage of this feel ing, and make the filial assault. At four o’clock next day, the works of Petersburg were carried. This promptness of decision never failed him in battle. Sudden emergencies often arose, but he was always ready for them. The famous movement at Donelson was the inspiration of a moment. Grant came upon the field when everything seemed lost; the Rebels had driven back his troops two miles. The men were raw and scattered ; they went to Grant, and told him that the Rebels had come out with haversacks, as if they meant to stay out and fight for days. Grant instantly perceived the significance of this apparently simple fact. He ordered the haversacks of several prisoners !o be examined ; they were discovered to be filled. “Then they mean to cut their way through ; they have no idea of staying here to fight us. Whichever party first attacks now will win, and the Rebels Will have to be very quick if they beat me.” He ordered an im mediate assault by his left, at a point where no fighting had yet occurred, and where the Rebels were unprepared. The assault suc ceeded, and Fort Donelson was won. This faculty of turning what looks like defeat into brilliant victory, of seizing the critical mo ment in a long and fierce encounter, of deciding in the thickest heat of battle, when the slightest error brings irremediable dis aster-, —this Grant possesses in an extraor dinary degree. It is not so common as to be mere common sense. He exercises the like faculty in civil affairs. The readiness with which he thinks the right thought right time has just been adverted to. He is not a fluent speaker, but when from any cause he be comes excited, his thought gets full utter ance. Andrew Johnson attempted two years ago, to drive Grant out of the country. It had become apparent that the General of the army was not a follower of the President in his reactionary course. Mr. Johnson had sought to compel Grant to order troops into Maryland immediately before a State election; . but Grant’s tact and skill had defeated his purpose. Then Johnson de termined to rid himself of his powerful subordinate. He foolishly hoped to find Sherman more pliable than Grant, and he knew that, if Grant were sent out of the country, Sherman would command the m xmmm adyopatil juke,,.!®, m r army. Congress was about to meet, and it was necessary to act promptly, for emergen cies might arise in which the use of troops would be all important to the President’s schemes. So Grant, who, from the close of the Rebellion, had been constantly urging the President to take more decided steps to insure the evacuation of Mexico by the French troops, was approached with what it was hoped would prove a tempting bait. The President first sounded him in con versation, saying he wished Grant to go on a diplomatic mission to Mexico, in conjunc tion with the minister to that country. Grant at once detected the object of the President, and declined the mission. John son, however, insisted, and Gi;ant still de clined, the second time in writing, although the President had only addressed him orally. After this, Grant was summoned to a Cabi net meeting, where his instructions, already printed, were read aloud by the Secretary of. State, without any reference to Grant’s previous refusal. He at once, in the presence of the entire Cabinet, declared his unwillingness to leave the country on such an errand. Johnson was roused by this persistent opposition to his wish, and ab ruptly asked the Attorney-General whether there were any reason why Grant should not obey,—whether the General of the army could not be* employed upon a diplomatic service. Grant at once started to his feet, and exclaimed : “Mr. President, I can an swer that question without appealing to the Attorney-General. lam an American citi zen, have been guilty of no treason or other crime, and am eligible to any civil office to which any other American is eligible. But this is a purely civil duty to which you would assign me, and I cannot be compelled to undertake it. Any legal military order you give me, I will obey ; but this is civil, not military, and I decline the duty. No power on earth can force me to it.” The plotters were electrified and made no answer, and Grant, instead of resuming his seat, quitted the room. He was not sent to Mexico. On this occasion he spoke fluently enough, and none can fail to perceive the cogency of his utterance or the terseness of his expression. Yet he must have been unprepared. He could not have foreseen the exigency. But the same quality that so suddenly prompted the assaults on Peters burg and Donelson inspired the language and the argument that baffled the President. The exactness with which he drew the delicate line between the civil and the mili tary duty, in this case, reminds us of his career as Secretary of War. No statesman, no practiced politician, ever entered upon a more difficult task. He had at that time avowed his disapprobation of Mr. Johnson’s policy, had shown it by acts as well as words, —acts and words completely under stood by the President. He had earnestly opposed the removal of Mr. Stanton, yet he was ordered to take Mr. Stanton’s place in the Cabinet of the man whose adminis tration of the government he heartily con demned. Many whose good opinions he most valued, and with whose politics-be was in closest sympathy, disapproved his action in entering the Cabinet; none of those who censured him most but will now admit the wisdom of his course. He succeeded for a long while in repress ing many of the President’s most violent attempts to thwart Congress and evade the law ; aud was even able at the same time to extort praise from his hostile chief for the vigor of his purely administrative action. Holding the double office of Commander-in- Chief and Secretary of War, besides being the most popular man in the country, his power was enormous, almost rivalling that of the President; yet he came to no open rupture with Mr. Johnson, until he insisted, in ,conformity with law, on laying down one of his great offices. Certainly the sagacity and tact shown in all this are traits that no man of ordinary ability displays. They indicate a firmness of intellect for which unthinking observers have failed to give him credit > He had evinced the same sagacity, the same faculty of preserving a straight and even course amid peculiar difficulties, often before. His whole behavior previous to entering on the duties of Secretary of War, and during the earlier portion of the long contest between Mr. Johnson and Congress; was such as none but a man of great-polit ical talent could have displayed. A soldier, he was plunged into the most complicated civil affairs; a subordinate, he was made almost independent of his superior; in a republic, he was intrusted with dictatorial power ; he was directed to govern a hostile, though conquered people, aud he was obliged to do this in direct opposition to the declared wishes of his legitimate com mander ; he had also to deal with an ignorant race just emerging from slavery, at the close of a civil war; he was ap proached by men of all parties and charac ters, —implored, advised, coaxed, threat ened, by turns; yet he succeeded in persuading all of his desire at least to do right; he was able to postpone for a while the final outbreak between the President and Congress, to show the former the respect due to his office, and at the same time to obey the laws which compelled him to oppose the President’s policy. It is not possible that this could have been accom plished by a man possessing merely good intentions, steadiness of purpose, and ex cellent common sense. But there is still another field in which all must admit that Grant has given evidence of extraordinary mental powers. This evidence is found in the great combinations of his strategy during the last year of the war. We do not speak now of the ability to handle large bodies of troops in the im mediate presence of the enemy, as at Chat tanooga or the Wilderness, but of the power to direct and control simultaneously many large and widely separated armies, so that all their movements tended to one end, finally achieving the most admirable and exact-co-operation known in militarj r his tory. When Grant himself started for Richmond, he ordered Sherman to Atlanta, ordered Banks to Mobile, Sigel into the Valley of Virginia, and Butler up the James ; and for nearly a year afterward he super vised the operations of those different armies. During that period he sent Sher mau on his famous march, renewed the effort against Mobile, watched over and reinforced Thomas m his defence of Nash ville, inspired all Sheridan’s brilliant cam paigns, brought Schofield by land, in the depth of winter, from Tennessee to Wash ington, and from Washington sent him by sea to North Carolina, to meet Sherman coming northward on his victorious journey, brought the Fort Fisher campaign to a fortunate close, sent Wilson on a career of success into the interior of Alabama, or dered Stoneman into Western Carolina, and all the while held the greatest Rebel army and leader in check, so as to insure the triumph of his own subordinates. He who is capable of administrative efforts as vast as these, is likely to prove fit for ad ministrative functions in another sphere. For it is the very intellectual qualities which we have seen so conspicuously dis played in the General that will be most in demand in the President. Clearness of judgment, knowledge of character, sagacity and tact in dealing with men, broad views of affairs, prompt intelligence in unexpected and pressing emergencies, ability to control numerous and vast and complicated inter ests, so that not only the success of each may be assured, but that each success shall directly contribute to the success of all, — if these are not the intellectual components of a character fitted to govern a great nation at a critical period, then all history is at fault.—[Atlantic Monthly. Rev. Dr. Patton on Expediency. The Rev. William Patton, D.D., of New Haven, one of the pioneers of the total abstinence reform, has published an admi rable letter in a late issue of the Advance, a religious paper published in Chicago and edited by a son of Dr. Patton. We wish we had space to spare for the entire letter ; but it comes to us just as we are going to press, and we can only give a few brief ex tracts : “ Most of the advocates of total absti nence rely upon the doctrine of expediency. In this they feel fortified by the noble de cision of the Aposple Paul: ‘Wherefore, if moat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth.’ This position of expediency necessarily admits the lawfulness and propriety of the beverage use of alcohol, but that, by rea son of the evils which come from its ex cessive use, men should totally abstain. “ It will be noticed that in this case it is the conscience of the brother who abstains that is offended, and not of him who par takes, and the enlightened brother who partakes is enjoined to give up his freedom out of regard to the abstainer. Now, the drinker of alcohol is not grieved and con science-troubled by reason of those who use their liberty and drink; this the rather cheers and encourages him. Nor will he feel impelled, not being a church-member, to regard your abstinence, when you ab stain not because you regard partaking as unlawful, as did the. converted Jew, but simply as inexpedient, lawful for you to drink, but, under present circumstances, not expedient. It will be noticed that the abstinence which Paul enjoins was lest the conscience, the weak conscience of a brother, should be wounded, This is not the precise appli cation of the principle in its relation to tem perance. For those who drink do not plead conscience ; and those who abstain do not abstain because for them to drink would wound the consciences of the intemperate. So far from this, our drinking quiets and encourages their consciences. Still, the law of benevolence demands that we should deny ourselves for the purpose of doiug good to others who are exposed to evil. It is the giving up of the rightful use of alco holic drinks to recover others from ruin, and to save more from taking the step on the road to drunkenness. “ While I fully admit the docrine of ex pediency ; as laid down by the apostle, 1 am not sure that the use-made of it for the cause of temperance may not be fearfully turned against us. It allows that it was right and proper for the patriarchs and prophets, for the Savior and his apostles, and for us, to use intoxicating drinks, but that, by reason of their present general abuse into intoxication, we, as a matter of expediency, should abstain.” Dr. Patton concludes his masterly and unanswerable argument as follows : “I do not, for one moment/ imagine, much less believe, that the advocates of only alcoholic wines intend; to damage the benev olence of the divine Savior ; butiwhen they represent him the maker, and drinker, and bestower upon others of alcoholic wine, they array his example in opposition to that law of expediency which they claim is strong enough and sufficiently scriptural to control sinners of this nineteenth century, and to carry the temperance reformation to universal success. They claim that drunk enness abounded in the days of Christ, and yet his benevolence did not move him to abstain, that thus he might do good to others and save them from the drunkard’s damnation. If, according to the laws of fermentation in hot climates/ Where the saccharine property abounds, there were wines preserved from the vinous fermenta tion, the use of such by Christ would give no sanction to others using the intoxicating, and there would be no call for the doctrine of expediency to control his practice or that of his apostles.” The Staff of Death. —Not long ago we were standing by a counter from which excellent bread was sold, while behind a screen at the end of the room, liquors were dealt out to customers. A gentleman who was purchasing and praising the bread, remarked, “The staff of life here, but quite another article yonder.” The clerk imme diately replied: “Yes we ought to have the ‘staff of death,’ as well as the ‘staff of life’. The staff of death is its main sup port !’ We accept, as graphically true, the uew term. Death physical, moral, and eternal; lean upon it. The powdered graiu comes from the baker’s hands, life’s great supporter; the harvest from the distiller’s worm, liquid ruin. And shall the two pro ducts be put by law on equality, and divines declare a heaven-appointed agreement? In some farmers put in and raise 2,000 acres of wheat. Rust on Cotton, Wheat, etc. Twenty-five years ago, a neighbor of ours planted a piece of sandy and exhausted low ground, to which he had added some fresh land, some year or two previously of alluvial soil. The cotton on the sandy soil rusted so badly as to be almost a total failure, while the cotton on the fresh land was exempt from rust. The next year he planted the same land in cotton. He was a strong believer in lime and ashes, also, and hoping to derive benefit from the ap plication, hauled all the old and leached ashes that he could rake up about his yard, some of which had lain there, doubtless, for years, ou the sandy land, applying them in the drill, about as he would have done if they had been stable or lot manure, but buried as deep in the soil as was the prac tice in that day. The ashes did not go over all the sandy land. All of the cotton ma nured with the ashes escaped the rust, even to the last row, and was fresh and green, and from six to ten inches taller than the rows which were not manured immediately adjoining, and produced a much larger crop in consequence of its health and vigor. A similar experiment was made, a year or two since, in South Carolina, the details of which we read in the Southern Cultiva tor. Now, here are two experiments pub lished, which clearly prove the fact that ashes will prevent rust in cotton, and we have no doubt that many others, which have not been published, could be found to prove the same thing. These experiments effectually demolish the theory that rust on cotton like the blast in wheat is a Fungus or parasitic plant, un less it can be demonstrated that parasites will not feed upon the juices of a plant which has Alkali combined with them, for we suppose that it must be the Alkali of the ashes which produced the result. It ’is known to intelligent farmers that potash will produce the same results, and it ought to do so iu every instance, as it is only the Alkali of the ash, in another and more portable form. They are, however, in any merchantable form, too costly for universal application. On lands only which are pe culiarly liable to rust, it is probable that they may be advantageously applied. We wish to call the attention of scien tific minds to the fact that ashes will pre vent the rust in cotton. If in cotton, why not in rye, wheat, etc? If rust is the same disease on all plants, will not ashes cure it on all? And will not the ashes resulting, from the decomposition of vegetable mat ter, according to Liebig’s theory, be the most prolific, as well as the most econom ical source of supply ? or, are there other salts or substances that are as effectual. If so, what are they ? Rust is now about the only formidable enemy to the wheat crop in Georgia. It is a subject of great interest to the scientific world and of great value to agriculturists. Who will give us light on the subject! Blue stone is not only the conqueror of the stinking blast or smut, but it destroys “ cockles ” also. Let us have at least one potent remedy for the rust in wheat, and we will go to work at once to grow wheat. Hancocck Journal. Wash for Fruit Trees.— Last year an experienced fruit grower, the owner of a fine orchard near Niagara river, Western New York, wrote us that in the care of his trees he had practiced one simple method with eminent success. He takes lye from leached ashes, mixes a little grease with it, heats quite warm, and with a syringe throws it up into all parts of the tree, branches and trunk. It will effectually kill all kinds of caterpillars and all kinds of worms t.,at are either infesting the trees in nests or run ning over the bark. Trees treated in this manner were exceedingly healthy, beautiful and vigorous in appearance, possessing a smooth, glossy bark, and bore the best apples m the country. The remedy is easy and cheap.— Horticulturist. The Evil of Bad Roads. —What miser able work it is to haul over many of the country roads iu America during the month of April! In consequence of the dirt plowed from the sides and put in the mid dle instead of stones and gravel, they are a complete highway of mud. Breaking the stones to uniform size and sifting the gravel to keep the road free from aught to hold the water and weaken the firm, hard si?'face, would pay those using the roads over and over again, for the cattle would be able to draw double the weight and move twice as quickly, besides which the carts tvould not wear out half as fast on a good level foundation. Farmers who have neg lected to haul farm-yard manure during frosty ‘weather are obliged to wait days aud weeks sometimes before they can get along, and there are instances in some of the worst districts, where children and their teachers have been unable to attend school houses situated on some of these disgrace ful road. The Wheat Crop in Nout.i Georgia.— From a very intelligent and observing gentleman, a resident of CheroWe Georgia, we learn that the wheat is now being har vested throughout the upper portions of the State; and that the general yield will sur pass for quantity and quality any previous crop grown there for many years past. The crop, he states, will turn out to be a most bountiful one, richly rewarding the farmers of that section of Georgia, who had sown an area much larger than in previous years. A few days now of fair weather, and more wheat of first rate quality will be har vested than was even hoped for by the farmers in that wheat-growing section. This is good news—glad tidings—for which let us not forget to give thanks to a boun tiful Providence.—[Atlanta Daily Intel. The autocrat of all the llussias has re cently issued a ukase or Decree abolishing nine-tenths of all the drinking places in his dominions. Shall we, free Americans, take a lesson from this, aye and go farther aud abolish them all, and that, too, by public opinion, as well as by law ? The good people of Oberlin have been very much excited at the discovery of a place where liquor was retailed in that town. A few of the METHODIST BOOKS For sale at the Depository, “METHODIST ADVOCATE” OFFICE, ATLANTA, C*a. We keep on sale, at the office of The METH ODIST ADVOCATE, all the books of ti e Methodist Book Concern at New York and Cincinnati, at Publishers’ prices and discouut, for cash. The money or post-office draft must always accompany orders for books. 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