to give their lives. The guns of the soldier and the votes of the citizen told against the common enemies of the nation, the Confederate army and the Democratic party. - "It is for us, the living, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom; and governments of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."- LINCOLN at Gettysburg. "Your enemy continues a struggle in which our final triumph must be inevitable. Unduly elated with their recent successes, they imagine that temporary reversion can quell your spirits or shake your determination; and they are now gathering heavy masses for a general invasion, in the vain hope that by desperate efforts success may at length be reached. You know too well, my countrymen, what they mean by success. Their malignant rage aims at nothing less than the extermination of yourselves, your wives, and your children. They seek to destroy what they cannot plunder. They propose as spoils of victory that your homes shall be partitioned among wretches whose atrocious cruelty has stamped infamy upon their government." - JEFFERSON DAVIS: Address read to Lee's Soldiers after Gettysburg and Vicksburg. CHAPTER X. THE VANQUISHED CHIEF. "WHEN Sherman penetrated to the Atlantic coast, and accomplished his wonderful march, Grant, who had conceived the idea of that march, and taken all of its responsibility, was still sitting quietly in front of Petersburg; and the country rang with applause for the brilliant lieutenant, affording no share of this to the chief who had sent the lieutenant on his errand, and, by his other movements a thousand miles away, had rendered the success of the lieutenant possible. It was even purposed in Congress to place Sherman in the rank which Grant enjoyed. Sherman wrote on the subject at once to Grant, saying that the proposition was without his knowledge, and begging Grant to use his influence against it. This, of course, Grant refused to do, and replied to Sherman, ‘If you are put above me, I shall always obey you, just as you always have me.' The history of the world may be searched in vain to find a parallel of magnanimity, friendship, and patriotism." - Campaign Life. This transfer of confidence on the part of the people was, if it existed, but a momentary impulse. Grant, during his seeming inactivity, had been arranging for the final blow. Thomas, Sherman, Sheridan, had been given special work bearing on one result, the fall of Richmond and capitulation of Lee. Every means of escape, all communica |