" To a question put to him by Duke Ngai as to what should be done in order to render the people submissive to authority, Confucius replied, "Promote the straightforward, and reject those whose courses are crooked, and the thing will be effected.

Promote the crooked and reject the straightforward, and the effect will be the reverse.

On the morning of the 3d of June, soon after daylight, General Grant threw his whole army straightforward against Lee's frontall along his line.