The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-05-06
Rx-General Lee.

The sooner Robert +. Lee is assigned to
the position which he has so justly earned,
the better. If this rebellion which has
cursed our land for the past four years is
an Infamous and wanton and disgraceful
piece of wickedness, then the chief actors
in it are infamous and wicked aud disgrace
full too. IF it is not, then Northern writer's
and orators have spent four years in idle
words, and Northern blood has flowed in
torrents III an unrIghteous cause
The liberal terms dictated to the rebel
chief by his conqueror, will, we fear, be lit
tie appreciated by the arrogant leaders Of
the South, and are as little relished by q We
ry largo portion of the people of the North.
! The leniency Of our Government towards
the rebels ever since the war began, has
been constantly abused and turned to our
disadvantage, and We already see, as one of
the results of the liberality extended to Lee
the guerillas who have infested the neigh
! borhood of Alexandria aud other places
coolly coming into our lines and claiming
the same immunity that has been extended
to their commander-in-chief. Horse thieves
and assassins as they are, the law has no
halter for them, and the provost marshal
no whipping post.
Lees own position will be whatever the
loyal people of the North choose to make
1t. There is scarcely q home in the whole
free North that does not owe to him, in his
personal and his representative capacity
the death of some brother or husband or
father. He is responsible above all other
men, for the horrible cruelties of the South.
ern prisons, and we hear the claim that is
set up for his great humanity and personal
goodness with loathing and disgust when
we call to mind the living skeletons that
have crawled home to die, or the long rows
of unknown graves that surround the stock.
AIDES of Andersonville and Salisbury
The last address of Lee to his army writ
ten after he had surrendered to Lieut.. Gen
Grant on such generous terms, should de-
prive him of all claims to the mawkish sym
pathy that we have heard expressed in some
quarters. 1t is the address of defiant trai
tor, who cannot appreciate the noble gen
erosity of his conqueror; and the hypocrit
ical appeal to the Deity, who, in spite o
former like appeal, has suffered him to be
crushed, reads like blasphemy. But fol
him, and others like him, we would have M
great war, and we would not now be mourn
ing martyred President. Let us remem
Der this whenever we are asked to be mer
ciful or even charitable to him.
We have no feeling of sentimental admi
ration for this man, nor can we understan,
why he is entitled to the slightest persona
consideration. We regard him as simpl.
the rightihand man of jeff Davis deser
ter to his own hag traitor to his owl
country breaker Of oft-repeated oaths
owing the escape of his neck from the hal
ter, if it does escape, to the clemency OF tn
Government he has so diligently striven t.
destroy.
A bad record for once proud name
scanty material wherewith to construct
hero black page to fill in future histor
and yet this is all he can justly claim
Disgraeed in reputation, ruined in fortune
grown old and broken before his time,
would be an act Of justice to the laws he ha
violated, to Danish him to some foreign Ian
where he might be at least partially forgot
= ten aud partially removed from the assoc
ations which here must forever remind hir
of the failure and the crime of which h
+ was the ruling spirit.-PAld. Bulletin