Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-01-19
Eyce,s In IN years -.


Excess in four wears .;...... 81, 23S, 294 10
So we lind that, accepting the figures and eStl'
| mates OF the Yankee Secretary ct the treasury
ministration of Abraham Lincoln would nearly
double those of the whole period from the establish
ment of the government to the Inauguration OF the
"age oil purity"
Il is impossible, with the imperfect materials at
present al hand to make u pecUniary estimate. OF
the losses due TO the shock and arrangement of the
war. These losses were not only shared by the
North and South: the whole commercial world was
Involved in the miSfOrtuneS Of the war; and dragged
iutOits vortex.
The South with population of ten millions, of
whom four millions were slaves, with about one
million of these engaged in the production OF our
great commercial staples, with but little artificial
labor, but with only the simplest implements oil
huSbandry, her peculiar social INSTITUTION ANA her
climap had vet furnished all the vitality, had ac-
tuay created and brought into existence the great,
or part OF all the great wealth-producng ARTIFICIAL
labor in other nations. Her productions, which
could be supplied or substituted troni no other
source without enormous additional expense, were
indispensable to the capital invested and the labor de-
NrlOped. English factories had already many them
,,lslended or were reduced greatly ia their opera
tions. Northern newspapers informed lis that not
spindle az Lowell MAS in operation. The manufae-
turer, oi FranGe were already clamorouS. The only
wonder was that civilized nations could 80 long re-
"a uuiuoNCu hN NlGll NdldNlIblitl'N lou6
main disintereStei spectators of a War upon the
south for the destruction OF our system OF natural
labor whether tVr mere sentiment or for any other
cause that OF necessity involved the loss To them OF
an Immense invested capital, and was destructive
oi artificial labor equi. client, an operatives, 1" many
hunlrel-iold the number OF our slaves.
Aud what OF the results 81 conquest what of
the Indications OF tual success what of the signs
of conclusion had the war accomplished Eight
hundred thousand square miles was too large AN
l.. No.. l..1.v imam Ita4 toll
some marches, tho mighty mountains, the dense and
unhealthy Swamps, the mhumerahle and impossible
rivers and iulets when We see reSOlute people en-
during outrage and deNtitutiUn, ever ready To sting
the heel OF the invader, Is obvious that no human
force can traverse those distances, Suhtue that
people, andpstabSh any other government than what
such a Reuple shall approve. territory so extern
sive co1l not he held by the policy OF plumber and
DETERMINATION. The miserable gains of the thief the
maraudcr the rutiian, aud the Plunderer-the
achievements Of b1ndtti, might discourage any gov
ernment and dissatsty any soldicry.
CHARACTER or GENERAL LEE.
We find in another part of Mr.. Pollard'S work the
following estimate of the great military chelain Of
the Coniederacy:
No one had ever accused General Lee of genius
4 Scdate methodica man, putting duty before every
thing else, illustrating the UnSeliish and Christian
oricrs of virtue, almost sublime in his.magnanimity,
aud uniting with these qualities fair Intellectual
ability and an excellent practical Judgment, this
modern copy of Washington had nothing with which
TO dazzie-Inaukind hut much with which TO win its
sober admiration. IL has often been remarked how
entirely limited by professional routine was the cir
Gle OF intellectual accomplishments IN the Old army
of the United States. Thirty years in this school
had not made Gcn'l Lee al Admirable Crichton'
Outside of his profession, his conversation was
limited to a few common places; he knew nothing Of
literature and never attempted to draw an iustra-
ton from history Bun the stranger who was at rrSt
shocked II such poverty OF accomplishments IN one
50 famous was soon won 10 admiration by the charm
ing simplicity OF man who knew but little outside
OF the line OF his duty, but in that cminenty
able and thoroughly heroic. 1t may he said of him
that lie was one OF those few sef-dcpreciating men
whose mGguanImity was not sentimental, and whose
mOdesty was not unmanly.