Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-14

We extract the following from long re-
view Of the late war in the New York Citi-
zen, Republican paper, edited by Colonel
Halpine, late of the United States army:
DAVIS.
Let those loyal gentlemen, disciples Of Mr.
Abbott. who worship the character Of Bona
parte, make some consistent homage TO the
brilliant directory Of Jefferson Davis. Both
were men Of destiny, and the personnel of the
survivor is by far the pobler OF the fallen
angels whose dark piumage swept from our
Senate Halls he made the most courtly
adieu. OF all the traitors be was most en-
tirely in earnest. OF all decisions his was the
sagest, the promptest and the most enduring
He, only, Of the conspirstors, felt that his
quarrel with the Union was irreconcilable,
and stood by his capital till the last, and has
never vet advised submission. His captivi-
ty has been belittled BY none Of Bonaparte's
querulousness. Blind, and gray, and wasted,
his dominions are narrowed 10 a casemate,
while the Republic he would overthrow
reaches to the silent oceans.
LEE.
In Robert Lee the same austere Proyi-
dence, to purify our republication, shatter-
ed our faith in traditional responsibility
Tho heir of Washington went with the rest
of tae new chivalry, and with ten times the
talent of that great Fabius crushed the ar
mics of our lesser responsibilities, till he
met in Grant man without pedigree He
was theequal Of Wellington in maneuyring
great bodies Of troops upon small interior
forces The Duke at Waterloo fought his
whole army upon mile and quarter arc !;
but Lee, at Cold Harbor, for FIVE days pre-
scented solid line Of battle wherever we
sought for him, till his whole force seemed
maneuvred by the wink Of his eye, and
every salient point that we touched was
corps While the Notifications Of Richmond
stand, his name shall evoke admiration.
The art Of war is unacquainted with any de-
fence 30 admirable. Splendid as were the
triumphs Of his engineering, the victories of
his infantry were his best monuments. But
over the glory of his talent fell shadow as
eternal as his memory-the frown OF reso-
lutte Democracy, whose sacrifice was longer
than his art.
STUART.
j stood in the cemetery Of Hollywood at
the grave Of Stuart-a space without shaft.
He revolutionized the cavalry tactics of our
time, and was in dash and dissoluteness the
Prince Rupert Of the West. Forrest and
Stoneman, Morgan and Grierson, Mosby and
Fitzpatrick were his imitators. He inau-
gurated the grand raid which taught Sheri-
dan the nothingness Of distance and en-
boldened Sherman to tear the continent like
a pocket map.
The fervid imagination Of the Southern
people, demonstrated in feats of romance,
like Stuart's, made them, during the war,
the great suggestive captains. They built
the first ron-clad, made the first of the
great rides and under Stonewall jackson
executed the earliest of the great infantry
marches. But the colder adaptability of the
North, developed every hint from the South
into a perfect system. The experiment of
the Merrimac has grown TO the Dictator, the
DuIderberg and the Ironsides. The engi-
neering assiduity of Beauregard, initiated
by the North, has marked the camps Of our
armies as II the protecting mountains had
followed our columns But il may be doubted
that any division commander has yet arisen
10 rival the splendid infantry genius Of
jackson.
JACKSON.
As Lee was master of maneuvre, jackson
was the great captain of aggressive warfare.
He combined the cunning and the boldness
Of Napoleon. To cover his great movement
by the flank in 1862, he did not hesitate to
fight Pope's whole army with division, and
the celebrity of his march up the Shenandoah,
TO appear again on the field of Bull Run,
was only equalled by the energy of his AT
tack. He moved infantry with the speed of
horse, and having hurled three great COM
manders back from the Old Dominion, died
before the lustre Of its arms had diminished
in the flush of victory when rebellion had
assumed, indeed, the proportions of nation.
He was the most republican Of rebels, stern
and simple as any Roundhead, and this is
why we hold his memory greener than that
of his companions whose detection TO the
Union was augmented by their treason 10
popular institutions.
There were other personages identified
with this grand historical defence, but these
are the great statures-Davis Lee, Jackson,
Stuart and Beauregard