The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-03-17
A Northern Estimate of COnfede-
rate Leaders.

| n northern EStlMaTc OI COnIcuc'
rate Leaders.
We extract the following from
long review Of the late war, in the Nev
York Citizen, Republican paper, ed
tied by Col. Halpine, late Of the U. S
army:
Let those loyal gentlemen, disciples
of Mr.. Abbott, who worship the char
acter Of Bonaparte, make some consis
tent homage to the brilliant directory
Of Jefferson Davis. Both were men o
destiny, and the personnel of the survi
vor is by far the noblcr OF the fallen
angels whose dark plumage swept from
our Senate Halls, he made the most
courtly adieu. OF all the traitors he
was the most entirely in earnest. OF all
decision he was the sagest, the prompt
est and the most enduring. He only,
OF the conspirators, felt that his quarrel
with the Union was irreconcilable, and
has never yet advised submission. His
captivity has been belittlcd by none OF
Bonaparte's querulousness. Blind, and
grey, and wasted, his dominions are
narrowed to the casemate, while the
Republic he would overthrow reaches
to the silent oceans.
In Robert Lee the same austcre
Providence, to purify our republican
ism, shattered our faith in traditional
responsibility. The heir of Washing
ton went with the rest Of the new chiv-
airy, and with ten times the talent of
that great Fabius, crusb bed the armies
of our own lesser responsibilities, till
he met in Grant Il man without pcdi-
gree. He was the equal ofWashington
in manmuvering great bodies Of troops
upon small, inferior forces. The Duke
at Waterloo fought his whole army
upon n mile and n quarter arc; but
Lee, at Cold Harbor, for five days pre-
sented a solid line Of battle wherever
we sought for him, till his whole force
seemed maneuvrcd by the wink of his
eye, and every salient that we touched
WAS corps. While the fortifcations
of Richmond stand, his name shall
evoke admiration The art of war is
unacquaintod with any defense 50 ad-
mirable. 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
'rown of q resolutc Democracy, whose
sacrifice was longer than his art.
STUART.
| stood in the cemetery Of Holly
wood at the grave Of Stuart--a space
Without a shaft. iIereyolutionizcd the
'ava!ry tactics Of our time, and was in
lash and dissoluteness the Prince Ru-
,crt Of the West. Forrest and Stone
nan, Morgan and Gricrson. Mosby and
were his imitators. He in
the grand raid which taught
sheridan the nothingncss of distance,
nd emboldened Sherman to tear the
ointment like apocket-map.
The fervid imagination Of the South
RI people, demonstrated in feats of ro-
nance, like Stuart's, made them, during
nc war, the great suggestive captains.
hey built the first iron-clad, made the
rst Of the great rides, and under
tonewall Jackson executed the car
est Of the great infantry marches.
ut the colder adaptability Of the North
cveloped every hint from the South
ito perfect system. The expert
ent of the Merrimac has grown to the
ictator, the Dunderberg, and the
'onsides. The engineering assduity
Beauregard, initiated by the North,
Is marked the camps of our armies,
) if the protecting mountains had fol
wed our columns. But it may be
oubted that any division commander
IS yet arisen to rival the splendid in
ntry genius Of jackson.
JACKSON. ;