The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-18


After the restless fever we call life,
After the dreariness, the aching pain
The wayward struggles which have proved
in vain,
Will give us rest at last.
A Northern Estimate OF the ConfeGi-
crate Leaders.
We extract the following from a
long review of the late war in the New
York Citizen, Republican aper,
edited by Colonel Halpine, late of the
United States army:
DAVIS.
Let those loyal gentlemen, disciples
of Mr.. Abbott, who worship the char
acter of Bonaparte, make some con-
sistent homage to the brilliant direc-
tory of Jefferson Davis. Both were
. men of destiny, and the personnel of
the survivor is by far the nobler. Of
the fallen angels, whose dark plumage
swept from our Senate halls, he made
the most courtly adieu. Of all the
traitors, he was most entirely in earn
est. Of all decisions, his was the
sagest, the promptest and the most
enduring. He, only, OF the conspira
tors, felt that his quarrel with the
Union was irreconsilable, and stood
by his Capital till the last, and has
never yet advised submission. His
captivity has been belittled by none
of Bonaparte's querulousness. Blind,
and grey, and wasted, his dominions
are narrowed to casemate, while the
Republic he would overthrow reaches
to the silent oceans.
In Robert Lee, the same austere
Providence, to purify our Republi-
canism, shattered our faith in tradi-
tional respectabiity. The heir of
Washington went with the rest
Of the new chivalry, and with
ten times the talent of that great Fa-
bius, crushed the armies of our lesser
responsibilities, till he met in Grant
a man without pedigree. He was
the equal of Wellington in maneu-
vreing great bodies of troops upon
small inferior forces. The Duke, at
Waterloo, fought his whole army
upon mile and quarter arc; but
Lee, at Cold harbor, for five days,
presented q solid line of battle wher-
ever we sought for him, till his whole
force seemed maneuvred by the
wink OF his eye, und every salient
point that we touched was a corps.
While the Notifications of Richmond
stand, his name shall evoke admira-
ton. The art of war is unacquaint-
ed with any defence so admirable.
Splendid as were the triumphs of his
engineering, the victories of his in
fantry were his best monuments.
But over the glory of his talent fell q
shadow as eternal as his memory
the frown of resolute Democracy
whose sacrifice was longer than his
art.
stood in the cemetery of Holly
withoutas shaft. He revolutionizedt the
cavalry tactics of our time, and was
in dash and dissoluteness the Prince
Rupert of the West Forrest and
Stonen1an, Morgan and Grierson,
Mosby and Fitzpatrick were his imi-
tators. He inaugurated the grand
raid which taught Sheridan the no.
thingness of distance, and embold-
ened Sherman to tear the continent
like pocket map.
The fervid Imagination of the
Southern people, demonstrated in
feats of romance, like Stuart's, made
them, during the war, the great sug
gestive captains. They built the first
iron-clad, made the first of the great
rides, and under Stonewan Jackson
executed the earliest of the great in
fantry marches. But the colder
adaptabiity of the North developed
every hint from the South into per-
feet system. The experiment of the
Merrimac has grown to the Dictator,
the Dunderberg and the Ironsides
The engineering assiduity Of Beau
regard, initiated by the North, has
marked the camps of our armies, as
if the protecting mountains had fol-
lowed our columns. But it may be
doubted that any division commander
has yet arisen to rival the spendid
infantry genius of Jackson.
JACKSON.
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