Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-10-04
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jackson and Lee.

occasion of the reinauguration of the statue
of Washington. Whilst there he wrote q
letter to that paper, from which we take
the following extract:
Putting the greater before the less brings
the dead jackson before the living Lee.
The cemetery where the greater lies is on
the edge of the struggling town opposite
the College and Institute; it is small, very
small, not more than dozen acres I should
judge, and of the common type of country
church. yards the world over. In its exact
centre is a small lot about twenty feet
square, surrounded by one of those hideous
iron fences that the purer taste of the pres
ent is so rapidly driving from our cities of
the dead. There is of course gate in this
palisade of iron. The gate bears plate,
and on it, in simple Roman characters, the
single word "Jaokson." Within this en-.
closure, with the great everlasting noun.
.ains looking down upon him from the dim
distance on every side, sleeps he whom this
people style the great Stonewall. An as
cetio taste has been shown in the surround
ings of this sepulcbre. A plain marble
slab three feet in height, slightly curved
at the top, and bearing nothing more than
the words "General Thomas J. Jackson"
and an upright foot-stone of foot and a
half in height, with nothing more in the way
of legend than "T. J. J"-these are all
of the words or monuments there are about
the grave Of Jackson. But there are other
visible signs and more significant. Yes.
terday morning was the holy Sabbath, but
the green turf was covered with the rarest
flowers. At the head of the grave was an
elaborate wreath, and almost every inch
from stone to stone bore fowery tribute to
the sleeper beneath. Nearly all these
flowers were as fresh as if pulled from the
stalk but an hour before, and the villagers
bear witness that they are renewed almost
every day.
Thus sleeps jackson where be lived and
was loved so long, and the kindly hearts
that each day deck his grave are mourning
for the chivalrous gentleman, the kindly
Christian, and loving neighbor and friend,
rather than for dead hero and the cause
for which he died. This is their own ex.
planation
The LIVING LEE, misnomer, however,
for bis is rather life-in-death-l a less
degree holds the affections of this people
in the hollow of his hands, for similar
reasons No man more courteous than he,
none more high bred, none more generous,
none more kindly in his intercourse with
his neighbors. And Lee lives peaceful,
cheerful, unobtrusive life among these
mountains So far as he is himself con.
cerned, he would prefer that his name
should be dropped from present talk and
current news. History must mention him,
he knows, but that time has not yet come.
Lee holds himself utterly aloof from the
disputes and passions of the hour and
here is proof: On Saturday night be was
at Rockbridge Baths. Stalwart and erect
as ever, wbite.haired and ruddy- -hued, his
eye still bright and kindly, as of old, he
sat among the ladies of the neigbborhood,
chatting as any other man might do; but
with him, with bis past and present hanging
about him, it seemed like the dead past
holding converse with the Muses.. Pres
emily there was the confusion of the night
ly arrival from Richmond, and one gentle,
mat, being acquainted with the General,
greeted him, and after the common. places,
rendered him the newspapers of the day.
"Thank you," said Lee, "but I never read
any of them"
Lee lives here comfortably and calmly
with his family, and many of his former
friends around. His SOD, Custis Lee, is q
professor in the Institute here, and his for
mer chief of staff, Gen. Pendleton, is the
Episcopal clergyman of the town. Fully
absorbed in the duties of his College Presi.
dency, the man who once welded the
military power of colossal insurrection so.
jourus here, where scarcely rumors from
the great world ever come; aud, if he has
ambition for the future, never allows it to
appear, and if he repiues at the present,
keeps it alwaya far under the surface.
"LEE's Rock. ."-The grounds compri.
sing the Antietam Cemetery, near Sharps.
burg, Maryland, was the spot occupied by
General Lee and his staff during the battle
of Antictam, and rock protruding about
three feet above the surface has been point
ed out to all visitors as the oue on which