The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1866-03-15


review of the late war in the New York
Citizen, Republican paper, edited by
Col. Halpinc, late of the United States
army:
Let those loyal gentlemen, disciples Of
MIR. Abbott, who worship the character of
Bonaparte, make some consistent homage
to the brilliant directory of J eifersen Davis.
Beth were men OF destiny, and the person
net OF the survivor is by far the nobler.
Ot the fallen angels whose darl, pluma-c
swept from our Senate Halls, he made the
most courtly adicu. OF all the traitors he
was most entirely in earnest Of all dccis
lon his was the sagcst, the promptcst and
the most enduring. He, only, of the con
spirators, felt that his quarrel with the
Union was irrcconcilabc, and stood by his
capital TIL the last, and has never yet ad-
viscd submission. His captivity has been
be'iitlcd BY none of Bonaparte's qucrulous-
ness Blind, and grey, and wasted, his
domlnlons arc narrowed to casemate.
while the Republic he would overthrow
reaches to the silent oceans.
LEE.
In Robert Lee the same austcrc Proyi.
dencc, to purify our republicanism, shatter.
ed our faith in traditional respectability
The heir OF Washington went with the rest
of the new chivalry, and with ten ti,ncs
the talent of that great Fabius, crushed
the armies o! our own lesser responsibilities.
till he met in Grant u man without ped
lgrcc. lie was the equal Of Wellington
III man1uvrlng great bodies Of troops upon
small interior forces. The Duke at Water
loo fought his whole army upon mile and
quarter arc; but Ice, at Cold lIarbor.
for five days presented 4 solid line Of battle
wherever we sought for him, till his whole
force seemed manGuvred by the winl; Of
his eye, and every salient that we touched
was a corps. While the Notifications of
Richmond stand his name shall evoke ad-
mraticn. The ar, Of war is unacquaintcd
with any dcicncc so admirable Splendid
as were the triumphs of his engineering,
the victories of his infantry were his best
monuments. But over the glcrv cf his tn
lent fell a stcdow n eternal as his mem
ory-ttc rown of rrso!utc Democracy.
whose sacrifice was longer than his art.
STUART.
letnod in The cemetery Of Hollywood at
the grave OF Stuart--a space without n
shalt. He revolutionized the cavalry tac
ties of our time, and was in dash and dis.
soluteness the Prince Rupert of the West.
Forrest and Stonemar, Morgan and Grier
son, Moschy AMI fitzpatrick were his i'm
itatoIs. lie inaugurated the grand raid
which taught Sheridan the uothinancss o.
distance, and emboidencd Sherman to tear
the continent like pcckc; map.
The ftrvid imagination OF the Southern
peopc, demonstrated in fcuts of romance,
like Stulrts, made them, during the war
the great suggestive captains. They built
the first iron clad, made the first Of the
great rides, and under Stoncwall Jackson
executed the earliest OF the great infantry
marches. But the colder alaptability of
the North developed every hint from the
South into perfect system. Tho cxpcr
lmeut OF the Merrimac has grown to the
Dictator, the Dunderberg and the Iron
sides. The engineering assiduity of Beau
regard, initiated by the North, has marked
the camps OF our armies, as if the pro
tccting mountains had followed our col
umns But it may be doubted that anv
division commander has yet arisen to rival
the splendid infantry genius of Jackson
JACKSON
AS Lee was master Of manUuvrc, Jack.
son was the great captain of aggressive
warfare. He combined tho 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 ofBull Run, was only cquallcd
by the energy OF his attack. lie moved
infantry with the speed Of horse, and hav
ing hurled three great commanders back
from tie Old Dominion, died before the
lustrc of its arms had diminished in that
flush of victory when rebellion had assum
cd, indeed, the proportions of a nation
lie was the most republican ofrcbcls, stern
and simple as any Roundhcad, and this is
why we hold his memory grccncr than that
of his companions whose detection to the
Union was augmented by their treason to
popular institutions.
There were other parsonage identified
with this grand historical defence, but these
are the great Staturcs-Davis, Lee, Jackson,