Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-03-24
" a R Fl II x
a Northern Estimate Of the Confederate
,W Leaders.

we extract the following from long re-
view of the late war in the "New York Citi-
zen,' a Republican paper, edited by Colonel
Halpine, late of tho United States army:
. DAVIS.
Let those loyal gentlemen, disciples Of Mr..
Abbott, who worship the character of Bona
parte, make some consstentA homage to the
brilliant directory 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 adicu.
VI all the traitors he was most entirely in
earnest Ut all decision his was the sagest,
the promptest and the most enduring. He,
only, of the conspirators, felt that his quarrel
with the Union was irrcconcilablc, and stood
by his capital till the last and has never vet
advised submission. Lis captivity has been
belittled by nonco Bonapartc's 5 quorulousuess.
Blind, and grey, and wasted, his dominions
lie he would overthrow reaches to the Silent
oceans.
In Robert Lee the sane austere Providence,
to purify our republicanism, shattered our
faith in traditional responsibility. The heir
of Washington went with the rest Of the new
chivalry, and with ten times the talent of that
great Fabus, crushed the armies, of our own
lesser responsibilities, till he has met in Grant
q man without pedigree. He was the equal
OF wellington in nlanwuvering great bodies Of
troops upon small interior forces The Duke
at Waterloo fought his whole army upon a
mile and quarter arc but Lee, at Cold IIar-
Dor, for five days presented solid line of bat
tie wherever we sought for him, till his whole
force seemed. maneuvercd by the wink of his
eye, and every salient that we touched was a
corps. While the Notifications of Richmond
stand, his name shall evoke admiration. The
art of war is unacquaintcd with any defence
so admirable. Splendid as were the trumphs
of his engineering the victories Of his infantry
were his best monuments. But over the glo-
ry OF his talent fell. a shadow as eternal as his
memory-thc frown Of u rcsolute Democracy,
whose sacrifice was longer than his art.
STUARI. {
! 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 lmitators. He inauguratcd the grand
raid which taught Sheridan the nothingness
of distance, and emboldeued Sherman to tear
the continent like pocket map
The tcrvid imagination of the Southern
people, demonstrated i'll foats Of romance, like
Stuart's, made them, during the war, the
great suggestive captains. They built the
first iron clad, made the first Of the great rides,
and under Stonewall jackson executed the
earliest of the infantry marches. But the
colder adaptability of tile North developed
every hint from the South into perfect svs-
tenn. The experiment of the Merrimac has
grown to the Dictator, the Dundcrbcrg and the
lrons!aes. The engineering assiduity of Beau.
regard, initiated by the North, has marked Tire
camp OF our armies, as if the protecting noun
tains had followed our columns But it nav
bc doubted that any division commander has
yet arisen to rivahthc splendid infantry genius
of Jackson.
AS Lee was master of manoeuyre, jackson,
was the great captain of aggressive warfare.
lie combined the cunning and the bodness of
Napoleon To cover his great moyement by
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 attack
lie moved infantry with the speed of horse
and having hurled threo great commanders
back from the Old Dominion, died before tho
lustre of its arms had diminished in that flush
Of victory when rebellion had assumed, indeed