Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-06-02
rFrom the London Daily Telegraph
Compliment to Gen. Lee.

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college which bears the name of the most il
ustrious citizen ever born in the Old Domin-
ion, fertile as that pleasant land has been in
heroes nor could George Washington him.
self have wished that the college erected in
his honor would have for President worthier
chief than the one who quietly entered upon
his duties just fortnight ago. The new
President is still ia. the prime of manhood,
though already his hair and beard are grey;
he has been long accustomed to command
he is familiar with hardships as with fame
has slept for months amid the woods Of Vir-
ginia, and has cfosscd the Rappahannock
Northward at the head Of victorious amy;
he has been proven alike by good and evil for
tune, and, whether when threatening the
Federal capital. or when surrendering his
sword to Federal Captain, he has ever borne
himself as beseemed man born alike by an
ccstry and by nature. The descendant Of
/" Light Horse Harry" has dofed the grey
uniform for the garb Of peaceful professor;
ton, even for Robert Lee.
There is difference in this mode of action,
but no alteration in the object, which is sim
ply to render the best service he can to his
native State To that single aim he has never
once been unfaithful; and he will still pursue
it, we'may rest assured, with the old high en-
thusiasm tempered by cautions brain
Throughout the war nothing was more remark
able than Lees personal inauence-in the
manner,in which he impressed every one who
approached him. /. That men, with Jaskson,s
Israritysand ears sssness, or with the aebos0ai,'e
and graceful valor Of Stuart, should appreciate
the illustrious qualities of their leaders, was
only natural but even the humblest soldiers
in the RANKS felt, though they might not have
been able to express the moral power which
Lee exerted. The war was, in all conscience,
sangunary enough, but there would have been
very carnival of carnage, deviish outbreak
of all mems fercest passions had the Southern
leader been of different temper
Calamity es the Confederates fought, we
must never forget their armies were composed
of somewhat questionable raw material
that the volunteers, with all the instinct OF
bravery which seldom deserts dominant
class had likewise many of the vices which are
inevitably ongendered by the possession of ar
bitrary power Accustomed to the unchecked
license Of authority, the shareholders might
perchance have been ready enough to give tho
war character of internicipe hatred; and it
was eminently due to Robert r. Lee that the
courage and hunanities of civilized warfare
were, on. the whole, observed. The gentle
nature Of the man never degenerated into
weakness; with high hand he could restrain
excuses, and admiringly did he exercise lis
power. There are no purer pages in the his
tory of the civil war than those which relate to
his invasion Of Maryland and Pennsylvania, at
time when the temper Of the Southern peo-
pie was sorely tried.
Such qualities os he displayed coald not
fail, in the long run, to win the regard of o
manly and affectonate people; and while We
find that hoswas loved like father by all those
who shared his immediate perils, we have not
vet forgotten that when the victorious vet
erans of the North were marching homo
through Richmond, they burst into sp!cn-
did shout of enthusiasm as they recognized,
gravely contemplating them from curtained
window, the familiar form and face Of Robert,
E. Lee.
"The old order changes, giving place to
new, aud God ful6ls himself. in many ways.
TO teach young lads their classics and msthe-
natics may seem but a poor occupation for
one whose word was lately the Supreme law
for hundred thousand fighting men and yet
there need be no sense Of humiliation involved
in the deliberate acceptance of such employ
ment. The new order is that Of peace. For
q time ths6ncst thing that Lee could do was
to set an example Of valor and virtue to the
whole manhood of the South; but not less
pure is the glory Of one who, by honest and
patient labor, prepares the young for that long
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