The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-03-22

We extract the following from a long
review of the late war in the New York
Citizen, Republican paper, edited by
Colonel IIalpine, late Of the United
States army:
DAVIS. rs.ry
Let those loyal gentlemen, disciples
of Mr.. Abbott, who worship tho char.
acter of Bonaparte, make some consis.
tent homage tc the brilliant directory Of
Jefferson Davis. Both were men Of
destiny, and the personnel of the survivor
is by far the noblor. OF the fallen an
gels, whose dark plumage swept from
our Senate halls, he made the most
courtly adieu. OF all the traitors, he
was most entirely in earnest. or all
decisions, his was the sagest, the prompt.
est and the most enduring. He, only,
of the conspirators, felt that his quarrel
with the Union was irreconciable, and
stood by his Capital I'LL the last, and has
never yet advised submission. His
captivity has been bcllttled by none of
Bonaparte's querulousness. Blind, and
grey, and wasted. Ills dominions arc
narrowed to a casemato, while the Re.
public he would overthrow reaches to
the silent oceans.
In Robert Lee, the same austero
Providence, to purify our Republican,.
ism, shattered our faith in traditional res
pectability. The heir of Washington
went.with the rest Of the chivalry, and
with ten times the talent of that great
Fabius, crushed the armies of our lesser
responsibilities, till he met in Grant a
man without a pedigree. lie was the
equal of Wellington IN manDuvreing
great bodies of troops upon small inferi,
or, forces. The Duke, at Waterloo.
fought his whole army upon mile. and
a quarter arc; but Lee, at Cold harbor,
for five. days, presented a solid line Of
o battle wherever we sought for him, till
his whole. force seemed manm,irvrcd bv
The wink OF his eye, and every salient
point that we touched was .oorps.--
While the Notifications of Richmond
stand, his name shall invoke udmira.
ton The art of war ls unacquainted
with any defence so admirable. Splen.
did as were the triumphs of his enei
neering, the victories O. his infantry
were his best monuments. But over the
glory Of his talent fell shndow,ns etax ?
nal as his momory-the frown of reso.
Lutte Democracy whose sacrifice was long.
er than his art.
STUART.
I Istood'in the cemetery of HOLLYWOOD
at the grave of Stuart-A-a space without
q shaft He revolutionized the cavalry
tactics Of our TIME, was, in dash and dis.
solutcness the Prince Rupert of the
: West. Forrest and Stoneman, Morgan
and Griorson,. Mosby and KilpatricI1
were his imitators. He inauguratcd the
grand raid which taught Sheridan the
nothingness Of distance, and emboldened
Sherman to tear, the continent like a
pocket map. - ,.a"
The fervid imagination OF the South,
ern people, demonstrated in feats Of 70.
nance, like Stuart's, made them; during
the war, the great suggestive captains.
They built the first ironclad, made the
first OF the great rides, and under Stone.
wall Jackson executed. the earliest of
the great infantry marches. But the
colder adaptabilty of the North develop.
ed every hint from the South into a per.
feet system. The experiment of the
Merrimac has grown to the Dictator, the
Dunderberg and the Ironsdes. The.
engineering assiduity of Beauregard,
initiated by the North, has marked the
camps ofour armies, as if the protecting
mountains had followed our columns.
But it maybe doubted that any division
commander has yet arisen to rival the
spendid infantry genius Of jackson.
w JACKSuN.
AS Lee was master Of manoeuvre,
Jackson was the great Captain Of ag.
gressive warfare. He combined the
cunning and the boldness of Napoleon.
TO cover his great movement by the
flank in 1862, he did not hesitate to