Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-06
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LEADERS.
| We extract the following from long
review of the late war in the New. York
Citizen, Republican paper, edited by Col.
Halpine, late Of the United States army
DAVIS.
Let those loyal gentlemen, disciples of
Mr.. Abbott, who worship the character of
! Bonaparte, make some consistent homage
to the brilliant directory of Jefferson Da-
Wis. Both were men of destiny, and the
personel of the survivor is by far the no.
bier. OF the fallen angels, whose dark
plumagc swept from our Senate Halls he
made the most courtly adieu OF all the
traitors he was most entirely in earnest
Of all decisions his was the sagest, the
tpromotest and the most enduring. He,
only, Of the conspirators, felt that his
quarrel with the Union was ifreconcilable,
and stood by his capital till the last, and
has never yet advised submission. His
captivity has been belittled by none of
Bonaparte's querulousness Blind, and
gray, and wasted, his dominions are mar
rowed to caselnate, while the republic he
would overthrow reaches to the silent
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~i - sg's tm LEE.
In Robert Lee the same austere Provi-
dence to purify our republication, shat
tered our faith in traditional respectable
ty. The heir of Washington went with
the rest of the ehivalry, and with ten
times the. talent of that great Fabius,
crushed the armies of our lesser respecta-
bililies, till he met in Grant man with
out pedigree. He was the equal Of Wei.
liz gton in manGuvrng great bodies of
troops upon small inferior forces. The
Duke at Waterloo fought his whole army
upon a mile and quarter arc but Lee,
at Cold HarbOr for five days presented a
solid line of battle wherever we sought
him, till his whole force seemed maneu
vred 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 unacquainted with any defense
so admirable Splendid as were the tri-
umphs of his engineering, the victories OF
infantry were his best monuments But
over the glory Of his talent fell shadow
as eternal as his memory-frown Of a res
olute Democracy, whose sacrifices was lon
ger than his art.
STUART.
I stood in the cemetery of Hollywood
at the grave of Stuart-a space without a
shaft. He revolutionized the cavalry TIC
ties of our time, and was in dash and dis
soluteness the Prince Rupert of the West
Forrest and Stoneman, Morgan and Gri.
erson, Mosby and Fitzpatrick were his imi-
tators. He inaugurated the grand raid
which taught Sheridan the nothingness OF
distance, and emboldened Sherman to tear
the continent like pocket map
The fervid imagination of the Southern
people, demonstrated in feats of romance
like Stuart's, made them during the war
the great suggestive captains They bull,
the first iron-clad, made the first of the
great raids and under Stonewall Jackson
executed the earliest of the great infantry
marches. But the colder adaptabilty OF
the North developed every hint from the
South into perfect system The expert
ment of the Merrimac has grown to the
Dictator, the Dundeberg, and the Iron
sides The engineering assiduity of Beau
regard, initiated by the North, has marked
the camps of our armies, as if the protect
ing mountains had followed our columns
But it may be doubted that any division
commander has yet arisen to rival the
| splendid infantry genius of Jackson.
/ JACKSON.
As Lee was master of maneuvre, Jack
son was the great Captain of aggressiv,
warfare. lie combined the cunning ant
the boldness of Napoleon. To cover his
great movement by the flank in 1862, HI
did not hesitate to fight Pope's whole army
with division, and the celebrity of hi
march up the Shenandoah, to appear agar
on the field of Bull Run, WAS only equal
,, ed by energy of his attack. He moved
infantry with the speed of horse, and hav
ing hurled three great ommanders bac
from the Old Dominion, died before tn,
lusttre of its arms had diminished in tina
J. flush of victory when rebellion had assum
ed, indeed, the proportions of nation. :
lie was the most republican of rebels
stern and simply as any Roundhead, and
this is why we hold his memory create
than that of his companions whose defec
ton to the Union was augmented by thei
treason to popular institutions.
There were other personages identife,
with grand historical defense, but thcs
are the great statucs-Davis, Lee, Jackson
Stuart, and Beauregard. ...,.
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