New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-26

We extract the following from a long review of
the late war in the New York Citizen, republi'
can paper, edited by Colonel Alpine, (Nliles
O,Rielly) 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 d
rectory 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 adieu. Of all the traitors he was
most entirely in earnest. OF 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 irreconcilable, and stood by
his capital till the last and has never yet advised
submission His capacity has been belitted by
some OF Bonapartes querulousness Blind, and
grey and wasted, his dominions are narrowed to a
casemate, while the republic he would overthrow
reaches to the silent ocean.
LEE.
In Robert Lee the same austere Providence, to
purify our republicanism, shattered our faith in
traditional responsibility. The heir of Washing
ton went with the rest of the new chiyalry, 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 pedigree.
He was the equal of Wellington in maneuvring
great bodies of troops upon small interior forces
The Duke at Waterloo fought his whole army upon
mile and quarter arc; but Lee, at Gold Har
Dor, for five days presented solid line of battle
wherever we sought him, till his whole force seemed
mannuvred by the wink of his eye, and every
salient that he touched was corps. While the
Notifications of Richmond stand, his name shall
evoke admiration. The art of warts unacquainted
with any defense SO admirable. Splendid as were
the triumphs of his engineering, the victories OF
his infantry were his best monuments. But over
the glory of his talent fell shadow eternal as
his memory-the frown of resolute democracy,
whose sacrifice was longer than his art.
STUART.
| stood in the cemetery of Hollywood at the
grave of Stuart-a space without shaft. He re.
youtionized the cavalry tactics of our time, and
was in dash and dissouteness the Prince Rupert of
the West. Forrest and Stoneman, Morgan and
Grierson, Mosby and Fitzpatrick were his mitators.
He inaugurated the grand raid which taught sheri,
| dan the nothingness of distance, and emboldened
Sherman to tear the continent like pocket map.
| The fervid imagination of the Southern people
demonstrated the feats of romance, like Stuarts
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 jack
son executed the earliest of the great infantry
marches. But the colder adaptabty of the
North developed every hint from the South into a
perfect system. The experiment of the Merrimac
| has grown to the Dictator, the Dunderberg and
the Ironsdes. The engineering assiduity of Beau
regard, initiated by the North, has marked the
camps of our armies, as if the protecting noun
tains 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 maneGvres. Jackson was
the great captain of aggressive warfare. He com
bined the cunning and the boldness of Napoleon.
To cover his great movement by the flank in 1862,
i 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 equaled by the energy Of his
attack. He moved infantry with the speed of
horse, and having hurled three great commanders
1 back from the Old Dominion, died before the
lustre of its arms had diminished in that flush of
victory when rebellion had assumed, indeed, the
proportions of nation He was the most re.
publican of rebels, stern and simple as any Round,
head and this is why we hold his memory greener
than that of his companions, whose detection to
the Union was augmented by their treason to
popular institutions.
4 There were other personages identified with this
grand historical defense, but these are the great
statures-Davis, Lee, Jackson, Stuart, Beaure
Il gard. ....