New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-09-15

In long editorial article calling for subserip
ton Of sl0,0a0 to Washington College by The
friends and admirers of Gen. Lee in England, the
London Standard, of August l7Sh, speaks of aim
as follows: as.D.gasa@
There is no living hero-rthere are few, if ary,
! among those whese names shine with the purest
luster in history whose character has Commanded
so high tribute of affection and admiration from
| their friends, of respect and honor from their
foes as that of Gen. Lee. No life more perfectly
heroic, no reputation more untarEished even by
| the minor 5lemishes which are not uneommonlv y
found in union with tie highest heroism, has ever
| been connected with great atnationalAtruggle No
| shade OF vanity or egotlsm, nothing of the self
VIII or petulance SO often Characteristic of con-
| seIous genlns, no tinge of affectatioa No faint
/ even OF the pride almost itseparabIe from or1i
nary greatness of mind, which can endure everv
thing but humiliation, and regards submission "a
ginian soldiers nature.
A pety without the slightest shadow of Phari.
salsln, sense of duty to which the sacrifice of
every personal feeling and interestappears-a mat,
Ier 9 0l S course, nave marked his whole course and
GUIDED ms every public act, whether as a soldier
or as citizen, family connection and the
nearest living representative of the great cham
plon OF American independence, General Lee bas
been the Washington of the Confederate war. like
Washington man g whomengy dared not hate u
but without eventhe one dark stainsof Doubt if
not OF dlshOnor, which the death of Major Andre
mas left on the memory of ofhissprototype. No more
iIssi alIt ever lived
70 soldier ever set more admirable example Of
the sodierly virtues of honor chivalrfc gener0sitv
ana manly simplicity; no great man ever retired
INTO obs curty, after Witnessing alike the rnin of
ms cause and the destruetionf6f his private for.
tune with more of Christianpatienee and unshaken
fortitude.
Or his military achievements we need not speak
Il IS enough to say thatnearly his victories were
won against enormous odds, and that his four
years defense of Virginia has few parallels in his
tory as an example Of great results accomplished
Win small means and a fearful disadyantape
What is now more interesting to remembeFis is
the personal character of the man as displayed in
the various exigences of that trying struggle the
simple honesty and kindly feeling which prompted
l II 70 console his soldiers as they recoiled from
the cannon-crOWned heights of GETTYSBURG with
me assurance, tits all my faultn the unaffected
sell.depreciation which pronounced, when Stone |
wall jackson fell, al could wish for the sake If |
our cause, that had been disabled rather than /
you" the Christian chivalry, Which no outrage |
could provoke Generalization; which, after Virginia /
had beenrendered a desert, withheld the army
that INVADED Pennsylvania from indicting the most
ttlYl9l injury on person Or property; which, when
confscated, took care to protect the houses and
property of his enemies; the horror of useless
bloQdshed Which withstood the cry for retrbuton /
excited by the murder of Southern prisoners in
cold blood, and supported the resolve of the
President that unless the actual murderers were |
taken, no blood should be shed but on the field of .
battle; the touching unselfshness of his last words
to his dlsbanding army, on the sorroWful 9th of
April, " lhave done my best for yous; BUTT was
when all was over-when the chief of a great and
long victorious army was private man and a
paroied prsoner-that the peculiar greatness of
General Lees nature shines out with une0uaIed