The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-12
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aeter OF Bonaparte, make some consistent
homage to the brilliant directory of
Jefferson Davis. Both weremenso fdea-
tiny, and the personnel of the survivor
i by far the nobler OF the fallenangels
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 he
WAS the sagest, the promptest and the
most enduring. He, only, Of the con-
spirators, felt chat his quarrel with the
Union WAS irreeoncilabie, and stood by
his capitol till the last, and has never
vet advised submission. His captivity
has been belittled by none of Bonaparte's
querulousness. Blind and grey, and
wasted, his daminions are narrowed to
Il easemate, While the Republic he would
overthrow reaches to the silent oceans.
In Robert L. Lee the same austere
Providence, 10 purify our republican
ism, shattered our faith ia traditional
FespeetabiitY. The heir of Washington
went with the rest Of the new chiNalry
aud with ten times the talent OF that great
Eabius, crushed the armies Of our own
lesser probabilities, till he net in Grant
4 man without pc, igree. lie was the
equal OF Y ellington in maneuVringgreat
bodies Of troops upon small interior Tor
ees. The Duke at Waterloo fought his
whole army npon mile and a quarter
are; hut Leo, at Cold Iarbor. for five days
presented Il solid line Of battle wherever
We sought for him, till his whole force
seemed mannuVred by the wink Of his
eye, and every salient that we touched
was q corps. While the fertilization of
Richmond stand, his name shall evoke
admiration. The art of war is un-
acquainted With any defense 50 admira-
able. Splendid as We're the tfiumphs Of
his engineering. the victories of his in
fantry We're his best monuments. But
over the glory ofhis talent fell q shadow
~ eternal a. his memory the froWn OF
a resolate De mocraey, whose sacrifice
was longer than his art.
STUART
stood in the cemetery oflIolIyWood
at The grave OF Stuart-a $ pace without
i shaft. He reVolutionized the cavalry
tactics Of our time, and was, in dash
and dissolutcness, the Prince Rupert Of
the West. Forrest and Stoneman, Nor
gan and Griersen, Moseby and kilpat-
rick were his imitators. lie inaugural
ed The grand raid which taught Sheridan
tie nathingness pfdistance, aud embold-
ened sherman 20 tear the continent like
a map.
The 4erNid Imagination Of the South
erM people, demonstrated in feasts of TO-
nance. like Stuart's, made them. du-
ring the war, the great suggestive cap
tains. They buiItth firstiron-elad, mad
the first OF the great rides, and, under
St0neWail Jackson, executed the earliest
of the great infantry marches. But the
colder adaptahility of the north devel-
eped every hint from the Sonth into a
perfect system. The experiment Of the
Merrinlac has grown to the Dictator,
the Dunderberg and the Ironsides. The
engineering assiduily OF Beauregard,
initiated by the North, has marked the
camps of our armies, rs ifthe protecting
mountains had followed our columns.
But ii may be doubted that any division
commander has yet arisan to rival the
splendid infantry genius of Jackson.
JACKSON.
KS zee was master Of man@uvre, Jack
SON was the great captain OF aggressive
warfare He combined the cunning and
the holdness of Napoleon. To cover his
great movement by the flank in ls62, he
did not hesitate 10 fight Pope's Whole
army With a division, and the CELEBRITY OF
his march up the Shenandoah to appear
again on the field of Bull Run, was only
equalled by the energy of his attack.
He moved infantry with the speed of
horse, and having hurled three great
| commanders back from the Old l1omln-
+ ion, died before the lustre OF its arms had
! diminished in that flush Of victory when
rebellion had assumed, indeed. the pro-
portions OF Il nation. He was the most
republican of rebels, stern and simple rs
any Roundhead, and this is why we
hold his memory greenef than that of
+ his companions. Whose detection to the
Union was augmented Ivy their treason
! to popular Institutions.
There were other personages identified
with this graud historical defence, but
these are the great statures Davis, Lee,
Jackson, Stuart, Beauregard.
Secretary McCullocll has accepted the
j WAYS and Means Committees amend
mcIt to his Finance bill. This Is known
as " Shernlan's Senate BILL" the only
difference being that he was willing to
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