Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-03-14

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own, my native Tennessee, if we may
but have a stable government over Il,
and Just one. Let Us combine our ef-
1 forts to make il such.
4 Northern Estimate Of Confederate
/ Leaders.
/ We extract the following from a long
review OF the war in the New York CIT
/ zen, a Republican paper, edited by Col
I Halpine, late of the United States army:
" DAVIS.
Let those loyal gentlemen, disciples of
1 Mr. Abbott who worship the character
! Of BOnaparte, make some consistent
! homage to the brilliant directory Of JEFF
fersOn 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 cur
Senate halls, he made the most courtly
adieu. OF all the traitors he was the
most entirely in earnest. OF all decis-
ion his was the SGgest, the prOmptest and
the most enduring. He, only, Of the
c0nspirators, felt th2t his quarrel with
the Union was irreconcilable, and has
never vet advised submission. His cap
tivity has been belittled by none Of BO-
naparte's querulOusness. Blind, aud
grey, and wasted, his dOminiOns are mar
rOwed to the casemate, while the Repub-
lie he would overthrow reaches 20 the sl-
lent oceans.
LEE.
In Robert Lee the same austere Prov
idence, 10 purify our Iepublicanism, shat !
tered our faith in traditional respecta-
bility. The heir of Washington went
with the rest Of the new chiydlry, and
with ten times the talent Of that great /
FabiUs crushed the armies Of our own
lesser respectability, till he met in Grant 4
Z man without pedigree. He was the .
equal of Wellington in n2ueuvering |
great bodies Of troops upon small, iu- I
ferior forces. The Duke at Waterloo .
fought his whole army upon mile and .
a quarter arc; but Lee, at Cold HaIbor,
for i've days presented solid line of bat
tie wherever We sought for him, til his
whole force seemed maneGvered by the
wink of his eye, and every salient that
we touched was a corps. While the for
titications of Richmond stand, his name
shall evoke admiration. The art of war
is unacquAinted with any defense so adj
Splendid as were the triumphs
of his engineering, the victories OF his in
fantry were his besS monuments. But
over the glory Of his talent fell 4 shadow
as eternal as his memOry-the frown of
resolute Democracy, whose sacrifice was
longer than his art.
STUART
I stood in The cemetery Of Hollywood
az the grave OF Stu3Tt-a space without /
a shaft. He revoluiionized the cavalry
tactics Of our time, and was in dash and
the Prince Rupert of the
West. Forrest and Stomemau, Morgan
and Griers0n, Mosby and Fitzpatrick were
his imitators. He inaugJlTaJed the grand
raid which taught Sheridan the nothing
ness OF distance, and emboldened SheI-
man to tear the continent like a pocket
map.
The fervid imagination Of the Southern
people, demonstrated in feats OF romance,
ike Stuart'7, made them, during the war,
he great suggestive captains. They
built the first irUnclad, made the first Of
he great rides, and under StoneWal
Jackson executed the earliest Of the great
infantry marches. But the colder adap-
ability of the North developed everv
lint from the South into perfect system.
The experiment Of the Merrimac has ]
grown to the Dictator, the Dunderberg,
md the IrOnsides. The engineering as
iduity of Beauregard, initiated by the
North, has marked the camps of our
armies, as if the protecting mountains
lad followed our columns. But il may
)e doubted that any division commander
las yet arisen 10 rival The splendid in-
antry genius Of jackson,
JACKSON,
As Lee was master of maneuver, Jack
on was the great captain OF aggressive
warfare. he combined the cunning aud
he b0ldness Of Napoleon. To cover his I
treat movement by the flank in 1862, he
lid not hesitate TO fight Ropes whole
.rmy with a divis;aH, and the celerity Of
Ms march dp the Shenandoah, to appear
gam on the field of Bull Run, was Only
.qualled by the energy al his attack. He
moved infantry with the speed OF ho-.e
nd having hurled three great eornmand,
~ hack from the Old DimmioD. died
'eiuTe the lustIe 6i It's arms had dimin-
shed in that flush uf victory, when
ebellion had assumed, indeed, the pro-
'OruQps al 3 nation. He was tie most
epublican OF rebels, stern and simple as
my Boundhead, and this is why wehold
lis memory greCner than that OF his ]
whose detection TO the Union
vas augmented by their treason To. poml-
af Institutions.
There were other persouages identified
With this grand historical defense, but
hese are the great gtatues-Dayis Lee |