Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-09-23


fire ON United States vessel, sir, and
we stand to our cables, fercely reply
ing, sir? We must meet the rebellion
and strike it wherever we see it. I
must pass these forts, sir?"
"And," said Porte Crayon, ''the old
fellow was so mnch Of a man that they
couldn't hit his ship. Seventy guns
blazed at him all at once, and drove
back or sunk everything but the old
mans vessel, and she went by. AND
that is the kind of man that Grant is
He will make President of character.
The ticket is national one, and we here
in West Virginia like it."
[ asked General Strother what he
thought of Gerrit Smith and Henry
Ward Beecher subscribing money to
Washington College, the institution OF.
General Lee.
1T is criminal folly" he said.
"That school is the fashionable monu-
ment to treason, and there they are
educating again the sentiment that made
the war it cost nearly all we had to put
down. [ don't say that Lee is ndis-
Greet enough to talk politics, but to
send their children there is the only
way that Northern hunkeys and the
more manly rebels have left to show
their pride in treason. In that school
labor and the tradesman are dismissed
with the old cavalier sneer. and Ben
Woods sons join those of the First
Families in decrying the North and
its principles. 1t is premium put
upon overthrow rebellion to make this
school model to Northern and South
ern fathers. There your turnkey North
ern feeling manifests itself, What has
a victorious empire, based upon North
ern principles, to do with Robert E.
Lees college? That kind Of humanity
is worse than childish. It shows that
you still hold in your souls sympa-
thetic feeling for the traitors you de-
feated Of all mean, miserable beings,
the Northern turnkey is the meanest.
Richmond is city of giants compared
to Baltimore. I can always meet the
defeated rebels upon fair terms but
the renegade Unionist is the meanest
of God 'screatures. He isa poorsearcher
for Virginia recognition. Our little
remnant of pride finds fat in his fawn-
ing"
What of Lee, personally ?"
Lee is worthy fellow, left to him
self. He comes of anomalous cross
breeds, the Lightfoot Harry Lees and
the Carriers OF Shirley. The Carriers
were amiable drawing room poodles
Lighthouse Harry was a man of mill
tary genius. Bob Lee inherits the weak
ness of the one stock and the military
cleverness of the other. He thought
the experiment of the United States was
failure, and being encountered with
the Improbable estate of old Custis he
went over to Virginia His wife OPP.
posed his course to the last, and his
two sons were never quite satisfied.
One of them never fired gun the
other waited till the third year of the
war, when he went in through absolute
poverty. Lee is q fair man on points
of personal honor. He must feel the
Indebtedness of his State and section,
| for which he bears SO much RESPONSE
bility. Altogether, the best statement
| from Southern man that | have heard
upon the situation was that of q friend
of mine He was rebel officer and he
said of the North "By George they
blowed us, sir 1 don't care so much
about their licking us, but they went,
by George! and bowed us ! Why /!
before the war, when went up to the
Springs, or to Newport, or New York,
to be Virginian was to be somebody.
1 was treated like superior being. l
knew they had more money and intel
ligence than we had, and although /
felt that it was all humbug, enjoyed
it Now, by George not content with
licking us out, they have actually
blowed us, showed what swindle we
were. That thing, by George breaks
the cancels back p
I thought to myself that all this was
frank confession for one himself Vir-
gilman. But saw Porte Crayon look
in his grim way up at the mountains.
There the Union never lost friend
His blood was Scotch, and this was
West Virginia. GATH