The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-08-28

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An English Compliment to the Great
Southern Military Leader, R. E Lee.
From the London Daily Telegraph.
At Lexington, in the State Of Virginia,
there is a college which bears the name of
the most illustrious citizen ever born in the
sold Dominion" fertile as that pleas Mt
land has been in heroes; nor could George
Washington himself have wished that the
college erected IN his honor should have
for President a worthier chief than the one
who quietly entered upon his duties just a
fortnight ago. The new President is still
in the prime of manhood, though already
his hair aud beard are gray; he has been
long accustomed to command; he Is familiar
with hardships as with fame-has slept for
months amid the woods of Virginia, and
has crossed the RappahannOck northward
at the head Of victorious army; he has
been proved alike by good and evil fortune,
and, whether when threate ming the Federal
Capital, or when surrendering his sword to
a Federal Captain, he has ever borne him
self as beseemed man noble alike by an
cestry and by nature. The descendant of
'Light-HoEse Harry has doffed the gray
uniform for the garb Of peaceful professor;
nor can we own that the charge is a deg
radiation, even for Robert Lee There is a
difference in the mode Of action, but no al
teration 10 the oject, which is simply to
render the best seEyice he can to his native
State. To that single aim be has never
once been unfaithful; and be will still pur
sue it, we may rest assured, with the old
high enthusiasm, tempered by a cautious
brain. Throughout the Wsr, nothing was
more remarkable than Lees personal inhu-
enoe-the manner IN which he impressed
every one who approached him. That men
with Jackso9's purity and eaTnestness, or
wish the ds5Onnaire and graceful Valor Of
Stuart, should appreciate illustriOus quail
ties of their leaders, was only natural; but
even the humblest soldiers in the ranks
felt, though they might not have been able
to express, the moral power which Lee ex-
ertad. The war was. 10 all conscience, san
culinary enough; bat there would have been
a very carnival carnage, devilish outbreak
of fietcest passions, had the Southern lead
er been of different temper.
5 Calamity as the Coniederales fought, We
, must never forget that their armies we're of
ten composed of somewhat inestimable raw
: material; that the volunteer, with all the in
stinct of bravery wich seldom deserts q
{ dominant class, had likewise many of the
; vices which are inevitably engendered by
the possession of arbitrary and laWless pow
er. Accustomed to the unchecked license
of authority, the Shareholders might per
, chance have been ready enough to give the
wal a character Of internecine hatred; and
it was Immediately due to Robert Lee that
Z the courtesies and humsnities Of civilized
e warfare we're, on the whole, observed The
gentle nature of the man never degenerated
; into weakness, and with high hand could
restrain exeesses, and admirably did he ex'
A ercise his power. There are no purer pa
ges in history OF the civil war than those
which relate to his invasion of Maryland
and Pennsylvania, at a time when the tenn
per of the Southern people was sorely tried
Such qualities as he displayed could no
fail, in the long rum to win the regard Of &
manly and afeotionate people; and while We
fnd that he was loved like father by al
those who shared his immediate perils, We
N have not yet forgotten that when the victo
? rious veterans OF the North were marching
home through Richmond, they burst into
splendid shout of enthusiasm as they rec
ognized, gravely contemplating them from
a eurtained window, the familiar form an
Of face of Robert Lee.
''The old order changes, giving place
new and God fulflls himself in many ways.
To teach young lads their classics an
mathematics may seem but poor oceupa
70 ton for one whose word was lately the gu
preme law for hundred thousand fght
ing men; and yet there need be no sense {
humiliation involved in the deliberate az
ceptance of such employment. 1.-THE me-
order is'' that of peace; for time, the fl
,s- est thing that Lee could do was to set g
example of valor and yirtue to the Whol
20 manhood of the South; but not less pure
- the glory Of one who, by honest and PstleE
labor, prepares the young for that long'
conflict which fills the whole length an
breadth of human life.
- Il is said positively, by those having th
- / Lo-t - that the ObIact 4