The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-17
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Slnce november last, into comparative
retirement, not to say oblivion, so has
not his associate and friend Gen. Blair.
This latter gentleman has frequently of
late, proved that he ''ssill lives, and
that he has no intention of being Quietly
snufed out Of public notice by the ,po-
itical extinguisher popped over his head
last year at the polls. ,f-1,-.,'
Now, whether it was anything more
than want OF tact that induced General
Blair to make the speech which he did
the other night at Long Branch, it is
hard to say. IL he desired to be cloudy
missed, and to create serious disturb
anee in that friendly meeting of the So
ciety OF the Army and Navy of the Gulf.
he apparently vent to work in the right
way; II he did not desire this, it is as
touishing that he adopted that line of re-
mark. Whether It. j. jackson and his
nlen form the most improving subjects
for the alteration of our people at this
moment, is q general question which we
need not here discuss but it is sure the
the object Of the Long Branch meeting
Of veterans of the war was to revive me.
mories Of the living who fought and the
dead who died for the Union. rather than
to near the enlogy of those who did their
beat TO break up. our Union, and leave
us 10 wrecked. nation on the stream of
history; It'was not, we say, for political
speeches, or for eulogies Of men who ad-
vised Raising the black flag against our
dear lads that died for the country, that
Farragut and Phil Sheridan and q host
OF heroes less distinguished we're assem-
bIed at Long Branch.
Thore is time for all things-a time
forscandor and ,nagnanimity, but also a
time for patriotism aud stern resolve; a
time for forgiveness of the living, and O
time for respect to the dead; time for
partisan frenzy, and time for patriotic
memories. Gen. Blair's speech would
not have been amiss for the latitude of
Tammsny Hall, but it was taken as an
insult, it seems, by those whom he ad-
dressed. The other day Rev. Mr.. Hol-
land spoke to the students of Washing.
ton College, Lexington, Va, holding up
to them, as o perfect examplar, this same
Gen. I. J. Jackson. We had occasion
to review the speech and to criticise it
on other grounds, but we did not SO
much as notice this, knowing the place
and the audience. But when it comes to
having "Stonewall" or "Blaok-hae"
jackson thrust down our throats, es we'll
as down Confederate throats, we object;
and we must say that, considering the
time, the object, and the character of the
assembly the other night, it is no won
der that Gen. Biair's inappropriate pa
negyric on Jackson was ''hissed" and
himself ''groaned;" that he was called
to order by Admiral Farragut for having
broken the rule of the Society by po-
litical speech, and that the feelings
stirred up against HIM by the members
of the Army of the Gulf are those of in.
dignation. It is pretty much the same,
probably, as if the Lexington orator had
called upon the Shenandoah Valley stu
dents to reverence Sheridan.
We will add, that it was doubtless more
the manner than the matter of General
Blair which so offended his hearers
General Chamberlain 8 oration, the other
day, before the kindred Society of the
Army of the Potomac, contained the
most generous eulogy of the valor and
constancy of the Confederate army-in
its terms it was more eloquently eulogis-
tic than Gen. Blair's. But the latter's
remarks were somehow 30 defiant, that
they seemed as if haunted in the faces of
his hearers, and as if he claimed to have
all the magnanimity for our late enemies,
now our friends, and they none. This
was the secret, we suspect, of the whole
trouble-a blunder in the tact and tone,
rather than the words, of Gen. Blair.
New York Times.
The Times condemns the allusion of
General Blair, at Long Branch, to our
own Lee and Jackson, condemnation
to their shame, be it spoken, which ORR
0inatad with the Armv and Eavy Societv
In General Blair's introduction of the
names of these great captains, we can
but see the recognition of brave and
gallant enemy, and in this brief and
passing tribute, the Times detects in
General Blair want of tact, or may
hap ga disposition to be hissed;" or
even more, to create disturbance in
"the Society and Army of the Gulf. :"
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