The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-06-03
From the N. Y. Independent.
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1t was near a blooming apple-tree
that Lee surrendered at Appomattox;
and now that apple-blossoms are drop
ping again from rain-beaten branches,
he has made a second surrender at the
White House. On no political errand
whatever Gas we are assured, did Presi-
dent Lee make pilgrimage to Presi-
dent Grant last Monday; it was not to
solicit for himself cabinet etappointment,
or foreign mission it was simply a
social call, thought fit to be made by
the head of a college on the head of the
government; and certainly, as such, it
is pleasant to see former enemies shak-
ing hands again as present friends.
But if there was no direct object other
than courtesy to inspire this visit, there
was at least a moral significance at
tached to one incident of the interview
which it will edify the whole world to
know. .a.s- #.tOH j1]ta9 bae s
We will not trust our own unsteady
pen to state it, but rather borrow the
calmer words of the Tribune's hearsay
correspondent: sg. -,ss Hi
"Gen. Lee tauors Me Fifteenth Amend
menl. ~ He does not 6eliere hat
the sqfrancdisementof The negroes aciA ,coriE;
such prOdigiOuS harm as has been predicted
by some men North and South" 9so.4
This golden paragraph makes us
think how times change, and how men
change with them! 1t carries us back
to the dismal days when religion, pol
itics, and commerce wove themselves
into triple fetter for the slaves limbs
when, for instance, such clergymen as
Nehemiah Adams wore green glass
spectacles to see only a South Side
View; when such politicians as Pres
ton S. Brooks carried palmetto-sticks
for beating down free speech; yea,and
when such merchants as Simeon B.
Chittenden, slapping their hands against
their short-legged pantaloons, publicly
boasted Of pockets Chat had neyerf fur
nished a shilling toward the abolition
of American slavery. ....i 'p. u. ~ IN. ~ =
All this was only fifteen years ago.
Now, how diffeFentt Brooks indeed
remains unchanged in the public esti-
mate, for by a rash act he hid himself
in a suicides grave, But the South
Side seer. who detected an aureoIe
about the divine Institution, has since
beheld, in the sublime events from 1860
to 1865, a greater "vision of the glory
of the Lord" The frightened mer-
chant who once, like the knife-grinder,
could say, ~ give thee sixpenceR'
found that, during ''the clash of re-
sounding arms" his tingling ears were
,dry-goods boxed by the logic of events
And last of all, though better late than
never, Gen, Lee himself, chief among
these god-fathers of the rebellion, ac-
tually "favors the 18th amendment" Z"
and ''does not believe that the enfran-
chisement of the negroes will work such
harm as has been predicted North and
South" i5 +. .s 'l..s - Ia ..fg te.
Indeed! And will wonders never
cease Verify never. And we are
glad. The best thing one can do when
it is raining, is to let it rain. We, who
stand under the shower, are grateful
for every glittering drop Toward all
these returned and returning sheep our
hearts are large. Others may make
envious comments, not we; Others
may seek to revive the past, not we.
Thus we might inquire, since Gen. Lee
"favors the Fifteenth Amendment" !"
why then did he fightt to keep in slavery
a race to whom he thinks the Federal
Constitution ought to guarantee free
dom? But we will not put such a
question. Or we might say, if he
thinks negro suffrage harmless, why
then did he .tfire the, Southern heart
with fearful cry of "war Of racesF"
But we will not suggest the point. Or
we might ask, since he now subscribes
to the political equality Of whites and
blacks, what becomes of Alexander H.
Stephens ''corner- -stone''7--that "great
truth that the negro is not equal to the
white man, and that slavery, subordi-
nation to the superior race, is his nat
ural and normal condition'!- But we
refrain from pressing the inquiry
Enough for u.s. enough for any rea,
l.sonable being Genough for life't
woes, full enough for its cheer, his The
soul-warming fact that Gen. Lee is al