The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-05-04
General Thomas An Interesting Letter
from General F!tzhugh Lee.

General Thomas An Interesting Letter
from General F,tzhugh Lee.
The following letter from General
Fitzhugh Lee is valuable oontribu-
tion to the history of tho recent war.
twas, called out by us. Iie has Civ
en- US permission to publish It:
81 know Gonoral Thomas wcll.-
Was n lieutenant in tho cavalry regi-
ment of which he was the ma jor be-
fore the war, and stationed ut tho same
port in Texas with him. lIo was an
excellent artillery officer (scrved in
that arm at Moxico), an indifferent
cavalry onc-too heavy, too slow.
Had not that coup TmH plus rapide
que lc coursicr c"'porte az galop, Z al
dyessc DIN athlete, CT oyiHle N I'm
ccntonrc,' that General Toy talks
about in tho Pcninsular War; but
which did not prevent him from being
n general officer Of indisputablo cour-
ago and unqucstionablc merit.
"You say 'ho is charged with hav.
ing, at the beginning of tho war, hest
tatcd as to which side he should en-
list WITH &c. The New York 7'4-
bunc, however, and all other northern
enconiums that have read upon lis
name and fame, lay great stress upon
his being "a Virginian who never ful.
tcrel in his allegiance to tho Union
Bat they would better have left that
part Of his record alone.
cit is a fact that when war. threat
cned between tho two scctions Of thc
best government tho world ever saw
General Thomas's feelings were south.
orn to almost tho bcl!icose degree.
''It is fact that hc told me in Now
York city, in 1861, us was on my
way from West Point to Washington,
to resign my commission az an officer
of the United States army, that he,
too, intended to resign, and would soon
follow me.
cit is n fact that about that time no
wrote letter to John Lctchor, then
Governor of Virginia, and rendered
his services to the State (Which lctte.
tho Governor may have now).
f'Tho State Of his birth can hardly
bo suspected, under the circumstances, to
erect u monument to him, but it should
not dcfame him.
"IIo was an upright, kind hearted
man, and fought we'll, though against
us. Let him rest in peace; and let
Virginia keep her vials of wrath to be
forever poured out upon tho head Of
some few of her citizens who would
not fight upon either side, but who
stayed at homo and made money by
being paid by the North us spies,
guides, and informcrs, or who, after
having fought, have acted rs if they
were ashamed of their past record.
every respectfully, your obcaient
servant, FIrznuou LEE.
STHE Coor1e TnAps AND Orurn
MATTERs.-Vcry little is heard now.
adays about cooliot emigration to the
South. In fact, tho whole thing seems
to be treated by al parties very cool.
ly since the ratification Of the fifteenth
amendment. Where's Koofsmanchil.
lakoof--or what's.his namc--the coo.
lilo trader? Put in conjunction with
tho deoadcnco Of tho coolc trade wo
have information Of friyh,',.i mortali,
ty among tho blacks in the South,
averaging in one place, il il stated, 4
hundred per cent more; than that OF
the whites, ina population in which
the latter havo an. excess Of three
thousand. Another thing is rcmarka-
bio about.theN oolored population in
the South namely, tho scarcity Of
negro children under five years OF
age. The Inference is obvious the
lack of maternal caro- for the offspring
and proper medical attendance. In
the meantime European emigration is
rapidly filing up tho Southern "wasto
places" and in not many years it will
not be surprising to find Anglo o-Saxon
blood prcponderating there over that
of the African, Ms chat does at pre-.
sont over the Mongolian. IN. Y. Her..
aM. S'@'
Thinking is, indeed, tho very germ
Of Observation-Disclosures sonrce from
which all vital influence springs.
Thinking will do much for an active
mind, even in the absence of hooks,
or living instructors. The reasoning
faculty grows firm, expands, discerns
its own power, act with increasing
facility, precision, and extent, under
all its privations. Who're there is no
Pfivation, but every help from former
thinkers, how much may We not
expect fromgit7s Thus great. 3oharae.
tcrssrisoS while SAs swhotiiinks Aittle.
though much ho reads, or much he
sees, can hardly call anything he has
his own. lie trades with borrowed
capital, and is Oh the high road to,
literary, or rather, to. mental, bank.
rnptcy. 81. ~ = .s,,.s
sThosNVhite Household contains tl,ir.i
y.sixsservants, exclusive Of the cx.y
ccntiya MAerynnt of the nnnnlaaD ANk .e