Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-10-19
oRFIoIAL sNaanERr,l

The Macon Telegraph and Asssen.
ger has a paragraph about graveyard
loyalty" m which ii Gays: ssThst little
piece, Of diplomacy. .hctEfen- Collector.
Robb' of Savannah, and Secretary Bout.
,Rell, about half-masting the flag 10 re-
spect 10 Gen. Lees memory IS worthy
those funcsionaries, ana seems specially
designed TO provoke . hiss from al CHRIS
tendoml 70 We'll, there are some souls in
this world, which, If not little and mean,
are nothing at all e It is the only distlns-
ton they are capable of winning "
: 1t appears that 3 number Of the, en-
ployes of the cust6mhouse at Savannah
had, on hearing of the desth of Gen. Lee,
lowered the flag on that building to half
mast but Immediately upon being in
fofmed of what had been done, Collector
Robb ordered the flag to be raised again
10 its usual position, In doing this be
simply showed q want of the common de-
cencies of life, and the fact that, secrel
tary Boutwell, sustained the Collector in
what he had done, does not relieve the
act OF its petty meaRness. The simple
lowering of the flag was an evidence of
honest appreciation of true man
by his fellows, who, showed them
selves to be-, men Of deep impulses.
The whole South is, in mourn
ing fol, its greatest citizen, who was too q
citizen of tssfthc best government the
world ever saw and Collector Robb
would have lost nothing in the estimation
Of all honorable men by silently rccog-
nizing a great sorrow. AS il It is, Mr..
Robb has simply insultsd the grief OF
those among whom hr, for the time,
makes his home Noticing This cffnt 81
Boutwell,, through his man Friday,
(Robb,) to increase the bitterness Of
the cup already presented 20 The grief
stricken friends of the great Virginiar
hero and Christian gentleman, Western
contemporary says: How different The
course pursued by The frank and generous
Gov. Walker and the Virginia Legisla.
ture. The difference is that Of the Mas
sachusetts shop-keeper and the man OF
large heart and noble impulses. The shop
keeper sees no money in the dead body, nt
| opportunity for barter, and is content C
give it kick and pass on. Cover
nor Walker and the Legislature recognize
in the cold form the last of that which
once was great, and would quietly gathel
it up, and with solemn and betting cere
mODy safely lay it away. But this is (
day of small men in power, and we may
expect fiendish chuckle of deligh
among those in authority whenever I
truly great man dies. The opportunity
for comparison and rivalry is thus less
ened. When it became known that Ad
miral Farragut was dead, congratulation
were extended to Porter, he being in th'
regular line of promotion, and the CabiEc
went about IFS business. The friends anC
neighbors of Farragut took care of hi
body, while Grant and his Cabine
engaged themselves at horse races anC
in making pleasure trips. Farragut wa!
Democrat, for which he was treated
with cold neglect as warning, we pre-
sumo, to all other Democrats to make
their peace with Radicalism while there
is yet time. Fortunate it is that the fan
name and fame of the country's great art
not left to the keeping of those in posi-
ton to-day. Were it SO, future genera.
tions would only hear of the John
Browns, the Boutwells, the Holdens, the
Kinks, the Revels, etc. AS it is, the
name of Lee, and that of those like unto
him, will be remembered for their su.
periOr qualities of mind and heart long
after the names of those who now seek
officially to spit upon him and them shall
have been forgotten"