Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-06-22
HORACE: GREELEY ON LEE
AND JACKSON.

That Horace Greeley is a statesman and
a philosopher far superior to the ordinary
type in this country, it were useless to
deny. : That he is honest, ~outspoken, gen.
erous to a fault. and of unquestionable
moral courage we have abundant proof
throughout his long career of usefulness
as a public man and a private citizen.
But that he sometimes commits the most
egregious blunders in away that his strong
est political friends and personal admirers
cannot overlook, is equally notorious.
There are times when it requires more
than human nature to keep pace with eth
or his philosophical ramblings or his &C.
centric notions of public policy.
Horace must have been in one of his
blundering moods the other day when
he told a Vicksburg audience, con-
sistirg almost entirely CT Southerners,
"that he hoped the time would come when
Americans North and South would feel a
Just pride in the soldierly achievements
and military character of LIE and Stone
wall jackson"
at We have no objection to Mr.. Greeley's
cultivating the friendship of Southern PEG
pie. He may even descend to the grow
ling habit too common with a certain class
of Northern men, of tickling the self-love
Of their degenerate Chivalry, by fattering
illusions to the military proves of the
men who led their armies in the late strug-
gle for the destruction of the Government,
and we shall not complain. But when be
asks or expresses a hope that Union men
North and South, or the widows and or
phans of Union Soldiers, will ever look
with any degree of pride on the military
achievements of such men as Lee and
jackson, he asks more than he has a right
to expect.
The Union soldier fought for a princi-
ple. He tonight to preserve a government
that traitors like Lee and Jackson were
trying to destroy, and not for the sake of
military glory. The noble women North
and South who sent their husbands and
sons into the Union army were actuated
by a higher feeling than the mere hope of
seeing them return loaded with military
honors, and we trust it will be long ere
they look with any other feeling than alb
horance upon the military genius that con-
signed so many of them to bloody graves,
or sent them to starve in the prison pens
of the South. 1t is natural that South
ern people should cherish the memory of
those whom they delighted to honor while
living. 1t is with mingled feelings of
pleasure and sympathy, that we see them
plant the Myrtle and Ivy above their
graves. We have no desire to encourage
feelings of resentment toward the Confed-
crate soldier, living or dead. But the
only tribute Mr.. Greedy, or any one else has
a right to expect at our hands to the mem
DRY of the authors of so much useless blood
shed and misery, is silence. This we are
willing to concede but self-respect, and
respect for the memory of our own pa
triotic dead, forbid that We should do
more.
Let Lee and Jackson rest in peace. Let
their friends and followers while living
strew their graves with flowers if they
will. Let Southern pens write their cpl
taphs and Southern poets sing their praises ;
but it is not the business of Loyal men to
do either the one or the other.