Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-06-12


+, ei .c-.ss .... surrendered, ia. DeeiI
violated-our readers know. The
Republican party clamored for vio-
latlon Of the military capitulations-
for the blood OF the general who had
spared in war to punish murder by
repisals and devastation by requisi-
tions. General Grant-it is his one
title to honor-put down this demand
with high hand. But he allowed
the Southern people to be ~ronged,
oppressed, insulted, pillaged, by ne
gro voters and Northern adventures,
as never nation was oppressed before.
| Perhaps till he became President he
had little power to prevent it; at all
events, be did not try. Lee saw all
this, and yet, with breaking heart,
he exerted himself to keep his people
quiet. He had lost fortune and home
in the war, by pillage and wanton
destruction; he was prescribed; he
declined to draw vengeance on his
State by taking open part in her poll,
tics; The oenmander-ln-chief Of ma
.tioaal army condescende'l to- the con-
troll of military school, and to aliie
of silence. and obscurty. But afl
Southern eyes were fixed on him, and
his influence was used to keep them
calm and patient, and to re-attach
them to the. Union which had con-
quered and was crushing them. Evea
while their wrongs and miseries were
wearing out his life he checked every
utterance of resentment, every ex-
preston OF hope for a future deliver
ance.. t. We are all Americans now.
he would altow'fio toasts to the Lost
Cause, no honors to the Fallen Ban.
ner. lie bore his burden with sim
Fple, unaffected, patient heroism. 9th.
er men may have. approached him in
fwar and in achievement; none capa
/ Bile of deeds like his ever rivaled him
in endurance and submission under
hopeless defeat. A Cato would have
fallen on his sword; a Brutus might
have conspired; a Hannibal .endured
oaly in the hope Of revenge and re-
trieyal. But General Lee not only
endured, but submitted, and thai
without suffering his country to- en-
tertain even the wish to renew the
struggle. He had to endure forsome
weary years,s and then the release
Games The overwrought nerves sud-
denly gave way he sank at once
from perfect elf-posses>ion and appa.
rent,health into collapse and speech
lessness, and died as literally "of q
broken heart" as ever did despairing
patriot or defeated soldier-more tru
ly far than most hearted
victims of private. gries.. So he pass:
ed away from the iS5Vlt5Y he could
neither save by his sword nor restore
to happiness by counsels, but which
he had crowned with glory in war
and rescued in defeat, from useless
strpggles3and deeper misery. He has
Llefs bsJhiiiias him. no rival ,in her, lave
I.no object. of equal ipri1s., aad, revef.
.,enoe. ..Mos is l1s .fame oaufsaedt to the
Souths sgWhesepestAe English tongue
t.is spoken his name -is -reVered 'ane
I.honored---a, name to (which history
/ furnishes few equal. IN .raikbsiy ne
.tnomnS aons.in aaepal granses,r4,tht
name of one who -seatszea.in actaa
! lliRe.thezdreamssof -idesFs chivalry; ts,
), .ereatin victory that none ever sur
] passed, so much greater in defeat tina
! none eyeraapproashed him; the pa
ysrist without a Thought eof eeff, tn,
hero without a shade Sof,afecsatiol
ur1iisplay; the man whewaf1 nei