The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-06-14
Especial dispatch TO the Baltimore sum-
Arlington and Its Di"Posscssea -" o'-
The Recent VISIT Of Mrs. Lee.

w,sp,yGroN, June 12.-The agitation 10
,s.,srd IN the Justice and propriety OF coI'-
T>ansatinp Mrs Lee for her ahcestiI' es'.''
r,;ns,nn. which has been lately COM
u,.nne5 in influential Republican circles, Is
inoi,ed upon as a hopeful sign OF mrs. Lee
,,ndoubted claims being ut last considered.
The fraII legal tenure by which the Govern
,nent holds its title TO Arlington Is a hiatCcf
of no dispute. No one compreienued TINS
better than that keen lawyer EDWIN NJ.
stanton. and hence the conception and exc
cu,ion of the plan TO convert 1t into vast
national cemetery. ii was believed, ana no
doubt correctly, that this once done tue
place would pass forever from the Lees ior
the North would never consent, ahoe, amy
plea, that the bones Of It's soldiers shouio oe
disturbed. Two or three years ago eehator
Wc, ,reerv of Kentucky. called attention to
;he fact that Arlington was rightfulsy the pro-
nertv If Mrs, Lee, aud proposed that it
should be restored to her and the remains of
the Union dead be transported to another
res,ing-place.
Those who heard them eau never forget
the eloquent remarks of Mr.. McCreery, and
his etalogium of the Confederate captain
then sleeping his last sleep like the thousands
OF his former foes who lay in his own lovely
home. But. as was not unnatural, the only
effect Of Mr.. McCreery's brilliant rhetoric
was TO arouse slumbcring feelings Of sec.
tionai bitterness and partisan raDcor, and
whatever good objects he had in view were
utterly defeated. His action, rs stated by
himself, was taken entirely Of his own mo-
tlon and without any consultation with or
even any knowledge of Mrs. Lee or any OF
her family. In truth, the most carping critl-
rism must stand abashed and silent before
the noble and accomplishing demeanor pre-
served by Mrs. Lee FROM the very hour that
her property was wrested from her down TO
the present time. II is this which has
awakened sympathy for this more than Ro-
mau matron, which there is good reason
20 anticipate will lead in measure at
least to long-delayed reparation. Mrs.
Lee, who has been spending some
time with a relative at Alexandria, left
there to-day for the Hot Springs of Virginia
During her stay she has been called on by
many friends and wel.wishers there and
here. She has visited the happy home of heI
childhood, received from all the abundance
that was once hers but q cup of cold water.
and has, perhaps, cast upon 1t the last long
lingering glance. In response to inquiry
she has affirmed that she neither asks for mol
expects the restoration Of her dead fathers
gift, but she hopes a just Government vii
make such remuneration to her Us may bt
fitting. From all the indications it car
scarcely be questioned that ere long such
,nelsul e. will be taken as will result in per
fecting the title of the Government in thu
Arlington estate, and atfording to the declin
,ng years of this lady the comforts and ele
aaucies to which she had always been accus
toned to till the moment Robert Il. Lei
cast bis fortunes with his native Virginia.