Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-05-29
JRG. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MAY go, Iszs.

How cruelty they Sero ,aron,ged-hogs; .bss !;
shamefally every pledge given at every
stage of the war. ON which virtually the
! Confederates had surrendered, has beeh
violated-our readers know. The Re-
publican party ..clamored for. o violation
of the military capitulations-for the
blood of the general who had spared in
war to punish murder by reptisals and
devastation by acquisitions. ,Gefefai
Grant-itis his one title TO honor-put
down this demand, with. . high hand.
But he allowed the Southern people to
be wronged, oppressed, insulted, pillaged
by negro voters and Northern adventu-
rers, as never nation was oppressed and
pillaged before. Perhaos till he became
President he had little power to prevent
it; at all events he did nota.gy. Lee
saw all this, and yet, with aFbreakinS
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 de-
.clined to draw vengeance on his State by
taking open part in her politics; the COM
man-in-chief of q national army conde-
scended to the control Of military
school, and to q life Of ai1ence and oB-
scurity. But all 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
conquered and was crushing them
Even while their wrongs and miseries
we're wearing out his life he checked
every utterance ofresentment, every ex-
possession ofbope for a future deliver
ance, eve are all Americnns now
He would allow no toast to the Lost
Cause, no honors to the Fallen Banner.
He bore his burden with simple, uinafec- i
ted, patient heroieni Other men may
have approached him in VAR and IA.
achievment; none, capable of deeds like
his ever rivalled him in endurance and
submission under hopeless defeat. a
Cato would have fallen on his sword;
iRrutus might have conspired; Hanni-
bal endured only in The liope af geyeiige
and retrieval. But General Zee not:
only, endured, but submitted, and that
without suffering his country to entertain
even the wish to renew the struggle. He
had to endure for some weary years, and
then the release came. The oyerwrought
nerves suddenly gave way; he sank at
once from perfect selfpossion and appa-
rent health into collapse and speechless-
ness, and died as literally "of a broken
heart" as ever did despaifing. patfi5t OF
defeated soldier truly far than
most "broken hearted Victims of private
grief So he passed away from the coun-
try he cohld neither save by his sword
nor restore to happiness. by his counsels,
but which he had crowned with glory in
war, and rescued in defeat from useless
struggles and deeper misery. He has
left behind him no rival in her love, no
OBJECT OF equal pride and reverence. Nor
is his fame confined to the South. Wher-
ever the English tongue is spoken his
name is revefed and honored--a name
to which history furnishes few equal in
military fenown, none in moral grandeur;
the name of one who realized in actual
life the dreams of ideal chivalry; so
great in victory that none ever surpas-
sed, Sc much greater in defeat that none
ever approached him the patriot without
a thought of self. the hero without a
shade of affectation or display; the man
who would neither despair of his country
nor conspire against her conquerors ;
ideal soldier and perfect citizen, a Chris
tian without pretension, and gentleman
without flaw.