The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-06-01

u rneo themselves at the disposal of those wa
J. men reis Ineir realty. II is absurd to call sue
e had b eDes; they were loyalists to all that the
I; aooognized, up to that moment, by three A mer
!. oans 70 tour. To Gen. Robert E. Lee the Fed
could se ass;s offered everything that ambito
= was the favorite of Gen. Scott; he might hav,
!, aaa the chief command as the price Of Treason
intsressa n, ms,a His His feelings were divided hi
letters now published show, he was oonyinceJ
mat DIS duty was to Virginia, and he decided
aecordlngly. With him went Stonewail Jack.
in Ib, ; sde Two Iohnsons every Southern soldier
ga or low command. The cause so es-
P1nseds and by such men, cannot have been
GGaaS Englsh ranters and radicals call 1t.
parent ef Ss% In essence it was so in
ana weight whose. allegiance it pretended to
ei9im dsclinea to support it.
d. Us !auore mad nothing to do with its alleged
dement's. The South was crushed by weight.
nGs broken by weakness. Three things deter.
mined the fate Of. the war-the ciosing Of her
tss the superior wealth, and, far above eli,
country, and had open to her the markets Of
EUROPE EUROPE she had unlimited command Of ali the
resources Of the civilized world. The Sonth
was subject to tho disad yantages both of an
agricultural and non-agricultural country. She
n naa no manufactures, and yet she lived by
daong ciotSiu and n not ,6y by
wealth was at once annihilated by the block
aae' which preveated her from selling her cot
en t on aaa nGDaSoo ana sugar her supplies were
anu total want Of other necessaries of life
ana war. She obtained power and arms from
s sns enemy; boots and clothes and blankets she
aaa to want. Her finances broke down at
once Tor her exports we're her wealth. and az
ports had ceased. But, above ali. she was
at hn@a ~ numbers the North could recruit
off-soourings of Europe. And it was this alone
tnat decided the issue. The EIinburab Re-
n.eoer adds the want of discipline; but We be-
Piiae the Southerners were always sunsrior sJ To
snear foes, and that If the troops of Grant and
thaI had been tried as Lees were tried
foesen sheep. Lee won almost every battle he
.oaent' and against odds of two to one to four ,
70 one. What destroyed him was Grants colo. y
eoniS b only 1;1Snkss
OF sacrificing men without stint, whom he I
'ouid replace, to wear out an enemy who could q
. recruit. Under different circumstances
, ,ue1 process might last longer. But gem
sf Pa who can afford to sacrifice three men to
kiii one must always end by leaving his enemy
a or and therefore greatly sups
ong run 1t is no longer possible in wars be-. '
ween civilized nations for proves to prevail q
Saaass Numerical odds Of great weight. And
well TO s ,es IS Ike England would
vas the cause of the fall Of the Confedsraev
ms is the dark and painful moral Of the Viz. =
banr ctaamRaigns. Against everything but
Gfeat as he was in war-and surely no can o
q of any age ever accomplished greater q
n ateg against an enemy Of the same race, Fl
ng MIN by two or three to one on every battle e.
Lee shone greater still in disaster. n
Great and ruin. The retreat from Richmond a
'as a masterpiece of moral power and soIdiarlv .
Kill the surrender was elevated by it's Cir "
and it's spirit into one of the grand II
30 ana most pathetic scenes In history. Lee b
'st; but his men were staunch to the last W
nd the temptation "to ride along the iinsss 4,
nd give the word and end it all was strong cl
'deed. He conquered it he 7" did his hat ~ ~
IT the men who had loved and trusted him so ~
ing; and he and his soldiers went back to ~
1eir desoiate homes, the ruined citizens of "a 10
, ,ev and enslaved country. How cruelty o.
eaGe given at every stage of the war on wi
hich virtually the Confederates had surren- W,
red, has been violated, our readers know. de
ne Republican party clamored for a violation -
the military capitulations-for the blood of
Q general who had spared in war to punish -
Gr ra By repEisals and devastation by requi- W.
nor-Put down this demand with a high fro
nd. But he allowed the Southern people to tai
WI wron I oppressed, insulted, pillaged by !
yer nation was oppressed and pillaged. be- oo :
9. Perhaps till he became President he had cay
lie power to prevent it; at all events he did tua
try. Lee saw all this, and vet. with a tu na
'aking heart, he exerted himself to keen his
,ple quiet. He had lost fortune, and home Oh u
the war, by pillage and wantan destruction: =
was prescribed; he. declined to draw ven. r
lnce on his State by taking open part in her II
tiles; the commander in chief of q national a. =
~ condescended to the control of military me =
DOL, and to o life of silence and obscuritv. -
all Southern eyes were fixed on him. and n' =,
influence was used to keep them calm and Ri
lent, and to reattach theul to the Union Hi 3,
lch had conquered and was crashing them, :. !;
On while their wrongs and mseries wore n
70 wearing out his life, he checked overy q ~,
erance of resentment, every expression Of IL ~
70 for q future deliverance. eve are all r.
orleans now" He would allow no toasts ;D,a
he Lost Cause, no 'honors to the Fallen ;,nS,
Iner. He bore it's burden with simple, nm *
cted, patient heroism. Other men NAV 800
Q approached him in war ana in achieve nA n,
Is; mono capable of deeds like bis ever ~
LED him in endurance and submission under lei
eless defeat. A Cato would have fallen on Ionf
sword q Brutus might have conspired; a i"1 A.
nibal endured only in the hope of revenge .nr,.
retrieval. Bot Gen. Lee not only endured ~ a.,
submitted, and that without suffering his ~
'try to entertain even the wish to renew ~
struggle He had to endure for some " ~ ~
~ years, and then tho release came. The 10
wrought nerves suddenly gave way he ves
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