Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-11-05
sTONEWALL JAOKS0N'S MEMORY.

STONEWALL JACKS0N'S MEMORY.
NORTHERN OPINION OF THE VIRGINIA
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. TRIBUTE FROM
OUR COuNTRYMEN-A NORTHERN RE
COMBINATION FOR A sTATuE TO LEE,
&C., &C., &c.
Nothing that sprung from the recent
ceremonies in Richmond can be more graft
flying than the following comments on
them from tie leading papers Of the North.
The reader will find that he will be well
repaid in the perusal:
A GENEROUS AND APPRECIATIvE TRI-
BITE
fFrom the New York Tribune, Ind.l
1t was not S range that the unwilling of
the bronze statue of StOneWall Jackson at
Richmond, Virginia, yesterday, Was cele-
brated with 50 much of poMp and cere-
mony, or that the occasion brought to-
getller in the Virginia capital the largest
and most enthusiastic conc urse OF citizens
of the South that has been- gathered in any
Southern city since the War. In view vi
all the circumstances; Of the veneratlon
amounting almost to idOiatry III which all
the people of tine South hold The memory OF
jackson; of their universal desire to ex-,
ishibit their appreciation of the generosity.
of t. e givers of the statue, and OF the fact
| too, that this was almost the first opportu
nifty since the war for a reunion, with Il
genuine and defiAite purpose of the scat
| tered armies of the Cunfederacy, 1t would
have been very strange indeed had the oc-
cason been wanting in any OF the elements
which characterized it. Next to Lee, and
perhaps in some respects more than that
ctlicey. Jackson was looked upon by the
| Southern people as the great soldier Of the
| war. VITA Lee he divided. their aft ctiOn-
ate admiration. No officer of all their
armies commanded such implicit conf
| dence by his skill, such enthusiasm by his
| daring such inspiration 10y the sWlttnes3
of his combination and the rapidity OF his
movements, such devotion by his example
| hero, and they had an honest pride in him;
their martyr, and they reverence his men,
DRY. And SO yesterday, not forgetting for
! What he fought and fighting fell, but re-
membering more than all that, what he
( was; touched by this tribute paid to his
| greatness by men across the sea who never
| saw his face, conscious that he fought in
vain, but Cleasuring no bitterness at the
result. they give him high and stately
i donors, and remembered him i'll tender
/ and lmpass toned eulogy.
special dispatches, were grand and impress
slve. The addresses were notably free
from anything which might jail upon the
| sensibilities OF in any way violate the pro-
prieties of such an occasion. We have now
so far passed out from under the influence
of the passions engendered by the war,
that we may almost consider its figures and
events with the impartiality of history.
On both sides we are coming to separate
| I'm, r~f Lot M
events which brought them forth and set
them forth III so strong Il light, and we are
growing into juster judgments and clearer
apprehension of their real character. We
of the North can not only look calmly on
while Virginia and the South eulogiZe the
heroes who grew great to our discontinue
but we CAN unite with them in paying tne
tribute of our admiration to the rugged
virtues. the obstinate sincerity, the manly
faith, the courageous self-lenial which are
| perpetuated in the monumental bronze I'M
yelled at Richmond yesterday. HIS deeds
| and his sacrifices are in IL special sense the
heritage Of the men with whom and fol
i whom he fought, but iii larger sense his
| example as Il man of sincerity, c0nStancy
and fidelity tt, his honest, though mistaken
convictions, is the worlds, and will be re
membered when the cause he fought for j:
forgotten.
HIS FAME LIVES WITHOUT REFERENCE
| TO HIS CAUSE.
New York Evening Post, Rep.l
The cause in which Stonewall jackson
fought and fell, died long ago, but his fame
lives without reference to it, His courage
his devotion to what he believed was hi
duty, his skill as Il soldier and his virtues
as man existed before secession was con
ceived, and these are what the Virginians
commemorated yesterday. The qualities
which made jackson great belonged tt
him as a man and were wholly Independent
of the cause to whose service, from a mis-
taken sense -of eduty, The devoted them
Jackson was All American before he be
came Confederate, and we may rightly
regard him as belonging to his country
rather than to his State. These are cen
point toward national feeling and brother
~ regard among the States. The either
OF Boston cannot walk upon Dorchester
Heights without remembering that it was {
FirH inian planter who, placing his battery
there. drove the British out OF New En-
glands chief city. The names OF Eutaw
Camden, Charleston, Ninety-six, and Z
score of other towns, remind the CarOlini
an Of gallant Benjamin Lincoln. whom
Ma ssac lusetts sent to the the South's as
sistance, and patient, tireless, heroic
NatI.anal Greene, Rhode Islands gift t.
Carolina in the days of her sorest ne ed
May W.; not, in like manner, forgetting
our family quarrel. cherish for the Whole
country the fame of its gre 1t leaders Oil
both sides? jackson and Lee, us we'll az
Thomas and Farragut, were Americans
and whatever measure OF fame history
| shall accord to either. will be, and shoult
be the cherished possession not Of Il part
| but all the nation.
A LEADER WHO HAS DONE MUCH TO DE
| SERVE HIS FAME.
| [From the New York Commercial Advertiser
| Radical1
Few leaders have done so much to de
serve their great fame rs jackson. A mar
| with lofty purposes, pure and correct ii
| his life, a great general, . good man, NJ
| combined in his person the nobleSt attri
butes of human kind. He was a, skilfu
in war as he was devout in religion-;l sin
gular juxtaposition, it may seem, but one
wthal that very frequently appears on
| the pages Of history. Some Of the soldiers
carried their prayers to the battlefield
Jackson, however, was too much in earnes:
| in everything he undertook to permit his
attention to be distracted FROM the sub
ject in hand. The consequence was, when
| fighting, he devoted all his energies tt
overcoming his adversaries, and postponed
| his prayers to IL more suitable season
When the South lost him it lost what was
considered, and is considered still by many
persons, its ablest general! At all events
no one will grndge the great soldier the
respect paid his name yesterday. If great
virtues deserve such testimonials, surely
| Thomas jackson is worthy Of all honor.
| The South itself should have performed
this service; butt negleetiHg it, Should
now make amends by erecting stas ue tn
! Robert E. Lee This has been suggested
before, but no action to that end seems to
| have been taken.
| NO MALICE OR UNCIIARITABLENESs Elk
| CITED.
| From the New York World, Denl]
The time has passed when the the e! &C.