The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-08-03
DALLAS, Elk AS.
TUESDAY MORNING :::: AUGUST ,.
OBITUARY.

Orr Saturday night dispatches
brought the news Of tho death, at
Norfolk, Va, Of tho gallant Major
General George n. Pickett, late of
tho Confederate army.
Tho subject of this brief notice
was native of Richmond, Virgin
ia, and graduated at West Point in
1916. lilo was assigned to the eighth
regiment of United States infantry
M u brcvot second lieutenant, and
served with distinction in tho Mex.
lean war, winning two brcvcts for
gallant and meritorious conduct in
battle.
At tho breaking out of tho war
between tho States, he resigned his
commission in the Federal army,
and rendered his services to his
native State. Ho was assigned to
duty in the army of Northern Vir.
ginia, and rapidly rose through the
different grades, until he reached
that of Major General, In every
engagement in which his command
bore u part, he won distinction by
tho skillful handling of his men,
and tho GOODNESS and intrepidity of
his personal bearing Tho
repeated charges of "Picketes
division" ON Cemetery Hill,
at Getsysburg, although unsuccess'
full, will go down TO postcrity, along
with the charge Of the French I'M
perial Guard, at Waterloo, as one o.
the most heroic on record.
One of tho bravest Of the brave
the deceased general was yet ~
gentle and MS guieloss as young
girl, and wontho devoted attach
mcnt Of his associates, and tho low,
and confidence Of tho men under hi
command.
Although tho conquest Of the
South, has given the North q telling
advantage in pleading its cause DO
ioro tho tribunal Of posterity, ant
assigning motives to tho dlstin
gushed actors in tho conflict, ycl
we believe when the passions which
it evoked have passed away, tn,
world will do justice to the purity Of
tho motives of tho men who, like
Robert, Il. Lee, Joseph Il, and Alder,
Sydney johnson, Stonowall Jackson
George Il. Pickett, and others, who
disrogarding tho large rewards
which continuance in tho Fedora
army would have brought them
chose rather tho path of duty n
they understood il. Whatever NOR
alists may say tho contrary, W,
hold il to be true that to certain
extent, men, in general, are not re-
sponsiblo for their opinions. They
inherit them; they get. them uncon-
sciously from their early surround.
ings, from which they are absorbed
rs unconsciously rs we do the air.
Born and reared in Turkey we
should doubtless be devotees of the
Prophet of Mecca, born and bred in
the North we should have worshipped
the Union, as the most sacred of
earthly things. But the men, of
whom we have made mention, were
born and reared in n land where
the sovereignty Of the States was
taught us the chefarticle of political
faith; and believing that as sover.
eighties tho States had tho right to
withdraw, with cause, or without
cause,ifit was their overeign will to
do so,they would have been recreant
to their honest convictions not TO
have disregarded personal consid-
erations and sided with tho cause
they believed TO be just, And what
ever posterity may settle down to be.
love in regard to the abstract ques.
tion Of Secession and Unionism, il
will not failto do equal justice to
the Lees and the Johnstons, the
Jacksons Of tho lost Confederacy, as
well rs to tho McClollans, Grants
and Shermans Of the restored I'm.
ion. w N8 gs AAts AsAas# WE W.
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A Great Outrage.