The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-21

the larger part of the Confederate force OF
"a. 600 men to strike the flank Of some l2O,OOo
Federals, whom the chief held in check Id
front with scarcely one-third OF his own small
force. :,
Rarely if ever after Jackson's death did Lee
take the offensive with success. The chiei
reason. no doubt, was that the enormous
numbers OF the Federals were never again
handled bv a Pope or Hooker; but some
thing NAV have been due to the absence OF
one to whom the most desperate-seeming en-
terprises might be entrusted with perfect con-
fdence that ii they were feasible they would
be Garfield out triumphantly. And few can
helm thinking that If Jackson had been pres
ant even Gettysburg would not have been an
excention to the otherwise uninterrupted
series of victories which attended the Army
of Virginia from the day when Lee took COM
mand to the day wien his sorely strained line
snapped in front of Fort Gregg, and let IN the
whole food of the Federal army upon an
ear.hen work held by two or three hundred
devoted Mississippians
We entertain no fear lest any political mis-
chief should result from the honor paid to
the memory of Stonewall Jackson. The Vir-
cinians are as calm and judicious as they are
manly and resoiute; and Gov. kemper is in
these qualities typical Virginian. He must
have been prepared for bitter abuse from the
Radical press which feels that the only chance
for its disgraced and demoralized faction is to
make capital out of charges of rebellion
and "secessionist ideas" and from such
r .dical leaders az Butler But as rule all
such attacks fall fat. The Northerners know
how the Confederates fought; they entertain
a wholesome, honest respect Tor the men VINO
beat them, one TO four, on dozen neids OF
battle: and whatever hatred may be cherished
| Al chi IF |.
it ia only among the wire-pullers OF Jews
papers and conventions, and the rabbie OF
Republican cities, that any bitterness IS feit
towards even the living soldiers OF the Oon-
federacy
That honor should be grudged to the dead
none of the million of Federal soldiers VINO
are now scattered over the North, none of the
stalwart farmers who form the flower e1 It's
population, would understand and Of me
Confederate dead none, perhaps, az.
enemies seemed to feel almost as fnuc oiss
for the loss as thankfulness for the d u
ance. OF course the .English sympatnIz6fs
will be denounced. But we are by no means
sure that the presentation of this statue will
not have more effect in suggesting to Amsri-
cans the reason why the Southern cause was
SO popular in England than in reawakening
their bitter resentment at the fact. There
were, of course many Englishmen who un-
derstood the American Constitution and his
tory, and judged the quarrel coolly; and these
pronounced the South IN the right.
But their argument would never have over
come our national bias against slavery. It
was the physical weakness of the South, cou-
pied with the splendor of her achievements
and the gallantry of her soldiers, the glori-
GUS names she gave to history, and the thor
oughly English stubborness of her self de-
Tense, that secured her the sympathy of
Englismen at large, and especially of English
gentlemen; and, though the after-life OF Lee
has specially identified bis memory with that
Of his cause, and has thrown ever the latter
the sanctity of the former, while the war
lasted, or at least during the period that fixed
our ideas and won our hearts, it was Stone
wall Jackson's name that was representative
of Southern heroism, and it was through him
that England learned to admire and honor his
country, to love the flag he upheld, and be-
lieve in the cause for which he fought.
And for such feelings no American who
himself recognizes jackson as one of the
proudest boasts of America, Can owe US
grudge or bear us malice,