The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-11-11
4 Northern Tribute to Stonewall Jack.
son.

The unvciling of Folcy's statue of
Stonewall Jackson in Richmond, brought
together larger and more truly repre-
sentative body of the Southern people
than has gathered at any time since the
Confederate armies laid down their arms
ten years ago; and the fact that such a
gathering is in honor of great Confed-
crate leader awakcns no jealousy, reani-
mates no prejudice, and proyokes no un-
kind comment in Northern States, while
the ceremonies of the occasion, embra-
cling as they did good deal of speech
making, were throughout unmarried by
ill feeling or hostile words, proves be-
yond doubt that the wounds ofwar have
healed and that on both sides of the late
line of division peace in its fullest and
best sense is at last restored. That
Southern people, and more especially the
Virginians, should feel pride in the fame
of Stonewall Jackson, and should rejoice
in the tribute paid his memory by the
men of another land whose. gift the stat
ue was, is altogether natural and proper |;
that neither they nor the Northern peo-
pie have made the celebration in Rich
mond an occasion for the indulgence of
unkind feeling is greatly to the credit Of
the common sense of both. We have
got so far away from the war now that
| the men who foughtiit On either side un-
derstand and recognize the sincerity with
which each contended for what each be-
ieved to be the right, and so the time has
come when in commemorating the cour;-
| age, the devotion, the virtues of a great
leader of one army or the other, we hon
| or name which is the common heritage
of all.Americans. The cause in which
Stonewall Jackson fought and fell, died
long ago, but his fame lives without ref
erence to it. His courage, his devotion
to what nc believed was his duty, his
skill as soldier and his virtues as q man
! existed before secession was conceived,
and these are what the Virginians COM
memorated Yesterday. The qualities
which made Jackson great belong to him
as man, and were wholly independent
of the cause, to whose service, from a
sense of duty, he devoted them. Jack
son was an American before he became
Confederate, and we may rightly regard
him as belonging to his country rather
than to his State.
These are centennial years, and their
suggestions all point toward national
feeling and brotherly regard among the
States. The citizens of Boston cannot
walk upon Dorchester Heights without
remembering that it WAS Virginiau
planter who, placing his batteries there
/ drove the British out of New England's
4 chief city. The names of Eutaw, Cam,
den, Charleston, Nincty-six, and a score
of other towns remind the Carolinians oi
gallant Benjamin Lincoln, whom Massa.
chusetts sent to the South's assis'
tance, and patient, tireless, heroic Ma.
thaniel Greene, Rhode Islands gifl
to Carolina in the. days of her sores'
need. May we not, in like manner
forgetting our family quarrel, cherish
for the whole country the fame Of
its great leaders on both sidcs?-
Jackson and Lee, as well as Thoma:
and Farragut, were Americans, and
whatever measure of fame history shall!
accord to either, will be and should
be the cherished possession not Of a par1
but all of the nation.-Me.g York Eren'
ing Post.