Bismarck tri-weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1881, 1877-06-06
Stonewall Jackson's Sister.

81 The Cleveland Leader prints the fol
lowing in relation to Gen. Stonewa:l
Jackson and his sister, the statement
being derived from lady who was, pre-
vious to the war, an inmate of the lat
ter's family: ''They were orphan
children, and were brought up together
until he went to West Point. Like
most orphan children. they were most
unusually attached to each other. 1t
later time she married and settled in
Beverly, where her husband Carried on
large farm or plantation. Her broth
er, the General, frequently visited her,
and during these visits he would inva-
invariably go to the quarters
of the slaves. for the purpose
of exhorting them on the subject Of
religion. Frequently this great soldier
would be seen on his knees in the
midst of the lowly children of Africa.
Offering earnest prayers for their earnest
salvation When the var broke nut
this singular difference between the
affectionate brother and sister trans
pired: One espoused The cause of the
South, and became the greatest of all
Confederate generals, with world wide
reputation for consumate military abiI-
ity, and laid down his life on the bloody
field of Charlottesville. The sister,
in spite of the opposition of her broth
er, uninfuenced by his brilliant achieve
ments and the opposition of her has
band and her.rela tives, sided with the
cause of the Union, and remained true
to that cause to the end of the war. Sc
great was the feeling engendered against
her that she eventually separated from
her husband and moved to Springfield,
Ohio, and resided with a daughter who
had married Union officer"
Daniel Webster in his speech al 1he
trial of the murderers of Joseph White,
of Salem, Mass, used the following
words not more distinguished for their
eloquence than their truth: 'The gull
ty soul cannot keep its secret II is
false to itself, or rather it feels an ire
sistabIe impulse to be true to itself, 1t
labors under its guilty possession and
knows not what to do With it. The
human heart was not made for the res
idence of such 40 inhabitant. 1t fuds
itself preyed upon by a torment which
1t dares not acknowledge to God Or
man. A vulture is devouring it, and it
can ask no sympathy OF assistance
either from heaven or earth. The
secret which the murderer possesses
soon comes to possess him, and like the
evil spirits Of which we read, it over
comes him and leads him withersoe7sr
it will. He feels it beating at his heart.
rising at his throat, and demanding
disclosure. He thinks the whole world
sees it in his face, reads it IN bis eyes,
and almost hears it working In The very
silence of his thoughts. 1t has become
his master. 1t betrsys his discretion,
it breaks down his Courage, it conaueTs
his prudence, When suspiciens from
without begin to embarrass him and
the net Of circumstances TO entangie
him the fatal secret struggL=s Ul.n
greater violence to break forth"
The indianapolis News tells OF a ven
erable funeral procession. 4 dead Gov,
swelled to enormous proportions, was BE-
ing removed on wagon, when three
other cows dropped behind the S'hearse,
and in single file followed the carcass OF
the departed out oftown. They reft!1er
beloved nor paved the earth, bat be-
taved themselves as high-toned nourH-
ers, too well bred to make display Of
Their Grief