The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-23

JUSTICE is sometimes slow of foot
and consumes long time in reach.
ing her object, but she never fAlls
Sooner or later the credit due men
for heroic actions will be awarded to
them. Truth is often covered up
for years and years, but she finally
comes to the surface and exhibi Is
herself in her true colors. The be.
roic men who followed Lee and Jack
son and charged at the stern bidding
of Stonewall Jackson have never yet
had justice done them. They have
been reViled and prosecuted by a
tyranical political party and SIAN
dered and villifed by Venal party
press and by blatant unprincipled
demagogues. Slowly and tardily
the truth is coming out. Here and
there an unprejudlced man is begin
ming TO say for the brave, unselfish
heroes who charged at Gettysburg
or died in the trenches by thousands
at Petersburg, kind word-a word
of truth which will go down as his
tory and be read by coming gener-
ations as the true account or the
great struggle between the North
and the South. In this connection
we republish the following paragraph
from the London, England. Stand
ard:
The younger among us can not per-
haps remember the keen, warm sympa-
thy with which the English of 1861-62
witnessed the heroic struggle maintained
by their Southern kinsmeE against six
fold odds of numbers, and odds of posi-
ton. resources, vantage ground, simply
incalculable. Even those who from
sympathy with the Northern States
were unfavorable to the cause of great
nation revolving against real tyranny,
could not but feel proud Of our near
kinship with that incompatible soldiery |
so designated by their enemies |
which, on fifty battle-ields, maintained |
4 contest such as no other race has ever
in modern times maintained, and at last
when all hope was gone, held for six
with forty-f1ve thousand men,
against one hundred and fifty thousand,
a slender line of earthworks thirty miles
in length who marched out %, 900
strong, and after six days retreat in the
The face of the countless cavalry and
overwhelming artillary and infantry
them on all sides, surrendered
1T last but 5000 bayonets and sabres. 1t
8 this people, the flower and pride of
he great English race, on whom more
terrible, more merciless enemy has now
allen. There can be now no division
If sympathy, as there is no passion to
excite and keep up the courage needed !
or the occasion. Y ct the men and Wo- ,
men of the South are true to the old ira
ition. Her youth volunteer to serve 1
nd die in the streets of plague-stricken !
tiles as rapidly as they went forth,
Oys and gray haired men, to meet the |
threatened surprise of Petersburg-as
hey volunteered to charge and again the
hills of Gettysburg, and I
, enrich with their blood, and honor +
nth the name of new victory, every
ED around Richmond. Their sisters, {
lothers, wives and daughters are doing O
nd suffering now, as they suffered from
mime, disease, incessant anxiety and $
arm throughout tina four years of the t
vii war. There may be among the
lrious nations of the Aryan family one a
two who would claim that they could a
ave furnished troops like those which
'llwed Lee and Johnston, Stuart and q
,onewall Jackson. But we doubt il
neither there be one race beside our
En that could send forth its children Il
7 hundreds to face in towns deselated O
: the yellow fever the horrors of a
lrse's life, and the imminent terrors I
a martyrs death. q