Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-11

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child sec that the Chinese emperor
who was cladin a highly refined garment
by certain imposters who pretended to
have weayed it was stark naked.
Society often welcomes some weak,
overrated creature and makes him
the rage until s)me irreyerent no
body says; Bah Bet you fifty
dollars he never took a bath, never
bought a cake of soap, and wears a
patent shirt bosom.
Hooker had no admiration for a nan
whose art Of war was almost wholly
theoretical, who spaded, and waited.
and debated with his government, and
gulled the foolish public. The battle
of Seven Pines and Fair Oaks had Just
occurred, the brunt of which fell on
that bold old regular aud Abolitionist.
Bull Sumner, and his unassumlng
but ~unfinching subordinates, John
Sedgwick and Richardson. After the
battle Hooker, echoed by Sickles, who
was a Quarrelsome, impatient man,
said that Mcclellan was an incumbus.
In a little while Little Mac" was at
tackled in the divided position-after
j. Il. b. Stuart had ridden quite
around his army and spied its open
ianks-and he was terribly beaten,
driven back on the James, and had
not the hardihood to attack after his
fine field commanders had made NAL
vern Hills a butcher house of Lee.
Nor did he attack after his only follow
ing battle of impOrtance-Antietam.
The as feeble and less proficient Burn
side succeeded him. Then came Joe
Hooker, put in the place he had criti-
cised.
1t could be said of Mcclellan all
through his opportunity that he feared
to attack. Of Hooker it can be said
tina. he never delayed to attack on
time. At Anteitam the orders were
to open at six o'clock on the right.
While they looked at their watches
and the two hands heightened out as
one, his opening gun was heard. But
Burnside, who was to attack at nine
or ten, played the Mcclellan, and did
not begin till four in the afternoon.
Burnside, Mcclellan and Fritz John
Porter threw away the soldiers vic
tory at Anteitam. Joe Hooker would
have made it a victory in McClellan's
place. His wounds at Anteitam were
his most honorable possession.
A MILITARY STUDY.
As an army commander Hooker
possessed promptness and strategy.
and sincere Massachusetts desire TO
get at the Southern enemy
He turned the rebel Notifications at
fredericksburg, on which Burnside
had thrown away an army by march
ing up the Rappahannock to the
fords; Grant crossed SEINE time later.
and throwing his army there on Lees
rear. But a greater soldier, the Tilly
of the war, Jonathan jackson
marched into Ilooker's rear, STAN
peded half his army, and in the crit
zeal time Of the great engagement at
which the world was looking. Joe
Hooker's habits triumphed over his
intellect he fell into a sort of fit by
which all ccunsels were suspended.
and the enemy passed on. Whether
it was the bottle or the need of the
bottle, the lesson is the same. He re-
tired from the field, partially a prey
to the pickering he had commenced
with Mcclellan. and yet there was the
battlefield to be fought at last. Grant
returned and fought it there on much
the same ground, but with a daunt.
less heart and habits always Austen
ious in the time of danger, and al.
though the experience was horrible.
horrors yielded to the evil of the
hero. The government and the army.
the general and all his subordinates
without any disagreement or recrim.
nation, marched through death and
over dispair to the rear of Richmond
and conquered Lee there.
Yet 1t was to Grants great advan.
tage that jackson had been killed in
Joe Hooker's battle of C]hancellors.
vile. Zee was a flexible, feminine.
tactician, whose spirit was taught the
ylgor Of war by his man jackson. MIR
Lee never said anything worth re.
5 Numbering, aud surviving the waI
, gave his people that sullenness which
has driven off sympathy. To make
him a slneeure the work of educatinc
B the Southern youth was dispensed int
colleges which should be the mere
estates OF broken military regulations
The University of Virginia, itself IN
the greatest need Of help, saw support
diverted to Lees endowments, md
the poor old college at WILLIAMSBURG
f over which they put Ewell, is not yei
, done s~hriekiLg for aims which Wen
to- dignity the retirement of Lee n
Washington land Lee) Collore-Goc
save the mark
t II was writing for popularity
i, would throw butter. at the presen
high prices over both Hooker and leo
, bui the uses Of dead men arc for IN,
5 living to see and live better.