The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-11-01
~s"es"ttm'l Tribute TO tho. sor,n.-.,
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'">-sss" Confederacyl =,
| ny PERCY GREY. w.,
10 you forget, then,v rcioired C,o,..
t ,."' now often the hand OF Prov,a",'o-
ueen manfestly against the ho,tos.
.ho, 40 you forget the Pagan sayin,,
- o., 'osvncles so many readers Of bistor,
to,, '",, OF the noblest States and tbe dc-
~. " ,he truest heroes, Victrix co,,eo,
80 t"oc"u, Sed Cicta Cdfoni, mr. ill.,
IVA, paTadoN OF the French Fmn;r.
49,. hea'eh Is on the side Of the hIogor
o"''a'iohs'F DO you forget. again ,hst g.,
'nc American struggle everything tha, ,,.' ~
PERSONALLY great and noble was 10 Inc to,,,,1
a rt exclusively on the southern ga
me North produced no oen,Ion'a.
anu cneValier worthy TO be named in ,1'n
same day with him who led 60 Iona, ,t'o
spiehdu chiyalry OF Virginia and tbe o.
,n~S' ana before whom, on every occasin,'
cue northern cavalry (often the Morrill,
.hhi"h'ry) were scattered like chatY be,ora
VIZ "lhd. The Unionists had no twon,r
'cSheh whose combined moral and l.,
,enCV'uai powers would have reached Tho
~,e' OF PRESIDENT Davis; indeed. the com.
p"raiiNe quality OF the two nations co,,iJ
u"iuN DC better illustrated than bv CON-.
i~sIS ,ie Ml>SlsSippian soldier and Oen.
.e'i,ah CHOSEN 10 rule the rebels with the
P'''cr representative Of the legiti.
a. ~ H'inVCIac!' Whose term, had he died
~ M pea Tour or five years later. would
m"sv 'Vci remembered only as marking tbc
'",'lS OF American political decline. tbc
oe''',ln ;, OF the vulgarity, moral
ven as formal, Of the unworthi-
n n, ana lGnoblencSs that had so lone
uiSno""rou more and more deeply the
oi'iI oi Washington. Lincoln's IN
N'e"ihcSs OF language and tbonoht'
would hardly have been tolerated IN
a southern bar Or. again. ,ol,o ,hn
rlForlteS OF the North-thc bcst-knoyvn
names in the camp and Cabinct-Sbcridan
ana Hunter, whose rayaecS recall the DO
la>tation Of the Palatinatc. polifirol ROVE.
dles like Banks and Butler, bragoorts lilo
Pope and Hooker, or even nrofcssionaI
soldiers like Meade, Sigcl, sherman Thee
are the household words ~ the North
ana any one southern chief Of the second
ranR-Ewcll, Early, Fitzhugh Lee. Har-
ace Polk. Hampton, Gilmcr. Gordon
alone outwcighS them all. Needless to
remind You that among the 'twcnty
mllllons-mOStly fools was no man
whom even party spirit dared Gken
To the stern, simple Virginian pro-
( lessor, the Cavalcr-Puritan. whose bri-
gade OF recruits stood like 4 stone wall,
under the conyergcnt fire Of artillery and
rifles that was closing round them nj Ma
na>Na>; no y. +. Hill, second only to Jack
son among the licutcnantS of Lee. no
SuatcSi>t comparable to him whose death
by simply Sef-negloct married the victory
OF Cornth. or his namc>ake. who bafllcd
80 long the thrccfold force Of sherman in
me Georgian campaign. Rivcr4 RAILWAYS,
ana brute numbers only enabled the Fed
eral power not to conquer, but to exhaust.
on MY haltlc-1eldS, nearly all disastrous
ana dl>graceiul TO the Union. the flower Of
that Incompatible southern infantry
Who>c superiority Is acknowledged IN these
very words by one Of the bittcrc>t OF north
ern historians. Even did not the stain If q
cruel, ciu>Clcss, cOWardly assassination rest
upon his name. Washington himself could
not sustain a> soldier, statesman, or citizen
2 comparison with the last and greatest OF
the long list OF NTgnin heroes. Not all
inc military exploits Of al former American
history thrown INTO one can count with the
defence of thirty miles OF slender earth
works by force never from the first uIin-
hcrln- more than 5000. and 1T last dWin-
ding 10 $4,000, against armie, counting o..
potentially or actually available j quarter
OF q million. since the last Athcnian
covered his face with his mantle and mute
~ died the world has seen no such exam
pie of absolute. unconscious simplicity.
utter self-dcNotion, patriotism. yet more
>ignAliy exhibited in hUmiliatiug di>a,-
ter than in q brilliant career OF vie
tory. rs that shown by General
Lec--thc first military chief OF the
aec. yet greater in the college than even in
the camp; the nOblc>t member OF q eplen-
did chiNalry. vet most noble amid the ruins
of In, cal,c. his country, and his fortunes;
the one true knight sans t0chc, sans pear,
q sans rCprocte the living embodiment OF
nh that j. grandeSt in the ideals Of the past
u, OF all that j., simplest in the promised
republican manhood ~ the future: Ideal
soldier, pattern Christian, >ellc-S man, and
stainless gentleman. Little Il, man can
know - the way, Of Providence, What in
dication. however clear, OF the probable
purposes % Heaven could for moment
countcrvMl t. my conscience or 10 yours
the warranty given for the righteousness
ol a cause by the names Of Stuart. Stone
wall jackson. and Robert Edmund Lee;'