Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-07-08
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The Washington Post in its issue OF
the 29th ultimo contained . finely tenn
pered, we'll written, leading article on
the unwilling Of the statue to Gen. Rob-
ert K. Lee at Lexington, Virginia. After
q second and careful reading Of the arti-
Gle referred to we find ourselves totally
at a loss to discover any expression in it
that is calculated to offend the most
loyal and Jealous friend Of the Union.
II. however, there can be anything in it
susceptible to adverse criticism the OBJ
lection must be to something said in the
two following paragraphs, for to criticize
any other part of the Posts leader would
be absolutely impossible:
at is . happy thing for our country,
happy for the present and full Of bright
promises for the future; happy for all the
people OF all the sections, that their
gloomy predictions Of mutual hate per-
petuated have not been fulfilled, but that,
on the contrary, the soldiers who fought
on either side have come to respect the
sincerity, the courage, the American
mapliness of their former foes; and that
the people of the North and the people
of the South, united by stronger and
more varied ties than have ever before
existed, nave learned not only to forgive
each other for mutual injustice. but to
be proud Of the great qualities so signal
~ displayed on both sides during those
four years Of war.
1T is not to be supposed that the
North will ever believe that Lee and
Jackson and their associates were right;
but it 10 enough that all their country
men admit that they fought for what
they devoutly believed to be right. And
when the Southern people honor their
illustrious leaders with memorial statues,
vixen they tell Of their virtues, Of their
great sacrifices in behalf of the ''lost
cause" we believe there will, in future,
be no disposition in any part of the
country to hurl in their faces the charge
of treason, as was done by q misguided
contemporary . few weeks ago when q
monument was erected to the memory OF
Albert Sidney Johnston"
Criticism came nevertheless, for the
number Of cranks in this country is ex-
actly equal to the number Of those who,
for political reasons entirely Independent
of the well being of the nation, would be
delighted to see sectional animosities
rage undated forever. And this is the
sort of criticism that was developed, the
source of which we allow the Post to de-
scribe in its own mastery way:
A correspondent, whose uncharitable
communication we charitably suppress,
begs leave to inform the Post that great
injustice is done to the sturdy loyalty OF
the North" in the editorial on Robert K.
Lee which appeared in our issue OF the
18th ultimo. Our correspondent uoes
not favor us with o bill OF particulars,
does not specify the assertions or allega-
tions whereby he is aggrieved, SO that we
are unable to decide what expression or
expressions in the editorial referred to
arc chargeable with the great injustice"
so bitterly complained Of. But our
valued correspondent does favor us with
his name and address, and We have been
able to trace the military record of which
his letter makes boastiul mention. He
was, as he says, "a soldier OF the Union"
The records show that he enlisted for
three months. They also exhibit the
fact that his regiment, in which we find
that he served in the useful capacity OF
hospital steward, did not, at any time,
get within so miles OF an armed enemy.
After our esteemed contributor was mus
tered out he did not again fly to arms,
but, from August, 1861, to the end of the
war, devoted his time and talents to the
purchase of horses and mules for army
use. Since the war this ultra-loyal citi-
zen has been a department employee in
this city, and has attained n~otoriety by
prosecuting other employees whom he has
suspected Of q lack of loyalty. On one
occasion he presented false charges
against the widow of a soldier who was
killed in battle, and, by mean and
malicious persecution, hunted her out OF
the little position in which she was able
to earn bread for her children. We have
been thus particular to look up this per-
sons military and civic history, not
because he is worthy Of so much notice,
but because he fairly typifes the class
who have not yet learned that the war is
over. It is not . numerous class, but it
has more representatives in Washington
than in all the North. Every DEPART
ment contains . few of these ''truly
loyal" spirits. They pirate Of their
military record" but the genuine SOL
diers Of the Union army-the men who
met the enemy and fought it out
despise these frauds.
U.s.