Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-08-27
GEN FTTZHUGH LEE

The special invitation received by Gen.
Lee to be present at the obsequies of Gen.
Grant, shows we'll how time has eradicated
the scars left by our late war, and is evidence
that the old sectional feeling of the South
has so far disappeared that they can mourn
over the death of their conqueror. Gen.
Lee is grandson of the famous Wight
Horse Harry" Lee, Of the Revolution, and
a nephew of the late Robert E. Lee, the
Southern Military Chieftain. He gradual
ed at West Point in the class of 1856, and
entered the regular army as a Lieutenantin
the Second Cavalry. For three years pre-
ceding the late war he was on duty on the
frontier, and once, in an encounter with the
Indians, was desperately wounded in the
chest. AT the outbreak of the war he re-
signed from the army and followed his State
into secession. He fought in the Confeder-
ate army throughout the contest, acquir-
ing distinction as a cavalry leader. After
the war he settled in Virginia as a farmer
and miller. In 1875 he entered political life
and in 1876 attended the National Demo-
cratic Convention, as delegate. The next
year he was candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Governor, but was unsuccess-
full. The same year Gen. Lee attracted gen.
eral attention by an address which he de-
livered at the Bunker Hill celebration. In
1879 he became candidate for the State
Senate on the Democratic ticket, but was
defeated by the Readjuster candidate. On
July 29th, 1885, Gen. Lee was nominated for
Governor of Virginia, by the Democratic
Convention, which met at Richmond. He
had for his opponents some of the most
prominent men of the State, and the strug-
gle was fierce, it being remarked on all sides
that the personnel of the Convention was
superior to that of any of late years and re-
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ings of ante-bellum times.
SPIRITUALlsM-That famous Methodist,
Rev. DR.. D. d. Whedon, had, shortly be-
fore his death, evolved curious theory as
to disembodied spirits His idea was that
the entire nervous system in human be-
ing, not contents of the Uranium alone, con-
stituted the mind. Therefore, the ramitica-
tions of the nerves, forming in themselves
a shape conforming exactly to that Of the
whole figure, made the soul of man just
like his body so far as confguration was
concerned. He believed that at death this
contour and sembance of the dead body
separated itself and became the eternal
form of the spirit, visible to its fellows,
and, under some conditions, to terrestrial
folks. DIR. Whedon described how the
soul gets out of the body. Emerging up
ward," he says" "the spirit awakes into
the pure ether-a blessed atmosphere. This
paradsiac ether is an eff1uence from the
divine essence and the emancipated soul
bathes, swims, lives in its own genial and
native element. Paradise thus pervades
our air above and around us, and at death
the spirit enters thereinto as through
veil." He intimated that apparitions are
glimpses of the beings of this close by but
usually invisible world. "Even the resur-
rected body of Christ" he says, "walked
through the solid wall of the house, and
first revealed itselfto his disciples at the ta-
ble." He called these beings angelOids, and
argued that they leave behind them in the
discarded corpse, the baser attributes. The
pertinency of Whedon's theory to modern
spritualism lies in its harmony with the
alleged phenomena of naturalization. 1t
has been sezed upon by several Of the pro-
fessional mediums, and in some of the Sc
ances forms in semblance COMFORTING with
the conditions of his angeloids, have been
shown to astonish disciples.
pa" 1t is the young, the idle, the small
minded, who are the most prone to veX
themselves about small things and outside
things. AS years advance and interests
widen, we see with larger eyes, and refuse
to let minute evils destroy in us, that equal
mind which, accepting life as a whole in all
it's earnestness and reality, its beauty and
sadness combined, weighs calmly and
strikes bravely the balance of good and evil.