The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1885-08-27
FITZHUGH LEES TRIBUTE
lie SAYS THE NORTH AND SOUTH ARE RE
UNITED FOREVER.
(v1om the New York lIerald.)

nephew Of General Robert +. Lee.
but 70 the recollection Of his gallan-
try, was it due that Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee, now Democratic candidate for
Governor of Virginia, became CEN
tire of interest. Of medium height
and broad build, rugged cheeks and
courtly manner, he was the picture
of an American man. Words would
not answer him to express his salts
faction at the warm reception given
him and his fellow Southerners at
the hands of the North. He said that
when he was riding in the funeral
procession with Gen. Gordon rs an
aide to Gen. Hancock. he was filled
with emotion upon seeing picture
! Of Gen. Grant with the Inscription
below: LET them have their horses;
they will need them for their crops"
That line brought AppomattoX
back to me like some sad dream"
said Gen. Lee to 4 Herald reporter.
sit was q touching coincidence Gen.
Gordon and | were the two remain
ing corps commanders Of the three
vino were with Gen. Lee when Grant
gave utterance to that magnanimous
sentiment. Gen. Gordon saw the in
scription the same moment that Ibid
and our eyes instinctively met rs we
rode by. don't know what Gen.
Gordon felt. I was ready to use my
handkerchief. You can't imagine
what those words implied. In the
Confederate army every man had to
supply his own horse, while in the
Union army everything was supplied
b. the Government
General, what do you think this
demonstration means p asked the
reporter, referring to Gen. Grants
funeral
1T means that the Union is now
more firmly and insepara5ly united
than it was twenty years before Bu.
chanan's Administration The war
was the inevitable elimination of diff
ferences that had to be settled by
blood. Before the war there was 81
ways talk Of breaking up the Union
and secession, whenever any issue
was brought up for national arbi ra-
ton, and the South would invariably
threaten secession if her whims were
not gratified. Of course, Immediately
after the war, wounds were fresh and
there was little show Of any DISPOSE
ton for reconciliation. But, notwith-
standing this fact, a reconciliation
would have been effected had it not
been for the policy Of the Admins
tration succeeding Mr.. Lincoln's.
The Government then sent men down
South to rule US who were unprinci-
pied and unfair, and the colored man
was placed in our Legislatures to
make laws for US. This was too Sc.
we're transformation, and the South
felt that she was being belittled. 1t
was putting the bottom rail of the
fence on top. The people got so they
didn't take any interest in the Gov
ernment nor the country. Any insig-
nifcant little carpet-bagger would be
sent down there and boosted into
Congress, and our own men would
be thrust in the shade. I am a strong
Democrat and talk strong Democrat
ic principles, and I'm going to add
that this was done for no other pur-
pose than to perpetuate the Republi-
can party in power.
but now, God be praised, all that
is gone by. That was the work of
politicians, and the South has found
out that the people Of the North
the body Of the people I mean-had
no hand in it. Old issues are eradi-
Gated in the South now. The colored
man is no longer regarded as an
usurper, and he feels that he will not
be returned to slavery. We don't
want men to represent US who will
constantly wave the bloody shirt.
The people have come to love the
North for the grand, magnanimous,
fraternal treatment they have re-
ceived since the war, and they have
been longing for this grand opportu.
nifty, which has at last been afforded,
to express their hearty good will for
the Union. No man has done more,
and neither has any circumstance
nor series Of circumstances. to propi-
tiate the feelings of the South and
: bring about this grand millennium,
than Gen. Grant. The suferings of
! Gen. Grant awakened the sympathy
of the whole South, and the whole
South is glorying in the treatment it's
t old commanders are receiving. Just
think of it. Here are Gen. Buckner
and Gen. Johnston and Gen. Gordon
and Gen. Wade Hampton and my
e self, all Rebel leaders, being made
:. the lions Of your city, and we are all
:. overfowino'wl gratitude in return.