The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-05-13
Be SCATTERING n Name OF Robt.
e. Lee 10 Clorify Butcher
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iedera,e chicitau-Lee. We can admire
a drawer foe, and many OF the Federals
were brave a. any men on earth. But
the there fact that in every battle the Of
heers were slaughtered out OF all proper
ton 10 the other losses, shows What poor
material they had TO work with. And
the further fact that after the war the
soldiers fraternized while the Suffers, the
Bummers. the Chaplains, and Bombs
Proof Brigade in general-are still assall-
ing the South with their newspaper
wads. dipped in filth shows how the pop
ular pulse beats at the North.
Our remarks about Chaplain Geo. W.
Pepper" in a receot +. X NJ, are thus
supplemented by the Charleston Netrs
and Courier
TO those who knew Geo. Lee As he
was, in his unaffected dignity, his no
bility of manner. his simplicity ofspeech
and his constant sclt-command, Il l.
a mockery to say. as Mr.. Pepper says
that Gen. Lee almost sLrle~ed'' when
he said (as he did not suy): Let the
/ aNGuAtT ; UlOA 4dll upon l4lC HAtllN'
but let not my innocent soldiers suffer-
Gen. Lee condemned, as other Southern
err, did, the murder of President Lincoln,
but it was not in his nature to be hyster-
zeal gu that subject, or any other.
But we pass 10 an historical fact Ac-
cord ng 10 Mr.. Pepper, Gen Lee told
him that, In making ont the list q
things to be surrendered at Appomat
N - T.. ~ lid. ~.
horses Of the soldiers, and that General
Grant at once said, No, no, Gen Lee,
no surrender Of the horses. Not one,
not one. Keep them all Your poor
people will need them for their Spring
crops And while ten Lee told as
Mr.. Pepper breaches, there were tears
streaming down his cheeks The PLAN
facts of this business are given IN the Of
ticlal correspondence at Appomattcx The
proposition Of Gen Grant himself was
that the surrender should not embrace
the side arms Of the officers, nor their
private horses and baggage. Gen. Lee
read the memorandum carefully and
without comment, except to sa} that
most of the horses were the private Prop
erty OF the men riding them. Gen Grant
repli i that such horses would be exempt
Fl, Iii surrender, and the paper wa then
handed to Col Badeau. Grants secre
tary, aud copies in Ink were made By him
aud Col Marshall None, we are sure,
would be quicker than Gen. Grant him
self TO repudiate the notion that Gen
Lee appeared before him ia the attitude
of a sobbing suppliant.
Ia another place, Mr.. Pepper attrib
utes to Gen. Lee the remark that Napo
Icon did not hesitate to sacrifice thouS
ands Of lives for his own personal g%ratiil-
cation, while Gea. Grant was a man of
self abnegation, having no end III view
but the safety of the cause he deienied.
Gen. Lee could not have said anything OF
the sort, for the reason that he was FULLY
aware Of the senseless butchery OF the
Federal soldiers in front Of the Conted-
crate lines at Cold IIarbOr. and knew
that, until AppomattoX wiped out the
stain, Gen. Grant was known every
where in the North as Grant, the
Butcher
What. again, can be more !udiCrous
than what is said concerning Jackson
When ''Old StoneWall' received his
death-wound at the Wilderness, Gen.
Lee said Tell him he has lost his left
arm. but | AVE lost my right arm
And now, after twenty years and more,
the American people are expected to be
lieve that Gen. Lee thought that Jack
son far surpassed the men OF his age and
Isl 10 u comparison ruth Sheridan ana
Hooker of the Northern army, Hooker
the utterly defeated and demorallZcd
commander at Charlottesville: au
Sheridan. the rough-riding bully, who
was most uccesstul in burning defence
less homes and abandoned granaries in
the valley of Virginia, aud in proposing,
IN 1876, To try the citizens OF Louisiana
as ''bandlttl." by ''drum-head court
martial And, as we are dealing in rem
iniscences, it may be as well to remark
that this proposition merely elected
from Gen. Grants secretary Of war the
response The President and all of us
approve Of what you propose"
There are many other things in this
pseudo-nterview which might very well
be noticed, but it is hardly worth while.
Gen. Lee, for instance, could not have
suggested, even to Mr.. Pepper, that
there was any insuperable reason why
the South should not have succeeded.
History will show that the South was,
again and again on the point OF sue
cess; and that once at least, Mr. Llncoln's
Cabinet was ready to make peace on
any terms. In the spring of 1864 the
Northern cause was lost-and it was
lost by the cold butchery at Cold IIar-
Dor, following the slaughter at the VII
derness and spnLL-ylYania Courthouse.
The Northern Government was almost
without men and without means, and
was ready to throw up its hands in DIES
PAIR. 1t was not Gen. Grant who saved
the day, or saved the Northern cause.
!, Sherman out-man9uvred Johnston at
Resaca, and the North could at once
obtain. in spite of Grants failure and
losses, the money and the men for the
prolongatlon Of the struggle.
1t recks not to talk much about these
things now, for we are all iriends-all
Americans; but when Mr.. Pepper, in
? the kindness of his heart, makes a mere
manpikin OF the statuesque Lee, and at
tributes 10 one of the highest men who
ever lived the weakness and difusive-
ness of a gushing, senseless woman. he
: so misrepresents the simple facts that
it is necessary in kindness to him, to
direct attention To them.
:. Parson Pepper Is not, by anY means,
so indecent a character az Par.on New
: man. and it is easier to dispose OF Par
son Pepper than to muzzIe Gen. Grant
interested ~panegyrist. There is enough
in the plain record of the lives OF Grant
and Lee to enable them to be Judged
justly by prosperity, without any OF the
gush or slip-slop with which two cleri-
cal ~emotionalists atiiict those who have
reverence for decency, self-command
and truth
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....Why is the figure 9 ike a peacock
1t has nothing without it's tail.
What fish has its eyes nearest to.
gether { The smallest oue.