The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-03
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NCHMOND'5 MASS MEETING
ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS

ne Dead General the Last of the Great
Tr.umvirate of Which jackson and
Lee Were the Other Memberships
Magnificent Training as a Soldier and
Noble Personal Qua tiles.
RICHMOND, VA. April "A representa-
i've meeting of citizens of Richmond was
had in the chamber Of commerce this even
Ing, pursuant TO call issued by the mayor,
a, the request Of Lee camp OF confed
crate veterans, to take suitable action
eoncerning the death of Gen. Juseph f.
Johnston. Mayor Ellison presided. A COM
mittee on resolutions was appointed, con-
,isting Of Maj Robert Stiles, Col. W. H.
Palmer, Col. A. W. Archer and James H
Thomas, and their report was unanimously
adopted The preamble says In part:
Virginia mourns the last Of her great soldier
triumvirate-Jackson, Lee and Johnston. All
stainless, each one as good as great. Within a
wear after he drew aside the veil that hid the
image Of the Godlike Lee, Johnston himself
passed from us, and beyond that great vale
Inc three christian heroes have entered
upon immortal comradeship. Weeping
Virginia though Rachellike lamentine
her children because they are not, may yet lift
her bowed head up with this proud reflection:
Even in these degenerate days have / borne
peerless sons and while, in some sense 7 nnnst
give them up, vet are they mine forever More
essentially perhaps, than any other great
American, Joseph Z. Johnston was soldier. a
trained professional soldier. AS such he was
less perfectly in touch with the mass of
the people, and, in proportion to his
merit, less appreciated by them than were
most of the heroes of the war. Where will Won
find anything 6neF than his palliation of the
failure Of a gallant officer afterwards proI.,i-
nent upon the federal side, TO espouse the cause
ii fat ha
friend was esseptia y a soldier and had failed
TO secure in our service the rank to which his
worth and his position in the old
army Justly entitled him. all unconscious the
while Of the noble contrast which his own con-
duct presented in mis- turning his back upon a
higher position in the old service than any other
southern officer sacrificed, and never sulking.
but fighting TO the bitter end under what he
considered injustice like that which had repeled
his friend. In the United States, north and
south, Joseph E. Johnston is ranked as at least
the peer Of any officer upon either side in the
late war not in intellect only, but in all the |
learning and skill Of his profession. He was !
even more than this II is questionable |
whether there can be found in all |
the annals of the war and of defeat |
sublimer spectacle of imperturbable poise of |
soul and perfect command of the very utmost
Of ones supremest powers than is furnished by |
Gen. Johnston's great double act of soldiership |
and craftsmanship in the battle Of Bentonyille. |
and the convention with Gen. Sherman.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The resolutions are as follows:
,. Resolved, That In the life of Gen. joseph |
Eggleston Johnston Virginia recognizes with |
maternal pride the career of a great christian |
soldier, without fear and without reproach, and |
full of well earned honors 'llW
2. That in his death she mourns the loss of
one OF the most noble and most loyal Of all her
heroic sons
!. That so far as such final disposition of his
remains can be harmonized with the wishes
and plans of the generals family, the people of
Virginia crave the noble body, scared with ten
honorable wounds, and ask that thew be- per
niLted to lay it reverently in or near the city of
hchmond, to rest as may be hereafter de-
.ermined upon.
L. That the foregoing minutes and resolu-
ions be communicated to the family of Gen.
by. F