The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-11-05

had lived for and been reared TO with no
other future accessible TO them. Their
lot commands the profoundest sympathy
from all generous minds. and more heroic
men than those who resigned from the
old army 10 come South never lived on
this earth.
In this connection we cannot forbear 20
quote the following eloquent tribute 10
them and to the Confederate soldier from
Greg's history, which, now that 1t Is
published in cheap form. we hope to see
read In every household in the civilized
world. Says Greg. vol. 2. p. ri new ed:
THE South had one or two great moral
advantages. A large majority of the Of
ficers educated at West Point adhered
TO the North. but the flower Of the army
were those two hundred Southern officers
who as Mr. Greeley reluctantly admits,
could not possibly have fancfed that they
consulted their own ease or comfort
or. an honorable foe would add, their
professional or personal adVantage-h
going South. They knew-none so well
how Northern men could fight, and what
odds Southern volunteers could confront
and conquer. They alone could fully
gauge the terrible significance of their
numerical inferiority. The indolent, the
stoid. the inefficient, as MI. Greeley
saws. chung to the North. The Confed-
eracy might fail; the Union IL beaten
would remain strong enough and rich
enough to reward them. The bitterest OF
abolitIonlst fanatics testlfies TO the reck-
less courage with which the generals
Of the South exposed their lives on the
field. and explains the early disasters
Ia ground that
the troops were equally raw, the bravest
and most determined officers will con-
olIer The rebels were seldom beaten
though puslllanimity, never Though
treachery Of their leaders Greeley l., 5Ub).
Such were the leaders or that 1ncom-
parable Southern infantry whose mar
veuous achiements and matchess en-
DURANGO have wrung from the bitterest
foes reluctant testimony to their UNI
rivalled material quality. A Northern
woman. Enthusiastically impressed only
bv their physical appearance, speaks OF
some prisoners taken where sheer eN-
haustion and overwhelming numbers
overcame the army, which had driven
the Federal troops TO cover under the
shelter OF their gunboats In the hrst
DAYS fighting at Shiloh. How awfully
they are dressed! They had carpets
ladies' quilts, bed covers for blankets.
hats but not one soldiers cap Yet,
says the bitter abolitionist who can find
no terms too abusive for the statesmen
Of the South this was that magnificent
infantry which had nearly wrenched VIC
tory from Grant. had faced without finch
ing famine, nakedness. the hospital and
the sword. Would TO God they had had
a different enemy and different cause
Draper. vol. H., 1861. Is there a better
cause than that OF the soldier who fights
for land and laws for hearth and home!
or can an enemy be more clearly In the
wrong that he who, with every advan-
tage of numbers, wealth and stratagem.
fights to enforce on others compact
whose every obligation he himself has
shamelessy broken?
'Victrix causa dis placuit, sed victa
latOni.
Every individual Southerner instinc-
lively felt that his was the cause Of law
and Justice of country. independence
right and manhood. The Northern invader
might convince himself that he was in
the right but those obvious facts that
impress the conscience and the moral
instincts Of ordinary men were all against
him. He was an agressor, an invader,
He was emphaticaly doing as he would
not have been done by"