Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-12-24
GENERAL ROBERT e. LEE.
A Distinguished Northern Man S
Opinion of hun.

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December eth contains a brief re-
port of an address delivered the
night before in Chicago by DR..
Andrews of Brown University,
which evidently opened the eyes
of the audience. Following is the
Times-Herald's report of it:
DIR. Benjamin Andrews, presi-
dent of Brown University, pro.
claimed General Robert f. Lee the
the most valiant and most heroic
military genius of modern times
from the stage Of Central Music
hall last night. He did not dis
credit the bravery and valor Of the
leaders under whom he himself
fought. He gave the head of the
Confederate army more glory
because he had to face killing
problems in addition to the ordin
AIRY puzzles of the severest light
that history knows. The Grafton
was one of masterful eloquence,
delivered by a man built for an
orator, with rolling voice and
presence of a giant. He spoke
with the air OF powerful and firmest
conviction. There was many i'm
the audience who saw readily how
lie stood before the trustees nr his
institution last Summe. and told
them he wouiIl recall hiSreSi gnatinm
and become president again, with
the understanding that he was to
think andact as he had thought and
acted or might think or act in the
future OH matters ofpublic interest.
The trustees agreed.
DR.. Andrews talked in Evanston
in the afternoon. His theme was
General William Tecumseh Sher-
man. He took occasion to give
the man who was called crazy at
the beginning of the war the honor
of executing its eliminating feaure
the march to the sea. lie praised
General Lee in equal terms at the
night lecture, pictured the great
intellect of the lost cause as one
of the most wonderful of all Ameri-
can history. He thought the gen.
eral carried out the instinct which
was born with him-the love of the
art of war and the heart to carry
on the war-inherited from an an
cestry which could be traced to
one of the fiercest of the com.
panions of William who sailed
away from the shores of ofNormandy
and conquered England.
General Lee joined the Con.
federacy because Virginia asked
him to, 'said the doctor. "He was
Virginian. The call of Virginia to
any of her sons is the voice of law
and duty. He had the faith of the
crusader; his letters would make a
guide to holiness. He was always
a soldier, never impure in thought,
or act, never profane or obscene.
He did not touch the cup as did
Grant, Hooker or Phil Sheridan.
and when he lost a flight 1t was
never said of him that the defeat
was due to habit which makes
mems heads into muddles. He was
never outgeneraled by Grant in all
the campaigns from Rappahannock
to James river, never trapped and
never caught mapping. 1t usually
happened that when the men on
our side ordered march at 8 am.
they never made more than half the
distance betWe cen the armies. Lee
had ordered an advance at 4 80.
81 fail TO find in the books any
such masterful generalship as this
hero showed, holding that slim, m,gray
line. half starved with no prospects
of additions, and fighting where his
army was too hungry to stand and
the rifles only useful as clubs. His
courage was sublime. He was as
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