The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-01
PRESIDENT ANDREWS 10 TALK ON LEE.

State Normal ana lnuustlai SVifNsN'
,rhere will be a warm welcome IN North
Carolina to this great scholar VINO is ''s
maenendent in thought and speech, as
no Il honest in his Investigations and CON
vietions.
Ne have recently made reference to the
notion OF n command of q, A. X. who
denounced President Andrews because
he proclaimed Gen. Lee, the greatest
military genius of our country" aud
President Elliott, of Harvard, because
he criticized the growing practise OF
giving pensions to undeserving patriots.
The persecution which President An
drews suffered because of his silver
views is well remembered. When he
reaches North Carolina, he will find that
he is among friends who share with him
his faith in bi-metallism. 1t is to be
hoped that President Andrews will be
given the character of reception by all
North Carolinians that his position war
rants.
The Chicago Times Herald says that
DR.. e. Benjamin Andrews, president Of
Brown University, proclaimed Gen.
Robert e. Lee, the most valiant and
most heroic genius of modern times
from the stage of Central Music Hall
in a lecture the night of December 6.
He did not discredit the bravery and
valor of the leaders under whom he
himself fought" says the Times Her
aid. HE. gave the head of the Confe1-
crate army more glory because he had 10
face killing problems in addition to the
orginary puzzles of the severest fight
that history knows. The GRAFTON was
one of masterful eloquence, delivered
by a man built for an orator, with
rolling voice and the presence of giant.
''Dr. Andrews talked in Evanston in
the afternoon. His theme there was
General William Tecumseh Sherman.
He took occasion to give the man who
was called crazy at the beginning of the
war the honor of executing its culmina-
ting feature-the march to the sea. He
praised General Lee in equal terms ut
the night lecture, pictured the great
intellect of the lost cause as one of the
most wonderful in all American history.
He thought the General carried tut the
instinct which was born with him-the
love for the art of war and the heart to
carry on war-inherited from an an
cestry which could be traced to one of
tue fiercest of the companions of VIII
liam, who sailed away from the shores
of Normandy and conquered England
Is "sGeneral Lee Joined the Confeder-
acy because Virginia asked him to,
said the Doctor. He was a 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. lie
was always a soldier, never impure in
thought or act, never profane or oh
scene. He did not touch the cup, as did
Grant, Hooker or Phil Sheridan, and
when he lost fight it was never said
of him that the defeat was due to the
habit which makes mems heads into
muddles He was never outgeneraled by
Grant in all the campaign from Kappa
hammock to James river, never trapped
and never caught mapping. 1t usually
happened that when the men on our
side ordered to march at 5 in the morn
ing they never made more than half
the distance between the two armies.
Lee had ordered an advance at 4:30.
fail to find in the books any such
masterful generalship as this hero
showed, holding that slim, gray, line,
hall starved, with no prospect of adj
ditions, and fighting when his army
was too hungry to stand and the rifles
rxr1n lrr sol l.sts.
was sublime. He was as great as Gus
tayus auolphus, or Napoleon, or We'll
hngtin, or Won Moltke. His cause was
not the lost cause SO much as is sus-
pected. All that was good in his cause
has been grated into our laws and our
constitution. The doctrine of States
rights as now interpreted by the SUI
preme court is in exact accordance
with the claims on the point. General
Lee lost at Gettysburg because the
Federal troops had received new mo /
tor of tremendous strength whose pow
err no one knew-General Hancock. He
also lost because Meade's men were
fighting ON Union soil-almost within
hearing distance of the prayers of their
wives and children for victory. They
We're at their hearth-stone. Men are
tigers when wives and families are the
inspiration in war
1.-THE summary Of his estimate of Lee
compared with the Federal generals is
that he was as brave, more watchful
and doubly skillful, in addition to hav-
ing his head filed all the time with
miseries and disappointments which
did not exist ON the other side of the
line. He concluded by declaring that
has was glad the Republic is getting in
to that state of mind where it is be-
ginning to give credit to manhood and
valor without regard to section, boum
daries or parties"
Mr.. Chas. Carman. from Petersburg,