The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-01-04
NUMBER ONE.

There has been now and then an IL
2ustrious parsonage VINO appears to US
ia have been mirrOrcd upon the tore
ground OF events like some titanic
silhouette.
The irony Of fate has dealt with such
y man as the creation Of an houf-hold-
ina him in leash in time OF peace 70
become the storm centre III mohstrouS
crises When he dies, the perspective
of history is changed, and a tWlllght
suddenlv falls upon the world. Such
nnrsonage may be fifty called the
rourjcr Of fate-the tragedian of revolu-
tior l,e cannot be weighed or meas
urnd hv the definite judgment OF
cantnnnoraries. When he dies the
stride Of conquest is checked; sword
hlades dripping with slaughter are
thrust back into scabbards.
In war be is its insplratioh-lls pro-
videuce | make no alusloh 70 I OL'l
snIanaid effgy-that is as yet dlscerned
in the haze that lowers over flehna'
par1in and Moscow, that lncompre mem
.iIrn tutor Of strategic science VINO
with sword and cannon cut sWauh
+hrnn~h the capital cities of Europe
and nartitjoned the world into two 40
,nininns as If he were only cutting IN
twain an apple.
| sreak of him whom this man that
"nmharrassed God" found ''waif ana
made \ giant" the duke of MonteOello.
Ills death FASTENED to its decline that
rnagDiicent imperialism that Napoleoh
the Great erected on the RUNS OF lne
Commune. The fall of Stonewail JACK
SON ut Cha occllorsyille thrust between
the CoDfederacy and independence
pall 50 dense that it could not ne ne" !
asunder by tne sword -,
SfAnpW2ll
m military hero living or dead he
stood in the foreground an unique pei
sona1;ty-a phenomenon-with the
eenius Of war he was almost superna1-
aI7s1ed victories MMeh1sther Me1s S MS us 'p'.e ~
method, logically conceived. or the re
sult of an intuition-a God-like percep
ton that almost without effort force,
his genius upon vast evolutiohS WI
perhaps be never known.
The plain outlines Of this man remln'
one of the hard hitting. rough-rldlnE
Roundhead. His dispatches plalnl.
smacked of the Calvanism Of lreton anl
Cromwell. "God blessed our arms VIII
victory at Mcdowell yesterday" Wher
ever there was Il downpour OF Leader
rain jackson and the ''Ironsides woul
love been in full accord. His was tn
genius that resolved all combinations
his favor. His. that mastery apprehen
sion of results that diminished the earn
age by pluckirrg the fruit of success pe
fore it was fully ripe. In war as eise
where he was absorbed by fatallsr
such as Mahometans sum up when the
saw 'swhat will be will be-. NapOleol
like an astrologer, believed IN sta
Stonewall Jackson. unlike an astrologe
believed in Him who made the star an
lighted it in the candelabra or nlShI.
\ few years ago an Amerlcan ash1 E.n,
q halting. mutilated soldier OF the ~
Guard in Paris. if he could tell hll
how NAPOLEON died. "The Great En-
neror dead? You don't know nm. q
viii not die.'' replied the old man WI
had fought at Marengo and Nater!e
,1nder the imperial eagle. IL was WIZ
something of this vague supersutlon
+bis beoric belief IN old Stonewall
their providence that one OF the y.
Rrieade" would hearken dublously
such challenge, 'Tell us now otoh
wall died" -,
Critics who have judged with MOI
or less asperity. have SAID tnat nls
nacity as a commander was limited
tbe manoeuyres Of a corps. Strans
fatuity! A score Of battlehelds prov
the opinion false. If such had pee
the case. the history Of Port Repuoll
of Harper's Ferry, Of Groveton "ou
have been written the other way.
saw this man Of destiny at 20
Harhor Again he initiated the pr
destined leader of the "1ronsldes,
the enemy stand at sunset press tne
with the bayOnet. All cohlhin ia y
issuing from him found their cnlh'
in this supreme order. Ihe nero
Toulon never loved the hre-Inroao
tveIve-pounder more than did Jackso
from the field with a single battery
f,;l;no in this he would have ST
...ressed'' them with the bayonet
I shau sneak of the campaign or u
wonderfully endowed son of the Sou!
The camp fires OF Jackson are eAll
r,,isbod The old army Of the Shena
doah is an aggregation of phantom
inchester, Front Royal, Frederlck
burp and Charlottesville appear
n,irare "reminiscences that steal unb
don unon the soul when its depths q
fuu of darkness and shadows
We walk today istlessly over
great rough, heroic lite OF stone"
jackson. but on either side OF US the
oro monuments to his glory evermo
b,.iabtoning to a higher lustre. 1t IS
s+o7rn business this going to war /
conciI7ation is probematical-more f
o-autlv impossibIe. The public pu
m 1861 was intensely exciting -
hoastfncIv SAID upon one SIDE th2t
the blood that would he shed could
uinaH lrn with p pocket band6erchl
t-otHer, on the other SHE equally boa
e.-1 a-ers,I tHat he w1ul iTe to e
th rrr rf HIS slaves a5 the loot
TtE au5 thus 1e were
aaE a-a
r.