Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-01-20
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Gen. Robert e. Lee.

to the immortal Lee can best be ap-
preciated when it is known that the
author Of it is a northern man. a resi-
dent of Rhode Island. The noble
character, the great military genius,
the man towering above all Others, is
now gaining recognition in the North
that be has always done in the South:
President Andrews, of Brown Uni
versity, Providence, lectured on Gen.
Robert Z. Lee, the Confederate com.
mander, in Chicago the other evening
and made him out the great captain
of the age This has displeased many
Of the Grand Army veterans who think
the discourse reflected upon the mill
tary genius of Grant and other great
solliers of the Federal side. OF Lee,
Mr. Andrews said
He had the faith Of the crusader
his letters would make guide to hol-
ness. He was always a soldier-neycr
impure in thought or act, never pro-
fame or obscene. He did not touch
the cup, as did Grant, Hooker or Phil
Sheridan, and when he lost fight 1t
was never said Of him that the defeat
was due to a habit which makes mems
heads into muddles. He was never
outgeneraled by Grant in all the cam-
paign from the Rappahannock to James
river, never trapped and never caught
mapping ! fail to find in the books
any such masterful generalship as this
hero showed, holding that slim gray
line, hali-starved, with no prospect Of
additions, and fighting when his army
was too hungry 10 stand and the rifles
were only useful as clubs. His courage
was sublime He was as great as GUS
tavGs Adolphus, or Napoleon, or Wei
lington, or Won Moltke. His cause
wss not the lost cause so much as Ia
supposed. All that was good in lis
cause has been grated into our laws
and our constitution The doctrine
Of Statos rights, as how interpreted
by the Supreme Court, is in exact ac-
cordance with his claims on the point.
HANCOCK SAVED GETTYSBURG
"Gen. Lee lost at Gettysburg be-
cause the Federal troops bad received
new motor of tremendous strength.
whose power no one knew-Gen. Han
cock. He also lost because Mcadc's
men were fighting on Union soil-d-
most within hearing distance Of the
prayers of their wives and children for
victory. They were at their hearth
stones. Men are tigers when wives
and families are the inspiration in war.
1T was not until the Federal army
stood almost at the very doors Of
Richmond that Gen. Lee was sent to
the front. Heretofore he had been
but half kindly regarded, but when
be took command of that ill-disci-
plined, ill-armed aud ragged army he
was hailed a savior. lie outwitted
Mcclellan, whipped two armies much
larger than his own, stopped the adj
vance on Richmond, drove back the
Union army, saved Richmond aud was
famous in a day. The world bad new
er seen such genesalsblp, and the
world was astouuded at him.
LIE AND GRANT.
"Lee successiyely defeated, outgen-
eraled and routed the best generals
that Washington could send against
him. and it was not until the immortal
Grant, with the finest army Of veterans
that the world has ever seen, took the
field against him that Lees marvellous
accomplishments received a check.
Even against Grant Lee fought as
probably no other general ever fought,
and against odds that would have
driven Napoleon TO despair. II was
great death struggle when Grant faced
Lee. and Lee then knew that bis was
hopeless struggle. He kept that thin,
gray line Of ragged, hungry men grow
ing thinner and hungrier each day. to-
gether. His courage, his wonderful
presence and strong personality kept
that little band Of tattered aud enact.
ated men in battle array, and fought
to the last ditch, surrsndering only
when he realized it would be murder
to keep up the struggle. Gen. Lees
cause is not lost. All thai is good Of II
remains, all that was bad has been
wiped out. Our country is better and
graDder today because the relations Of
several States 70 the Union have beer
intelIigently defined, and perhaps we
owe at least that much to Gen. Robert
/ E. Lee and the cause be fought for.
What becomes Of the Gents,
The mint Of Philadelphia is almost
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