The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-06
President Andrews Beautiful EuIogy Of the
Great Leader Of The Confedraey.
HAS DISTURBED GRAND Array rOS1S
iIis Gr"a,nesp Compared wish Tha,
Of Gu,tn.us AHoIpnus, aapolcon,
weiiIIins.o" or Won MOL ke-As.
founded The world by his Gcncrnl>
shiD-Fou-ht Against tircnt odds.

The tribute paid 10 General Robert
j.. Lee by President Andrews. OF Brown
University, vino was Il private soldier
In the Union army. and whose eulogy
OF the great Southern leader has esS!rred
up protests from Grand Army organ!-
cations was a9 follows:
He uee) had the faith Of the cru
sader: his, letters would make guide
TO holiness. lie Vas always a soldier
never impure In thought or act, never
profanc or obscene. He did not touch
the cup as did Grant Hooker or Phil
Sheridan, and when he lost fight /,
was never said Of him that the defeat
WIS due to Il habit which makes mems
heads into muddles. lie was neves out
generated by Gram in all tho campaign
from the RappahannoCk to James
River, never trapped and never caught
mapping. / fall to find in the books
any such mastcrful gencralship as thi:
hero showed. holding that slim gray
line, half starved. with no prospect OF
additions, and fighting when his army
was too hungry 20 stand and the rifles
We're only useful as clubs. His cour-
age was "ublme. He was as great
as Gustavus Adolphus or Napoleon. or
Wellington. or Won Moltkc H!s cause
was nat the lost cause so much, as Is
supposed. All that was good in his
cause has been grated into our laws
aud our Constitution.
The doctrine of States rights asnuw
Interpreted by the upreme Court. is In
exact accordance with his claims on
the point. General Lee lost at Gattys-
burg because .he Federal troops had
received new motor of tremendous
strength whose power no man knew
General Hancock lie also lost because
ie's Er,l,
soil almost 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
;am!nes are the Inspiration ot war.
ut was not until the Federal army
stood almost at the very doors OF Rich
n.ond shat General Lee was sent 10 the
front. Heretofore he had been hut half
kindly regarded but when he took COM
mand Of that ill-disciplmcd. ALARMED
and ragged army he was hailed as n
savior. lie outwittcd Mcclellan, whip
ped two armies much larger than his
own. stopped the advance on Richmond
and was famous in n day. The world
had never seen such gcneralsh'p, and
tho world was astoundcd By Il.
Lee successfully defeated, outgen-
eralea and routed the best generals
that Washington could scnd against
him, and /: was not until the Immortal
Grant, with the finest army of veterans
that the world has ever seen, took the
field agains: him that Lees marvellous
accomplishments received check
Even against Grant, Lee fought MS
probably no other general ever tough.
and against odds that would have
driven Napoleon to despair.
''It was Il great death Struggle when
Grant faced Lee, and Lee then knew
that his was 4 hopeless struggle. He
kep.. mat thin gray line OF r. cGcd hun
cry men, glowing thinner and hungrier
each day, together. Ills courage, his
wonderful presence and strong person
ality kert that little band OF ta;tered
and cmlciated men in battle array, and
fought to the las; ditch. surrondcring
only when he realized that il would he
murdS. 10 keep up the struggle
General Lees GAUGE is not lost. All
that il good OF It remains. all that was
bad has been wirei Dat. Our country
is better and grander to-day because
the relations Of the several States of the
Union have been intsligcntly defined,
and perhaps we owe a least that much
to General Robert L. Lee and the
cause he fought for.