Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-06-08
GEN. LEES PUBLIC SERVICES.
Effect OF His Expressed Readiness to Lead
CoIored Soldiers in the War.


hugh Lee Of Virginia, commanded the
| admiration of his fellow citizens of all
sections. There are few people in the
country who think that he did not earn
the distinction Of being made major
general of volunteers by President Nc
| kinley He proved himself a true
blue American in a trying situation.
| No man who wore the blue in the war
| between the states could have shown
more loyalty and devotion to the ma
| tional interests than Gen. Lee who
wore the gray.
| There have been -discordant notes
| here and there, nevertheless. Cen Lee
| has been denounced as traitor by one
man of prominence, and an attempt
| has been made by another to ridcuic
| him as a man and to underrate the ser
| vices he rendered at Havana; but
| these dscordant notes are lost in the
salvos of appreciation which have been
given with will by people in all parts
of the country, for the American peo-
pie are always quick to recognize
| faithful service in the hour OF trial or
danger.
The part which Gen. Lee has played
in the controversy over Spanish mis-
| rule in Cuba and the further part he
is to play emphasize more than any
thing else the important fact that the
war with Spain is in no sense a See
tional war or a partisan war, but that
it is in the broadcast sense a national
| war. His services and the recognition
which has been given to them by the
people and by the government have
hpfr in .,n
people for thegWar, and especially the
people of the Southern states, who feel
now more than they have felt at any
time since the close OF the war that
they are indeed as much a part ana
parcel of the greatest republic since
the eagles of Rome spread over the
world as the people of other sections
Of the country. Who could have FORE
seen in 1868 that acondition would arise
in 1898 which would enable a Republic
can President, with the sanction aud
approval of the whole nation. to desi@-
nate as major generals two of the Off
GERS Of the army which Robert Il, Lee
surrendered at AppomattoX court
house? Surely the great commander
dying at Mount McGregor with the
courage and fortitude with which he
| had lived With a heart fun Of love for
all his Cuuntrymon. and putting away
from him the hatreds ana animosities
of the war; could not have foreseen
this
There seems to be a peculiar fitness
in the fact that near relative Of tho
great Confederate commander should
be among the most influential Of the
causes that have aroused the patriot
ism OF the Southern states. and haVt
helpfd 10 unite all the people in the
war with Spain. The name of Lee has
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