The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-13
Arp Ha8 a PrOliC.
Grandchildren Visit Him and Have Happy Tme--They
Worried Him Some.

times I could not read. ! had to pause
and wait for my heart to be still aud
my voice to come back to me. These
always tell me when what read is in
spired How did our hearts burn with
in us as | read and now was our pa
triotism revived and set aglow with a
new fire. Even on the first page ne
awakens us from that lethargy which
time and current events bring over the
best Of patriots for he says:
at was with q swelling heart that I
recently heard some of the first soldiers
and military students of England declare
that within the past 200 years the Eng
lish speaking race has produced but five
soldiers of the first rank-MarlbOrough,
Washington, Wellington, Robert E. Lee
and StOnewall Jackson. l heard them
declare that JacksOn's campaign in the
Shenandoah valley was the finest speci-
men of strategy and tactics of which the
world has any record; that in this series
of marches and battles there was never
Il blunder and that this campaign was
superior to either of those made by Ma
poleOn in Italy. One British officer who
teaches strategy in a great European col
lege, told me that he used this campaign
as a model and dwelt upon it for months
in his lectures and that it was taught
i'll all military schools of Germany and
Van MOltke declared it was without
rival i'll the worlds history. Indeed"
he added, jackson seems to- me to
have been inspired" Another British
soldier of high rank and a trained stu.
dent of war told me that for it's num-
bers the army of Northern Virginia had
more force and power than any other
army that ever existed.
Well that is enough for a starters
starter Of the blood in the patriots
veins. Sometimes / feel like / would be
proud to have been born a Virginian,
where these great soldiers lived-Wash-
ingtOn, Lee and Jackson-and where
Jefferson and Madison and Monroe and
Patrick Henry and John Marshall lived.
| wish that every old soldier and every
young man in this southern land could
read this splendid address,. ] fear that it
is too long for Il single issue Of The
Constitution, for it is nearly 1900 words,
but nothing better could occupy its col
umns. 1t reads like Il romance and if
there are any young men in Georgia
who are inclined to make sport Of the
war the perusal of this address will
make them feel ashamed that they ever
entertained such unpatriOtic feelings.
We have heard of 'youg mans party
as hostile to any further political ihU1lor
to the veterans, but surely this cannot
be true, for what young man can be
found who would so dishOnOr the mother
who bore him or the father or uncle or
kinsman who fought or fell in the late
war? No. Rather let every Georgian
echo the sentiment of Henry Grady
when he said at the New England ban
quet: ''The south has nothing to take
back. In my native town is a monu-
ment that crowns its central hill-~a
plain white shaft. Deep cut into its
shining side is a name dear to me, abOte
the names of men-that of a brave and
simple man who died in brave and sim-
pie faith. Not for all the glories of New
England would exchange the heritage
he left me in his soldier death. To the
foot of that monument | shall send nay
children's children to reverence him who
enObled their name with his heroic
blood"
That is patriOtisnl-pure and simple.
BILL ARP.