The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-07-25

general, he lacked the genius and
dispatch characteristic of Lee, who
threw his army across the federal
lines and by series of brilliant
/ maneuvers forced the federals back
until Richmond was safe and Wash
ington was filed with frightened
and stampeded Union soldiers. The
speaker diverged here to speak
of StonewaIl Jackson, and no one
ever paid this daring and invinci-
| BILE warrior higher tribute than did
/ he. He told of how Jackson fell
upon Hooker and Pope and with the
| swiftness OF hurricane drove
everything before him. He stated
that IN the Union lines the name of
J Jackson was spoken with fear and
| dread. Union soldiers came to be-
| lieve that Jackson could move his
army five, ten or fifteen miles with
but IA word of command, and that
while he might in reality be thirty
miles away they would not be sur
| prised to find him right i'm front of
their lines. He expressed the opin
ion that Lee, Jackson and Nathan
Bedford Forrest were the greatest
military men of the war; that while
the Union had able generals and
brave and courageous soldiers as
ever drew blade, they did not pos
sess men capable of accomplishing
such daring feats as these men did
in the face of such great difficulties.
He followed Lee through the Nir-
ginia campaign, across into Mary
land and to Gettysburg. He gave
IL as his opinion that Lee was
moved more by political eonsidera
tions in going into Maryland than
by military, but in his position the
| political feature had to he taken
| into account. He described the
great courage and fierce determina-
/ tion Of the southern forces on that
| first day at Gettysburg, how the fed
eral soldiery were driven back and
| how in the face of storm of leaden
:
and sturdily As il moved by some
supernatural force. In the light of
/ subsequent facts he believed that
| had EwelI forced the fighting at his
end of the line as did Lee the result
would have been different. Passing
| hurriedly over the other events of
| the war he came to the final strug
gle, and told how the Confederate
soldiery overwhelmed by numbers,
weak from lack of nourishment,
ammunition exhausted and general
/ ly unable to carry the struggle fur
Ether, surrendered,
All through his discourse ran the
| highest eulogies of Lee; man pure
in thought, noble in deed, of the
highest moral character, OF deep re-
ligious convictions, knowing no
voice but the voice of duty, and es-
teeming 1t the highest privilege to
/ give his best efforts in the cause of
generally conceded a man was too
| old TO conduct hard campaigns with
dispatch and great success he
set new military t tan d d
for the world, ranking with the
greatest and best generals the world
had ever known. In. the halls of
fame no warrior was ever given
higher place than DIR. Andrews gave
to Lee. A Union soldier himself it
was not given him TO know the man
personally; northerner by birth, he
cannot feel the love and veneration
for Lee that we of the south feel
and for this reason his lecture was
lacking 1.-THE fire and spirit that our
own eulogists show when speaking
of this greatest military man of the
nineteenth century, but none can
say that he did not give him all the
praise and all the honor due, His
closing peroration was a splendid
tribute to the man and won the mer-
tied plaudits of his hearers.
Tonight DIR, Andrews lectures on
the Problems of Greater America" "