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incompatible army 81 Northern Virginia
Mn. Slain ~>alor. buried on the ~ir',k ken
fields from Bull Run 70 Peter~burs-when
Heroism itself de~paired ana men shfank
from Jefferson DAVIS. Ill SIS iathidi
found
among ,hc tai.hlsS- faithful nuly he
Hal Hill been in tie United States Sen
ate when Davis wa there tAey would
not have been in accord. Tor HILL Wa~ the
disciple oI Webster ard lAlvi> WAS the
disciple OF calhoun. but now iial 49,
closer to the fallen leader than = brother
lie wouli not rear III surrender. lie was
never So eloquent ~ then. his orltnry
never 20 iervid, his patriotism never 50
ardent. UnIiraled Us ! debated, aud
matchle-S as an orator, in the late WINTER
OF 1860 and early sprIn-just before Ap.
pomattox-he made i tour iii Georgia and
delivered speeches to the ~pcpulaec calling
10 arms. Perhaps nothing equal 10 II
came from other ps. Northern or South
ern. during That momcutou~ struggle one
who heard HIM repeated from memory t.
the writer 81 this a passage rs
The army IS our only safety. L. a. IN
the ranks, iii the forefront II battle &herc
independence j. to be achieved. | discard
all mere personality at TINS moment ana
place life ana fortune on the altar Of our
country and CfCr them Il free sacrifice FOR
the sunny South. l could II this moment
take in my arms and press to my heart
the most hated foe | have On earth i ne
viii but come to the rescue Of our be-
loved and bcleaguered land. Nay. more.
I could coger HIM With immortelleS. dc
corate him with g~arlands 81 flowers, and
crown him With wreathe Of laurel an OF
bay. Awake, Arise! Ho, to the re cue
every one, Cur country is in danger, Let
US q victory OF welcome glorious
DEATH"
But it was unayailing. There was but
one Jefferson Davis. but one Benjamin II.
Hill, but one Isham G. Harris at the
South. A levy en- massc saved France.
II might have saved the South.
The South was overthrow and Hi
was rut in prison. The vultures and Yer
min of reconstruction preyed on Georgia.
A satrapy was where 4 republic hal been.
De>potiem was where liberty had been.
knavery was whore honor had been. Vice
was where virtue had been. Ignorance
was where intelligence had been. Free
men were enslavd and mad subjects and
slaves were enlarged ana made rulers.
Since the invention OF Magma Charta,
there was never such Il marriage Of wick
edness and folly.
Now it was that Hill came from his
prison and wrote the Notes on the Stu
alton 4 series OF papers, twenty-five in
number, and each a political and literary
classic. They reused the people and say
ed Georgia. IN 1867 and in 1865 lie made
some speeches that were simply the
grandeur Of eloquence, logic and patriot
ism. At the close Of one OF them Robert
Toombs threw his hat in the air. and
clasping Hill to his bosom, exclaimed,
Three cheers tor Ben F:ll,' The two
rivals, but big as was the heart OF Toombs,
there was no room for in it for envy.
And now the work Of reconstruction
proceeded and a something happened in
Georgia that reminds US of the medieval
Italy that now applauded Colonna and now
followed Ursini. When the work was
done, when the amendments were a part
Of the Constitution, Hill advised their &C
ceptance by the South. 1t alienated thou
sands. He further lost the hearts Of the
people by favoring a lease of the Georgia
State Railroad, and the Bourbons did not
like a speech that he made at a banquet
given 10 one OF President Grants Cabi-
net.