The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-09-08
A HERO WHOSE FAME Will
TOWER THOUGH THE AGES
Dr.. K~ingsbury Writes With Glowing Pen of the Noble
and Chivalric Lee, Whose Memory is
lmperishabIe.

...,r OK TWO-COL. GREEN'S
r~~r.H ON GETTYSBURG-LEE
~. HIS Observation-Disclosures
..ATURE-OLDEST GREEK
".aE-INCREASE OF INSANITY
,>r CANCER IN ENGLAND AND
r~lI.uIE-
rn..aa deserved in the Reidsville Week
-..l. =. few weeks that George Morton
n-l.4ug in that tow as a busy po-
....t .|-p.,aut and a right-hand man in
......au with the liquor question in
.... aggressive town. The last number
.. ~. Weekly states that George is
,..,... and comforted by the Review of
... t.uu With the assurance that 1.-The
.- .a-uc>, Of being right is worth more
. .ue than the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
.r,.- This leads the Weekly to say:
.Na..n recalls what Speaker Reed said
. Congressman who dramatically ex-
..#mua. I'd rather be right than Presi-
..r.t The gentleman will never be
either. was Reeds I~aconic remark" This
...-aIr m T,ar Reeds career is stolen
r..1e. 1t was Harry Clay who made that
..m.,- declaration. The Representative
v.~ merely playing off at this distance in
Shot. role of the great Wing statesman.
thr eloquent Senator from Kentucky, al
though born III Virginia, and known in
the days OF his candidacy for the Pre3i-
t.,ev. in 1914. as The Mill Boy of the
S.,-hy~.F There was a very famous say
ire I'm the British House of Commons
once that is borrowed" some times, and
without due credit. When l come to give
~ GA Ell.
,puud. | have met with the incident often
in WY literary reading. l forget who
u.- The speaker and who gave from the
gallery the retort. The Speaker in a
ftglIl sentence broke out with the start
Ing exclamation: when / forget my
country may God forget me- That is
probably not exactly correct. But the
um5 from the gallery, followed quickly
by sayIng He Will see you damned
first
I read with genuine pleasure the very
interesting report Gel. Wharton j. Green.
If Fayetteville, gave of his visit to the
battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa, in July last.
It has decided merit, and is full of spice,
vtryc, naturalism and personality with a
few dashes of classicism. He was
taken prisoner in that battle. was III the
command OF another school-mate and
friend Of mine (Col. G. and | were at
school at Lovcjoy's, Raleigh Military
Academy in the f~orties) and of his, the late
Ersadjer General Junius Daniel, who was
OF the braVest OF the brave" and had but
few equals Of his grade in Lees granG
army as IA soldier. | wish to reproduce
an incident connected with General Lee
that like so many other notable things
reflect so much renOWn up0n the exalted
character of the man Who is as far above
Aoe Lincoln in nobility of character q!
the stars are above their reflections il
the waters of the earth. General HOWARD
asked Col. Green if he knew why Genera
Meade did not pursue General Lee aftcI
the third days fight and Lees retreat
A certain General had great influence
with Meade and had q blind admiration
and Confidcnce in Lee, as man and soldier
not surpassed by any in his great army
When the question of pursuit was undo
discussion during the night of the thirt
day, and We were almost Il unit in fayo
Of 1T, with eye to lnterception before TIL
uver could be reached, the commander
q course, being n~oncommittal until
tuIt expression was reached, then Genera
- InterpoScd: Do I understand
You To- say, General Meade. that you naV.
reliable information that General Lee ha
reported TO his government, that willis
his loss has been fearful he is still i
condition to repulsc assault, come fror
what quarter ii may? Then, my counse
D" let hIm severely alone for l know tn
man. and know hat he would not prcvari
cate even at this critical juncture to say
MS he, or the cause of his espousa
witch he values far more highly The
point was carried and we didn't try t
cut ol'the retreat" Lee richly meritct
every word ever said in his favor b.
Aa-..7d commanders and writer's upo
war. ! have more han twice already /
lAe past given what Col. Chesney Wrot
OF Lee. Chesney who was the most emf
mont military authority in Great Britain il
~. ana after, who wrote the famous ar
uole In Blackwood's Edinburgh Maya
Nlr. Do that year, he called The BATTLE
O.. Dorklng.' that aroused the British PEG
te IT'S they We're never before rouse
when there was not actual war, and al
imminent prospect Of invasion by Franc
" some other great European power. Co
0heSney SAID that "the three creates
s.''iers of the English speaking race wer
Ni'lloorough, Wellington and Lee" an
merely gave their names III the Orde
seniority and not of merit as he II
7'~''t 1hom. General Lord Wolselcy wa
~ ' lew years ago the head of til
i''.*1 army. He was distinguished i
''.'t battles. He is a military write