The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-18

of his country since 1870. He was not
great like his very able rival and oppon
cnt in politics, the late William E. Glad
stone. But who was his equal in great
ness? Lord Salisbury himself in his re-
marks on Mr.. Gladstone in the House OF
Lords after the illustrious statesman had
passed away, said that he was the great
est of all the English statesmen-the
greatest that England had ever had
Lord Salisbury was in public life half a
century, and last February passed his
seventy third year. He was not generally
regarded as very wise or great leader
and statesman. He was a Tory to the
utmost fibre of his being. The New
York Review of Reviews says that as
statesman, he seemed to men of other ma
sions almost always half informed and
amateurish. His career was one long
series Of mistakes at vital moments" And
yet for thirteen years he was Premier
aud leader of the old Tory party The
same monthly says that "he was a man
of great personal accomplishments, Of
devotion to the physical sciences, and OF
admirable qualities in every private
aspect and relation" Mr. w. r. Stead.
the well known English journalist and
views" discusses Lord Salisbury and con-
cedes that he "was a good man with
''many great qualities" and says that
his private life was HAWKES." and that
MS public career has on the whole. with
one terrible exception. been singulary free
from blemish." He loved his native land,
professed to be a Christian. and was
nothing of a demagogue, one of the
lowest of characters. and a curse to any
land or civilization. He was a thorough
aristocrat, and still not very great man.
Mr.. Stead holds that "the one great blot
on his career was his acquiescence in the
fatal policy of Earl Beaconsfeld. He for
years loathed that able Jew, and his
aversion was unconcealed. yet within
four years he became the facile tool OF
the man whom he detested." He had been
the champion of 1.-The cause of the Eastern
Christian :. and yet he betrayed
the liberties of the Bulgarians. This
was his greatest positive offense." But
he failed later and worse. Says Steac.
the worst negative crime that lies at his
ioor was his failure to check the policy
of Mr.. Chamberlain in South Africa +"
TO have been used by both Beaconsfield
and Chamberlain in behalf of two out-
RACES and betrayals makes surely bad
record for any statesman, and much
worse does it become when it is done by
man adhering to Christianity. Stead
holds that Mr.. Chamberlain was too many
for his aged chief, and we are today
rcaping the consequences of Lord Sails
bury's failure to assert his authority on
his own cabinet 1t is asserted that
the old statesman saw later the evil of
the mistake, and that to the very last
''he entertained such an enthusiastic ad-
mlration for the Beers that If his private
utterances had been made in public he
would have had his windows broken as
pro- Boer, by the incensed thoughtless
worshippers of the doctrine that might
makes right" The old man is gone, full OF
honors, held in high esteem by royalty
and nobility, and yet not hated by the
people as he was regarded, it is said
half for ''the masses" and half for the
classes" He had an imposing head, and
his full name was Robert Arthur Talbot
GascoyneCecil
According to careful student upon the
greatest of modern wars, Capt. William
r. Bond, OF Scotland Neck, N c., in the
misunderstood, misrepresented great bat
tie OF Gettysburg, the losses of the three
States were as follows:
Killed. Wounded. Total.
North Carolina. sos 3,1S1 1876
Georgla ..........329 1,701 2,03O
Virginia ..........375 1871 234c
re total of killed and wounded in the
three States was, killed, 1882 wounded,
$3.50; making a grand total of S,252 kill
ed and wounded.
A Virginian historian accused the North
Carolinians of coWardice in that battle
General Harry Heth, a Virginian was
wounded, and on the third day General
PettigreW, a North Carolinan, senior
Brlgadier, commanded Heth's Division.
and unlike General Pickett, was in the
charge with conspicuous bravery There
has been no greater outrage perpetrated
against brave men than that which has
pursued General Pettigrew's command by
writers such as Swinton in Scribner's
Magazine, McCabe, Pollard and others
who ought to have known better, and
ought to have been governed by higher
sense, OF justice, truth and courtesy. IL
the Hateful charge Pettigrews own North
Carolina brigade lost-killed, 100; wound
ed, 915; total, 1,105 Brockenborough's
brigade was from Virginia-it lost q
killed; wounded, 1913; total 148 1t was
in Heth's Division. 1t has been accused
OF behaving badly, and that it was the
only one of the brigades in the Division
that failed to do its full duty. Heth's
Division belonged to A. P. Hills Corps.
General Fender had two North Carolina
brigades in his Division. Here is tho
loss they sustained:
Killed Wound Total.
Scales N. c. brigade 1872 322 42t
Lanes N. c. brigade Al 34S $50
Now, let US turn to Pickett's famous di