The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-11
GENERAL GORDON.

The death of General John B. Gordon
removes from the South one of ma
lures noblemen and a true Southern
cavalier. Following closely upon the
death of General Longstreet, the
South 1nourns a great leader OF
the Lost Cause, the last of a galaxy
of principals who served with honor
beneath the stars and bars in the
struggle between the North and the
South.
General Gordon was but young
man when he drew his sword in de-
Tense of the principle of state sover-
eighty. Time meIlowed Gordon's ideals
as to the rights of states to assert
their supremacy over the Union, and
the lesson which he learned from the
great civil conflict cannot be without
it's influence in moulding a pure, lofty,
patriotic sentiment in coming genera
tons of American youth, for the COM
mon government of the whole Union
North and South, East and Vest.
Almost the last effort of his long,
brilliant career was to harmonic
whatever of differences there may be
yet existing between North and South |
as the outgrowth of the Civil War. |
His later day ideals Were that Amer
lean youth in all sections should be |
taught to hold in perpetual remem-
brance all that was great and good on
both sides; to comprehend the inner
tied convictions for which sanity
died; to recognize the unparalleled
carnage as proof of unrivalled cour-
age; to appreciate the singular absence
of personal animosity, and of the fire.
brave antagonists of a good-fellowship
such as had never before been wit
messed between hostile armies
General Gordon died convinced that
tween the North and the South was
waged by neither with criminal or
unworthy intent, but by both to pro-
tect what they conceived to be threat
ened rights and imperilled liberty; that
the issues which divided the sections
We're born when the Republic was
born, and We're forever buried in an
ocean of fraternal blood. To him, ev-
cry sheet of flame from the blazing
rifles of the contending armies, every
whizzing shell that tore through the
forests at Shiloh and charlottesville,
every cannon shot that shook Chick
amauga's hills or Numbered around
the heights of Gettysburg, and all the
blood and tears that were shed, had
become contributions for the upbuilding
of American manhood and for the flu
ture defense of American freedom.
General Gordon's life was tempered
daughter of the South, who accom-
panied him in nearly all his cam
paigps,s always near at hand. Her adj
vice was given to and accepted by the
brave man. General Early said to her
once: Mrs. Gordon General Gordon
is a better soldier when you are close
by him, than when you are away, and
SO hereafter, when issue orders that
officers wives must go to the rear,
you may know that you are excepted.
The ability of. General Gordon was
when, at Appomattox,
General Lee selected General Gordon,
with General Longstreet and General
Pendleton to discuss and draft the de-
tails of the formal surrender of the
troops of the broken Con-
to General Grant. His last
public service was to serve Georgia in
the United States Senate in 1896 and
at his death he was the Commander
In-chief OF the Confederate Veterans
Union; honored by the South, and
loved and respected by the North.
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