The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-03-09
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We arrived in San Francisco about
the middle Of the forenoon and finish
ed the day in looking over the city.
Among other interesting places we Wis
ited Golden Gate Park, d beautiful re-.
sort, where trees, shrubs and plants
We're in leaf and bloom and the air ILL.
ed with their perfume. Many statues
adorn the park, among them that of
General Halleck, the senior major gen.
3eral of the regular army during most of.
the civil war period, whose leading
distinguished characteristics were his.
rank, and the opportu he lost to
do his country faithful and efficient
service, and the ambition he exhibited
to fghta great battle after the war was
ended, by breaking the truce which ex-
listed between Gen Sherman and his
opponent, Gen. Joe Johnston prelimi-
nary to the latters surrender to the
former On the monument of Hal
leck is inscribed the legend: Com
mander of the United Army 1s62-1864'
He was located in Washington then,
from whence came the orders that di-
rected the movements of the army of
the Potomac. marked by the disastrous
seven days battle before Richmond
which closed with the battle of NAL
vern Hill; the second battle of Bull
Run; the battles Of Fredericksburg and
charlottesville. 1t was believed by
many of the soldiers Of the eastern
armies that had not the Washington
authorities ordered McDowell's army,
which was moving to form a junction
with McClellan's right wing before the
seven days battle, away in an opposite
direction to cut off Stonewall Jackson's
move to join Lee and crush McClel-
lands army history would have record
ed the disastrous defeat of Lee and
Jackson, the fall of Richmond and the
end of the war at the close of the sum
mer of 1862, before President Lincoln
issued his emancipation proclamation
and thus African slavery in the United
States would have been left just where
the opening Of the war found tin
trenched, under the constitution, in
the slave states with the North on one
side and the South on the other Oh the
question of its eX tension into the terri
tories, If General. Halleck's command
of the army wasin any degree .trespon.
sible for the failure of McClelland's
peninsular campaign, to that extent he
may be entitled to the credit of Great
ing conditions and a public sentiment
that made the abolition of slavery pos
sible. Sometimes it happens hat even
great ne.l do their country better SER
vice by sacrificing right;to self than by
sacrificing self to right.
A short distance from the statue of
General IIalleck stands that of foot
ball player with the ball in his grasp
in the attitude of making move that
will command the attention ofthe field
l wondered if there was anything in
this arrangement to suggest the con.
sunling ambition Of the General during
his career in the civil war. 1t recalls
the story that President Lincoln in one
of his visits to the Soldiers Home at
Washington invited captain of
Pennsylvania regiment to accompany
him, and as his carriage passed the
headquarters Of Halleck he ordered the
driver to stop and went in and brought
the General out with him and intro
duced him to the Captain. move
which, while in accord with the Presi-
dents view of the value Of the vanity
Of life, must have been immeasurably
humiliating to the military chieftain.
We left SanFrancisco on the even
ing after our arrival and reached Los
Angeles a little before noon of the day
following, and were far from disap-
pointed in our first view of this de-
ligbtful and interesting city. The fer
tile condition of its soil its beautiful
trees, shrubs, flowers and homes; its
singing birds and its perfect climate
lead one to profanely wonder why the
order of creation was not so arranged
that instead of death ending the career
ef man on earth he had not been de-
creed to live in Los Angeles.