Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-12-01
GEN. ROBERT K. LEE
new York Evening Post Make.
Vicious Attack


" day in the Lynchburg Neas says
The New York Evening Post,
- one OF its splenetic anti.Southe
% screeds, maintains that the erecti
. OF a statue to Robert e. Lee in t
National Capitol cannot free b
2S from the reproach of having chos
8 TO lead the forces that battled (
= human bondage. Taking note
ID the misleading utterance, the Bali
more Sun thus stingingly rebuk,
e its contemporary:
The Post is sufficiently INTEL
gent to know that Lee never di
: this. He was not in favor of huma
bondage, as he proved by manumi
ting bis own slaves. The Pos
knows that Lee took command {
J the Southern Army not 10 suppor
human bondage, but to repel tn,
invasion of his native State Tn,
Post knows that when Lee tool
command OF the army slavery was
not the issue and Lincoln had giver
the distinct assurance that it was
not the purpose of the North TO ia.
tertere with slavery. His purpose,
ne said, was TO preserve the Union
and that alone. The South was
lighting for the right to leave the
Union, and the North was fighting
to keep it from leaving the Union
emancipation was merely move in
the game Of war, which had no
Official endorsement when Lee took
command. 1t is singular how the
New York Evening Post still holds
on to its sectional bitterness and
seeks to pervert and misrepresens
history when everywhere else -
North and South - we hear the echo
OF General Grants words, Let us
have peace"
Evidently The Post accepts Gen.
eral Grants words as me ming: Let
us have peace" at the price of the
So1th's dishonor-"Let US have
peace" at the price of the South's
politically, racially,
socially and otherwise-''Let US
have peace" only when Lee and
hose who followed him shall be
down as meriting the
world S lasting reproach. Of course
rant didn't mean this-but it is
My this construction of the dying .
hief's admonition that can be made ,
D square with the old abolition
outh- hating principles of The =.
'ost.
One of these days when the de. r
and for the truth and only the
nth will be iWperiously sounded :;
= the voice of justice throughout
le nation-history will record this =.
ct so plainly, that maligners like
10 New York Post will out of their +
vn mouths be so confounded, so
stultitied that they will =,
Their cease their South-hating pro- 7.
uucements, or skulk off from the
essence of decency into the dark ~ ~
eys and by ways of common SIAN
r, whenever wishing to hiss their ~
ctional malice. Such o day is -,
en- now almost at hand 70
And anosher day is going to come,
predict-a day when Washing ~
and Lee University, through
NAL resolutions adopted by it's :n
stees, will indicate that Oswald 'o'
rrison Willard, editor of the New '. g.
rk Evening Post, can only con ~,'
le to wear Washington and O'
honorary degree under their
test. The mans notions and Gez
ctices concerning negro racial \
social equality are repugnant, tou
'us to the entire South-sye, \
rec of fragrant Insult to the en-. wit
South. His Newspaper is con- Bri
lily quarreling at the South for N
in which it maintains feri
civilization; constantly indict. pair
it; constantly viciously malign- som
it and its people-and now even tatit
npts to splutter it's venom upon is n,
name of Robert E. Lee, the NJ
est name that graces the pages her
imam history. Verify it seems of SC
ing strange that the one great Bett
ol in the South which bears the NJ
'ot Leland to whose advance. spen
Lee gave his best services. visit
which is rich today in the mem
OF Lee, and the traditions OF
and the inestimable wealth of 81
ring distinction with which Ape
ndowed tit seems passing er lo'
ge, we say, that such a uni carry
W will logger per NIT the name not K
lao like Willard to remain upon an lr
nor roll, placed there as il an on
y the voluntary action of III. insur
o itself" Butte
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