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President Roosevelt on General Lee.

From the vein of somewhat harsh CRITICS !
which we have necessarily employed of late IL
discussing the presidential outbreaks and erU ,
tions, we turn aside to commend in the yer.
warmest terms the renewed interest which Mr.
Roosevelt has manifested in the cause Of some
appropriate and enduring national memOria
to Robert e. Lee.
The attitude of Mr.. Roosevelt toward the
South's most ilIustrous martial figure is well
calculated to touch the heart of this section
and to deepen the feeling of national brother
hood throughout the whole Union.
When the Tooth anniversary of General Lees
birth was observed two years ago, the occasion
was signalized by an enthusiastic letter from
the president eulogizing the lofty character OF
General Lee and urging the entire country to
unite in some fitting expression of esteem for
the South's great soldier.
Again Mr.. Roosevelt has seized the oppor-
tunity furnished by the recurrence of this
sacred anniversary to sound the buglenOte of
appeal; and the South for the time being lays
aside all feelings of resentment to tip the hat
to the outspoken and impulsive man in the
white house. who has not hesitated to rank
General Lee among the creates soldiers Of mod
ern times.
1t is not due alone to the blood of Georgia
ancestors which courses thru the veins of Presi
dent Roosevelt that his enthusiastic admiration
for General Lee has found expression in his
books on American history and in his executive
proclamatiOns.
With the lifting of the smoke from the en-
sauguined fields of battle have come wider and
clearer visions; and the same tranquil and
calm survey, which in the South has complete
ly altered the popular conception of A braham
Lincoln, has likewise in the North materially
modified the prevailing estimate Of Robert E.
Lee.
Indeed, some of the very highest tributes
which have been deliberately aud calmly &C
corded to the soldiership of the SOuth's favo-
rite hero have come from men of Northern
bi. th and sentiment, like Alexander X. Nc
Clure, Horace Greedy, Elisha Benjamin An,
drews, George r. Vending and Charles Fran
els Adams.
To the battle. SCARED survivors who followed
the snow-white crest of the great Virginian it
is gratifying to note the spontaneous tribute
which the foe at last is paying to the immortal
captain of the Southern hosts.
Grand in battle, he was grander still in
peace; and by his beautiful and blameless life
amid the academic groves of Lexington, he
made it evident to all the world that nature
made but one such man and broke the die in
molding Lee
Truly che embers Of sectional arrangement
are smoldering upon the republics hearthstone;
and the better days are coming.
Perhaps it was the Spanish American war
which served to open the eyes of the country
to the real attitude of the South toward the
Union. 1t was thought that the attachments
of this section to the general government were
only Slight; and the North was little prepared
for the exhibition of patriotism which caused
the SOuthern,b boys to- rush to the places of en-
hStment-which opened the young arteries of
Worth Bagleg for the earliest crimson sacrifice
of war-whch drew Hobson in the Merrimac
to the daring He'll gate of Santiago bay.
1t was for the sake of principle that the
South in 1861 left the Union which her Wash
ington and her Henry and her Jefferson had
helped to establish; and in the willingness of
Americans to die for ciple-whatever the
color of the unifOrm-are grounded the triumphs
of the nation in the conflicts which are yet to
come
The note of reconciliation which President
Mckinley sounded underneath the dome of
Georgia's capitol-which Mr. Taft has repeat
ed in the same historic place-whch Presi-
dent Roosevelt has again pronounced in his
noble eulogy of Lee-bids fair to reverberate
throughout the land until it pealS at last the
bloody shirt.-Georgian.
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