The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-02

Koran and delivered the Christian ma
lions OF the West from tho deadly
grasp of all-destroying Islam.
1t Is decisive in the sense that the
hattie OF Hastings was decisive. in
which the ancient constitutions, as
we'll as the last of the Saxon kings,
were oycrthrown and the Anglo-N
man dynasty established In the British
Empire. 1t Is decisive in the sense
that the defeat OF tho Armada was
decisive. which swept Spanish prestige
from the seas and buried all hope of
! maritime supremacy in the grave of
the proud and sutlcn Phillip. 1t is de-
cisive because after that battle there
remained no hope or chance for the
Gonfederacy. Johnston saw and UNI
derstood all this, and made a correct
forecast of the Confederate horoscope.
All subsequent battles stand for
naught, so far as Southern ,indcpend-
ence Is concerned, and demonstrate but
one fact, and that Is, when two armies
meet and fight, one or the other is apt
TO get pretty soundly thrashed. When
some future Creacy shall como to cx-
tend his table ot decisive battlesp he
VIII be compelled, in his own despite,
to include Shiloh In his enumeration.
Had Johnston lived. the great soldier
A$ND NDuiu iGNt iliu 10 10 HIS
llaurels and his crown. If Virginia has
placed the ensy of Lee in Statuary
Hall by the side of Washington, why
should not Texas place that OF John
ston by the side OF Houston?
The government with magnanimi-
y and greatness of soul never seen
before, has placed n beautiful and APP
peallng monument on the spot Ynere
he fell and died. With heaying breast
and suffused eye the Confederate SOL
der. with heart overflowtng with
gratitude and patriotic submission,
looks upon it with the emotion that
filled the bosom of "Old Mortality"
when with mallet and chisel he deep
ened the moss covered inscriptions
upon the monuments of those slaugh-
tered Presbyterians who fell by the
executioner, or the murderous and
iiendish squadrons of Evershall and
Clavourhouse, and contemplates this
mute and eloquent token of unity with
feelings that thrilled the heart and
soul of the veteran of Moscow, Leip-
sic, Fontainbleau and Waterloo as he
looked down upon the marble sarco-
phagus in the tomb OF the Inyalides
wherein rests all that is mortal of the
great Napoleon. It is impossible not
to respect the sentiment which indi-
Gates itself by this token. 1t is a
sentiment which belongs to the higher
and purer part of human nature, and
which adds not a little to the strength
of States.
From this presentation. meagre. OF
course. the worth and merit of Cen
eral Bragg in the Shiloh campaign is
apparent. Tho finely equipped and
we'll disciplined corps he brought to
Johnstons army: his great work of or
ganizatlon at Corinth; his readiness for
action ut the appointed time: his mas
terly support OF Hardee's line; his
prompt assumption of command after
the fall of Johnston; his concentration
of artillery and his bold. skilful and
successful atNck on the strong posi-
ton of Wallace and Prentiss; his
speedy arrangement and disposition OF
his forces for the final assault on the
lines OF the enemy, strongly attest his
greatness on that occasion and place
his chaplet hard by that of Johnston
in the hall of the Confederate VAL
halla. How family Is he now remem-
bered!