The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-30

cOiors ana IN the most redhStic,
graphic style which characterized his
descriptive powers.
In conclusion, Senator Daniel said:
Thus. my comrades, have told you
In unvarnished language the story OF
Gettysburg.
My chief object has been to state
facts which will stand as Landmarks
Of Confederate history rather than to
attempt meliifuous phrases which
would roll away like ripping waters,
And these-eelected from O mass--are
related only in the hope OF stimulating
further researches and expositons,
and not in the vain belief that they
comprehend even the half OF these
sad but brilliant annals.
For many reasons 1t is important
to you and to our people that the
truth respecting this GREET
action should be studiously explored
and fully recounted. Fought at the
farthermost northern point to which
our armies penetrated at any time.
Il Is projected into conspicuousness
which belongs to no other field. Its
result increased In the North the
permanence impaired to Ii by Its
geographical location: and Northern
painters. sculptors, essayists. orators
and historians have exhausted the
turing its actors and its scenes. and
in celebrating the real and too fire.
quently the fictitious exploits which
the Union troops performed.
Above all. 1t marked a decisive
turn in the fortunes of war. Ii was,
as Mr.. Swinton styles 1t. the high
water mark of the rebellion. 1t was,
indeed what the historian Hallam so
finely says OF the victory won by
Charles Martei over the invading Sar-
acens between Tours and Poictiers,
one of those few battles OF which
the contrary event would have essen
TALLY varied the drama OF the world
and all its subsequent scenes. For
had the grand assault on Cemetery
Ridge been compensated by results
proportioned to the genius which III
rected and the courage which made
II, Baltimore and Washington have
been its prizes, foreign recognition
its reward, and the establishment or
the Confederate States as an indie
pendent nation its final fruitage.
Nor let the Confederate shrink
before the critic who, from the Sc
rene atmosphere of his sanctum, steps
forth to pluck laurel from the
reputation OF that great commander
who 80 boldly attempted what others
would pale to think OF With the
fail OF vickshurg imminent, General
Lee felt that that hour demanded this
Herculean effort. With the spirit OF
the Caesar or Napoleon he bravely
cast. and bravely stood. the hazard
OF the die BY the very audacity OF
this well-aimed stroke he deserved
by the steady heroisn OF Pickett's
men he we'll night won--and only
by a series OF those curious accidents
% n M
the wisdom of the wtse-did he lose
that browning triumph which his
supreme endeavor was SO well de-
served to win.
Lee Took Blame.
g.. 1T was all my fault. he said;
but such will not be the verdict of
the just historian. who with clear eye
and steady hand shall trace, through
/ the tumultuous and sanguinary incl
dents of the day, the course OF him
! who, after exposing his person TO al
/ the dangers OF the fray. would crnct'
! fy, on self erected cross, his own IL
lustrtous name. and make that repu-
tat!on. more precious than life itself,
vicarious sacrifice for his lieutenants
and his men.
And when the moralist shall seek
/ the highest example OF what is heortc
and grand In action. and martyr-like
/ in spirit-that he may erect before
humankind q model that shall warm
its finest fancies. and excite its high
| est aspirations--he shall find 1t ir
I the person OF Robert r. Lee. upor
I the summit OF Seminary Ridge. the
mount OF his TRANSPORTATION, where
sublimating all earthly instincts the
Divinity In his bosom shone translu'
cent through the man. and his spirit
rose up into the godlike.
And the day shall dawn wher
here IN the Capitol Square we shall
/ look again upon the warriors form
and face. moulded in perennial
bronze-shail see once more oul
great commander. mounted on Trav'
eier, his battle steed, the seeming
| image OF Majesty and Victory. Here
in the aftartime. when we shall b.
sleeping under the sod with our de
parted comrades. our sons and daugh
tiers shall look up to that command
ing presence. rejoicing to remembei
that heir fathers fought under him
And here the eye of the wayfarer
the patriot. and the pilgrim shall
grow brighter. as IT contemplate
with one glance three iiiustrious ant
congenial spirits. born TO Virginia
govern to humanity. world renowned
George Washington. Stonewall Jack
son and Robert Edmund Lee"
jackson an Exception.
Character OF Stonewall Jackson.
a lecture delivered as a speech befor'
the Manassas Memorial Association II
1878.
The caskets in the Merchant o
Venice that were outwardly attrac
tive were proportionately deceptive
The Prince OF Morocco. Portia' : frs
sutton cho0e the golden casket, blu
found in II a deaths head. The Primo
OF Arragon chose the silver one. an
was rewarded. with the image OF
fool Bassanio selected the modes
casket of lead, and within discovere
likeness of his sweetheart's head
which was the title to her hand.
The disappointed lovers In tn
Shakespearean drama were not de
luded by appearances than were tn
people of the Confederate States Il
many Of the public men to whom the
committed their destinies In the lat
revolution. With the pre-eminent ex
ception OF Jefferson Davis (by far tn
greatest man produced on either side
and or two others Of lesser note. tn
politicians who figured IN the preltmi
naries OF the war proved. like tn
companions Of Ulysses, incapable o
directing the winds they had sue
ceeded In arousing, They were. gen
orally speaking. marplots In mtlitar
affairs, short-sighted and impracti
cable in finance, and the variou
other departments OF political econ
omy. They were depressed and los
hone with our first serious adver