The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-10

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read with much interest, in your
Leo from the pen or Alice W eiaris
VINO appears to have enjoyed tho ar.
,hn i,ance Oh the grent soldier after
| onir snfrcnder at Appomattox. Tier
enough. but there are yarious fcet,pa,
anout her article which appear 10 show
Inat IL cannot be wholly relied mon.
not very oinicult achievement 10
norary events, and details of convar
sations forty years after they occurred
, nhIs De always charity received. Prob
noly 70 those who knew General Too
| best the freedom with which ho' Is "a ii
70 nave spoken TO your corrospondrnf
| u more surprising than anything cIsc
ixnoyy Tns mos, reserved man, and
word was watched, he was pxtrcmniv
CAUTIOUS to whom he talked, cspccI11ly
cer tney were Yer, !, strangers. One thing is
ait.a,s tnal u nc spoke at all. /, was
therefore. hard TO believe that Genera
Lee III Spreading of General Grant
,hhac use OF any expression like this,
| was licked" it
Again. while 1t is undoubtedly truc
lhni General Lee showed a wise and
nnore oDedieneo to the laws OF tho con-
| Iueror. anu that. when his own cause
Was lost. he taught respect to Inc
Union nag,>yet II scoms utterly I'M.
POSSIBLE that he ever used the follow
iinSyc " - nron iea h any sons you may
| Suage that seems 10 imply that Gen
erai Lee was ashamed of the part tha [
| nc had performed. There is no mys.
terry as TO the views OF General Lee on
Eovernmcnt. According to your cor
| respondents own statement. General
| Lce was believer in The doctrine OF
s.a tes rights and deemed Virginia his
His relation TO tho Confederate
States was not unique. but that OF every
other citizen In the South. He was a
SS, ,a,.s OF virginia, Just as Alexander
sS;icrhens was citizen OF Georgia.
The Confederate government created n
! powerful national union. the parties 10
which were not persons in thcip indi-
corporate capacity as free and indie
pendent States In common with all
the other Southern leaders. General
Lee held that as The Federal Union
the governed" TO deny the right o.
secession was 10 abrogatc the generally
accepted idea Of what the United States
to,rieinaliy stood for. and TO substitute
inc European doctrine Of force
Now. know that in these imperi-
alistic days States rights" has hc-
come nm obsolete idea The doctrine
may have been bad ."fallacy" and ali
place the responsibility where ii be-
longs. Mrs. Clark calls ia The Cal
noun doctrine; but as a matter of fact
II had been taught long before Mr.. Cal
Tore he took any part In politics. Mr.
jefferson and Mr.. Madison taught the
doctrine In the Kentucky and Virginia
resolutions OF '9S and 90, when they
hE Tsftr
sovereignty" but many sorercIgnties."
Massachusetts subsequently held en-
phatically the same view during the
period OF the embargo and the War OF
1917 Tho government long after
wards. as Is we'll known. taught tho
same doctrine 10 its students at the
West Point Academy. In the library
S Se ms ,s eSliege Is copy O. the TEXT.
Of the Constitution OF the United
States" By William Rawle, OF Penn
sylvania. On Its ny leaf is Cadet
Benz. S. Ewell. West Point. 1892" and
The States then may wholly with
draw from the union.', Why. then
with this testimony before us. do many
Northern writer's continue TO throw
the blaine on Mr.. Calhoun? III.
Speaking Of cadet Ewell.". who pre-
coded me as president OF William and
Mary College, he also had some recoi-
lections of General Lee. which are
worth mentioning. During the war he
was chief on General Joseph f. John
! ston's staff. He was young student
at West Point with General Lee when
the latter had the duty of inspector OF
cadets. cannot presume TO give ex-
| act language, but he spoke of his re-
membranes of young Lee. as he came
down the line OF the battalion, as the
| handsomest man he ever saw. His APP
| ncarance was grand. and lie had way
! OF noddlng his head in approval when
! he saw cadet and his equipment look
ing especially fne. Colonel I said.
did you ever receive such a NODE
The colonel straighte ned himself up
and replied with evident pride: Once"
holding finger up. We'll. and how
! did you feel when You received it?"
.Fccl!" said the colonel. II felt as IL I
had received nod from Olympian
Jovc."
Admirers OF General Lee in the
South will not thank Mrs. Clark for
making him the shield of a bitter as
sault on Jefferson Davis. Why cannot
! she as well as others be just? What
creator evidence is there that Presi-
dent Davis was I'm the war for per
sonal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT than that Pres
ident Lincoln was in the war for the
Same reason? Who seemed 10 incur
greater danger-Lincoln, with the pow
erful North behind him. or Davis with
armies marched to the tune of "IIang
JEFF Davis ON a Sour Apple Tree" and
every breeze from tho Northland was
weighted with vengeance; and II Mr..
Iincoln's face bore upon It The sor-
rows Of nation," nevertheless trium-
plant. why was there not room enough
In Davis's heart for the sorrows OF
ruined and Defeated people? Davis
had all the responsibility of the failure
OF tho war, with none; of the military
glory which protected General Leo
against tho tremendous assaults That
were popular In the North. If Mr..
Davis sought his own nggrandlzcmcnt.
il cannot bc denied that he did It in
tho way freest from criticism by.se-
Letting. nj the first. from the very hest
talent In the South. his generals-I.ee,
Johnston, jackson etc. On the other
hand, the merits Of General Grant. fof
whom General Loo had undoubtedly.
much respect MS n soldier, were not re-
corpfznd I'LL townrds tho close of Tho