Arizona republican., 1914-03-25

siege TOT the charge interfered with his devotions, and the flippant tongue was curbed, the irreverant jest was hushed in his presence always. While his religion did not partake of the dog matic, aggressive characteristics of the famous Stonewall Jackson, his trust was a child-like and his faith as un- questioned and unquestioning.
 He was a graduate at twenty-two, a captain of engineers at thlrty-two. chief engineer on Gen. Scotts staff at forty, superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point at forty-five, lieutenant colonel of a Cavalry Regi- ment in Texas at fortynine, in com mand of the Department of Texas at fiftY-three, offered the command of the Federal Army as successor to his re- spected chief, the venerable General Scott. when fiftyfour, surrenders the army forces of the Confederacy at fif- weight. and still he was buried in citi- zen's clothes with, in the main, civic honOrs. It was his wish that no mili- tary display should be indulged, but his old boys could not be prevented from falling in," touching elbows" and once more keeping step as the mortal remains of the praying soldier were put to rest.
 There is one more paradox not the less surprising but more painful to con- template Robert F. Lee was child of the American Republic. Its flag xl, 1r 1, elders: the federal union Was cemented by the blood of his fathers. His home was rich with mementoes and tradi- tiOns of the great revolutOry struggle Washington and Jefferson were among his spiritual assets in a peculiar WE and the federal arch was reared of granite blocks quarried out of their brains, laid in, their places by their hands
 He received his education at the hands of the federal union on the ex- plicit terms that he should be worthy exponent of its principles, promoter of it's interests in times of peace, and, when need be, to defend it's honor with I his life in times of war His judgment, as well as his heart, protested against | the cruel vivisection of the noblest civic fabric yet achieved by man. To | Gen. Scott he wrote:
 " For more than a quarter of cen tury I have experienced nothing but | kindness from my superiors and most cordial friendship from my comrades ,
 "On the same day, the day he sent I 1,- hf brothers wife (His brother was then a Captain in the Navy, soon to become a Commodore in the Confederate 1 Navy):
 I recognize no necessity for this state of things and would have fore borne and pleaded to the end for re- dress of grievances, real or supposed
 'In the letter to Johnson, already quoted from, he declares that he was opposed to secession and deprecated war
 " Mrs. Lee wrote to Gen. Scott:
 My husband has wept tears oi blood. No honor can reconcile him to this fratracidal war. How Washing tons spirit would be grieved.' "Col. Lee, himself, had written at ar
 earlier date:
 " Could he. Washington see the
 wreck of his mighty labors.'
 His heart seems to have clung t' the Union almost to tho last
 Tn June. 1861, he wrote:
 T cannot contemplate greater calamity for the country than dlsso
 lution of the Union. 1t would be ai accumulation of all the evils we com
 plain of. I shall mourn fo
 my country and the progress of m! kind if the Union is dissolved and tn government is disrupted l shall re turn to my native state and share tn
 miser;cs of my people and, save in thei
 defense, will draw my sword m
 more.'
 And yet, within a few weeks afte this came his resignation, and a promptly he had accepted high re sponsibility in the interest, not of Vir
 ginia, but of Confederacy which h , had denounced and deplored. When , Twas all over with, before Congres