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Lazarus, april 23,1873 10 3m ^ [FBOM THE I.ONDON STANDARD.] THE CHARACTER OF LEE. AN ENGLISH ESTIMATE OF THE GREAT CONFEDERATE CAPTAIN. A Peerless leader. The most interesting, perhaps, of the articles in an unusually lively number of the Edinburg Review is one reviewing what is, as yet, about the best Iiib of the great Confederate commander, and the best account of the war in Virginia, thut has been published, and sketching the later career and character of General Lee. That career was, in a military point of view, so glorious,'s? f?ll of bril liant achievement aud of merit more solid than striking, so grand a lesson in the art of war and in the qualities of soldier ship ; that character is, from every point of view so admirable in its moral grand eur, ics perfect simplicity, its close ap proach to the highest ideal of the Chris tian soldier and gentleman, that they command au interest which does not fade with the lading memory of the keen ex citement aud often passionate sympathies of ten years ago. In the story of the Confederate war we read lessons of the highest political moment pod of the pro foundest military significance; in the j character of the Virginian leader, wc have a model of all that a hero of an en lightened and Christian age should be, than which no nobler example can bo set before the youth entering on the temptations of military life, or tho trials nud perplexities of a great public career. We have also au historical question of I considerable importance practically solv-J ed, for all those who are not too prcju- 1 diced to accept a solution which docs not suit their forejudged conclusions, by,the read the story of the secession movement in the documents of the time without seeing that though slavery was the open sore that kept the passions of North and South in constant irritation, and afforded occasion for tho violent collisions of Kan sas and Harper's Ferry, which precipita ted the issue and made its decision by any other arbitrations than that of the sword impossible, it was not the issue it self. Slavery had no place in the coun sels which hurried State after State out of the Union ; for slavery was the inter est of the few, and it was by tho many that secession was precipitated. The Southern people resented Northern dicta tion, Northern assertions of superiority,1 Northern pretensions to au exclusive right in their territories, Northern inter meddling, and Northern invasions, aal the most furious of English dissenter? would resent the interposition of the Ro man Catholic Powers in the question of Church Establishment in England.? When tho seven Southern States had withdrawn, the Border States/ which were most deeply concerned in the North ern attacks on Slavery, still clung to' the Union ; Virginia, despite tho piratical invusion of her territory and tho mid night robbery nnd murder passionately sanctioned by her New England sisters, still refused to secede; and only when the treacherous attempt of the Federal Government to reinforco the fort it had promised to evacuate, and surpriso Char leston with an armed fleet, precipitated the reluctant sections into war, and when Mr. Lincoln forced upon her the choice between fighting for Southern freedom and State rights, or Northern ascendancy and Federal despotism, did she throw ii. her lot with the Confederates. Slavery then was not her determining motives; Slavery made no appearance in tho pri vato letters of the men who, on* after anothoi went with their States. i4.If is a remarkablo fact, that while scores of leading Northern men denounced the war, not a singlo Southerner of higt character, education and influence de sorted tho cause of the South. They un versally hold that their allegiance w due to their native States; nnd on th ground alone they threw up career, fo tune, fame, and placed themselves at tl diiposal of those who claimed their fen ty. It is absurd to call such men rebels they were loyalists to all that they ha been taught to obey, to all the principa recognized,-up to that moment, by three Americans in four., To General Lee the Federal Borvico ottered everything that ambition could desire. He was its fore-, most man, he was the favorite of General Scott.; he might havo had the chief com mand as ihe price of treason to Virginia. HisyXeolings were divided; but as his letter* now published show, he was con vinced that nis duty was to Virginia, anrLhe decided accordingly. With him wenjfeBtonownll Jackson, the two John sons, every Southern soldier in high or lbwveommand. The causo so espoused, nndjby such men, cannot have been what English Jlaiuers and Radicals call it. Good or bad in essence, it was so strong in Apparent justice that not one man of character and weight whose allegiance it pn^fcndcd to claim declined to support it.p Its, failure had nothing to do with, its nlhjgjKi demerits. The South was crush ed Ivy weight, not broken by weakness. TiV?? things determined the fate of the warr-the closing of her ports, the supe rior wealth, and far above nil, the over whelming numbers of the enemy. The N^orth was a corn-growing and a mauu fu^tupng country, and had open to her tue markets of Europe ; she bad unlim ited command of all the resources of tho c vilized world. -The South was subject to tHo disadvantages both ofau agricul tural and of a non-ngriculturnLcountry. She had no manufactures, and yet she lived by manufactures and not by agii 'oultjir?; by producing clothing,- not by .noducing food. t Her wealth was at ? nice annihilated by tho blockade, which prevented her from selling her cotton, and tobacco and sugar; her supplies ?wero.cut off, and she had a bare sufiicien Cy/of food, and a total want of every her necessary of life and war. She ob tained powder and aims from the enemy; ?hopts and clothes and blankets nhc had : tier finances broke down at vw, iu, horcxpvrfcf vrora her wealth, and exports had ceased, But, above all, she was crushed by numbers; the North could recruit at home four men for one, and could hire the off scourings of Eu rope. And it was this alone that decided tho issue. The Edinburg Rovicwer adds the want of discipline: but we believe that in the essentials of military discip line the Southerners were always superior to tneir foes, nnd that if tho troops of Grant and McClcllan had been tried as Lee's were tried, they would have melted like snow or died like rotten sheep. Lee won almost every battle he fought, and against odds of from two to four to one. What destroyed him was Grant's cold, cruel policy?which only a Yankee, a Napoleon, or a Prussian could have de liberately adopted?of sacrificing men without stint, whom he Could replace, to wear out an, enemy who could not recruit. Under different circumstances such a process might last longer. But a general who can afford to sacrifice three men to kill one must always end by leaving his enemy without soldiers; and ?herefore greatly Superior numbers, thus used, must, prevail in the long run. It is no longer possible in wars between civilized nations for prowess to prevail against numerical odds of great weight. And this terrible lesson a State like England would do well to lay to heart. This, and this alone, was the cause of the full of the Confederacy ; this is the dark and pain ful mornl of the Virginian compaign. Against everything but sheer "attrition" Lee was victorious. Great as he was in war?and surely no captain of any age ever accomplished greater things against an enemy of the 8amo rnce, better armed, better provided, and outnumbering him by two or three to oue on every battle-field?GencrnlLee sltono greater still in disaster, defeat and ruin. The retreat from Richmond was a masterpiece of moral power and soldier ly skill; the surrender was olevatcd by its circumstances nnd its spirit into one of the grandest and most pathetic scenes in history. Lee was surrounded by ton fold numbers ; all was lost; but his men wero staunch to the last, and the tempta tion "to rido along the lines nnd give the word and end it all" was strong indeed. He conquered it; ho "did his best" for tho men who had loved and trusted him eo long, and ho and his soldiers wont back to their dcfolato homes, the ruined citizens of a ruined and enslaved country. ... -n .11?j7-f?. ,-. . j. : iT"7.' (How cruelly they were wrongea~|io.w shamefully every pledge .given at every stage of the ..war, on, which virtually the Confederates had surrendered,' has. been' violated?our readers know. ' The Re publican party 'clamored.,(far. ? violation of the military capitulations?for the blood of the general who had spared in war to punish, murder by reprisals and devastation by requisitions. General Grant?it is his one title to honor?put down this demands/with ,f4 high hand. But he allowed tlie Southern people to bo wronged,-oppressed, insulted, pillaged by negro voters and Northern adventu rers, as never nation was oppressed and pillaged before. Perhacs till he became President he had little power to prevent 'it j at all events he did not^fry. Lee saw all this,?n? yet, with a oreaking heart, he exerted himself, to keep his people quiet. He had lost fortune and home in the war, by pillage and wanton destruction ; he was proscribed; he de clined to draw vengeance on his State by taking open part in her politics;' the com* man-in-chief of a national army conde scended to the control of a military school, and to a life of silence and .ob scurity* But all Southern eyes wore fixed on him, and bis influence was used to hep them calm and patient, and to re-attach them to the Union which had conquered and .was crushing them.? Even while their wrongs and miseries were wearing ont lri9 life ho checked every utterance of resentment, every ex pressession of hope lor a future deliver ance, "We are all Araericnns now."? He would allow no toast to the Lost Cause; no honors to the Fallen Bantfer. .He boro his burden with simple, unaffec ted, patient hero?t?'. Qther men may have approftched him in wa? ariST-to, \ nchievment; nonfe^ capable of deeds like his ever rival lea him in eftd?fance and submfssWn under- hopeless" tfefea't. A Cato woiild have fallen on his sword ; a f>rutua might lmvo conspired ; a Hanni al cndureoHSnTy in the hope of revenge and retrieval. But General Lee not. .only endured, but submitted,' and tntft without suffering his country to entertain even the wish to renew the struggle'. He had to endure for some weary years, and then the release came. The overwrought nerves suddenly gave way ; lie sank at once from perfect self-possion and appa rent health into collapse aud speechless ness, and died as literally "of a broken heart" as ever did desp^irTrig. pstflot or,( defeated soldier?more truly far than moat "broken hearted." victims of private grief. So ho passed away from the coun try he coold neither save by his swp.rd nor restore to happiness, by his counsels, but which he had crowned with glory in war, and rescued in defeat from useless struggles and deeper misery. He has left behind him no rival in her love, no object of equal pride and reveren'efe.. Nor is his fame confined t,o the South. Wher ever the English tongue is spoken Iiis h?mo is revered and honored?a name to which history furnishes few equal in military renown, none in moral grandeur, the name of one who realized in actual life tho dreams of ideal chivalry; so crcat in victory that none evor surpas sed, se much greater in defeat' that none ever npprcacbed him ; the. patriot without a thought of self, the hero without a shade of affectation or display ; tho man who would neither despair of his country I nor conspire again?t her conquerors; ideal soldier and perfect citizen, a Chris tian without pretension, and a gentleman without flaw. ? ^ - CHIPPJNQS. ?Minister Sicklos has been Using his official influcftce \ti forwarding the inter est of foreign holders of "Erie" Stock. The fact is denounced in strong terms by tho legislative committee of tho company, who think that tho plenipotentiary shouhl bo looking after the business for which he is paid aud not be dabbling in stocks. ?Hurrah tor Anderson 1 A national bank, eight doctors, cloven lawyers, two newspapers, (good ones, too,) a high school, six churches, and no [bar-room. ?Tho vomit a is on tho increase at Havana. ?Brigadier General Pierson, formerly of tho C. 8. A. died recently at Mem phis. ' ?Govornor Baxtor of Arkansas, re trains right and day at- the capital, ijL'M irittlo &ock, with a force ^niearS^jsjj^ tecf . himr tagatos,t Lieutenant Ctoiaaofc Smith's friends, who desire to ous$ Sflk I tor and install Smith. Radical rule d# course I ?A New York cotton nouso nasftflirf for$250,000. . . ? . -?rhe seconds in the duel betwopi ? Messrs. McCarty and Mordccai, have ?11 been arrested,,. und>r,..na .jndictmttft ^jf being accessory to Mordecai's deatfi/1' I ?Fi fejndians attacked the house 0? James Harrison, near TTall^ Walla.?? LMr. Harrison and his daughter were alone. He met the redskins with a: hatchet and cut down two, be was thwt . thrown to the floor, when his daughter came to the ruse.ue with an axo and end4 ed the fray, by putting them to flight ' ?A case involving nearly a million of dollars, has just been decided in thelfow' * York Courts,, aft^ a fight of thirty jeered The fees $165,000 earned by the able counsel who won the suit,, were paid iff ? ?U$nfy J. J. King. ??A Charlestonian, Melvin M. Cobety Esq., has been arrested in New Orleans, on the charge of attempting to kill Gov* Kellogg. Mr.- Cohen is a son of Dr.* ft M. Cohen. ?the popular, jdea tn'aVt St Michael's' ? steeple in Charleston, was designed byy Sir Christopher Wren, is being dispelled by the difficulty of not finding that mas', terpiece of architecture noted in! Ma' works. 'Whoever Oonceivect the gjWee ful outlines ?f the steeple, gave to Char* leston a gem of art ?SeVetf p^pfls k?ff &f ir?al on the charge of murder, at the Inferior Court, of Charleston. All are colored, ^-^?fne", - i^te Km?mm ^^jtyH deepen wtfh^horror. Nine victims nave 1*d?? already dug up, every skull wtffl crushed with a hnminer it y??u1cT seem'; and every throat out. One little girl was found as u 3ho had bean buried alive; T^felyn . suspected 'poisons hare-'-been* ?iwtt?t^-w. Tho plan of the '|Bend'ef family" was to pit their victim in a cn?'if over a trap door with his back to & cloth curtain that divided the apartment The out? line of the body being shadowed on the cloth', showed the ?mtkk?m where to strike. The fatal blow once made the body fell through the trap, and the wo men finished the job of cutting the throat and rifting the corpse. ?A son of Dr. Thomas, the peace commissionef ti$jo ftas murdered by At Mod?cs/t?yfi/'mt the poor Modeca, but the rapacious, lawless, perfidious white? are guilty of his blood." So soy we; the peace p1 i>Rey of the government to the In dfan made him what he is. ?The King of Ashantee has declared war against Great Brittain. A whole sale mode of lessening a population. ?General John C. Brcckinridge will deliver an address at Richmond, during the next State Fair, before the Survivors of the army of Northern Virginia. ..?Another attempt to discover the North West passage through the ice bound polar regions has failed. ?The noble leader, General Gordon, meets a glorious reception everywhere in I his travels through the South, to present the claims ot the "Southern Life Associa tion." His unblemished reputation as & soldier, and high character has fixed him gratefully in a peoples' heart ?Mr. E. G. Kramer, formerly of Orangeburg, is advertising' heavily in the "Carroll County Times." ?Susan Eberhardt convicted of mur der was hung at Preston Ga. This fe the first female ever hUng in Georgia. ?Tho Berlin University has two thou sand students. . ?The B rower gold mine bordering on North Carolina lately sent seven pounds of gold to the Charlotte mint ?A German named Schober in a $1 of jealousy, cut the throat of the husband of a young lady who had refused him and then murdered her. The German authorities compelled him to attewLtho funeral of his victims, wearing upon beck a placard "Infamous Murdeser." He walked in a dress of white, and wore chains on his limbs. He wee then cas? riedtohis place of execution, and*a* midnight in the presence of a large cromd his head ?ras cut off.