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A GREAT AMEF il. ROBERT E. LEE, THE I STRIKING TRIBUTES COMMEMORATIVE ADDRESS BY D NFW VIM PITHFRN Sdi nun I billi Uvuiiibllll VIS [From the New Y The South may olaim with pardon able pride that it furnished not only the President of eaoL of the divided seotions in the straggle for the es tablishment of a separate Confede racy, but the great central figure of the civil war for the North as well as for the South. History will accord that Abraham Lincoln was the one j conspicuous figure on the side of the I Union, and for the South none will ohallenge that olaim for Lee They were, moreover, representatives of the widely divergent olasses of our section, the plebeian and the patri cian. The story of Lincoln might as well be classed with "The short and simple annals of the poor," while Lee came straight from the cavaliers and their descendants, the wealthy oultured aristocracy of Vir ginia. His father, Riobard Henry Lee, better known as?"Light Horse Harry," the beau sabreur of the American army, was a conspicuous figure in the first Continental Congress. It was he who, on June 7, 1776, moved the resolution "that these united Colo nies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegi ance t o the (British, Crown, and that all political connection between them and the States of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." He and his brother were signers of the Declaration of Independence, and it was this same Lee who pro claimed George Washington as "First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts cf his countrymen." Upon his mother's side he claimed the lineage of the Carters of Shirley. Born on January 10, 1807, his child hood and youth were passed in the cultivated circles of the tidewater region of Virginia. At the age of 18 he entered West Point and com pleting tho course of study without a single mark of demerit he gradu ated se et uni in a class of forty-six. For several years he served in the Engineer Corps constructing coast defenses, and for a part of this time in oharge of the astronomical de partment of the government. In 1832 he married the daughter of George W. Parke Custis, the idopted son of Gen. Washington, and lator was made captain on the staff in the Mexican War. Of all the brilliant reputations among the younger group of officers which were won in that campaign, Lee's was the most conspicuous. Upon him the Commander-in-Chief leaned as upon no other. At Cerro Gordo he was brevetted Major for exceptional gallantry. At Contreras and Cherubusco he was officially pro claimed for meritorias conduct, and on account of a wound received in an assault on Chapultepec, Septem ber 13, 1817, he received his promo tion to Lieutenant-Colonel. It was here at Contreras, when the army was ballled, that the quick oyo of Lee discovered, by a daring recon naissance, a line of approach hidden from tho enemy by which tho posi tion might be taken. This the Com mander-in-Chief of tho army char acterized as "the greatest feat of physical and moral courage per formed by any individual during tho entire campaign." In his official report Gen. Scott said : "I am compelled to make spe cial mention of Capt. R. Ii. Lee, engineer. Ho greatly distinguished himself at the seigo of Vora Cruz, was indefatigable during these ope rations in reconnaissances, as daring as laborious, and of the utmost value. Nor was he less conspicuous in planting batteries and in conducting oolumns to their stations under tho heavy fire of the enemy." He fur ther says : "Capt. Leo, so constantly distinguished, also bore important orders from rae, until ho fainted from a wound and the loss of two nights' sleep at tho batteries." ?CAN SOLDIER.1 IBM OF THE CONFEDERflCY. R. JOHN A. WYETH HORE ll B1ETY UNDISPUTED FACTS. ork Sunday Sun.] After the Mexioan war he WM appointed, in 1852, superintendent of the Military Academy at Weat Point, and in 1855 Lieutenant-Colo nel of the Second Cavalry, under) Col. Albert Sidney Johnston. In 1859 he waa directed by the Presi dent of the United States to arrest John Brown and his followers in their murderous invasion of Virginia, and on March 10, 1861, he was ap pointed Colonel in the United States I army. When the Southern States were seoeding and war seemed inevitable, upon the recommendation of Gen. Scott, then Commander-in-Chief, President Lin coin offered Lee the comm : id of the armies of the Union. Virginia had not yet seceded, but Lee, looking into the future and feel ing assured that his native State would, upon any aot of aggression, make common cause with the other | Southern States, declined the tempt ing offer. In a letter written April 2t), 1861, he made that never-to-be-forgotten declaration : "With all my devotion to the Union and the feeling of j loyalty and duty as an Ameroan citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against ray relatives, my children, my home. Save in defense of my native State, with the sincere hope that my poor j services may never be needed, I hope I may never be called upon to draw my sword." When at length hostilities began and Virginia took her place in the Confederacy the people of the Old Dominion with one voice turned to him as commander of her army. [Then Forth from its scabbard, pure and bright, Flashed the sword of Lee! Far in the front of the deadly fight, High o'er the brave in the cause cf Right, ItA stainless sheen, liko a beacon light. Led on to Victory. Out of its scabbard 1 Never hand Waved sword from stain as free. Nor purer sword led braver band, Nor braver bled for a brighter land, Nor brightor laud bad a cause so grand, Nor cause a chief liko Lee! The story of his military career is practically the story of tho Army of Northern Virginia, and it reads more liku romance than history. Through four years of the bloodiest war known to history at that time that army, composed of the flower of Southern manhood, under its match less leader, made a record of victo ries never surpassed in the annals of warfare, a record which we of the South and our children's children to I the remotest ages should claim us our proudest heritage. Ile assumed command of this army in June, 1862, when McClellan was immediately in front of Richmond. On June 26, with an army inferior in numbers and equipment, ho attacked tho forces of McClellan in their in trenchmenta and for seven days tb? bloody conflict raged, until McClel lan took refuge under tho protection of his gunboats at Harrison's Land ing. This army defeated, Lee turned upon a second larger than his own, marching upon Richmond from ano ther direction. By one of the most brilliant and daring movemonts in the history of wars Lee, with his able lieutenant Jackson, routed Pope's army Groveton and Second Manassas and drovo him for safety undor the pro tection of the fortifications at Wash Hump Back ISCOTT'S EMULSION won't make a _ hump back straight, neither will lt make # . ?hort leg long, but it feeds toft bone 1 and heals diseased bone and is among *? the few genuine means of recovery In rickets and bone cor_.-umpt.on. Send ?or ?fe . imple. SCOTT A HOW NB, Chemists, 409-41} Iv.iri Street, New York. Soc. ?nd ti,oo; ?ll druggists. ington. McClellan bad been re moved for hi? defeat and Pope fol lowed in his train. Disregarding both of these defeated armies, Lee moved rapidly into Maryland, cap tured Harper's Ferry and its large garrison on the way and fought at Antietam on September 17, 18G2, tbe bloodiest battle of the oivil war. McClellan, who after Pope's defeat bad been reinstated in command, was again removed for failing to in flict a crushing defeat upon Lee, and Burnside was made commander-in chief of the Army of the Potomac. In December of that year this same army of Lee signally defeated the army of Burnside at Fredericks burg. Burnside was removed and Gen. Hooker placed in command. In May, 1868, Hooker marohed on Rich mond., having issued a general order in whioh he said that the Confederate army must either "ingloriously fly or come out from behind its intrench - monts, where certain destruotion awaited it." A few days after this announcement was made Hooker's army was surprised and attacked by Lee and Jaokson simultaneously in front and rear at Chancellorsville and overwhelmed, fleeing in the greatest disorder from the field. Lee then invaded Pennsylvania, where, at Gettysburg, after three days oi bloody conflict, unable to carry the Federal position, he remained twenty-four hours in line of battle with his army in their immediate front inviting attaok and then with drew without interruption to Vir ginia. It was in 1864, in the oampaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg, that the star of Lee reaohed iu zenith. Under his leadership the army of Northern Virginia, up tc this time in offensive warfare, bad held every battlefield upon whioh it had fought, with the exoeption ol Gettysburg and Sharpsburg or An tietam, and upon these fields, al though it failed to beat the armj pitted against it, it stood in battle array on each occasion for twenty four hours, was not attacked ano1 marohed away unmolested. He was now to show that in de fensive fighting he was a greatei master of the art of war than in hit offensive operations. Graut, witt the largest army ever marshalled upon this continent under a singh commander, with unlimited resourcei of men and money, with the work to draw upon for all that was mos' useful in destructive warfare, ad vanced upon this army of Lee wanting in everything but valor, am so decimated that as Grant ex pressed it "it had robbed the oradh and the grave" to fill tho gaps be tween the veterans that still sur vived. There followed from May 5 1864, in the Wilderness, at Spottsyl vania Court House, at Cold Harbo and the North Anna a series of con fliots so frightful in their havoc tha the history of this oampaign migh well be written in blood. The most recent, and in my opin ion the most reliable history of th Uuited Staten, written by Jame Ford Rhodes, of Boston, a conecten tious Btudent, a oapable analyst un just recorder, says : "Grant's los from May 4 to June 12 in the cam paign from tho Rapidan to the Jame was 04,929, a number nearly equal t Lee's whole army at thc commence ment of the Union advances. Th confidence in Grant of many oftVcei and men had been shaken." At Spootsylvania Nicolay an Hay, authors of the Life of Lincoli say "Grant was completely ched mated." That this is true is evident froi the fact that turning aside from th direct route to Richmond, with Loo army in front of him, which army I: announced in the beginning of th campaign as his objective, li marched toward the James rive which he crossed in the effort to caj turo Petersburg by surprise. The army of Lee was, however, i Petersburg in timo, and there he! Grant at bay for nine months of tl summer and winter of '64 and '65. As far as tho Confederates wei concerned, the annals of the siege < Petersburg might well be termed tl annals of starvation, exposure an misery. True to its colors, the arni of Lee was starving to death. Tl commissary general reported tha "the Army of Northern Virginia wi living literally froru hand tc mouth Beef sold for $6 per pound and flot at $1,000 a barrel. At one tim pleading with his government f< i food, Lee said tbat for three days bia men had been, in line of battle and had not tasted meat. In the early spring nf 1805, after nine months of persistent effort, Grant, with 118,000 men, well fed, olad and armed, broke through tho lines defended by Lee's force of 49,000 veterans, half starved, ragged and most of them shoeless. Then carno the end at Appomat tox, where, on April 9, 1865, tho remnant of this onoe . magnificent army, now numbering less than 28,000 (of whioh on!? !5,0v'0 were oarrying arms) surrendered, and the Confederacy was no more. Upon this world's stage no more pathetic scene, no more heroic inci dent has ever been witnessed. With what pride the generations yet un born shall olaim descent from those who, true to their sense of duty, whioh Lee himself said was "tho sublimest word in the English lan guage," fought under the banner of this immortal soldier and died on those victorious fields, or, in surviv ing, stood true to his colors at Appo mattox, g In his farewell address to his army he said : "You will take with you the satisfaction that prooeeds from the consciousness of duty faithfully performed, aud I earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you His blessing and protection. With an unoeasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your country and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consider ation of myself, I bid you an affec tionate farewell." Soon after the surrender he ac cepted the presidency of Washing ton College at Lexington, Va. He had refused large proffers of money for his services or the use of his name for various enterprises. He declined them all, saying be felt it hie duty to live with his people and to endeavor in eduoatiug the youth of the South, to do all in his power to aid in the restoration of peaoe and harmony and the acceptance of the policy of the State or general government. Though war in all ages and with all people arouses that whioh is worst in human nature, and though bloodi est and bitterest is internecine war, it still seems difficult to believe even after the lapse of so short a time as forty years that for the part this noble man took in obedience to bis conviction of duty Andrew Johnson, then President of the United States, obtained bis indiotment for treason. Against this unwarranted and igno ble aot the great soldier Grant arose and stayed the hand of malice and persecution. It seems equally in credible to conceive that within two months of the death of Lee, whioh took place on Ootober 12, 1870, speaking to a resolution which had for its object tho return of the estate of Arlington to the family of Lee, Charles Sumner said in his place in the Senate : "Eloquent Senators have already characterized the propo sition and the traitor it seeks to com memorate. I am not disposed to speak of Gen. I .cc. It is enough to say that he stands high in the cata Sold and Recommended by WALHALLA. DKUG CO. W. J. LUNNEY. SENECA. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, aa mercury will surely destroy the eenie of smell and compfctoly derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous- surfaoes. Such articles should nevor be used except on prescrip tions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derivo from them. Hall's Catarrh Curo, manufactured by P. J. 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A distinguished soldier and citizen of Massachusetts, Charles Franois Adams, reared in the New England sohool of politico, himself throughout the war in the army whiob eon? fronted Lee, son of that Charles Franois Adams who as United States minister toEngland during the oivil war probably did as much as any other one man to defeat the oause of the Confederacy, grandson of John Quincy Adams and great grandson of that elder Adams who succeeded Washington as President of the United States, a man who so different from Lee in his interpreta tion of the duty a.n American citizen owes as between his State and the central government that he deolared he would go against Massachusetts for the Union, bas written this for history : "If Robert E. Lee was a tr.titoi so also and indisputably was George Washington. Washington fnrnishec a preoedent at every point. A Vir ginian, like Lee, he was also a British subject ; ho had fought under thc British flag, as Lee had fought undei that of the United States ; when, ic 1776, Virginia seceded from the British Empire he went with hit State, just as Lee went eighty-five years later; subsequently Wash ington commanded armies in thc field designated by those opposed tc them as 'rebels' and whose descend' ants now glorify them as 'the rebeh of '76,' much as Lee later com manded and at last surrenderee much larger armies, also designated 'rebels' by those they confronted Except in their outcome the oasei wero, therefore precisely alike ; ant logie is logic. It consequently ap pears to follow that if Lee was i traitor Washington was also." He further says : "In him there are exemplified tbosi lofty elements of personal oharaote whiob, typifying Virginia at be highest, made Washington possible Essentially a soldier, Robert E. Le was a many-sided man. I migh speak of him as a strategist, but o this aspect of the man enough ha perhaps been said. I might refer t the respect, the confidence and lov with which he inspired those unde his command. I might dilate on hi restraint in victory ; his patient en durance in the face of adverse foi tune ; tho serene dignity with whic he in t hebend triumphed over defeal But, passing over all these well-wor themes, I shall confine myself to tba one attribute of his which, recognize in a soldier by*an opponent, 1 cannc but regard au his surest and loftier title to enduring fame. I refer t his humanity in arms and hisscrupti lons regard I for tho most advance rules of modern warfare." rtnuinr* * \\ r\ oArtrnnftnn f nnf tiffi . 'v ?t t III: iii-- ov/ii tvuvtxin vii ts U TV tl must be made hell, holding up t execration the authors of the blood ?est deeds in history, this generot foe and great American said : "I rejoice |that no such hatred a1 taobes to the name of Lee. Reel less of life to attain the l?gitim?t ends of war, he sought to raitigal its horrors. Opposed to him i Gettysburg,|I hero, forty years late do him justice. No more credit ab order overissued from a oommam ing general than tba: ..undated ar signed at Chambersburg by Robe E. Lee, as toward the close of Jan 1868, he advanced on a war of inv sion. 'No greater disgrace,' he tin declared,I'oan befall the army, ai through it our whole people, than tl perpetration of barbarous ju tr ag (jfti*e&t Relief During that trying period in which women so often suffer from nervousness, backache, sick headache, or other pains, there is nothing that can equal Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills. They stop the pains, soothe the nerves, and give to Women ?) the relief so much desired. If taken on first indication ol pain or misery, they will allay the irritable condition of the nerves, and save you further suffering. Those who use them at regular intervals have ceas ed to dread these periods. 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"In scope and spirit Lee's order was observed, and I doubt if a hos tile force ever advanced into an enemy's country or fell back from it in retreat leaving behind less causo of hate and bitterness than did the Army of Northern Virginia in that memorable campaign which culmi nated at Gettysburg." In dwelling on this theme, in con trast to Lee's humanity, may not "the avenging pen of history" quote from "Ohio in the War," by Hon. Whitelaw Reid, at this time Ambas sador of the United States at tho Court of St. James's, who, in speak ing of the burning of Columbia, wrot? : "it was the most monstrous bar barity of this barborouB march. Be fore his movement began Gen Sher man begged permission to turn bis army loose in Sooth Carolina and devastate it. He used this permis sion to the full. He protested that he did not wage war upon women and children. But, under the opera tions of his orders, the last morsel of food was taken from hundreds of destitute families that his soldiers might feast in needless and riotous abundance. Before his eyes rose, day after day, the mournful olouds of smoke on every side that told old people and their grandchildren driven, in midwinter, from the only roofs there were to shelter thom, by the llamen which the wantonness of his soldiers had kindled. Yet, if a singlo soldier was punished for a single outrage or theft during that entire movement wc have found no mention of it in all the vo!urni^***?? records of the march." ^S> May not this avenging pen of his tory which Sumner invoked record that order of Gen. Ilalleck, chief of staff and military adviser to Presi dent Lincoln, which said to Gen. I Continued on Third Pago.] Wood's Seeds ron FALL SOWING. 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