. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. part of the Southern people for GeneralLee are only natural. Are they shared by others ?—by the peopleof the North or by Europeans ? In answer to these questions thefollowing extracts are well worth reproducing. At the time of hisdeath a leading New York paper had this to say : . . We havelong ceaaed to looked upon him as the Confederate leader, but haveclaimed him as one of ourselves ; have cherished and felt proud ofhis military genius as belonging to us ; have recounted and recordedhis triumphs as our own ; have extolled his
. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. part of the Southern people for GeneralLee are only natural. Are they shared by others ?—by the peopleof the North or by Europeans ? In answer to these questions thefollowing extracts are well worth reproducing. At the time of hisdeath a leading New York paper had this to say : . . We havelong ceaaed to looked upon him as the Confederate leader, but haveclaimed him as one of ourselves ; have cherished and felt proud ofhis military genius as belonging to us ; have recounted and recordedhis triumphs as our own ; have extolled his virtue as reflecting upon SOLDIER, CITIZEN AND CHRISTIAN PATRIOT. 407 us. Robert Edward Lee was an American, and the great nation thatgave him birth would to-day be unworthy of such a son if sheregarded him lightly. Never had mother a nobler son. In him the military geniusof America was developed to a greater extent than ever him all that was pure and lofty in mind and purpose foundlodgment. Dignified without presumption, affable without fami- --^. STRATFORD HOUSE, THE BIRTHPLACE OF GENERAL LEE. liarity, he united all those charms of manner which made him theidol of his friends and of his soldiers, and won for him the respectand admiration of the world. Even as, in the days of his triumph,glory did not intoxicate, so, when the dark clouds swept over him,adversity did not depress. From the hour that he surrendered hissword at Appomattox to the fatal autumn morning, he passedamong men, noble in his quiet, simple dignity, displaying neitherbitterness nor regret over the irrevocable past. He conquered us 4o8 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE, in misfortune by the grand manner in which he sustained him-self, even as he dazzled us by his genius when the tramp of hissoldiers resounded through the valleys of Virginia. And for such a man we are all tears and sorrow beside his grave, men of the South and men of the Northcan mourn with all the bitterness of four years
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