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A TRIBUTE TO JACKSON.
At the recent unveiling of a statute
to Stonewall Jackson at Lexington, Va.,
Col. R, P. Chew delivered an address of
such marked Interest and value that we
are constrained to reproduce the following
extract, taken from The Rockbridge
News:
"His absolute simplicity and aversion
to anything like spectacular effect, was
observed by all. The fame of this great
soldier had spread far and wide, and it
is safe So say that no man who ever
commanded an army enjoyed more the
confidence of the troops and their warm
admiration and affection than this
simple soldier. General Lee said of him
that he was the greatest subordinate
any general ever had, while Jackson
cDieeuieu ui? great commander so
highly as to say that he was a 'phenomenon,
and was the only man he was
willing to follow blindfold.' Henderson
says of him that he waB the greatest
lieutenant-general in all history, and
compares him with Ney, of whom Napoleon
said his presence on the battlefield
alone was worth 20,000 men, but,
as that historian says, while Jackson
was effective on the battlefield, creating
the utmost enthusiasm by his presence,
he was greatly superior to Ney
in this, that he could plan and execute
a campaign marked by brilliant
strategy, which was beyond the powers
of the great French marshal. A
distinguished Gnglish officer, who visited
him at this time, said, 'instead of an
untidy old man, he saw before him a
tall, handsome and powerfully built, but
thin person, with brown hair and brown
beard; his mouth indicating great determination:
his eye dark blue with a
keen searching expression. In his
manner he was thoroughly simple and
unaffected.' I have seen Jackson since
described as a rude, rough man, which
from my experience Is flagrantly unjust.
Lord Wolsey said of him that
'while reticent about military operations,
he found him proud of his
soldiers and enthusiastic in his admiration
of General Lee. Gould never make
him talk of hs own achievements. His
manner was modesty Itself, and most
attractive.' He was usually grave, and
had no gift for light or animated conversation.
Jackson possessed a great
ability for intense concentration of his
mental racuities, ana it seemea to me
that above all men I have ever seen, he
possessed the great gift of making up
his mind. Aifter surveying all the circumstances
surrounding any enterprise
he contemplated he determined upon the
course he would pursue, and moved to
Its execution with inexorable determination.
There are few men who have settled
upon any purpose, who cannot have
their convictions altered. Almost all
men will change their views, but this
great man, after he came to a conclusion,
held to it with a firm and fixed
purpose. It might be possible to change
the minds of others, but Stonewall
Jackson, never. He seemed to be able
to look into the future and divine the
intentions of the enemy, and by careful
and vigorous application, of his
powerful mind, seemed able to foresee
what his movements and actions would
be, and provide for all contingencies.
His soldiers had for him a most enthusiastic
admiration. He never appeared
alonj? his line, but that he was
received with vociferous oheers. Some
persons have claimed that he was devoid
of ambition, and was guided in all
**'s actions by an exalted and refined
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sense of duty. I believe Jackson was
full of ambition to excel in bis profesr!on.
This in no way detracts from the
symmetry of bis character, because no
man can excel in his profession,
whether, medicine, law, divinity or war,
' nless he has a laudable desire to
reach the highest distinction.
" * * Lee and Jackson were called
upon to encounter troops of the same
natfonalty, armed, equipped, fed and
paid as no troops have ever been in all
the history of war. It might be well to
observe here that these federal soldierB
were well officered, mainly by graduates
of West Point. There was McClellan,
Burnside, Pope, Hooker, Meade, Grant,
Hancock, Sedgewick, Slocum, Sykes,
Kearney, Reno. Reynolds. Rummer
Franklin and Porter of the infantry and
Bayard, Pleasanton, Stoneman, Greg's
and Wilson of the cavalry. Some persons
have been disposed to sneer at the
troops of the Army of the Potomac, but
we are reminded that that army, after
hard and stubborn fighting in front of
Richmond, was defeated in the Seven
Days' battles and driven in confusion to
Harrison's Dandlng. That Pope's army
at Manassas was thoroughly defeated,
and yet McClellan was able to reorganize
these troops, demoralized to a great
extent by their numerous defeats, and
march them out in seventeen days after
Manassas to fight the battle of Antletam.
It would be ahtuird tn fu?v thov *??*
fine soldiers and well officered, and In
the main well fed. Bee and Jackson on
the other hand, had the finest soldiers
the world has ever seen. The best men
of the South went Into the army, many
of them Into the ranks. No troops ever
fought with the same dash, the same
stubborn courage as did those of the
army of Northern Virginia. They had
been accustomed to outdoor exercise, to
the use of the gun, and from early
youth had been accustomed to the handHug
of the horse. They had had the
finest Christian training. There was
scarcely a home, on the farm In the village
or In the city, that was not presided
over by a Christian mother, who
taught her boy from early ohlldhood the
great truths of the Christian religion,
and as ihey grew In stature and expanded
In Intellect, guided them to an
Intimate acquaintance with the great
precepts of the Bible, and caused them
to stand In awe of the stern mandates
of divine authority. But the fine material
of which they were composed
would have availed little against the
enormous odds they had to encounter,
except for the marvelous genius of
Robert 15. T^ee and Stonewall Jackson.
Ood had Imparted to the minds of these
two great men the ethereal spark that
enaibled them Instantly to discover and
sleze any advantage upon the battlefield.
The Immense mass of the federal
army was unable to cope with the Intelligence
and courage of the Southern
Boldier, as some Northern general once
called them, 'those Invincible Southern
soldiers.' when guided and directed by
tne matoniess sicm of tnese two greatest
generals who ever associated in the
defense of any cause."
MENACE OF THE COAL CARRIERS.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has announced a sweeping Inquiry involving
204 coal-carrying railroads and
their connections with the mine owners
in the great anthracite coal region.
Simultaneously with the issuance of the
commission's order in which the range
of the investigation is announced a
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dozen special agents of the commission
were dispatched to different points in
the eastern section of the country to
gather evidence. Members of the commission
refused to reveal the localities
where these agents have been sent. In
event the commission finds there is an
illegal connection between the mines
and railroads, or that excessive or discriminatory
rates have been charged,
the commission will issue orders that
the illegal practice cease. If there is a
persistence in violating the commission's
orders after the Investigation is
concluded, prosecutions will follow
under the Hepburn act. Several of the
questions to be Investigated by the interstate
commerce commission, in the
proposed proceeding, were involved in
what is known as the Hearst coal cases,
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States Supreme Court. For the present,
only those roads within what is known
as the official classification territory,
east of the Mississippi river and north
of the Potomac river, come within the
scope of the commission's present order.
THE PROTECTION OF PASSENGERS.
The TitanBc disaster has aroused the
inquiry in many minds concerning the
protection which passengers are now
afforded in ocean travel. The Southern
Pacific Steamship Company, running
ships between New Orleans
and New York, have "n Hfe-hrm* c?.
pac.ty sufficient to accommodate all
the passengers and crew, wireless
equipment running all night as well
as all day, and has notices posted In
all staterooms, public rooms, and steerage,
showing assignments of occupants
to specific boats, and all the life-boats
are conspicuously numbered. Fire and
boat drills are held at each port as
well as on the first day out, and passengers
are Invited to take part In
them. Stewards demonstrate how to
attach life belts to the body. These are
not new provisions, but have been In
force on these ships for several years.
TRIPLE ALLIANCE IS FIRM.
The visit of Count Berchtold, the
Austrian foreign minister, to Berlin is
considered to be very significant, following
as it does so closely upon the
Kaiser's meeting with the King of
Ttalv. Desr?lt? t.hft reront niirrnluon
the contrary, which have been widely
spread in a portion of the press, the
firmness of the triple alliance is stated
by authentic persons to he greater than
ever before. The minister was received
with unusual honors. Recently he
went to Potsdam by the Kaiser's invitation?his
majesty's own carriage
meeting him at the station?and had a
lengthy audience with his host alone
before taking part in the luncheon party
at the new palace. The count, being
the guest of honor, sat at the Kaiser's
right hand; the imperial chancellor, the
foreign minister, the Austrian amhas
oauur a.iiu uuuei uiBuueuinueu tjmietJmen
were invited to meet him.
FOREIGN STUDENTS IN PARIS.
Parle is undoubtedly the most cosmopolitan
center of education in the
world. The facilities for study at the
Sorbonne has resulted a year ago in
such a growth of the foreign element at
the university that complaints were
widely made that the French 3tudents
were crowded out of the libraries and
lecture halls. Recently the actual
figures for the last year have been made
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public, and they show that the steps
taken to raise the standard of attainment
among the foreign students have
efectually checked the alarming increase
in their numbers. The actual number
of foreign students during the last
year was 3,407 as against 3,665 for the
year before. Nevertheless a comparison
of these figures with those of 19O2-'03,
when the foreign students numbered 1,238,
shows in a striking way the enormous
riBe In Importance during the
last decade of the Sorbonne as a center
of European education. It is somewhat
difficult to realize exactly what 3,500
foreign students really means. They
are all gathered together in the Latin
Quarter, in a district which is certainly
no larger than the University of Oxford.
Yet the total "number of undergraduates
at Oxford is barely 3,000, and the number
of foreigners among them hardly ex
ceeds iuu. it is ngureB liRe these which
bring borne to one the unique oharacter
of Paris as a center for the higher education
of Europe.
ART TREASURES IN JEOPARDY.
Mr. Balfour, who was the principal
speaker at the annual meeting of the
British art collections fund, made use of
the opportunity to consider the question
of the drain of art treasures from England.
The British Museum, the National
Gallery, and the South Kensington
Museum, he said, had collections worthy
even of the British empire, but If tbey
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have to be added to, and the proceeB of
addition grew more difficult every day.
London had always been the greatest
mart for works of art In the worla, but
whereas they had been purchased in
times past for English collections
whether public or private they were
now purchased in London in order to go
abroad, to America or elsewhere. What
was going on was perfectly simple. The
great works of art were necessarily limited
in number; no artificial stimulus
could increase their quantity; but,
while the supply was strictly limited,
the demand was growing almost la a
geometrical ratio as men of great wealth
oamft Into Hio morlrot no nnmlnMM
The question, after all, was one of price.
He did not pretend to come there with
anything in the nature of a general
remedy. Lt could not be expected that
the government should take the responsibility
of purchasing for the nation
great works of art which came Into the
English market; if these were to be preserved
to the nation the government
would have a right to ask those who
were specially interested in art to come
forward to show their genuine interest
in it by thus contributing towards the
national object He therefore appealed
to art lovers to come forward and as
8ist the national art collections fund
and thus to cope with the difficulties
which the changing conditions of the
world had brought about.
Every contraction of our will, every
little ailment, every petty disappolntcome
a blessing. So walking on earth,
we may be In heaven; the 111 tempers of
others, the slights and rudeness of the
world, 111 health, the dally accidents
with which God has mercifully strewed
our paths, cause his peace to be shed
abroad In our hearts abundantly.??B.
Pusey.
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