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Wby Such an Invidious Distinction Between Great Men. A short communication from an “Old Veteran,” in the Free Press of laBt week, suggests to my mind the propriety of telling him that Gen. Longstreet is dead. Yes; indeed he is, but it seems that Old Veteran did not know it, or has forgotten it. The feelings of all the old Con* federate soldiers are sacred to me, and I would not offend one of them for any consideration, but it would have been well enough for Old Veteran to have practiced what he was preaching and told his readers that General Long street was dead. I revere the memory of Gen. Gordon and would not pluck a star from his glittering diadem, but insist that Hero Worship is too sacred to canonize one and malign the other. When Moses approached the burning bush he cast his shoes from off his feet; for the ground whereon he trod was holy. Lol now, I ci3t the shoes off my feet. At the funer¬ al obsequies of Gen. Gordon the “Dr. invoked the blessing of God upon the dead hero and his de¬ voted wife.” This is ail right for the wife, but how about the “dead hero?” If this is good Theology, let us unite our prayers and pray Long street out of purgatory; for it seems that some of the Hero Wor¬ shippers have consigned him to that place. Pronounce all the flaming panegyrics on Gen. Gordon you may wish, but for the sake of truth and justice, remember Gen. Longstreet also. t It was very nice in the writer to say that “Gen. Gordon has passed over the river and is tent¬ ing with Lee and Jackson.” One tning is quite sure, and that is, if a copy of “Reminiscences of the War,” is over there, somebody has been reprimanded before thiB hour. Gen. Longstreet responsible for the defeat at Gettysburg? Let the spirit of Lee come down and reiterate what he said just after the battle. “Its all my fault. Help me out the best you can." It is true that Longstreet op dosed the charge made by Gen. Picket’s command, but the order was given in some way by Long¬ street or the charge would never have been made. One thing is very clear as the result of the battle established—General Long¬ street was more accurate in his calculations than any general an the field. The Confederate cause receiv¬ ed its defeat at Gettysburg. Yes; that was very kind in the correspondent to say that “Gen. Gordon had passed over the riv¬ er and was resting under the shade of the treesjwith matchless Lee and Jackson.” Why not some one say as much for Longstreet? If he is in that great and grand company, he doubtless has gazed upon the trees that stand on its banks, and perhaps learned from observation that the environments are notindifferentto pity, and has placed himself under the shade of a weeping willow and is pen¬ sively ohanting: “To the hills I lift mine eyes Where my hopes and succor rise, For fame expires at it’s earnest breath; No labor can hoard it, no cun¬ ning can save, For the song of it’s life is the sigh of it’s death And the sense it has thrilled is it’s shroud and it’s grave.” Longstreet was cna of the bra¬ vest men in the Confederate ser-' and what satisfaction can be to anyone to rob him of hiB The two most prec¬ things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. “Who steals my purse steals trash, But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which does not enrich him, But makes me poor indeed.” That Mrs. Longstreet should be compelled to make a defense for her husband while he was gently and slowly approaching his grave is a burning shame. The war is gone, and why should we old vet¬ erans chide one another, when all did the best we could. To Mrs. Longstreet I would say, “Pluck from the mind a rooted sorrow.” This and future generations will vindicate Gen. Lee’s “Old War Horse,” as Long¬ street was familiarly known. Could anyone believe that any cf the “Daughters of the Confeder¬ acy” could refuse to send one wreath to plaee upon his casket? “Forgive them, they know not what they do.” A muffled drum was beating a funeral march, and some of them did say, “No trib¬ ute from us.” God pity us all but pity them most. 1 am an old Confederate soldier spent nearly fouryearsin the of Virginia with Lee, and make this request, if there be old soldier, though hoary and With age, found in the land let him bury me when I die, but do not send to Savannah a single withered leaf. Not I love Gordon less, but that now I love Longstreet more. both of them I would say as did over the dying body Hamlet, cracks a noble heart flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” Now let us erect a monument each one of them and, “let the past bury its dead.” Give what attitude you may but let Longstreet appear he did the day he led General to the rear and went back to front, and led the charge that the Federal lines. they whisper, angels say Brother spirits, cease thy strife, ’tis not all of life to live Nor all of death to die.” When I think of the great in¬ done to Longstieet, my is suspended tremulously the sheet before me, and I “Life, thou art * but an dream,” Another Old Veteran. after suffering 10 years, F. Hare, Supt. Miami Cycle Mfg- Co. Middleton, O- suffer* for ten years with dyspepsia spent hundreds of dollars for medicine and with doctors with¬ receiving any “One permanent He says, night feeling exceptionally bad was about to throw down the paper when I saw an in the paper regarding the ol Kodol Dyspepsia Cure concluded faith to try it andjwhile I no in it I felt better af¬ the second dose. After using bottles I am stronger and better than I have been for years I recommend Kodol Dyspep¬ Cure to my friends and ac¬ suffering from trouble.” Sold by the Popularity often consists of our troubles to ourselves. “The nicest and pleasantest I have used for indiges¬ and constipation is Chamber¬ Stopaeh and Liver Tablets, Melard F. Craig, of Middle N. Y. “They work £ke a and do not gripe or have unpleasant effect.” For sale by Lewis Drug Co. Our Export Parra Products, Secretary Wilson says that “It i% the farmers who have paid the foreign bondholders,” and to make good the claim, he says that during the last fourteen years the balance of trade in favor of the farm products of the United States was $4,806,000,000 and the balance of trade in other products during the same period was against the United States to the amount of $865,000, leaving a net balance of trade in our favor of $3,941,000,000. But the pro¬ ducts sent abroad from which the enormous sum mentioned was realized were only the sur¬ plus products of the farm. DeWItt'sl®Salve For Piles. Burns, Sores* The postoffice department has decided upon designs for the St. Louis world’s fair stamps which will be portraits as follows: One cent, Robert R. 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