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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 2 2 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Lee's Birthday: eminent men of the United States send sentiments for the day—ministers, soldiers, statesmen and scholars each bring an offering. (search)
selfishness, artless courage—this was General Lee, the friend of humanity. Such a character no people, age or clime can claim as wholly their own. It is a possession and glory of the human race. John W. Daniel. Washington, D. C. From Henry Watterson. I cannot answer your command for a sentiment in commemoration and in homage of the great Lee better than by sending you the noble lines which Sir Henry Taylor puts into the mouth of the Duke of Burgundy over the dead body of Philip Von Artevelde. They might be fittingly uttered by the North on the occasion which you celebrate: ——Dire rebel though he was, Yet with a noble nature and great gifts Was he endowed—courage, discretion, wit, An equal temper and an ample soul, Rock bound and fortified against assaults Of transitory passion; but below Built on a surging, subterranean fire That stirred and lifted him to high attempts, So prompt and capable, and yet so calm, He nothing lacked in sovereignty but the right, Nothing