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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Robert Edward Lee. (search)
mous appreciation of the valor and manhood of his former enemies. In another speech, delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of the University of Chicago in June of last year, See Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. XXX, pp. 1-33. he effectually rebukes those who would apply to Lee the epithet of traitor, and with merciless and faultless logic, demonstrates that if Lee was a traitor, so also, and indisputably, were George Washington, Oliver Cromwell, John Hampden and William of Orange, and further, that the man who pursued Lee's course after the war had not, could not have had in his whole being one drop of traitor's blood or conceived a treacherous thought. It is in this speech, which is entitled Shall Cromwell have a Statue? that he proposes that the Federal Government shall provide a site for an equestrian statue of Lee in the city of Washington, and shows that the choice of Lee, when he put aside the temptations of ambition, place and power (being unreservedly ten