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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee.
The Estimate of the Southern leader by a Canadian.
The Week, of Canada, contains the following interesting article by T. E. Moberly on Robert E. Lee, suggested by the unveiling of his statue at Richmond:
On the 29th of May, at Richmond, Virginia, the French sculptor Mercie's equestrian statue of the immortal Lee was unveiled.
The world needs no monument to perpetuate the unfading memory of this gentle, noble, gifted man. So long as this Northern continent endures, the name, the genius, and the character of Lee shall wield their potent sway upon the mind of man, and long after his puny detractors have crumbled into the dust, and avenging time has blotted out their names and memories from the records of the past-in each succeeding age the human heart will on such occasions respond to the sentiment of the poet:
The heart ran o'er with silent worship of the great of old! The dead, but sceptered, sovereigns who still rule our spirits from their urns, and pa
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Lee