Show tun THE LUSTRE or GUILT do tho the brilliant qualities of a criminal mitigate b ins clinies 1 should an aai ablett able traitor aito r be pardoned and applauded while a dull ind and misguided Z offender is consigned b to ignominy these questions have often occupied I 1 ed to us since we saw in in a number of loyal jOUIDa ls sickly lamentations over the very timely extinction of if that fanatical alic eater stonewall jackson they are pertinent now flow that this wicked ind and murderous mu derous ie bellion is sinking under the blows of patriotic sold icis and we licar hear men inen trying 0 to persuade themselves that robert edmund lee tile the chief leader of the host of oftie ti ason eason and chief butcher of loyal men on the soil ot virginia deserves compassion and admiration lee is such an excellent general I 1 albunion all union men inen agica that jeff davis deserves hanging but sonic some of them cannot make up their minds that the military leaders without whose aid the rebellion could riot not have hava been maintained to the infinity infinite loss and of a distracted country ought 0 to share the same fate the usurpation has been maintained for more than years partly by the political talent of davis and partly by the military ability of lee jo johnson Jo linson beauregard Beaure gaid and bragg the guilt of all this slaughter and devastation is shared by these men and if one lias has earned a felons doorn doom and an execrated name the deserve bothin nothing td less had each of them the intellect of a napoleon his infamy would not be less glaring 0 but it le mains to be demonstrated that the best of them is the superior in generalship of men who leave h ave remained faithful to their country and their government if while gazing upon tile the ghastly licaus of our dead and wounded soldiers eis on oil the soil of virginia we have any sympathy to spare for objects 6 b within tile aebel lines lot let it be given not to the deliberate authors of uh all tin this s insider mui dorand and misery whether military or political however brave or brilliant but to the poor misguided but valiant masses of the south who lave have been s sacrificed in common with our own soldiers sold icis eis and who aie still blee bleeding dino I 1 to gratify the wicked ambi tion lion of lee davis davia and their kind sac union |