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Show WHY GEMR1L LEE DIED. ciaris w'-o af?-isi Gecsrul P.. li. Lie in his last i::r.?.. have pu: I.shrj a statcrcc-r.: as to his cisease. in wixi-h they a:T:iu:e Lis dea:h .r ncre to I "depns-in norai ca--s1 than to mere physiciai dieaje. liry on w descrioe te rrt-at cares and resronsi-' resronsi-' tities he bore during the war as sorr,-;-of the mora! causes of his dea:h. If John Eandoit h had hern preseij: he m:ght have wh'sitr.din the tar of J these learned d',c:nrs the word. '"Re- mDrse.'' It U well known that GeneraT i L e opposed the rebcuioa when it was j a mere plot, and there is not a word I of evidence that he ever changed his opinion. He fought on the " wrona . s.de from the false notion that fi ielity to Virginia . demaDded it- But he mu-t aiways have had tiie most painful distrust of the rightfulness of his position, posi-tion, and we believe mat, when the who'e truth eonoes out, it wiU appear that this distrust, and the feeling that he was acting the .raitor to a government govern-ment that had educated and honored him, and with do good cause, had more to do with the moral causes of his illne.-s and deaih than any mere cares of the war itself In saying this we assume that, at bottom. General Lee was & man of coascience and of principle, as we surely believe that he was. |