Show A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT E LEE It Was Paid by Theodore The Roosevelt the President The decline of a the tho militant spirit in the northwest north Test during the first half halt of this century was much to be regretted To it is due more than to any other cause the undoubted average individual inferiority of the northerner compared to tile the southern e troops o at any rate at the t r tt rt eb iio 4 beginning I of the war waz of the t rebellion The southerners by their whole mode of Hv liv lag Ing their habits and their love of ot out door sports kept up their warlike spirit while chile w tle in the north the upper classes developed alon along tho the line lino of a wealthy h and timid og meas measuring tiring everything v t by a mercantile si lR stand standard ard a ug peculiarly Wn debasing s one by bt Itself ef and submitting to be ruled in local af at fairs by low foreign and In nation national al matters by their arrogant southern kinsmen The militant spirit of these last certainty stood tiEm in good stead in the civil war The world has never neverseen neverseen neverseen seen better be soldiers than tho those e who fol f lowed Lee Le and tHeir leader will un ti rank as without an exception the very greatest of all great captains t that the I people have fihE brought g forth and this although the last and chief of his antagonists may maJo himself claim to stand as the full equal eq al of Marl borough boro gh and Wellington From the Life iLife of Thomas H Benton in Amer ican lean Statesmen series by Theodore ROosevelt pages g 2738 |