Show STONEWALL JACKSON col G F R henderson professor of erf military art and history in the british college has baa been bestowing some cons considerable Id erable study upon the career of the late thomas Jeffer jefferson soa jackson familiarly known as stonewall the idol of the people and the soldiers of the bhe southern confederacy it is not now a curious fact that this research is looked upon dupoin as another evidence of the good feeling established between the american and british peoples as sh shown own by the interest with which northerners no less leas than southerners take in the subject probably such huoh a task undertaken by an englishman a year ago or even less leas would not have been looked upon so graciously by all sections here but it is vastly different now regarding ahlis subject and fits co ral callary lary the great struggle between the north and the south our chicago namesake has a lengthy article all of which is worthy of reproduction but only a part of which can cam be given space to none but americans we may feel certain could have so conquered americans no soldiers ver their training nig could have taken the place of grant or Sherl sheridan daN ot of lee or jackson and it is ia the crowning virtue of col hendersons book that this fact for the two statements axe are but different views of the same thing finds sympathetic treatment great generals show something somei thing more than science the principles of which are to be 1 grasped by all painstaking pain staking intellects I 1 they display prescience and an to use their men which can never become the property of a foreigner or a stranger and if the biographer here leans to the bhe side of the grett great man whose life he has been atu studying dying with such care it is no more than he should I 1 be thanked for since that side has haa never been told as well weal as ae the other I 1 the story of jackson is ds one at the most mast interesting in all the annals of american character he was a double orphan his father dying when he was waa an infant and his mother when he was waa only seven years old leaving him without fortune and almost friendless to buffet with the world his chief it if not only legacy was the zealous and steadfast regard for sacred things thing a 9 devotion to the common father and a belief in his bis providence which she implanted in his youthful heart which grew with me hiis growth and expanded with his understanding he would not engage in a it could be avoided until he had retired and milled upon god to give him wisdom strength and gu guidance dance when at last he was fatally wound wounded L d by his own men through what we must co nolder their excusable mist mistake ake friends sought to cheer him ahlm up and assure him he would recover et if I 1 shou should ad he replied lit bt is the will of god if not it is the will of god he controls and his wlm wild be done jacksons record in the mexican war hla his record in the war of the rebell igau stamped tita aped him as aa one of the greatest military g of the age but in nothing was wag he greater than in his true humility his unaffected piety and hl his steadfast regard for the workings of the author and guide |