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Show FITZHUGH LEE. High-born, high-souled, backed by a just pride, a great, superb, distinguished soldier, a manly, gen-, gen-, erous, broad-minded man, big enough to accept unavoidable defeat and not under its shadow to I forget his duty to his fellow-rosn and his coun- try, broad enough to look beyond state limita-I limita-I tions and to take in the whole republic, he goes J to his grave in peace and the whole nation stands with bared brows and tear-dimmed eyes as the cortege passes. He was the Hotspur of the i United States, but as in England, the grave of j Perry is cherished as reverently as that of Mon-I Mon-I mouth, so future Americans will hold that where ! the grave of Fitzhugh Lee is, the spot is hallowed I ground. |