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Show j v What Won the, Genera! Over. 1 To elo justice, to! the late General Longstreet would require the touch of a poet's hand say the vanished hand of Father Kyan. Elsewhere we print a resume of the career of the ranking ex-Confederate officer. The story goes that his entrance into the Church' was hastened by the ostracism to which the general , was subjected when he joined the Republican- party. When the Episcopalians, his old-lime old-lime co-religionists, ljegan to "cut" him for following follow-ing the dictates of his political creed, he wondered if there was no house of Goel, where people, no matter what their 'political prejuelices might be, possessed ami practiced lrother charity. Writing to the Catholic Columbian, James R. Randall says of General Longstreet in this connection: "So, experimentally as it were, in New Orleans he went to a Catholic church and was received kindly by all the members, although many of them no eloubt disapproved his course politically and some, as old soldiers, grieved over it. At any rate. (this kindness kind-ness touched his heart, and after much study, re- flection and instruction, along. with the grace of God, he became . a ' Catholic, lived oiie practically, prac-tically, . and died in the- peace ' of God, blesseel by the priest, eulogizeel by the bishop and will be prayed for by our people." And like a ' . gooel solelier of the cross General Longstreet did not rest till he succeeded in bringing over to the Chure-h the lady whose? hand he won in marriage and whose memory is cherished in Georgia as that, of a worthy consort for a noble officer. Catholic Transcript, i i ' . I |