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REV. DR. B. M. PALMER.

It may be regarded one of the compensations of all our suffering and loss in the late civil war to have given to the world, to be em- balmed in its history, such a type of the ideal man as was Gen. R. K. Lee. Hence-forth, he belongs not to us alone, joyfully as we treasure his memory, but to the country and mankind, the great ex- ample of true manliness and of all human virture, equally great in disaster and defeat as in the triumph of successful achievement.

B. M. Palmer. New Orleans^ La,

D. M. stone, editor NEW YORK JOURNAL OF COMMERCE.

The Memory of Robert ,E, Lee,

To those who knew thee not no words can paint ! And those who knew thee know all words are faint !

— Moore—**' Sensibility'^

O, he sits high in all the people's hearts.

— Shakspeare — ^* Julius Ccesar^

Such souls leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages.

— Taylor—"- Phil von ArV

O, mortal man ! be wary how ye judge !

— Dante — '* Vision of Paradise^''

Among the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own,

—Churchill—'' Ep, to Hogarth:'

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man. Cruel as winter and cold as the snow ; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.

— Bates— ''By-and'by, "

David M. Stone.

BISHOP DUDLEY, OF KENTUCKY.

I am heartily glad that The State will make special commemo- ration of the birthday of General Robert E. Lee.