THE AMERICAN C SOUTH AFRICA

New Zealand Mail, 22 January 1902, Page 31

THE AMERICAN C SOUTH A FRICA

Mr. Charles Francis A :lax.\ ed-A « the American Aiuiomuiiu .... W oieostei (Massaciiustccs,i, na.. v.ted e-s -■. unpubiisheu iacts <■ <•» i stages of the civil war. AUc. ifi • / of Appomnuvttox General jl. ±\ . e r advised. General Leo to auoot gu.-r.wa ..„... tics, suggesting iiiai.s lor maintenance. Loa repi.ed: "Ac, v.v Christians. V\ e have as nasu <.ua as tv ell as we know, no arc beaten, i-.»r us, as Christians, ihe.e 10 ;mw but o-u.' thing to do—surrender, ’go nvn.:e, piaut and build up tuc tour irv cn d new basis.” That ineiiku.t, sir. / u ;>ms continued, accounted tor (he -tile/ bmies not having suffered as South ■ ■■ now does No one man, North cr S-tua ’ uoi\ doubv.s tliat Loa dcc.ded wise!''. Vi a tuture must decide whether a contrary course of events in South Africa has been vise or justifiable. As Americans contemplate tho situation there, not a sianio America* l fails to tool gratitude to the t£?*Tr C U ttt ? oi ni , ei ' v, ' hos3 decision saved ui- nited states from similar conditions, or donuts the wisdom of L»e*s action, under facts which imposed upon him, as a Christian, the duty of endm" a hopeless war and beginning a' new national life, which the result of the war had imposed upon his peoule. Mr Adams quoted contemporaiy accounts prove).tnat Lee s decision had left unimpaired the love and respect of followers whom lie had ordered to surrendei.