and bearing than in the person of this grand leader, in the crisis of action. To see him, then, was to receive

a new impulse to battle.

Such were some of the elements out of which that rare product—a man fit to lead armies- was formed. Only a few such men are born in a century. If, in 1870, France had possessed one such, there would have been defeat, perhaps, but no disgrace. No army would have been lost; every inch of ground would have been contested; and, before the siege of Paris could have been formed, new levies, rallying about a nucleus of veterans, would have reversed the balance of numerical superiority. The capital and the military honor of France would have been saved.

For these reasons, then-even if affection and pride were dead in us-such a soldier should not lack enduring commemoration. The safety of the country can never be assured if each generation shall not produce one such hero to lead her armies in the day of peril.

And to cherish the fame of the great and good commander is to transmit to posterity the high thoughts and feelings which in each age are needed to warm into life every latent germ of military virtue.

ARCHER ANDERSON.

THE

CHAPTER XXII.

THE RICHMOND MEMORIAL MEETING.

HE Johnston meeting held at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday evening, was thoroughly representative of all classes of Richmond's citizens.

The meeting was called to order by Judge George L. Christian, on whose motion, Mayor J. T. Ellyson was elected chairman.

Mayor Ellyson, on taking the chair, said he had called the meeting at the request of Lee Camp, Con federate Veterans, to take suitable action to secure the removal of the remains of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to Richmond. He did not hesitate to comply with the request and issue the call, for he felt that in so doing he was but carrying out, and indeed, anticipating the wishes of the citizens of Richmond, who he knew would endorse any action of the meeting, looking to the end in view.

On motion of Mr. W. L. White, Judge George L. Christian was elected secretary.

It was moved and carried, that a committee on resolutions be appointed, and the Chair announced the following: Major Robert Stiles, Colonel W. H. Palmer, Colonel Alexander Archer, Judge E. C. Minor, and Mr. Joseph H. Thomas.

BEAUTIFUL RESOLUTIONS REPORTED.

The committee, after consultation, reported through Major Stiles the following:

Virginia mourns the last of her great soldier triumvirate, Jackson, Lee, Johnston-all stainless, each one as good as great.

Within a year after he drew aside the veil that hid the image of the God-like Lee, Johnston himself passed from us, and beyond that greater veil the three Christian heroes have entered upon immortal comradeship. Weeping Virginia, though Rachel-like, lamenting her children because they are not, may yet lift her bowed head with this proud reflection: Even in these degenerate days have I borne peerless sons, and, while in some sense I must give them up, yet are they mine forever.

More essentially, perhaps, than any other great American, Joseph E. Johnston was the soldier-the trained, professional soldier. As such, he was less perfectly in touch with the mass of the people, and in proportion to his merit less appreciated by them than were most of the other heroes of the war. The Christian

civilization of to-day rightly yearns for peace, but wrongly refuses to estimate fairly the greatness that is born of the profession of arms alone. A quarter of a century ago, as the majestic figures of our great generals emerged from the smoke of, battle, and moved out from the soldier life, from camp and march and field, into the unromantic walks of our selfish, scheming business world, men marveled at them as anomalies, and demanded "whence have mere soldiers these characteristics; this purity and consecration, this majesty and strength?" Those of us who have to some degree lived, and loved, the life of the soldier make answer:

"These men were cast in this mould; they are not anomalies, but the lofty yet normal outcome of a grand system of physical and mental and moral training." What, then, is the training and what are the formative elements of this life?

ESSENTIAL CHARACTER OF THE SOLDIER LIFE.

We answer:

The essential character of the soldier life is "SERVICE"-its all pervading law is "Duty.” Its first lesson is OBEDIENCE unquestioning-its last lesson COMMAND unquestioned. Its daily discipline ACCOUNTABILITY unceasing-its final burden ResponSIBILITY unmeasured. Its every-day experience HARDSHIPS, PERILS, CRISES unparalleled-its compensation FIXED PAY. Its inspiration PROMOTION FROM Above.

Here is the mould. Does it not prefigure the man we mourn and honor to-night? His purity, his loyalty, his directness, his robustness, his majestic simplicity, his devotion to duty, his heroism? Yes! God made him in body, mind and soul a youth capable of responding to this noble training and absorbing these lofty influences; but they made him the man and the hero he was.

Thus was he soldier-trained to a great character and a grand career, to a majestic manhood and a mighty life, but his spirit soared even higher, because he was also God-created, high-souled and broad-minded. It is noteworthy how his soldier training and his soldier spirit entered into, inspiring or modifying, his almost every act and utterance, and yet how his personal eleva

tion and breadth bore him up, and away above and

beyond the mere soldier.

FOUGHT BRAVELY UNDER WHAT HE CONSIDERED

INJUSTICE.

Where will you find anything finer than his palliation of the failure of a gallant officer (afterwards prominent upon the Federal side) to espouse the cause of his native South, upon the ground, as he said, that his friend was essentially a soldier, and had failed to secure in our service the rank to which his worth, and his position, in the old army justly entitled him-all unconscious the while of the noble contrast which his own conduct presented in turning his back upon a higher position in the old service than any other Southern officer sacrificed, and never sulking, but fighting to the bitter end under what he considered injustice like to that which repelled his friend?

His mere intellectual pre-eminence does not even require distinct assertion. Not only does his career throughout bear witness to it, but it is, perhaps, not too much to say that by the general consensus of competent opinion in the United States, North and South, Joseph E. Johnston is ranked as at least the peer of any officer upon either side of the late war, not in intellect only, but in all the learning and skill of his profession.

He was even more than this. It is questionable whether there can be found, in all the annals of war and of defeat, a sublimer exhibition of imperturbable poise of soul and perfect command of the very utmost of