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Identifier: genrobertedwardl00broc (find matches)
Title: Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914
Subjects: Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Publisher: Richmond, Va., B. F. Johnson Publishing Co
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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^177) 178 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE, so that we are now assured that the Government is in opera-tion and the Union in existence. Not that I had any fears to thecontrary, but it is satisfactory always to have facts to go on ; theyrestrain supposition and conjecture, confirm faith, and bring content-ment. I was much pleased with the Presidents message and thereport of the Secretary of War. The views of the President on the domestic institu-tions of the South aretruthfully and faith-fully expressed. Inthis enlightened agethere are few, I believe,but will acknowledgethat slavery as an in-stitution is a moral andpolitical evil in anj^country. It is uselessto expatiate on its dis-advantages. I think it,however, a greater evilto the white than to theblack race, and whilemy feelings are strong-ly interested in behalfof the latter, my sjan-pathies are strongly forthe former. The blacksare immeasurabl)-better off here than inAfrica, morally, soci-ally, and physically. The painful discipline the

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