e, she lost them when Albert Sidney Johnston fell on
the field of Shiloh.

As soon after the war as she was permitted, the Commonwealth of Texas
removed his remains from New Orleans, to inter them in a land he had
long and faithfully served. I was honored by a request to accompany the
coffin from the cemetery to the steamer; and as I gazed upon it there
arose the feeling of the Theban who, after the downfall of the glory and
independence of his country, stood by the tomb of Epaminondas.

"Amid the clash of arms laws are silent," and so was Confederate
statesmanship; or at least, of its objects, efforts, and expectations
little is known, save the abortive mission of Messrs. Stevens, Hunter,
and Campbell to Fortress Monroe in the last months of the struggle, and
about this there has recently been an unseemly wrangle.

The followers of the Calhoun school, who controlled the Government, held
the right of secession to be too clear for discussion. The adverse
argument of Mr. Webster, approved by a large majority of the Northern
people, was considered to be founded on lust of power, not on reason.
The governments of western Europe, with judgments unclouded by
selfishness, would at once acknowledge it. France, whose policy since
the days of the eleventh Louis had been one of intense centralization,
and Germany and Italy, whose hopes and aspirations were in the same
direction, would admit it, while England would not be restrained by
anti-slavery sentiment. Indeed, the statesmen of these countries had
devoted much time to the study of the Constitution of the United
States, knew that it was a compact, and were in complete harmony with
the opinions of Mr. Calhoun. There was to be no revolution, for this,
though justified by oppression, involved the recognition of some measure
of obligation to the Union, from which the right to secede was manifest.
Hence the haste to manufacture a paper constitution, in which the powers
of different departments were as carefully weighed as are dangerous
drugs by dispensing chemists. Hence two houses of Congress, refuge for
mischievous twaddlers to worry the executive and embarrass the armies.
Hence the Governor Browns, who, reasoning that one State had as much
right to disagree with eleven as eleven with twenty, declared each of
their hamlets of more importance than the cities of others. While the
sections were marching through the streets, with pikes crowned by gory
heads, and clamoring for more,