The death of General Lawton saddest and howlest blow of thew While everyone who has campaigned with Him and witnessed his reckless braver scrime the shoulder, er has grief een mor more profound sincere; the whole army had grown te love their grest fearless, energetic, considerate, commander, and ment who once served under him were his voluntary slaves. His Indian campaigns Phitippine successes,—the latter finished only last Saturday, when he returned from the north after months of the most astonishing and complete work—led him to be lonked upon by the people of the United States xs the one man wha thoroughly understood the problem and who had the energy and spirit to bring about early and final solution. He was beginning the end, the clearing up of the southern provinces, which was considered a short matter, when death claimed him.
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