PATRIOTISM.
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—May I be allowed to thank you for the admirible article en patriotism in your issue of February 5th, and, still further to point the moral of the last extract which you quoted from the pamphlet issued by the Welsh Department of the Board of Education, may I bring before the notice of your readers the stirring passage with which the late Colonel Henderson closes his Life of Stonewall Jackson 1- " Nor has that story a mmage for America alone. The hero who lies buried at Lexington, in the 'Valley of Virginia, belongs to a race that is not confined to a single continent ; and to those who speak the same tongue, and 4n whose veins the same blood flows, his words come home like an echo of all that is noblest in their history : ' What is life without honour ? Degradation is worse than death. We must think of the living and of those who are to come after us, and see that by God's blessing we transmit to them the freedom we have ourselves inherited.'
The Limes, Marlborough.
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