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Letter from General Lee.
--The resolutions recently passed by General Wise's brigade were presented to General Lee, enclosed in a letter from General Wise.
The following is the Commander-in-Chief's reply:
"Headquarters army of"Northern Virginia. "February 4th, 1865. "Brigadier-General Henry A. Wise, Commanding, &c.: "General:
I have received the declaration of principles and rights made by your brigade, and return my thanks to yourself, your officers and men. The spirit evinced in this document is the true one.
If our people will sustain the noble soldiers of the Confederacy, and evince the same resolution and fortitude under their trials which have characterized the army, I feel no apprehension about the issue of this contest.
I do not see how we can, by any compromise or negotiation, abate aught of the rights claimed in this admirable declaration without a surrrender of the liberties we derived from our ancestors.
"As long as our soldiers are animated by s
"By the Governor."
--The following notice appears in a Columbia, South Carolina, journal:
"Married, February 4, 1865, at the residence of the bride's father, by His Excellency Governor Magrath, Dr. J. F. Houstes, of Mobile, to Rachel, eldest daughter of J. C. Lyons, of Columbia."