New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-30
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DENOUNCING THE MONTGOMERY SPEECH
MEETING IN ALBANY PROTESTING AGAINST THE
UONOES TO JEFF DAVIS

HONOEs TO JEFF DAVIS.
ALBANY, April % (SpecidO.-A mass meeting was
bed in the Assembly Chamber to night to dcnounce
the honors offered to JEFF Davis in Montgomery, AIN
bama, yesterday The meeting was held Id response to
a call issued by General Henry A. Barnum, Major
George II. Treadwell, Captain L. r. Bay. W. j. Sew
erance w. a. Wallace John Palmer. s. p Corss, X.
5. Oliver, John Daily, TIC. Rowe, A. McD Shoemaker,
r. a. Mccormick. and A. H. Sphere All these men
are members of the Grand Army OF the Republic. In
their call they say: To all believe in preserving
the uniOn We cordially invite all those who fought
for the preservation OF the Union and all who sustained
and encouraged those who fought in that bloody but
glorious contest for human liberty TO meet at the As
scmby Chamber at : o'clock this evening and to unite
in denuncatiOn OF the nrrecion OF jeff Davis tion
the obl ion to which loyal and patriotic people had
consigned him. We invite them to protest against the
elorifcaon of dsloydl deeds and men, the revival of
sentiments repucnant to those who fought Tor the
Union, abhoIrent to the loyal NortL, and unbecoming
to tie subugated South 1t too soon to forget the
suierngs aud sacri of loyal peol lle Ii is too
forget treason and traitors. however much we
may forgive them Let unite repeat the resolve
of Abraham Lincoln at the battlefield of Gettysburg :
That these dead shall not have died in vain, that
this Nation under God shall have birth of free
dom and that government by the people and for the
people shall not perish from this earh.'
The Grand Army posts Of the city marched to the
Capitol headed by band playing patriotic airs. Sew
erul thousand men and women had gathered III tho
Assembly Chamber to listen to the speeches General
Henry A. Barnum called the Assembly TO order saying
that the meeting had been called OF the loyal citizens
of Albany who desired TO express their opinion OF the
ovation given Jefferson Davis at Mont tgomery. Ala:
bami lie moved that 81 eakcr Hustled 6t made chair
man of the meeting. The motion was adopted
Speaker Hustled in temperate tone sald tha IN MS
OPINION Mr. Davis by seeking 20 revive war feeling at
a time when il apparent that the country was
greater crime than when he took the oath Of oicc as
President of the Southern COnfedeTacy. The slave
ad been reed and the South emanclpated from Iell
ance upon slave labor.
The South far more prosperous The mon was
no longer threatened with disunion and yet Mr. Davis
had the hardhood to declare that the war was an IN
holy one II then the people OF the North had done
uDhOly ling III waglng war TO preserve inc Cnlon
lie did not believe that the loyal men OF the South or
the North uphel1 Mr.. Davis. Suct speech came
with exceeding bad grace from the ch consprator OF
a rebellion that had caused the deatt of over mill
ion of men. Such man in any other country would
nave suffered death.
General Barnum said that he upon the garments
of Jefferson Davis the blood of thousands of the loyal
and dsloyal. He the arch iend that had lurcd
the Sonth into rebellion. He had dared to that
the rebe on was Il righteous one. General Barnum
offered resolutions which were adopted declaring
treason odous and that the blood shed TO save the
Union and subdue the South was shed nobly ana IN
righteous cause.
Senator John Raines who was n soldier, compared
Jefferson Davis with Benedict Arnold ana sald hat the
country wOuld have been indignant Arnold had re-
turned America and made slecch glOrYlng IN nls
II VIII be the honors bestowed upon
Jefferson Davis.
Speeches were of the tenor by Senators
Smith and COggcshall some one then started; We
Will hang JEFF Davis sour ample tIee' II was sung
with tremendous vigor by all in the vast assembly.