St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-09
Eloquent Editor Watterson
in Feeling Words Voices
the Sentiment.
Enduring Lessons for a
United People From Mis-
takes of the Past.
The Glories Of Methodism
Furnish Themes for Many
DivineS.
Wonderful Progress Reported
in Church Growth and
Power for Good.

CHICAGO, Oct. SIT was worth facing
cannon and bayonets to be participant
tonight In the magnificent banquet
closing the meeting of the Army of the
Tennessee. A more distinguished and
gallant company than gathered under
the sparkling chandeliers at the Palmer
house is seldom witnessed around the
festive board, and the oratory was sim
ply superb.
Gen. Granville NJ. Dodge, the sue
cessOr of Gen. Sherman as president of
the society, Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Gen.
Walter q. Gresham, and others hardly
less celebrated in military annals were
conspicuous guests, while such uotableS
as Henry Watterson, Joseph Medili and
Games WhiteOmb Riley marked the
civic Importance of the occasion. When
the exquisite commisSary had been
dispatched. the speechmaking followed.
The talk of the evening was made by
Henry Watterson, who spoke in part as
fellows. to the toast The War Is Over
Let Us Have Peace"
/ believe that, at this moment, the
people of the United States are nearer
JOge Their, in all that constitutes kindred
feeling and interest. than they have
been at any time since the adoption of
over; and it is we'll over. God reigns,
and the government at Washing
ton still lives. | am glad of that.
i can conceive nothing worse for our
selves. nothing worse for our children,
than what might have been if the war
had ended otherwise leaving two eX-
hausted combatantS to become the prey
OF foreign Intervention and diplomacy,
setting the clock of civilization back
century, and splitting the noblest of the
continents into five or six weak and
warning republics, like those of South
America, to repeat in the new world the
mistakes of the old.
AS | see it, our first great sectional
controversy was, from FIRST to last, the
gradual evolution of people from
darkness to light, with no charts or
maps to guide them and no experience
to lead the way. On one hand was
African slavery; on the other sectional
jealousy, and between these evil spirits,
the household flower of peace was torn
from the Intel and tossed into the
flames of war.
| came here primarily, to bow my
htad and to pay my measure of homage
to the statue that was yesterday I'M
yelled. The career and the name
Which that statue commentaries be-
long to me no less than to you. never
allowed myself to make his acquaintance
until he had quilted the White house. L
had my duty to do, and / did not dare
trust myself to the Subduing in
Huence of what L was sure must
follow frienely relations between such
man as he was and such a man as l
knew myself to be. In this | was not
miSta ken, as the sequel proved. He
was the embodiment of simplicity, in
tegrity and courage; every inch gen
eral, a soldier and man; but in the
circumstances of his last illness, fig
ure Of heroic proportions for the con-
temptation of the ages. | recall nothing
i'll history so sublime as the spectacle of
that brave spirit, broken in future and
III health, with the dread hand of the
dark angel clutched about his throat,
struggling with every breath to hold the
clumsy, unfamiliar weapon with which
he sought to wrest from the jaws of
death a little something for the support
for wife and children when he was
gone! If he had done nothing eISe, that
would have made his exit from the
world an immortal epic
A little while after | came home from
the last scene of all, found that
wolnan's hand had collected the insig-
MIA l had worn in the magnificent. mel
ancholy pageant-the orders assigning
badgeS-and had grouped and framed
them; unhldden, silently, tenderly; and
when | reflected that the hands that did
this were those of a loving Southern
woman, whose father had fallen on the
Confederate side in the battle, sgid:
The war indeed is over; let us have
peace" Gentlemen, soldiers, COM
rades, the silken folds that Irvine about
us here, for all their soft and careless
grace, are yet as strong as hooks of
steel! They hold together united
people and great nation; for. realizing
tie truth at last-with no wounds to be
healed and no stings of defeat to re-
lnember-the South says to the North,
as simply and as truly as was said 5000
years ago in that far away meadow
upon the margin Of the mystic sea ::
whittier thou goest. will 90; and
where thou lodgest, | will lodge; thy
people shall be my people, and thy God
my God"
Gen. Horace Porter, Joseph Medill,
Secretary Noble, James Whitcomb
Riley and others also delivered adj
dresses. Preceding the banqnet the
societies of the armies Of the Tennessee,
Potomac and Cumberland and Gen.