St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-23
SONS OF REVOLUTIONARY sIREs
BANQUET GEORGES SPIRIT At
THE ABERDEEN.
STARRY BANNER is LAUDEp
AS THE EMBLEM OF THE PURE,
THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE /.
STRONG.
In Eloquent Power and Literary
Beauty the Glory of the First
Republic.

The Sons Of the Revolution and the
Sons of the American Revolution sat
them down fraternally at the banquet
tables at the Aberdeen hotel last night
discussed choice menu, enjoyed So
cial chat with each other, and applaud
ed the eulogies of George Washington
and the other patriotic sentiments ut
tered by the speakers Of the evening.
There were at least 125 seats occu-
pied, the banquet taking place in the
main dining hall. The room was pro-
fusely decorated with the American
flag and festoons of blue, white and
yellow bunting.
After the menu had ceased to excite
any authorizations, President S. j. r.
Mcmillan, Of the Sons of the American
Revolution, announced that Judge John
P. Rea, of Minneapolis, would fulfill
the functions Of POSTMASTER of the &C
casion. Judge Rea lost no time in in
augurating the feast of reason. He
rose at once and said:
Gentlemen of the Sons of the Revolution
and gentlemen of the Sons of the American
Revolution, I congratulate both societies on
the circumstance that you have met together
In union. There was no division between
your ancestors when they fought for the
freedom of their country and there should
be none between you today" Applause)
With this felicitous Introduction
Judge Rea paid a tribute to the stars
and stripes, declaring the flag to be
the prettiest painting he ever saw.
Strong men had carried it into the
jaws of death and dying boys had
kissed it's shadow as it foated over
them These remarks were but pre-
fatory to the first toast of the even
ing, which was Our Flag" Gen. w.
j. Hahn, of Minneapolis, was on the
programme to reply to this toast, but
as he was unavoidably absent, Gen.
Moses E. Clapp responded to it.
Gen. Clapp's address was brief but
spirited and patriotic to a degree. He
first dWelt upon a mans and a ma
tons characteristic and natural love
for a symbol instancing from history
the magic effect the sight of the ma
tional ensign had eXerted on all men
in times of peace as well as war.
but of all the flags" continued Gen.
Clapp, that have been unfOlded to the
breeze Of heaven, our own stands pre-
eminent. AS We gaze on that flag we see
a glorious country freed. AS we gaze on
that flag, we can see the shackles fall
from the slave. We can see noble in
stitutions preserved from ruin.
Gen. Clapp dwelt upon the lasting
qualities of the righteous principles
men and nations had fought for, en-
couraged and inspired on the battlefield
by the flag that represented those prin-
ciples. Many of these nations had pass
ed away, and the time might come
when this nation would pass into his
tory. But the principles we fought
for were Gen. Clapp's concluding
words, "are immutable and immortal :"
Judge Rea next introduced Col. Will
lam p Clough who responded to the
most inspiring theme of the evening,
Washington Col Clough's address
was able and thoughtful, minutely
Analysing, as it did, the conditions I'M
der which the war of the revolution
was waged, and the difficulties and
obstacles with which Gen. Washington
was obliged to contend, some of which
were thrown in his path by the colonies
themselves. Space forbids a full re-
port of the address, but the concluding
passages in which the speaker meas
ured the capacity of Washington, We're
as follows:
1t was the army, and not the congress-
which, in the popular mind, embodied the
movement for independence. Hence the
man who filled Washington's place, had to
be and was, in the broadcast sense, not merely
the commander n-chief of the arms, but
the commander-in-c chief of the colonies.
Whether the cause should succeed or fail
would altogether depend on the extent to
which that one man could command the con-
fdence OF the people, and array their abli-
ties for war
In all the world but one man was fitted