The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-23
GL0RIFIED THEIR DEEDS
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLU-
TION RECALL HISTORY.

Annual Banquet at Hartford-PrOminent
Men Were There-DauGhters of the
American Revolution Interested Specta-
tors-Several Members Admitted-Gov-
ernor Cookies Patriotic Words,
The Connecticut Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution held their eighth an
nual banquet in Foot Guard armory
in Hartford yesterday.
The board of managers held busi-
ness meeting in the officers room be-
fore the banquet. There were present:
Messrs Trumbull, Hotchkiss, Cay Nor
rls Rogers, Chandler, Beecher, Rev.
Il. S. Lines, of New Haven, Greeley,
Steele, Dascom, woodward, Griswold,
M. D., S. w. Kellogg, Olcott, Goodsell,
Loomer, Lord, and H. Wales Lines.
Mr. Jonathan Trumbull presided and
Colonel Louis B. Cheney acted as sec
rotary '.'.
The following new members were
elected: Edward L. Clark of New Ha-
ven, James Stoddard Williams, David
w. Williams and Samuel Hubbard Will
liams of Glastonbury, Edwin Horace
Forbes of Torrington, William Frank
Jones of Hartford, Lampson Preston
Mitchell of Waterbury, Lewis Hosmer
Stedman of Hartford, DR.. Augustus A.
Crane of Waterbury, Curtis J, Birken-
mayer of Waterbury, Ira Catlin Hotch-
kiss of Watertown, Albert F. Corbin of
New Britain, John Robertson Poore Of
Waterbury, Samuel L. Barber of Hart
ford Henry c. Sherwood of Bridgeport,
George D. Copley of New Britain, Pitt
Barrows Of Spring HILL David c. Griggs
of Waterbury, Governor Lorrin A.
Cooke and John A. Buckingham of Wa
tertown.
Among the many men present who
have achieved a local, state and nation
al reputation were: Historian, Joseph
G. Woodward, postmaster; Judge Sam
uel o. Prentice, Samuel j. Elder of Bos-
ton, Ex-Governor Morgan G. Buckley,
the Rev. e. S. Lines of New Haven,
chaplain of the society; Governor L.
A. Cooke, President Jonathan Trum-
bull, DR.. G. Stanley Hall, president of
Clark university, Worcester, Mass.
ex-Congressman Lewis Sperry, the Rev
DR.. Philip S. Moxom Of Springfield
Judge Nathaniel Shipman, E. A. Sum-
ner of New York, ex-Lieut. Gov, Samu-
ell E. Merwin of New Haven, the Hon
Henry c. Robinson and Charles P
Clark, president of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad COM
pany.
The armory was appropriately deco
rated and a fine concert was played
by the First Regiment band.
In the galleries were a number OF
ladies', most of whom were members of
the various chapters of the Daughters
of the American Revolution. Covers
were laid for 400 persons. At the con-
clusion of the banquet several addresses
were made, among them that of Gov
ernor Lorrin A. Cooke, who said in
conclusion:
When John Adams, the New England
Yankee, said in the Continental con-
gress that George Washington should
be the general to lead the armies it has
been we'll said that the Puritan and
Cavalier clasped hands and the union OF
New England and Virginia for that
emergency foretold the final union OF
the states after a mighty travail of diff
ference for long years, of strife" But
cemented under the old flag at last
never again to be disturbed by wal
unless by an uprising of north, south
east and west to defend against a COM
ho Iafyo ct tpI t0 he
world that we can fight and win, too
against a foreign foe, no matter how
| large or arrogant We have shown
also the prowess that all sections Of
| our country possess in more recent
| conflict unequaled in the history of the
world.
| Now, as Sons of the Revolution, we
may well exult at the mention Of the
deeds of our fathers and swing higf
the proud banner of the republic. YET
We have arrived at a time in the his.
tory of the race when peace between
nations is more talked about and de.
sired than war. What in the career o.
Washington commands our homage
1t is not wholly as a warrior that we
almost worship him as hero unsur
passed, but Washington as a statesman
and a peaceful citizen. Said the grea
soldier at the close OF our Civil war
LET us have peace" The nations O
the world to-day are many of then
wanting peace. The two great English
speaking peoples of the world are try
| ing to perfect plan to arbitrate ant
settle all national differences by peace
full methods.
We have over and over again proven
our courage and military strength t.
the world and now we can we'll afford
to favor the way Of peace.
! Let America reach out and take thu
olive branch now extended to us by thu
hand of Britain and swear before thu
nations and before God that all tht
peaceful means of arbitration shall b,
exhausted before we will again draw
the sword against a people having 81
much in common with ourselves.
| WASHINGTON RPOTHEPu 00D