The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-27
IN GRANTS MEMORY.
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carnations.
The remainder of the party followed
immediately after the Presidents car
riage.
4 Soon after President Mckinley arriv'
ed at the hotel he was serenaded by the
Stonewall Brigade Band of Staunton,
Va. which was taken to the hotel by &
delegation Of the Sons Of Confederate
Veterans. At the request of the Presi-
dent the band went up stairs and played
from the front balcony. The young
Southerners remained in the parlor,
where President Mckinley granted them
an informal reception There was no
speech making. Mrs. Abner Mckinley
will give a dinner tomorrow evening at
| the Windsor Hotel in honor of Mrs. VIM.
Mckinley. Twenty-three ladies have
been invited.
| yICE-PRESIDEN PARTY.
New York. April 26-The special train
| bearing the Vice-Presidential party to
| the Grant ceremonies arrived at Jersey
| City to-day at 1884 p. M. The entire trip
had been uneventful. Fice-President and
Mrs. Hobart walked at the head of the
procession through the small crowd on
the platform to the carriages which were
waiting for them They were driven on
board the Jersey Central ferry boat,
Fanwood. and landed at 23rd street,
this city, whence they We're driven to their
respective stopping places.
During the run from Philadelphia to
Jersey City, over the Jersey Central
tracks. the Vice-President and Speaker
Reed held their respective dinner parties
OF the famous men who travelled on
this train. perhaps none was more spoken
of than General Uongstreet. His veneer
able face and tall figure. now some
what bent with age, brought back to
mind the days when in the prime of life,
he led the Southern -orces III many a
fierce assault Since these times he has
been United States Minister to Turkey,
and now holds first rank in the short list
Of the Confederate Generals still alive,
LONGsTREET's TRIBUTE.
General Longstreet requested the As
sociatcd Press to publish a statement
written by himself He said to the cor
respondent that it was fitting on such ali
occasion that lie should speak, for he was
with Grant al West Point. served in the
same regiment with him before the war,
and even introduced him to the woman
who became his wife. The statement, as
Gen. Longstreet wrote it, is as follows:
'it was my good fortune to know, as
few others could, that Grants heart
went out i'll sympathy Tor the brave men
and women of the South during the dis |
trcssing times of reconstruction, and to |
my old comrades who followed the stars |
and bars of the South, and the gloom and |
glory of Appomattox, / want to say, Gen. |
Grants heart went out to us in all of |
onr woes. He appreciated the principle |
that all governments derive their powers |
from the confidence and respect of the |
people and his great mind and patri- |
otic heart were bent toward the re-estab
lishment of cordial feelings between the
sections of the land. If every old Confed
crate soldier or widow Of Confederate.
to whom he gave Il helping hand, could
leave leave IL tear about his tomb, it
would be baptized in loves best offering
To the brave men of the other side
of the great strife, my people send mes
sengers to crown this august occasion.
We turn from the setting star of the Con-
federacy to accept the glorious flag of l
the Union, to put it about our 4
and love it as we love our
noble women; we stand guard about it
and uphold it forever: its glories are ours
with undivided hearts, undivided people,
undivided arms to protect its triumph.
We are with you to-day and all days,
brothers and friends. All persons are
buried and gone and with the ragged
remnant of our once proud army, we offer
the loving tribute to the ch.eftain who
led You to victory; renewed heartfelt al
legiance to the great unions. Your union;
our union.
son this inspiring occasion we love to
tell you that for all the grandeur and
majesty of Grants character; for alg the
splendor of his generosity to our brave
men and broken people his name shall
be lenbalmed in the hearts Of our children
and Of our clrildren's children with devo-
ton. as warm as our Southern sun.
''Illustrious citizen Of the Republic, IN
danger brave, in victory generous, we
help to crown him with his peoples ursdy-
ing love, and in the presence of the high |
est officials of State and municipality,
we help dedicate this monument to his
name and fame and lift them like Incense
to the powers above.
"He was so easily general that he
failed to note his own reserved powers
He will grow with his OWL generation
and those who come after until they
learn to appreciate his worth.
JAMES LONGSTREE'E.""
II was such sentiments as the venerable
General expressed in his statement that
the talk of the gray-haired men
of all parties. who came frO1a WasiasnG-
ron TO honor Grant.