The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-20
GLORY IN THE PAST
MINNESOTA SOCIETY OF THE sous
OF THE REVOLUTION CELE-
BRATE.
THE LEXINGTON ALARMS
ECHOED AT THE BANQUET TABLE
III THE RYAN LAST EVEN
ING.
TALKS HISTORIC AND PATRIOTIC.
Eloquent Addresses by M. ID. Grover
and e. A. Jaggard-Other I'M.
promptu Speeches Made.

| of the United States of America, have
attained some fame astthe Lexington
alarms" And these same alarms, after
laundering adown the halls of time for
these five generations, were echoed last
| evening in the ordinary of the Ryan
hotel, where some fifty gentlemen who
! trace their ancestry to the explosive
personages who had to do with the
/ Lexington alarms, or the events that
| followed on them, were gathered to
celebrate the glorious deeds of the
worthless to whose prowess the liberties
Of these United States are due. The
occasion was the anniversary banquet
of the Minnesoty Society of the Sons
of the Revolution, and about the ban
quet board were gathered gentlemen IN
| every walk of life-the church, the
| army, in statecraft and the ordinary
walks Of business life. Bishop Gilbert,
vice president of the society, presided
| as POSTMASTER in the absence of Fsu-
| kard Hurd, the president who is in New
York attending a national convention
and who contributed not a little to the
pleasure of last nights festivities by
sending the following telegram, which
was read amidst great applause:
Resolution for the union adopted and will
be presented to the meeting TO be held in
Cincinnati in October next"
The occasion for the applause was the
| fact that the telegram made a certain
| ty of the proposition that has been
| under way looking to the union of the
Sons of the American Revolution with
| the Sons of the Revolution.
The decorations Of the banquet hall
| were very properly limited to numerous
American flags, each chandelier carry
ing couple Of miniature copies Of
| Old Glory. The table formed three
| sides of a paraIlelogram and in the
| center of one end Bishop Gilbert oc-
| cupied a state chair, being supported
| on either side by Lieut.. Gov. j. L.
| Gibbs and M. d. Grover, one Of the
principal speakers of the evening. The
! speeches were in no sense labored, and
the occasion gave quite as much evil
| dence of good fellowship as of
function for the glorification of the
! fathers.
Bishop Gilbert in opening the speech
making said that for the first time in
his life he was a POSTMASTER and he
proposed to see to it that there were
! plenty of speeches made and he wanted
to notify every one to get treadysy an
/ impromptu speech. He was IGNORED
pin being chosen to preside over 80 dis
| t1nguished a company, he said, and did
/ not: doubt that the result of the meet
| ing would be the starting afresh of
| the fires of patriotism of 122 years ago,
! Pointing to the difference between the
/ situation of the descendants of the
| patriots and the fathers of the re-
public themselves, he paid an eloquent
tribute to the fathers, who made his
tory unconsciOusly and did their work
| WELL Bishop Gilbert presented Capt.
yhA Ioe.o sIso.l
an event of early revolutionary times
which is recalled by a historic natural
| monument at Dracut, Mass. In the
| course of his story Capt Reade
evinced remarkable technical knowl-
| edge of revolutionary history, and,
| from a soldiers point of view, he told
of the methods of the soldiers and
leaders in conducting the revolutionary
war.
| M. D. Grover was introduced as the
| reincarnation of a Green Mountain
boy and he made hit by saying that
he has felt recently, when he has
| noticed the gray hairs coming, that
! he was on earth for the second time
| He was very happy in his remarks.
| and speaking of the day of Lexington,
April 10, he said that 10 was a
| historical date: that poets have been
! born and pirates hanged on that date;
! all history is replete with anecdotes
noting the day, but its greatest glory
/ lay in the fact that Lexington dates
| from it, He then went into the his
| tory of the colonies preceding Lexing-
! ton and held UP to Scorn the work of
| the Duke of Newcastle and his crea-
| lures and successors in office The
| brutality and cupidity of the British
| officials in the making and enforcing
! Of laws to increase the revenues to
| the crown were painted in glowing
| language, every period climax and
! every climax e1iciting applause. Fol-
| lowing the leading events down to the
! attempt of Gen. Gage to seize the
stores at Boston and telling how the
| proposition became known to the sons
! of liberty by the lanterns in the tower
! of old South Church, he proved that
Fl. P. Hail had an ancestor there who
was a factor in the design becoming
! known. The speaker followed the
| lines of history, but amplified what has
been written, for much of his talk came
! from his great grandfather, who was
| a party to the events of the times.
The patriots learned the art of self
! government in town meetings, and
taught themselves to be free" said the
| spe aker, and we should preserve the
inspiration of liberty by gatherings of
| this kind"
| E. A. Jaggard was introduced as one
whose right to be a son of liberty was
| two-fold, in that his ancestors were
originally expatriated as Huguenots
! and also as revolutionists. Our an
cestors,' said Mr.. Jaggard, were not
cranks. convicts nor crooks, they were
not glorified men, but simply terrestrial
men who were earnest in what they at
| tempted, and we should honor them
| as SUCH Pointing to the fact that
| the Spaniards and the Portuguese had
| once owned America in fee-simple; that
| the Swedes and the Morse had pre-
empted parts of the country. and that
! the Germans had much to do with its
! settlement, the speaker said it was the
! English that left the impress Of their
! languarge on the country, and they
| and the Dutch were responsible for the
! greatest of modern developments-the
Yankee. The speaker reviewed the
work of the bigots who inhabited the
country prior to the revolution and
demonstrated how all these races and
| religions were essential to the great
result; he pointed cut how it was
| necessary that this country should at
| one time have been the home of the
| man whose religion was of such an
! order that he would destroy the house
| of the soul to save the soul itself, to
/ the end that the patriot of &c might
| be a possibility; and he turned very
| happily a compliment to Bishop Gill
! bert, which was received with much
applause. Then discussing the COM
| mereial and natural resources of the
country, Mr.. Jaggard demonstrated
| how all these peoples. institutions and
| conditions We're necessary to the de-
/ vefopn1ert of the patriot of the past.
and the American sovereign of the
| present. His remarks were replete with
| snappysa stories, and Well-timed illu-
| STATIONS, and in few minutes he