The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-04-28
His Memory HOuOred by the Mon
ument Association.
HENRY WATTERSON THE ORATOR
4 brilliant Address in Response 10 the
Toast The Reunited Sections"
The Arts OF Peace
and War.

/ ment Association. TWO hundred ana loity-
six guests were present. 4 reception pre-
coded the banquet in tho Aston gallery.
! The toasts and spakers were:
Grant" Hon. Julius c. Burrows.
The Reunited Sections" Hon. Henry
Wa,terson.
The Volunteers" Hon. William p. Hep
burn
The Personal influence OF Grant upon
/ Public Affairs" Hon W. Bourko Cock
/ ran.
MR.. WATTERSON 5 ADDRESS.
The principal speaker was Hon. Henry
/ Wattorson. whose subject was The Re-
united sections Ire said:
| II the illustrious soldier, whose memory
we celebrate. were with us here tonight.
( his heart would glow with satisfied pride
| i'm the answer which time has made 10 his
| prayer for peace between the once war
| ring sections Of the Union and In the
| spectacle which the present unfolds Of a
whole people rallying as a single man
under the stars and Stripes.
| can not help thinking that. when the
| history Of our generation comes nnally
| 10 be made UP. IL Will be related that two
mistakes OF the first order were per
| petrated by the people of the United
! States the latter hall Of tho Nineteenth
| century. IL was mistake OF the south.
! FOR any cause whatever 20 precipitate a
war of sections. and IL was a mistake OF
| the North. after the overthrow Of the
/ Confcderacy. 20 undertake a reconstruc-
! ton of the Union by force OF arms. That
| the country has survived errors OF such
| magnitude is proof Of amazing vitality: or
| a vitality that draws It's sustcnauce from
the adaptabiuty and the heXibility OF free
! institutions and from a popular character
! equal 10 an emergencies. military ana
| civil Man proposes and God disposes' and
! often we build wiser than We know. Per-
| haps the very mischances Of these forty
| wears Of domestic controversy were need
ful TO make MS the nation we are to-day.
GRATITUDE TO GRANT
| II was General Grant. himself. who is
sued the order finally Withdrawing the
troops from the Southern states. and.
when we remember that ~ was none other
| than Grant who stood between the Con
| federate soldier and n surrender that
mieht have been dishonoring TO American
manhood the debt We owe our great cap
| tain becomes incalculable.
There is lust now. / regret 10 observe
a DISPOSITION manifested In certain quar-
ters 10 magnify the arts of peace and 10
| belittIe the arts Of war. Most of US know
| something about both; and. whilst / do
| confess that even this frugal repast and
| these homely provisi0ns-done In Grant S
! honor and in our hOnor-are preferable
| TO a banquet Of hard tack and blazing
| brush-heap upon Georgia hillside !
| shall not be the man TO say that any OF
ms is the worse for knowing from per-
sonal experience the actual difference i
! have respect for the principle Of interna-
|
| and mutual concession. / have respect
! for the principle of approved capabihty
! and fitness I'm the matter OF appointments
| 10 office. But when a gentleman IN gold
| trimmed specs and a swallow-tallcd coat
| standing with one foot on arbitration and
| the other upon civil service reform, sol
| EMMY assures me that he has discovered
| perfectibility I'm government, take leave
| TO have my doubts about IL. ! am grown
] SO pessimistic. indeed. as TO think that
! the one thing that We do not want the
| one thing which would certainly disap-
| point us i'm case We got IL. is the dream
! er's idea OF the ideal. Ideals. which eN-
| list for refOrmers lovers and poets. exist
! not for men ana women. Those whose
| business It is 10 deal with life as il S., and
| who can afford 10 waste no time on self
| dcccptions. address themselves 10 the
| real not 10 the ideal and feel that they
| are fortunate if they come of with whole
| bones The rich red blood Of nature
| which makes men TO act. and 70 act
! promptly. i'm times of danger, is good
! enough for me: and / know nothing in
| American history more eXhilardung than
| the episode of old Peter Muhlenbereh.
! ninging aside his surplice and appearing
| in q fun Continental uniform. exclaiming
! there's a time for all things time 70
! preach and a time TO nray-but there is
/ also a time TO fight. and that time has
| come
THE UNION ONE.
| " there was any doubt anywhere
| about She restoration of the Union. not
| merely In fact and in name, but in the
| spirit 20 which 90 owes IT'S birth. the
| manifestations OF the last few weeks
| can not have failed 10 disspatc g.. That
| Spanish gentleman who proposed TO sup
| ploment the forces Of his country in
| cuba by melting the South TO another
! rebellion must surely have been the
! Knight Of La Mancha come 20 life again
! but quite as bercft Of reason as ne was
/ in the days or Sancho Pana and tho lady
J of Toboso: though IN truth most of those
| supporting Spain I'm her ill-starrcd con-
| tcntion seem TO be licnal descendants
| OF the famous Dom Sir. the reunited
| sections Of the Union stand as p wall of
| iron between the nations honor and n
| need be. all the world stand a wall of
! fire between tho stricken Cubans and
| any further hurt from Spain We want
! no other warrant for our act Of war
! than the cruel. the hcartless story Of the
! Spaniard I'm America From the coming
! Of Cortez and Pizarro TO tho going Of
! Weyler-three centuries Of brutality. ir-
| radiated only by the pirates lust for
| plunder and the tigers thirst for blood
| each succeeding Cdptain-General has
| seemed to emulate Alva as a rival Of
! Satan by seeking a second immortality
! OF damrat'on Before such an array
| historical and contemporary. the true
! American neither cOnsuts his geography
! nor counts the cost. His pulse-beats are
! the same in Massachusetts and Missis-
! sippi and whether the band plays yam
! Eee Doodle" or Dixie" is all one 10 him!
! Assuming that IN ordinary times It takes
! but a few months and a change of raj
! mcut % convert o typical NermOnter
! into "a TYPICAL Texan. ID has taken but a
! few weeks 10 impress upon the re-
| united sections Of the Union the truth
! Shat We are the most homogeneous peo-
pile ON the face Of the globe that such
| dinercne as eHist smong as are local
| and external. and not skin deep. and.
! along with this .esson. 20 rewaken In all
! hearts pecaturs ringing words:
Our country-may she ever be in the
| risht-out. right or wrong. our coun-
| try
.oMMITTEE or ARRANGEMENTS.
| The Committee Of Arrangements was