The Saint Paul globe., 1898-04-28
In MEMORY OF A HERO
ANNIVERSARY GF THE BIRTH
OF GRANT HONORED
A United Nation the Theme of q
Spirited Address Delivered by
Henry WattersOn at the Dinner
of the Monument Association
Held at New YOrk-Au Sections
One in the Present Crisis.

!. NEW YORK,lAp pril s27-The anniYer-
sary Of the birthday of Gen., Ulysses S.
Grant was celebrated tonight with a
banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria under
the auspices of the Grant Monument
association.
The banquet was held in the ball
room, which was festooned with Ameri-
can flags, while banked by two i'm
mense flags, a portrait of Gen. Grant
hung over the guests table.
Two hundred and forty-six guests
were present. A reception preceded the
banquet, in the Astor gallery. The
principal speaker was Henry Waiter
son, whose subject was "The Reunited
Sections" He said:
If the illustrious soldier, whose memory
we celebrate, were with US here tonight
his heart would gov with satisfied pride
In the answer which time has made to his
prayer for peace between the once warning
sections of the Union and in the spectacle
which the present unfolds Of a whole peo-
pie rallying as single man beneath the
star-f1Owered flag of the republic.
If there was any doubt anywhere about
the restoration Of the Union, not merely
in fact and in name, but in the spirit to
which it owes its birth, the manifestations
of the last few weeks cannot have failed
to dissipate it.
That Spanish gentleman who proposed to
Cuba by melting the South to another re-
bellion must surely have been the knight
Of La Mancha come to life again, but quite
as bereft of reason as he was in the days
of Sancho Panza and the lady of Toboso;
though, in truth. most of those supporting
Spain in her ill-starred contention, seem
to be lineal descendants OF the famous Don!
Sir, the reunited sections of the Union
stand a wall of iron between the nations
honor and, if need be. all the world; stand
wall Of fire between the stricken Cubans
and any further hurt from Spain.
We want no other warrant for our oct -
war than the cruel, the heartless story CT the
Spaniard in America. From the coming
Of Cortez and Pizarro, to. the going Of
radated only by the pirates lust for plumb
er and the tigers thirst for blood-each
succeeding captain general has seemed to
ing a second Immortality of damnation.
Before such an array, historical and con-
temporary, the true American neither con-
suits suit his geography, % nor Ie counts counts the st cost
chusetts and in Mississippi. and whether the
band plays Yankee Doodle" or Dixie"
nary times 1t takes but few months and
change of raiment to convert a typical
Vermonter into a typical Texan. 1t has
taken but few weeks to impress upon
the reunited sections of the Union the
truth that we are the most homogeneous
people on the face of the globe; that such
differences as exist among us are local and
external and not skin deep, and, along
with this lesson, to reawaken in all hear
Decatur's ringing words:
''Our country-may she be ever in the
right-but, right or wrong, our country!"
The other formal addresses were
Gen. Grant" by Bourke Cochran, who
responded instead of Senator Julius G..
Burrows, and 1.-The Volunteers by
Congressman William P. Hepburn, of
Iowa.
Elihu Root presided and among the
special guests were Secretary Of the
Treasury Lyman ]. Gage, Ex-Gov. Levi
P. Morton, Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy,
Eaton, William H. Michael, Gen. Wes-
ley Merritt and Col. Fred Grant.