The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-28

/ New York, April 27.-The seventy
sixth anniversary of the birthday Of
/ General u. S. Grant was celebrated
! tonight with a banquet at the Waldorf
| Astoria. under the auspices of the
Grant Monument association. Two hun
bred and forty-six guests were pres
ent.
/ The principal speaker was Henry
/ Watterson. whose subject was The
Reunited Sections" He said:
WATTERSONS RESPONSE.
In response to the toast. The Reunited
! Sections, henry WatterSon Said
| If the iilustrious soldier, whose memory
we celebrate. were with us ERE tonight.
his heart would glow with satisfied pride
: in the answer which time has made to his
: prayer for peace between the once war
I ring sections of the Union and in the
/ spectacle which the present unfolds OF
whole people railying as a single man IN
7 der the stars and stripes.
/ 1 cannot help thinking that, when the
history of our generation comes finally 10
! be made up. il will be related that two
mistakes or the first order were perpe-
trated by the people of the United states
the latter half of the 18th century. 1t
was a mistake of the south. for any cause
whatever, to precipitate war OF sections,
and il was a mistake OF the north, after
the overthrow of the cOnfederacy. TO I'M
dertake a reconstruction or the Union ~
force of arms. That the country has
survived the errors Of such magnitude is
proof of amazing vitality; of vitality
that draws its suStenance from the adapt
ability and the fieXibility of free institu-
tons and from a popular character equal
to all emergencies. military and CIVIL
Man proposes and God GiSpoSeS, and often
we bula wiser than we / now. Perhaps
the very miSchanceS of these 40 years or
domestic controversy were needful TO
make us the nation we are today.
SOUTHERN DEBT TO GRANT.
1t was General Grant himself who is
sued the order finally withdrawing the
troops from the southern states, and.
when We remember that II was none other
than Grant VINO stood Stween the con-
Tolerate soldier and surrender that
might have been dishonCring to American
manhood. the debt we owe our great cap
tain becomes incalculabl bic.
There is just now, 1 regret to observe,
disposition manifested in certain quarters
TO magnify the arts OF peace and TO belrt-
tie the arts of var. Most OF US Know
something about both; and Enlist co
confess that even this frugal repast ana
these homely p-ovisiOns-done in Grant
honor and in our honor-are preferable 10
u banquet of hard tack and blazing
brush heap upon q Georgia hillside.
shan not be the man TO say that any OF US
is the worse for knowing from personal
experience the actual difference / have
respect for the principle of international
adjustment through moral suasion and
mutual concessions. | have respect Tor
the principle of approved capability and
fitness in the matter OF appolntm entS 10
Office. But when a gentleman III gold
trimmed specs and q swallow-tailed coat:
standing with one foot on arbitration and
the other upon civil service reform, SOL
EMMY assures me that h has discovered
perfectibility in government, ] take leave
to have my doubts about il. ] am grown
so peSSiTniStic. indeed. as 20 think that the
one thing that we do not want. the one
thing which would certainly disappoint US
in case we got it, is the dreamer's idea OF
the ideal Ideals. which exist for reform
erS. lovers and poets. exist not Tor men
and women. Those whose business 1t IS
10 deal with life as il is. and who can al
ford to waste no time on self-deceptions,
address themselves to the real, not to
the ideal. ard feel that they are fortunate
if they come off with whole bones. The
rich red blood of nature. which makes
men to act, and to act promptly. IN times
OF danger is good enough for me: and
know nothing in American history more
exhilarating than the episode of old Peter
Muhlenbergh, Ringing ASIDE ms :lI ,llo;
and appearing in j full continental uni
form. eXclaiming. there is time for all
things-a time to preach and time to
pray-bUt there IS also time to Tight
and that time has Gomez
UNITY RESTORED NOW.
If there was any doubt anywhere about
tho 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
l.
who proposes to supplement the forces of
his country in Cuba by melting the south
TO another rebellion 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 Panzd
and the lady of ToboSO; though. in truth,
most of those supporting Spain IN her ILL
starred contention seem to be lineal deS-
cendants of the famous Dom Sir. the re-
united sections of the Union stand as
wall of iron between the nations honor
hn all -TrlG nd
wall of fire between the stricken CubanS
and any further hurt from Spain. We
want no other warrant for cur act of war
than the cruel, the heartleSS story OF the
Spaniard in America. From the coming
Of Cortez and PiZarro to the going of
Weyler-three centuries of brutality, ira
dated only by the pirates lust for plum
der and the tigers thirst for blood-each
succeeding captain general has seemed to
emulate Alva Is q rival of Satan by seek
ing a second immortality of damnation.
Before such an array, historical and con-
temporary, the true American neither
consults his geography nor counts the
cost. His pulse-beats are the same in
Massachusetts and in Mississippi. and
whether the band plays Yankee Doodle"
or Dixie is all one to him, Assuming
that in ordinary times it takes but q few
months and d change Of raiment TO con-
vert typical Vermonter into a typical
Texan ii has taken but 2 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 hearts Decatur's ringing
words:
"Our country-may she be ever in the
right-but, right or wrong, our country
Mrs Z. s Grant. Mrs. Fred Grant,
and Ulysses S. Grant, third, were pres
ent in one of the boxes.
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AT GRANTS OLD HOME.