The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-28
GRANTS BIRTHDAY
THE soLDIER-HERO HoNORED IN
MANY CITIES.
HOWELL AND WHEELER SPEAK
soITHERNERs DO HONOR TO THE
NAME OF GRANT.

Address at the New York Dinner.
Hugh Gordon Miller of Virginia
raid Tribute at BOstOn-Dr. Gun
snnIus of Chicago Sounds Dis
cordnnt NOtc-Grant's Generosity
tn the south and His Nobility of
Nature Done Full Credit.
New York, April 27-The anniversary
ot ,he birth of Gen. u. S. Grant was cele-
brated by a banquet given by the trus-
tees Of the Grant Monument Associa tion
,o-nisht at the Waldorf-Astoria. The
hanouet hall, where many prominent men
sat at the dinner was handsomely deco
rated. portrait of Gen. Grant having
the post of honor above the dais where
tae guests of honor sat. Many women
sat in the galleries.
The guests of honor were Ulysses s..
Grant, Jr.. Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler,
Mai. Gen. 0. O. Howard Clark Howell
os Atlanta, Maj. Gen. John r. Brooke,
Mai Gen. Grenvlle NJ Dodge, Congress
man c. B. Lands of Indiana, Rear Ad-
mira A. H. Barker William E. Chandler,
cornelius n Bliss, Gen. Stewart L. Wood
ford and Evan P. Howell.
Gen. Dodge presided. He read a letter
Of regret from President Mckinley and
another from Mrs. Julia D. Grant, the
latter expressing regret that her health
would not permit her to be present. All
the guests sang the national songs, fill
ing the banquet hall with the volume Of
sound.
The menu card contained copies Of a
letter written in the excitement of a bat
tie, on the field, by ex-President Grant
to MIS- wife.
Congressman Lands was the first
speaker
The toast Grants. Life as a Peace
Lesson, was responded to by Clark
Howell Of Atlanta. Mr.. Howell said in
part:
am not unmindfuI, Mr.. Chairman, that
in paying tribute to the man to honor
whose memory we are assembled here to
night / am environed by circumstances
that, under some conditions, would en-
barrass the frank utterances of my own
sentiments and clothe my words with i'm
port not their own.
come to speak with you Of the lessons
learned from the life of leader-and l
sn Of the people against whom his legions
were led to victory and around whom the
Etherng embrace of his iron arm was
closed in the grip Of war. There is scarce
valley in the Southern states that does
not shelter in its bruised bosom reluctant
monuments to the triumph of that great
soher-Gen. Grant.
But ] have not come to speak of the
accomplishments of war, which have
rightly placed his name among those of
the great warriors of the world. l am
not here to paint a picture OF the mighty
nde that swept on and on under his mas
ter'ul direction until all who opposed were
overwhelmed in the eliminating flood at
AppomattoX. It would i'll become me to
exut in the memory of his triumphant
leadership of victorious hosts as they re-
turned to joyous homes under the stream
Ing banners of victory.
IL Is natural and proper, Mr.. Chairman,
mat those who shared his sympathies
and dangers. that those and the sons
OF those who followed his famous lead
IN "ell-fought battles, should keep for
ever bright the luster of his military
tame and should keep forever living the
memories and incidents of his war re-
noHn
nose who offered their bullet-rddled
ooales as buwarks in the vain effort to
s'e" the conquering tide of his cohorts
oore testimony to his genius and his cour-
age. There is not to-day in the frag-
"eHaFy ranks of the beaten heroes who
o''e wore the gray a single soldier who
Nouid raise his arm to still the cheers
Uose victories have won. But above the
"'u Oh successful arms, beneath the gar
lahas OF glorious victories, beyond the
ia" huzzas Of a preserved nation welcom-
It's martial heroes home the dirge Of
'se homeless heroes, who, after surren-
u'' buried their abandoned hopes with
cause forever lost, bids me turn from
us p1ase Of that momentous life to an
mat is not trumpeted by the rauc-
pidst of war but which is sounded
IT, ."' sweet and soothing songs of peace.
'I' Is no one familiar with the his
"i} OF our country who is not aware
."e mighty part played by Gen Grant
'De epoch of the Civil War; but there
~" even among his own people who
Iae intense influence his life eX-
'." IN the epoch of peace There is
9 S'hoolhoy in knee brooches but who
l'. YOU what Gen. Grant did to pre-
I, lhe successful dissolution Of the
''oN' there are few statesmen who can
~. sou now much he did to procure its
race iu1 restoration.
Contract With Other Fields,
Az Versailles. after Sedan. Germany
s'ool n the glitterng paraphernalia of an
''.0l giant, with one hand on the
Oh Paris and the other pointing
r hungry document demanding the
, P'dIBious indemnity exultant victor
Nt'iod of prostrate victim.
,' At Appomattox. Instead of exac-
''eiaIitv; Instead Of Siberia-again
""qlil fields of home: again the mu-
.f '"'hIlar waters; again the chirp
t cricket on the hearthstone and
t ''''N Of childrens' prattle around
''"'I knee' Instead Of ST. Helena
tion' Not Washington as the
7''Il Of an armed foe but as the
''N capital of "A reunited country
Geo.. VICTOR ANA vanquished met on equal
..I, i'lowship Washington. the cap
, N' which, a few years later. q fed
., ""I'' as President OF the United
.. wrote one day the order making
.. ''I generals Of the nephew OF Rob-
.,.. l'' ana tho son Of Ulysses S.
d.. '''' App0mattoxl Better that it
.. sooner since u mad 20 come,
. l'f tpe greatness OF our couu-
coming late its bloody field Of
old. .'haeetated by the covenant
.'INNIirs penret
INsHHiy riaulacani of the loto
tNrr,ut u ths man. thst tts
manifest Hti0u appeared when
ni Har nad n,niost crowned
... .Hr lHufels of success. The
... i'adt conference anorded tha
thpfftaion of anY od0u 30
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