The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-05-02
TRIBUTE TO GRANT
By Hon. Clark Howell at a Ban
quet In New York City.
sGEN. GRANT As PEACE FACTOR
Occasion Was Annual Birthday
Dinner of Grant Memorial
Association.

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Association.
The Grant Monument Association
of New York, which built the impos'
ing million dollar mausoleum to Gen
eral Grant at Riverside Park, on the
blanks of the Hudson, held its annual
birthday dinner in the banquet room
of the Waldorf Astoria hotel Saturday
night, April 9th. About three hun
dred guests were present, and the at
fair was brilliant one.
General Greenville NJ. Dodge, one
OF the vice presidents of the associa'
tion, presided as toast master. The
first speaker of the evening was Con-
gressman G. B. Lands, of Indiana,
who responded to the toast 'Grant. "
Mr.. Landis w&s followed by Hon.
Clark Howell, of Atlanta, Ga, editor
= of the Atlanta Constitution, on
.sGaant's Life as Peace Lesson.
Ex-United States Senator William
E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, spoke
on ssNational Hopfulness" and Gen
eral Joe Wheeler on the Progress OF
Our National Domain During the
Last Third of Century"
The speech Of Hon. CLARK Howell
was feature of the occasion. BE
said in part:
.sNo service this great chieftain ever
rendered our common country in his
most brilliant military achievements can
equal the great good accomplished by
him in his consistent campaigns for rae
teal peace If there was genius in the
pen that wrote the terms Of urfeondi-
tional surrender to the failing garrison
Mt Fort Donelson there was greater ge-
MUS stfll exemplifed in the letter that
made possible the peace conference at
Hampton Roads. If there was grandeur
IN the scorching sword that swept 'ir.
einia as a sea of fame. yet grander sthi
the hand too generous to take the strlcX-
ened sword Of a great but vanquisheo
: foe. II there was glory in the thunder
OF the voice that threw the columns
OF a mighty army into the snock Oh WI
far greater was the glory Of the tongue
that framed the message. born OF love.
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have peacei'
..In the living reality Of practical re-
: union and Of perfect peace. no man can
. measure the mighty power that ira
). ternal message wrought in shaping the
destiny of country then emerging from
: the chaos and confusion Of civil war.
1T spoke the patriot spirit Of American
union. Without it union Of states
welded in the forge Of war and held To-
gether only bv the sword! An empty
mockery Of union in all save name! A
s union without sympathy Of sentiment:
without unity of heart; without COM
mon Inspiration. The north Russia
and the south her Poland. England In
the northern heart. and Ireland In ours.
These southern ancestors OF mine had
ruch CT the spirit now better known as
northern enterprise and thrift. Finding
that the genial climate Of the southern
slope was better suited to the successful
adaptation Of negro savery-an institu-
zion inaugnsated by their northern breth-
ren1hey did not hesitate to adopt the
t5afie. nor to utilize on southern pianta-
tions the slaves who had proved unproht-
able property in northern fields
"Nor were the statesmen of the south
less slow TO croft by the political ex-
ample established by their contemporaries
{ os the northern states. They witnessed
: with o5servant eye the birth OF the doc
trine Of secession as it sprung from the
Icns Of New England and first claimed
life in Hartford. the Charleston Of the
fret sece ssion. They listened with grave
attention when Quincy. of Massachusetts,.
ir the halls Of congress fifty years prior
10 the southern secession. made the first
sorInai declaration of the right of seces-
sion in opposition to the admission OF
louisiana and west Florida as states.
that If this bill passes. it is virtually a
: dissolution of this union: it will free the
states from their moral obligations and
as 1t will be the right Of all so it will be
the duty of some definitely to prepare for
a secession-amicably. If they can. vio-
lently. If they must
..I mention these events Mr. Chairman.
tI no spirit Of pride that the south had no
corner on the secession market. and in no
spirit Of regret for the failure Of the prin-
ciDies once advocated by the round-heads
3 who were rocked in the cradle of the
revolution and which principles were
= many years afterwards adopted by the
cavalier convention of Charleston. l cite
tkem merely as incidents that played
their part in shapng the convictions OF
sthe southern people concerning state
rights and the right of SeceSSion-iSSueS
then Offering ample room for honest dif-
ference. but which have been settled for
! all time to come by the covenant of the
cannon. sealed by the tons blood.
at Versailles. after Sedan. Germany
stood in the glittering paraphernalia Of
ar: armored giant. with one hand on the
throat of Paris and the other pointing to
~ lavp nd
most predigious indemnity exuitant VIC
tor ever exacted of PROSTATE victim.
mot so at Appomattox! Instead OF ex-
aciors-liberality! Instead Of Siberia
again the tranquil fields Of home: again
the music OF familiar waters: again the
chtro Of the cricket on the hearthstone
and the melody Of childrens' p-attle
around the mothers knee! Instead of St.
Belena-Washington! Not Washington as
the stronghold Of an armed foe. but as
the common capital Of a reunited coun-
try. where victor and vanauished met on
equal terms Of fellowship. Washington.
the capital from which. few years
later. federal major. as president of the
United States. wrote one day the order
making brisaSier generals Of the nephew
Of Robert E. Lee and the son Of ulysses
S. Grant!
Inevitable Appomattox! Better that 1t
had come sooner, since it had to come;
but better for the greatness of our coun-
try that coming late its bloody field OF
battle was consecrated by the covenant
of the republics peace!
'It was singularly significant of the love
Of peace inherent in the man that its
first public manifestation appeared when
the fortunes of war had almost crowned
his arms with the laurels Of success. The
Hampton Roads conference afforded the
first formal expression Of any effort to
harmonic the warning sections. For four
long years the best blood Of both sections
had drenched the fair fields Of the south
when that conference was called to put
an end to further fruitless sacrifice. The
unfortunate failure in the purpose of the
conference between President Lincoln, Of
the federal government. and Vice Presi-
dent Alexander Stephens, Of the confed-
eracy. is familiar history to all; but few
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