The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-29
GRANT BANQUET SPEECH
The Border States During the Great
Civil War
WHERE THE STRIFE RACED MOST CRUELTY
And Fratricidal Fury Drove Men to Deeds oi
Madness. States That Furnished Mum
bers Of Splendid Troops for
Both Armies.
Both Armies,
(By the Associated Press.) J


New York, April 26.-The anniversary
of Gen. U. S. Grants birthday was cele-
brated tonight by the members and
guests of the Grand Monument Associa-
dorf-Astoria.
Prominent military men and national
politicians from all sections of the
country were present. Maj Gen. Gran
Vile NJ. Dodge acted as POSTMASTER
Toasts were responded to as follows
Grant" James e. Watson; Victory"
Senator J. c. Burrows; THE Border
States During the Civil War;" Champ
Clark, and Let Us Have Peace Gen.
Thomas ii. Hubbard.
Champ Clark, prefacing his speech,
said:
Il want to thank Senator Burrows for
locating secession in this country. He
has located it where it belonged, in New
England and not in the South"
Continuing he said in part:
1T was easy to be a Union man in
Massachusetts,. 1t was not profitable to
be anything else.''I was easy to be n
Confederate in North Carolina. 1t was
not safe to be anything else. But in
Kentucky, Missouri and the other border
States, it was perilous to be the one
thing OR the other. Indeed, it was dan
gerous to be neither and to sit on the
fence. l remember an cid fellow from
whom the Union raiders took one horse
and the Confederate raiders another So
when a third party of soldiers met him
in hn hot nd
were a Union man or a rebel, being dubi-
Gus as to their army affiliations. he an
swered automatically L am neither one
nor the other and very little of that
and thereby lost his third and last horse
to the Confederates disguised in blue
uniforms
The speaker then told how the men of
the border divided on the issues of the
war:
"Neighbor against neighbor," he said,
father against son, brother against
brother, slave against master, and fire.
quently wife against hush nd; the fierce
contention entered even into theology,
and blotted out the friendships of a life
time
He sketched the character of the Ken
tuckians, whom he characterized as ma
tural warriors, born on soil sown with
dragons teeth, and said that the men of
Missouri, a Kentucky colony, had inher-
tied their characteritics. He told the
story of the doctrine of armed neutral
ity," which he declared was the most
preposterous theory ever Matched in the
brain of man.
1T is generally assumed" he said, "by
the wiseacres who write the histories
that in the border States the old wealthy
prominent slave-holding families all
adhered 10 the Confederacy, and that
only the poor, the obscure natives and
the immigrants from the North stood by
the old flag. This is serious mistake.
The great historic dominant family con-
nections divided. Prominent people wore
the Confederate gray. Others just as
prominent wore the Union blue
He enumerated the family divisions on
the war issue of the Breckinridges, Han
sons Clays and Crittendens and told of
the loyalty for Union of John Marshall
Harlan, Lowell H. Rousseau and Benja-
min H. Bristow.
"Harlan's Tenth Kentucky Infantry
said Mr. Clark, had Col. Hayes for it's
commander after Judge Harlan resigned.
In the matter of swearing, Hayes could
have given pointers to Our Army in
Flanders The chaplain of that regi
ment was Christian militant. AT
Chickamauga, Hayes ordered the chap
lain to go to the rear among the wound
ed where he belonged, but he fatty re-