The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27
GEN. GRANTS ANNIVERSARY.
Men of National Fame Dine Mt Wal
dOrf-AstOria.

New York, April 26.-The anniver-
sary of Gen. U. S. Grants birthday
was celebrated tonight by the mem
bers and guests of the Grant Monu-
ment Association, with a banquet
given at the Waldorf-Astoria.
Prominent military men and nation
al politicians from all sections of the
country were present. Maj. Gen. Gren-
vile NJ. Dodge acted as toastmaster.
The toasts were responded to as fol-
lows:
Grant James E. Watson; "vic-
tory Senator ]. c. Burrows; "The
Border States During the Civil War"
Champ Clark, and Let Us Have
Peace" Gen. Thomas H. 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 Sotuh."
He then said in part:
1T was easy to be Union man in
Massachusetts. 1t was not profitable
to be anything else. 1t was easy to
be Confederate in South 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
dangerous to be neither, and to sit
on the fence. l remember an old fell
low from whom the Union raiders took
one horse and the Confederate raiders
another. So when a third party of SOL
diers met him in the road and inquired
whether he were Union man or
rebel, being dubious as to their army
affiliations, he answered automatically:
I am neither one nor the other, and
very little of that and thereby lost his
third and last horse to Confederates
disguised in blue uniforms"
The speaker then told how the men
of the border divided on the issues of
the war.
1T is safe to say that had none of
the great families, none of the slave
holders stood for the Union, Kentucky,
Missouri and Maryland would have
seeded and if they had gone with
South unanimously the Confederacy
would have achieved it's independence
This brings me to the central idea Of
this speech-the main fact-of which I
never think without anger and resent
ment, for l believe that justice should
be done, even in writing history,
though the heavens fall, and it is this
Populations considered, Kentcuky and
Missouri sent more soldiers to the
Civil War than any other state and
receive less credit for it. They were
splendid soldiers, too. Theodore Roose-
welt says that by actual measurement
the Kentucky Union soldiers were the
finest specimens of physical manhood
who We're in the Federal armies; and
when Jefferson Davis, himself a re-
nowned soldier, reviewed the army at
Corinth, he declared CockrelI's Missou-
ri brigade to be the most magnificent
soldiers his trained military eye had
ever gazed upon.
''It is said that figures will not lie,
armies Missouri contributed 9.111
soldiers; Kentucky. 1890; Maryland,
1898; Tennessee, 31092; and West
Virginia, 2,06S-making a grand total
of 294, 500.
The speaker expressed the conviction
that the declaration of Lincoln in his
first inaugural address that he had no
intention to interfere with slavery in
the states where it already existed held
the border states faithful to the Union
The speaker concluded his address by
relating a number of instances of dar-
ing. heroism and cruelty in the border
states. AS to his own state, he said:
"In Missouri the war was waged with
unspeakable bitterness, sometimes with
inhuman cruelty. 1t was fought by
men in single combat, in squads. in
companies, in regiments in great
armies, in the open, in fortified towns
and in ambush, under the Stars and
Stripes. under the Stars and Bars and
under the black flag. The arch fiend
himself seems to have been on the field
in person inspiring, directing. COM
handing"