The San Francisco call., 1903-01-27
HISTORIC DEAD
ARE EULOGEED
Eloquent Tributes Paid
to the Great Men Of
the Civil War.
Banquet of the Confederate
Veterans Is Made a Mem
orable Event.

NEW YORK. Jan. 2s.-The thirteenth
annual banquet of the Confederate Vet
erans' Camp Of New York, held tonight
at the Waldorf-Astoria, was made mem
orable by eloquent eulOgies OF the great
nsures OF the South and the North during
the civil War, delivered by men who
themselves had fought in the opposing
armies
Charles Francis Adams OF Massachu-
setts, a soldier of the Union, responded
10 the toast Of Robert E. Lee" and Col
onel Henry Watterson. a soldier OF the
Confederacy. paid tribute to the charac-
ter Of Abraham Lincoln. The third toast.
to Jefferson Dav~A was responded TO by
William Hepburn Russell. formerly OF
Missouri. and now Commissioners Of Ac-
counts of New York City.
More than 500 comrades OF the canp
and their guests were present and tho
presence OF many women lent brilliancy
to the banquet
The opening toast, ITO the President
and the Army and Navy Of the United
States-a Prince Among the Rulers of the
World, but the Servant of a Free Peo-
pie, was drunk standing amid great ap-
plause, the orchestra rendering Hail
Columbian
This was followed by the toast 10
General Lee-Nature Made Him and
Then Broke the Mold" responded to by
Mr.. Adams. Mr.. Adams, veteran Of
the Union army Of the Civil War. paid
a glowing tribute to the humanity OF lee
for reducing the horrors OF war to the
minimum In closing he declared that
some day there should stand at the ma
tOnal capital statue Of Lee, "erect on
his charger and wearing the insignia OF
his Confederate rank, gazing from his
pedestal across the Potomac 10 the Vir-
ginia shore and his once dearly loved
added, bear some such inscription as
this.
Erected by contributions OF those who, wear
ing the blue or wearing the gray recognizes
brilliant military achievements and lofty char
actsrs honor greatness and humanity in war.
and devotion and dignity in defeat
This was succeeded by the rendering
of The Bonnie Blue Flag and songs Of
ante-bellum days by Mrs. Hollingsworth
Warkins. formerly Of Louisiana.
Henry WattersOn responded to the
toast TO Abraham Lincoln-he was not
for an age but for all time"
Mr.. Russell. in replying TO the toast TO
jefferson Davis, drew a parallel between
Mr.. Davis and Abraham Lincoln. both OF
whom were sons of Kentucky. The
speaker added:
The courage. the sincerity. the honesty OF
purpose that seem the heritage OF all true Ken
tuckans. were theirs in the fullest measure.
In their ancestry, their education. their sur
roundings, they typify opposing forces and ir-
reconcilable political IDEAS. Lincoln gave his
Ike for the Union and the freedom OF man.
jefferson Davis died politically and his heart
died when Grant refused the sword Of Lee az
AppOmattOX. Who shall say that the man
who lived did not suffer more for the cause
and the people he loved than the one VINO
died untimely and over whose tomb the blue
and the gray shall evermCre join in wreath
ing immOrtelles? jefferson Davis lived %
typify d '1Cst cause Abra ham Lincoln die.l
amid the glOries of reunited people. univer-
sal freedom and restored federal uniOn-in-
dissOluble except by revolution.
The career Of Jefferson Davis no American
need be ashamed OF and none should rrviie or
condemn. II is OF which OF the south
may well be grandly, however sadly. proud
The final toast of the evening was TO
1.-The Silent Brigade" all rising and
bugler sounded taps"