The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-27
LEE, LINCOLN AND
 DAVIS ARE EULOGIZED
Tributes Paid to IlluStriOuS Leaders by Men Who Were Opposed to Them
 in the Civil War.

New York. Jan. 2e.-The thirteenth an- nuaI banquet of the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York, held tonight at the Waldorf-Astoria was made memorable by the eloquent eulogies of the great figures of the South an dthe North during the war, declared by men who themselves had fought in the armies opposing them.
 Charles Francis Adams of Massachu- setts, a soldier of the Union, responded to the toast. Robert E. Lee. and Colonel Henry Watterson. a soldier of the Con federacy, paid tribute to the character of Abraham Lincoln. The third, toast to Jefferson Davis. was. responded to, by William Hepburn Russell. formerly of Missouri, and now Commissioner of Ac- counts of New York city.
 Upward of 500 comrades of the camp and their guests were present and the presence of many women lent brilliancy to the banquet.
 Commander Henry B. Owen presided, with Mayor Low at his right and Colonel Watterson at his left. Others at the guest table were George H. Taylor, Command CT Alexander Hamilton Post: J. Edward Graybill, President of the Georgia Society; General A. S. Barnes, Com mander c. V. c. of New York: Augustus Van wyck President Southern Society; Roger A. Pryor, Regent, Virginia Soci- ety: D. l.. Snodgrass, former Chief Jus tice of Tennessee; James H. Parker, Past Commander c. V. C.. of New York; Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard of the New England Society; Walter s. Logan. Regent Enl- pire State Society. Sons American Revo- lution; w. w. Fuller, President North Carolina Society; Rev. George s. S. 4Ba- ker, Chaplain c. V. fC. of New York; Rev. J. N. Steele, President Maryland Society. --ts.A
 The opening toast to the President and army and navy of the United States-"A Prince Among the Rulers of the World, But the Servant of a Free People"-was drunk standing amid great applause, the orchestra rendering Hail Columbia" !" This was followed by the toast to Gen. eral Lee. Mature made him and then broke the mould" In responding to the sentiment, Charles Francis Adam said:
 Mir. Commander. Officers and Members of the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York: A New Englander. by birth, descent, tradition, name and environ ment closely associated with Massachu- setts-I was a Union soldier from 1881 to lS65, and the one boast I make in life was and is. and will ever be, that also bore arms and confronted the Confed- eracy, and helped to destroy it. Former ly of the Army of the Potomac, through long years was intent on the overthrow of the Army of Northern Virginia. So far, moreover, as that great past is con cerned, having nothing to regret, to ex- euse or to extenuate. I am yet here on this day to respond to sentiment in honor of the military leader once op- posed to us-a Virginian and a Confed- crate. Now, all this being thus and so, if asked why am here, would the answer be far to seek. Primarily, as a Massa- chusetts man I confess to a feeling of special kindliness towards two other States of the Union-two of the original thirteen. above all the other present forty and fve-South Carolina and Vir- gfnia. Those, with Massachusetts, hold tg have been, essentially. pivotal States Communities. peculiarly siprolific of men the opponents of ideas-ffoiI them have gone forth those migrating columns which met in fierce grapple for the maintenance and the ascendancy of that in which they believed.
 So, if may be permitted first to say word personal to myself; when, the other day-scarcely a month ago-I was called on to speak in Charleston to an audience Of South Carolinians, I responded at once: and did so because my heart went out to them as those of my countrymen to whom I had once been most bitterly opposed-countrymen still. though had come to know that, as foemen, they were all of whom 1t behooved us most to take heed. As opponents of ideas-right and ong-Massachusetts and South Caro- lima were peers. They had not followed; they had led. And so-as I told them fully conscious that I was walking on ashes still hot, in the very crater of what had, within all our memories. been the most terrific volcano of century-Walk- ing there amid sulphurous memories I chose for my theme the constitutional ethics of secession. In a wholly dispas- sionate spirit, I addressed myself to 1t as purely academic question; but I