The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-27
VKT AsHINGTON, January 26.-The M senate committee on interstate

| prosecuted in any court of the United States having Jurisdiction of crimes with l the district in which such violation was committed or through which the trans portation may have been conducted; and whenever the offense is begun in one 1 jurisdiction and completed in another, it may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, de- termined and punished in either jurisdic- ton in the same manner as If the of- fense had been actually and wholly com mitted therein"
 Another amendment amends section ten of the present interstate comemrce law, relating to publication of tariffs as fol- lows:
 "In construing and enforcing the pro- visions of this section, the act omission
 4s-%4~-~~-o-~-~-~-~-~-%~ about and by force of arms confiscated what it had unloaded at profit.
 Recognized Slaves as Property.
 He fully recognized slavery as proper ty. The Proclamation of Emancipation was issued as war measure. In his message to congress of December, 1862, he proposed payment for the slaves, elaborat- ing a scheme in detail and urging 1t with copious and cogent argument The peo- pie of the south,' said he, addressing a war congress at that moment in the l throes of a bloody war with the south. l are not more responsible for the original l introduction of this property than are | the people of the north and when 1t is remembered how unhesitatingly we all use cotton and sugar and share the profits of dealing in them, 1t may not be quite safe to say that the south has been more responsible than the north for its continuance.
 'trhe years are gliding swiftly by Only q little while and there shall not be one man living who saw service on either side of that great struggle of systems and ideas. Its passions long ago van ished from manly bosoms That has come to pass within a single generation in America which in Europe required ages to accomplish. There is no disputing the verdict of events. Let us relate them truly and interpret them fairly
 The Golden Rule.
 "If we would have the north do justice to our heroes, we must do justice to it's heroes. l here render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars even as l would render unto God the things that are Gods As living men, standing erect in the presence of heaven and the world, we have grown gray without being ashamed; and we need not fear that his tory will fail to vindicate our integrity. When those are gone that fought the battle, and posterity comes to strike the final balance sheet it will be shown that the makers of the constitution left the relation of the states to the federal government and of the federal govern ment to the states open to a double con- struction. It will be told how the mis- taken notion that slave labor was re- aulsite to the profitable cultivation of sugar, rice and cotton, raised para mount property interest in the southern section of the union, whilst in the north ern section, responding to the trend of modern thought and the outer movements of mankind, there arose great moral sentiment against slavery. The conflict thus established, gradually but surely sectonalizing party lines was as ineYlta- ble as 1t was rrepressible. It was fought out to its bitter and logical conclusion at Appomattox. It found us huddle Of petty sovereignties held together by rope of sand It made and it left us nation. Esto perpetuaF
 Mr. Adams in his tribute to Robert E. Lee, said:
 "As an American, as an ex-soldier of the union, as one who did his best in honest even fight to destroy that frag- ment of the army of the Confederacy to which he found himself opposed, l rejoice that no such hatred attaches to the name of Lee Reckless of life to attain the le- gitimate ends Of war. he sought to mita- gate it's horrors Opposed to him at Get tysburg 1 here forty years later do Lim justice No more credltable order eyer issued from a commanding general than that formulated and signed by Rob- ert E. Lee as, at tine close or June, 1S63 he advanced on a war of invasion. No greater disgrace he then declared. 'can befall the army, and through 1t our whole people, than the perpetratlon Of parbar- ous outrages upon the innocent and de- fenseless. Such proceedings not only dis grace the perpetrators and all connected with them, but are subverslve of the dis cipline and efficiency of the army and de- structive of tho ends of our movement. It must be remembered that we make war only or armed men,
 Was Merciful.
 Lee did not, like lilly and Melac, ex- hort his followers to kill and burn: to make war hell. He did not proclaim that he wanted no prisoners. He did not en- join it upon his soldiers as duty 10 cause the people of Pennsylvania 10 re- member they ha6 been there. I thank heaven he did not. He at least, though a Confederate in arms, was still an American and not lily nor a Melac.
 And here, as a soldier of the Army Of the Potomac, let me bear my testimony to such of the Army of Northern Vir- gina as may now be present. While war at best is bad, yet it's necessary and un- avoidabe badness was not in that cam paign enhanced. In scope and spirit Lees order was observed, and l doubt if a hostile force ever advanced into an enemy's country or fell back from it fin retreat leaving behind 1t less cause or hate and bitterness than did the Army of Northern Virginia in that memorable campaign which eliminated at Gettys- burg Because he was soldier Lee did not feel it incumbent upon him to pro claim himself a brute or to exhort his followers to brutality.
 T have paid my tribute One word more and I have done. Some six months ago. in certain academic address at Chicago, I called to mind the fact that a statue of Oliver Cromwell now stood in the yard of Parliament house in Lon don close to that historic hall of Vest minister from the roof of which his sev- cred head had once looked down.
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