The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-27
"IHE LOST CAUSE
Thirteenth Annual Banquet of the
Confederate Veteran Camp
- Of New York. s-. se.es
Eulogies of President Eincoln, Gen.
Robert E. Lee and Jeffer-
s..-.-'s - ~.@.s son Davis. -.

New York, Jan. 27.-The thirteenth an
nual banquet of the Confederate Veteran
camp Of New York, held last night at the
Waldorf Astoria, was made memorable by
eloquent elogies of the great figures of
the south and the north during the civil
war, declared by men who themselves had
fought in the armies opposing them.
"GeneraI Robert e. Lee"
Charles Francis Adams. in responding
to the toast on General Robert b. Lee,
said:
As All American as an ex-soldier Of the
Union, who did his best In honest even
fight to destroy that fragment OF the army of the
Confederacy to which he found himself opposed,
! rejoice that no such hatred attaches 10 the
name of Lee to that Of Melac IN Germany.
Reckless of life to attain the legitimate ends of
war. he sought to mitigate it's horrors. OPP
posed to him at Gettysburg l here, forty. years
later, do him justice. No more credtable order
ever Issued from commanding general than
that formulated and signed by Robert q. Lee. as
at the close Of June, 1858 he advanced on war
of invasion. mo greater disgrace he then
declared, "can befall the army, and through 1t
whole people, than the perpetration Of bar
harous outrages upon the innocent and defense
less. Such proceedings not only disgrace the
perpetrators and all connected with them. but
subversive OF the ends of movement. 1t
must be remembered that We make war only on
armed men," - ~.~..r
"Abraham Lincoln"
I'm response to the toast ITO the Memory
Of Abraham LINCOLN" Henry Watterson
spoke in substance as follows:
Jefferson Davis than whom there never lived,
in this in any land, nober gentleman or
knightlier soldier-Jeferson Davis who, what
ever may be- thought OF his opinions and actions,
said always what he meant and meant always
what he said-Jefferson Davis declared that next
after the surrender Of Apponattox. the murder
OF Abraham lincoln made the darkest day In the
calendar for the south and the people of the
south. Why? Because Mr.. Davis had come to
knowledge of the magnanimity Of Mr.. Lincoln s
heart and the generosity Of his intentions.
If Lincoln. had lived there would have been
era OF reconstruction With its repressive agen-
ccS and oppressive legislation If Lincoln had
lived there would have been wanting to the ex-
tremism of the time the Of his taking of
to spur the steeds of vengeance. For Lincoln
entertained, with respect to the rehabilitation of
the Union, the single wish that the southern
states-to his hOmely phraseology-'' should
back home and behave Themselves and.
effectual, he made everything efrectual to
which ne seriously addressed himself. His was
the genius of common
When those are gone that fought the battle
and posterity comes to strike the final balance
sheet, 1t will be shown that the makers Of the
constitution left the relation of the states tt
tho federal government and Of the federal gov
eminent to the states open to double construc
tion.
1t will be told how the mistaken notion thai
slave labor requisite to the profitable cult
vaton Of sugar, rice and cotton raised para