Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-11
VETERANS CELEBRATE
ANNIVERSARY OF APPoMATTox
SURRENDER coMMEMoRATED.
Local q. v. L. Encampments Combine
in the Exercises-The Addresses
and Musical Features.

The thirty-ninth anniversary of the sur
render at Appomattox was celebrated by
Encampments SO and Ill. Union Veterans
Legion, at the legion's hall. $40 Penn
sylvania avenue northwest Saturday night.
The feature of the evening was the address
of Rev. Father w. J. Ennis. s. J., one of
the instructors at the Georgetown Univer-
sity Father Ennis has frequently address
ed Washington audiences. although they
have as a rule been confined to the MEM
bers of his own church. Saturday night,
however. he addressed himself to veterans
of all religions, touching upon the history
and the events which led up to the sur
render Of the confederate forces of the civil
war concluding his address as follows:
AS we stand in spirit tonight near that
small brick house at Appomattox, with
the dying echoes of shot and shell in our
ears, We ask ourselves why we are glad,
and. the answer comes to rejecting mind
first because the day Of mourning and
shedding of blood has closed, and, sec
ondly, because a great lesson has been
given to the world of lordly magnanimity
and soldierly conduct The surrender at
Appomattox meant that the shedding of
blood should cease. that the carnage
should end. And so we celebrate the vic
tory of the Angel of Peace.
Generosity Of American Heart.
THE generosity of an American heart
is another lesson we learn from this an
niversary. Liberty and freedom are born
of generosity, and without it this would
be cold and austere world. Gen. Grant
learned the lesson of magnanimity and left
it for imitation. No mother could treat her
child more tenderly or with greater con.
sideration. The whole circumstance of the
surrender. pathetic in detail, forms the les
son of American chivalry and American
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glorious one. and, though the little brick
house was the tomb of unrealized hopes
for some, know well that the central point
of Christianity Is a tomb-a glorious one,
made so by the resurrection of the Savior.
Thus country was. 1t was fair Columbia,
in stainless garb and seamless raiment,
scattering lilies and roses over the blue
and the gray-over united country that
knows neither north south, east nor
west This is the lesson of Appomattox.
May it abide forever.
Auditor Browns Address.
Auditor w. w. Brown of the Navy De-
partment also made an address, in which
he referred to the wonderful advances that
have been made during the last forty years.
The program was opened with prayer by
Chaplain Couden of the House of Represen-
tatives followed, by Col. Gideon A. Lyon in
an address of welcome. Solos were rendered
by Mrs. C. B. Bayly, Mr.. H. F. Statham,
Mrs. f. ]. Beaman and Mrs. Flora Lewis,
while Mrs r. c. Pennebaker and Mrs. c.
NJ. Lagrange sang duet. Mr. ]. F. Pitt
man recited. and Mrs. Lewis. Mrs. Weiss,
Mrs Bayly and Mrs. Hilton, comprising
the Ladies' Quartet of the legion. sang.
Miss Kate Ellis sang a favorite lullaby of
the legion at the call of the audience The
entertainment closed with benediction and
the singing of America"
/, The celebration was presided over by
Col Gideon A. Lyon, and was arranged
by the following joint committee: Gel. c.
s. Wilder Lieut.. Col. James Allen, Major
P. J. Hofiigar Of Encampment No. Ill and
Col Gideon A. Lyon, Lieut. Col. Hiram
johnson and Major A ]. Hodges of En-
can1pment No. GO.