Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-05-04
COL. MosBY IN BOSTON.

speech in Boston, at the banquet 10 cele-
bration of Grants birthday. The Col
one was royalty received in Boston, and
he has had a fine time. He says that
two men whom he captured during the
war. and between whom he sat at the
bapouet. were so kind TO him that he felt
sorry he had ever captured them and al
most wished they had captured him.
He visited "Msrshfie'd," the home of
Daniel Webster, OF whom he is great
admirer, and in letter 10 friend here
telling OF his emotions quoted Millions
words on Sb4kespeare's tomb.
"And 50 sepulchred in such pomp doth lie,
That Kings for such tomb might wish to
die"
He also vent to Plymouth and got a
piece OF the immortal rock and saw Miles
Standish's monument. Those who know
him need not b. told that Col. Mosby IS
not by practice or profession subscriber
to Puritan theology, but in common
with all thinkers he knows they were
noble band aud did their duty as they
understood it. He called on Mrs. Web
ster at Harvard whose father, Major
Forbes, he captured during the var. She
is a granddaughter of Emmerson whose
home, at Concord, Col. MOsby visited.
There is no state in the union with such
memories as Massachusetts, and by
imagining yourself in his place, you can
understand Col. Mosby's pleasure better
than when described in words. - War
renton Virginian.
ULYSSES S. Grant was honOied by the
Middesex Club of Boston, on the an
niyersary of his birthday April q. Be-
tween 300 and 400 members gathered in
the large banquet hall OF The Brunswick
Hotel. and for several hours exchanged
recollections of war time and Of the great
leader. A fine picture of Grant, given by
him to the club, hung draPed in stars
and stripes.
Col. VIM. H. Dyer, presided. The
guests were Gov. Guild, the Hon. james
NJ. Beck, of New York, ex-sssistant al
toiney.general of the Unite States; Col.
John S. MOsby, Of Virginia, end Will
liam II. Elroy, journalist, OF New York.
Col. Mosby was appropriately seated be-
TIVE EN- two Massachusetts men whom he
captur d during the war, Frank P. Morse
and Fred Broughton. Col. Mosby said :
/ desire to express my tharks- to this
company for the kiud sentiments that
have been spoken and for the hostiable
reception they have given me. | wss in
Boston 20 years ego; when went home
reported that the Boston people were
more like the Virginia people than any
| had ever seen. | was perfectly sim
cere; of course intend ! the comparison
as a compliment to the Bosi onians. ! sm
here this evening as the guest Oflhe Mid
dlesex Club to pay my tribute of respect
to the memory OF Gen. Grant, and to tes'
tify that my affection for him has moi
changed. No man ever he'd better friend
than he vas to me.
"The last time | saw him was al
Hongkong. | was consul for the United
States; he was a private citizen. Nc
better evidence could have b. en- giver
to the representatives of the nations thai
our country was one and indivisable
1t was my peculiar fortune to be on
intimate terms with the great comman
der of the army of Northern Virgins
during the war, and with his great an
tagOnist after the war.
"No soldier clung longer to the South
ern Confederqcy than did; and | cal
apply to myself the words which tn
Roman poet put into the mouth OF tb
champion of lost cause: If Troy coulC
have been saved by this right hand
even by the same it would have beer
saved But the southern people wer
not lost with their cause, for in thei
T ashes lived their wonted fires. From
the wreck and the ruin of war they hav
risen, and today there is stronger sen
tilnent OF nationality among them tha
ever existed before the conflict OF arms
"The credit of this is largely due t
Gen. Grant in keeping the faith that b
pledged at Appomattox. He allOwe
no pOmp of war to humiliate the var
quished; he did not compel them to G
through the form of passing under th
yoke, like the Roman legiODs in th
Caudine Forks. His first order ate
the articles were signed was to issu
rations to the starving cOniederates; h
next was to silence battery that wa
: firing salute His great soul woul
:; not add one paDg TO defeat or join in
paean of trump on the field of victory
5 at is for this reason that if the neO
. of AppomattoA brought sorrow, II
memory oft brings no sense of humll
= alton TO southern hearts. In the la
!, scene of the great tragedy the two gre
actors appear at their best. One rose
the summit of power; the other went
the shades of the academy but not vii
: the despair of Caius Msrius, sittir
among the ruin of Carthage.
/, And lived and died-as none can Ii
l or die"
After the yociferous applause had di'
away, William H. ElrOy brought Il
meeting to close With stories al
praise to the repubicanism of the Mi
dlesex Club
&c CtsfH