The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-01-21
R. E. LEE MEMORIAL
SERVICES FRIDAY
Address Was Delivered by General S. French and Was Listened
to With Rapt Attention by Large
Audience

Mrs. F. E. Brawner.
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Flynn.
The ladies of Pensacola Chapter L.
d. c. were the hostesses and their in
vited guests were the Ladies Memo,
RAJ Association, Veterans of Camp
Ward No. 10. and their families with
visiting guests, and it was generally
conceded that the affair had not only
truly hOnOred the great Lee whose
birthday it celebrated but all who
participated.
General French's address was as
follows:
Mrs. Chairman and Ladies, Daughters
Of the Confederacy:
We are assembled here this evening
10 celebrate the birthday Of General
K. E. Lee. The feelings that prompt
Us TO meet here are peculiar Love,
admiration of the man, the measure
OF his deeds, the attachment of his
troops for his person, his calmness in
Eattle, his gentleness of manner, in
stltute knowledge OF character of men
his silence when the end came after
his farewell TO his soldiers, his
declinatiOn Of all honoFs, mis- con
demnatiOn of no PERSONAL point 20
an inde6nable something in his com
position we can not comprehend. and
We viii now have to ask the angels
what 1t is, and will call it by that
name.
In some respects General Lee might
be parallel 10 Napoleon. He used thef
highest known laws of accurate 7
knowledge, TO accomplish his desig +
trusting by little TO chance On the
eve of the battle of Ansterlitz the
French troops sent a message to /
BonapRrte that they did not wish him (
TO expose his person to danger anu
he replied that he would do so If they
would promise him victory. He
complied with their request except In /
one instance
General Lee was told at SpOttslv-
vania, by some of his troops, that they
would not make a charge on the enc
my unless he remained out of danger /
A soldier took the Generals horse
and led him to the rear, and the vic
tory was won. With all this his heart
was kind and his feelings refined and
gentle as a ladys. He was ever kind
to me and kept me in command of the
of North Carolina and
Southern Virginia.
Dear Daughters of the COnfederacyi
you have before you an important
duty TO perform and that is to guard
against the errors of history. Sece5-
sion deprived the North of an ocean
boundary from Chesapeake Bay. down
the Atlantic to Key West. thence
around the Gulf of Mexico to the Rio
Grande and the navigation Of the low
er Mississippi river. Secretary Sc
" ard was an able statesman. He
fOresaw the loss of this territory pre-,
saged ruin and the war was to re-
cover territory. All else was a mere
side show; and finally 1t was Tecov-
cred by making the Conferedacy a
desOlstion. The people In the south
in diplomacy, were as naught; slavery
was a side issue; all the struggle was
for land, and the end came by redue-
ng the people to homeless beggarN I
ara starvation and so the territory
was finally annexed through the form
Of re-admission into the Union.
There are many people not aware
hat the suspension of the writ OF!
Habeas Corpus in 1852 made Presi-
tent Lincoln a dictator, He was wise
enough not TO exercise 1t often aSd
hen through his secretary of state.
The conclusion then is that your
-athers were overcome by starvation
rather than by defeat in arms. IL
vas not a civil war, because IN civil
war victory or defeat are alike IL
glorious. Roman conspls were never
allowed a triumph for victory in civil
var. Senator Charles Sumner recog
,izing this truth asked that the con
luered banners be returned which
treated a howl OF. indignation.
General sherman to justify his IN
human destruction of private property
aid. War is Hell, and think II Is
Bishop Chalmers who saia.: War is
Mercy. Glory. Fame, WaEed IN Free
,om's Holy cause. Freedom such as
nan may claim under Gods restrain
ng laws