New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-28
HONOR GENERAL GRANT
W1RRIOR'S BIRTHDAY.
yllst;cc Fort. Of Nee Jersey, Praises
Grill War Hero.

The natioas flag was everywhere last night in
the assembly rooms Of the Union League Club
Brooklyn. when The club and L. s. Grant Post
Sg7. c. A r. coined forces for the eighteenth time
in commemoratton OF the birthday of the general
after whom the post as also the square on which
the clubhouse fronts. takes It's name Interpreted
here and there about the tables with the black
coated members Of The Union League were NlsiOie
about a hundred OF the brass buttoned uniforms OF
the old army blue, ana above each uniform gray
head marking a veteran OF the Civil War and a
member Of the old post. which acted as guard o.
honor at Mount McGregor during General Srant :
last illness. Huge siTeamers OF star spahkie0
gauzo IN red. white and blue were strung over OHo
heads OF the diners and lInotted together In
centre directly in front OF the table on the
raised dais where sat the guests OF honor
Major F. H. r Ebstein presided. At his left
Justice J. Franklin Fort. Of the Supreme Court
Of New Jersey, who made the chief address. ana
at his right John II. Burroughs president OF ue
Union League Club.
There was a notable spcntaneity IN the applause
which greeted the name Of President RooseVeit
when Major Ebstein began the after dinner e1er-
cises by proposing a toast in his honor After
brief remarks by Presidens Burroughs. Of the CLUB.
and Commander Benjamin Adriance, of T. 5. Grant
Post. which were punctuated by bantering com
ments from the assembled comrades of the two or
CARNATIONS, Justice Fort spoke the toast Gen
eral Grant" His references 10 Lincoln and Grant
were enthusiastically applauded Justice Fort said
In part:
From 1861 1865 all the rliiitary history OF the
whose memory We honor tonight, Ulysses slHmP-
coin, sherman and Sheridan should have oeen porn
or resided as young men, in the heart Of the Mid
Point Pleasant. Ohio the birthplace of Grant
Al these men had more or less IN common IN
which was so. They knew frontier life and the
prtvations Of IT, They were schoolec In the school
Of experience, and learned human nature at its
source They were Of the people by heredty and
with the men who We're Of the bone and sinew Of
the Republic They were and they meant a., that
know social life On the frontier. il was known
knew The people They were the kind Of men born
10 lead IN the cause Of freedom. They had not a
Lincoln was no; what Europe would call a trained
statesman. Grant was an edHcated Solalels bui
inoculated with 8 patriotic virus which produced
Grants part in the Mexican war was honorable
~ nigh degree. he did not believe In that war.
lie CHARACTERIZED II as unjust 10 the day of his
death II was, IN fact as he declared, a war OF
ouire territory which is and always has been, as
a sole reason for war, abhorrent TO republican
When a., she ciyiI War began Grant was thiTtypns
knew his face: forty-three his portrait hung IN
the homes Of grateful millions.
The three respects in which Grant was distin-
modesty, magnanimity and freedom from selfish
HIS Victories We're all the hope the nation had
nom le6l 10 1868. Belmont, Forts Henry and Don
elson Shiloh, Corinth. Jackson and Vicksburg.
These were far reaching victories The fall OF
81 spee6v termination 81 ne war The Aiisslas'yD
open Grant then turned TO Nashville Knox
Vile and Chattanooga. and when the last named
stronghold fen Congress created the office OF lieu
tenant general, and the great Lincoln. grateful
general whom. up 10 THAI time. he had never seen
nominated him 10 the Office making him the first tC
hold thar title since Washington.
The Rev. Dr. Nehemiah Boynton. who followed
Justice Fort, interrupted by cries Of You're
right That's good,' and similar calculations
when he launched into a denunciation OF the al
legged American aristocracy which would take So
cue from the English nobility and would turn on
young men who considered II a distinction. rather
than a disgrace. 10 be brought before magistrate
for driving their automobiles too fast"
The preacher told the veterans that the Civil War
had not been the only conflict for freedom within
their lives. Every generation must fight the bat
tie for freedom all again" he said 1T is only
question OF the form which the struggle may as
sumo To-day, with industrial situation IL IS
a hight between real democracy and the aristoc-
Iacy #i1ch would poach upon the rights Of other
men 10 I've and breathe the air Of freedom"
The minister said he had no objection TO wealthy
men y their wealth were attained without the loss
az uelf 49ilor as American citizens. He was en-
phatc in his expressions disgust for those who
have lost faith in The Republic and think IT'S All
going smash particularly when there is On
honest man In the White House who is leading the
present Gay night Tor freedom Of tho den1ocracI'
1aptain Iholnas Franklin, Of the United States
army, "ho holds The post oi comnissaFy and quar-
trHlaflef OF inc cadet corps al West Point retod
briefly some Of the stories of General Grants
cadet days which stil finger about the Point Con-
troler Metz was the lsst speaker. Ex- Navor Low
who was down the list was lInab Ia he Y1resan,
among those at the dinner were r II Bailey
Nlllldln r. I5eei'e. A. 5. Buell., James F. Garfield.
curtin EHhu Dwight, Captain Miles O'ReIlly G
zen Elck E.inu tness. David Thornton, Christie
RlG ~ Williams The Hon. Charles G Wise, the
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