Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-24
1ECELL DEEDS or LEE
Confederate Veterans Silently
Toast Great General.
POTABLE FEAST IN GOTHAM
Soldiers of Lost Cause Drink to Health
of the President.
DIXIE AND THE 0LD.TIME YELL
James w. Osborne Talks Of Rights Of
States and Enters Objections to
Mr.. Roots Recent Speech.
DIXIE AND THE 0LD.TIME YELL

NEW YORK, January 24.-The confeder-
ate veterans drank silent toast to the
memory of Robert E. Lee under the stars
and stripes last night at their dinner at
the Waldorf-Astoria. 1t was the annual
dinner of the Confederate Camp of New
York and there were more sons and daugh-
tiers of the confederacy present than at any
previous one They filled the big banquet
hall and overf1owed into all the galleries.
Maj Edward Owen presided, but he had
hard time getting the speechmaking 60
ing, because a young woman in the top
gallery sang Dixie" so well and with such
a rebel yell at the end that the veterans
wouldn't let her stop. AS soon as the yell
died away, however, all of them. men and
women. got on their feet and sang THE
Star Spangled Banner and drank toast
to the President.
Ex-Judge Charles F. Moore of Brooklyn,
who was down to speak on Lee, preceded
his tribute to the great soldier with the
usual chivalrous sentiments regarding the
southern women all around him, to whom,
he said. for once the rose and carnation
must yield first place."
Adams Lack of Gallantry.
1.-The first after-dinner speech on record
said Mr.. Moore, made an ungallant refer
of an open-air festival in the Garden of
Eden. 1t was an open, full-dress affair
Some wrong fruit was served and the gen.
tleman present laid the blame on his
hostess. The lady was grieved, as she had
a right to be, and from that time ladies
have been reluctant to attend these gather
ings. Therefore We are glad to see them
grace our feast tonight
Mr.. Moore then proceeded to laud the
memory of Gen. Lee. whose character ne
said. had been the theme of history the
burden of song and the topic of story for
more than fifty years.
THE only thing in which he failed" he
said was to get office. and l attribute that
to the fact that confederate soldier never
did know how to run. If anything was
required to add to the luster of the name
which this confederate soldier made on the
field of battle 1t has been more than sup
history there has been produced a better
type of humanity than Robert E. Lee
have no knowledge of it
1t was after Mr.. Moore's speech that all
hands rose and drank to the memory of
General Lee and then remained standing
while up in the top gallery a bugler sound
ed taps
Col. Walter A. Taylor, a gray-haired vet
eran. also spoke on Lee. When he sat down
another elderly man got up from a table
and startled the diners by singing out:
You may not know that man. but do.
He was Gen. Lees adjutant and the last
time l saw him at Petersburg"
There was the rebel yell again after that,
sure enough.
States Rights.
James w. Osborne warmed the southern
ers up by talking of states rights and Sec
rotary Roots speech.
II don't belong" he said. Ito the new
tangled southerners, who believe in obliter-
ating the old landmarks 1 love to go back
to the south and see the reverence there.
the ease and good manners. AS long as we
have southerners, then, We will always
have one country, and never an empire.
"A number of people have asserted lately
that you should not be bound by the law
or the Constitution, but should do the eXpe-
dent thing, whether it be law or not. Such
things have usually been said behind closed
doors, but lately this doctrine of expedien-
cy has found so many followers that even
officers of the government have got up and
announced it before the public audiences"
Mr.. Osborne read extracts from Mr.
Roots speech, and said that 1t meant that
If the states didn't pass the laws required
by popular clamor and the officials in
Washington the Constitution would be con-
strued to give the central government the
power.
I'm other words" said he. "they would
read in clauses that not there 1t means
disntegration and annihilation of govern
ment by law and the presence of either
chaos or despotism instead of a govern
ment of the United States. When I think
of jefferson. Calhoun and Washington I
pray that they might live again for one
hour to denounce such doctrine The union
can never be destroyed by any power from
without. and as long as there remains one
single state intact the United States will re-
main a free government, and look to the
south to preserve it in order that 1t NAV
ever remain blessing to humanity"
Mr.. Osborne's speech was loudly cheered.
Gen. Horatio c. King gave some remnis-
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