The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-24
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KER'S LOYAL LEGIUN ADDRESS

KER'S LOYAL LEGION ADDRESS
Ex-senator Foraker's recent speech
at the Loyal Legion banquet, at Gin
cinnati was full OF snap and patriot.
ism and it is interesting reading.
Perhaps our subscribers will enjoy
few paragraphs as the speaker dis
cussed interesting and vital current
matters such as the Importance OF
our nationality, The Wirz case, mod.
ern altruistic American statesman
ship and other matters.
We quote the following:
ITO discuss what did happen is nee
essarily somewhat problematic under
ordinary circumstances; but when we
come to discuss what did not hap.
pen on account OF our victory, there
are some things about which we can
be very positive. We know what
happened at Appomattox when Lee
surrendered to Grant. | always like
to recall the kind and generous terms
imposed by Grant upon Lee when he
made that surrender. (Applause.)
like TO recall that he told him to have
his officers keep their side-arms but
particularly / like to recall that he
told him to have his men keep their
horses, those that were privately
owned, and take them home with
them for they would need them to
do the spring ploughing with. Jus.
stop and think of that for a moment
General Grant, the greatest captain
of his time, at the supreme moment
Of his greatest triumph, talking
aout the spring ploughingw The
words are simple but measured by
the circumstances, and measured by
the effect produced they were alb
solutely sublime. BY those simple
words, General Grant at once arrest
ed the attention of the whole coun-
try, North and South, and reminded
everybody that the war he had been
prosecuting had not been waged on
our part to destroy, to overthrow, to
dismember, but to preserve, to per-
petuate. II was an invitation to ev-
erybody to turn away from war, and
resume again the pursuits OF peace
81 do not know whether, II the
fortunes of war had been reversed
and General Grant had been compell-
ed to surrender to General Lee, Gen
eral Lee would have employed any
such language, or not. l think Cen
eral Lee was kind enough at heart,
because he was certainly an accom-
plished gentleman, as he was an ac-
complished soldier, and he would not,
l am sure, have been unnecessarily
unkind; but in the very nature OF
things he could not have employed
such language as that for he was not
fighting TO preserve, but 10 dismem-
ber, divide, to destroy, to overthrow,
to make a new order OF things.
But, however, that might be
whether he would or would not have
touched upon such subjects, we know
some subjects he would have touched
upon; and when | was asked to re-
spond TO this toast. The Results of
Our Victory" | not only thought OF
what we did that everybody is aware
OF, but also of what we prevented be-
ing accomplished. Now If 1t had
been reversed, and Grant had been
called upon to surrender to Lee, we
know that the very first subject to be
discussed would have beeu boundary
lines What a suggestion in that
boundary lines! Nothing about
plough lines; 1t would have been
boundary lines-where shall the line
be drawn that is to divide the UnionY
And we all know to moral certain
ty that If the eleven seeding states
had been victorious, in the hour of
their triumph, at the height OF their
prestige and their great success, they
would have swept away from us TO
go with them and cast in their lot
with the Southern Confederacy all
the border states, Maryland, Yves,
Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri; so
that as a result Cincinnati, this great
city in which we are met tonight.
instead OF standing as it does in the
very heart-center of this great
American Republic, with peace and
prosperity and friends everywhere,
North, South, East and West, would