Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11
STATUE TO S. D. LEE
Henry Wattersor, General Grant and
Others Participate in the Dedicatory
Exercises at vicksburg.

Vicksburg, Miss, June 11.-vicks-
burg today entertained large crowd
of confederate veterans and visitors
who took part in the unveiling cere-
monies OF heroic bronze statue OF
the late Gen. Stephen ID. Lee, who a,
the time of his death was commander
in-chief of the United Confederate Vet
Grams. In addition to the gray clad vet
erans, Gen. Frederick Kent Grant is the
especial guest of the city.
Henry watterson called the assem-
bly at the monument to order. and de-
livered an address on the Reunited
Sections" He was followed by Gen
Clement A. Evans, commander in CHIEF
of. the confederate veterans. When the
latter finished his speech, General
Grant was introduced by Watterson
and was given an ovation, the demon
stration lasting twenty minutes. Upon
quiet being restored Grant accepted the
statue on behalf of the federal gov
ernment and was accorded another
demonstration. The o,tl gray haired
soldiers were fairly beside themselves
in their efforts to show a welcome and
affection for the son of the man who
had accepted their surrender.
After the unveiling of the statue
accompanied by salute from the
Warren light artillery and the singing
of the Vicksburg school children, aIr
Watterson, as prelude to the intro
duction of Lieut.. Gen. Clement A. Ev-
ans. who presented it in the name cl
the confederate veterans. and Maj
Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, who ac-
cepted it on behalf of the government
and the army. and the Hon. George r
Peck, who delivered the oration, said:
Il have declared that we are one
people. No air lines nor water lines
nor isothermal lines, separate us into
geographic fragments. all the good on
this side. all the bad on that. The wal
ended nearly fifty years ago. He who
thinks there are issues left outstand.
slavery must have been dwelling In c
rutof distorted fancies. nor have trav-
eled much beyond the shadow of hi:
own roof tree.
mississippi and Massachusetts arc
convertible terms. Given the same con
ditions their people would be the sanlt
and would do the same. During thu
thirty years Immediately preceding tht
war of sections three at least of Mis-
sissippis most popular and celebrated
public men came here from the north
Robert j Walker born and reared Ii
Pennsylvania. John A. Quitman. borr
and reared in New York, and Sergeant
S. Prentiss. born and reared in the
state of Maine.
Il am about to present you in sue
cession Lieut. Gen. Clement Anseln
Evans, commander-in-c chief of confed.
crate veterans. Maj Gen. Fredericl
Dent Grant. of the army of the United
States. and the Hon. George Recore
Peck. of the great northwest, holdins
my own commission at large and from
the District of Columbia, where l wa.
born. but claiming some time to be {
Kentuckian. No state or sectional line,
any of us. Each of us breeds back tt
good old Anglo-S Saxon and Scotch
Irish stock. In the by-gone days the
two most kindred American types were
to be found in Boston and Charleston
and, still. there are those who, enjoy.
ing the gracious hospitality of the All.
gonevin Club in the Yankee City ant
the Palmetto Club in the City of thu
Huguenots. can not telly one from
t'other, particularly after 10 o'clock II
the evening