The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-13

EmphaticalIy Object to the Lee Statue
at Washington.

Branding as unwarranted untruthful
information given out to the effect that
Kansas veterans of the rebellion offer
ed no objections to the honoring, of
General Robert E. Lee, by placing his
statue in the hall of fame at Wash
ington, Topeka post No. II department
of Kansas Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, also Topeka corps No. "a w R. c.,
have adopted resolutions excoriating the
source of such information. In these
representatives from Kansas to con-
gress to remember the bloody result of
Lees effort to tear down and disrupt
the nation.
That whoever gave out the Informal
ton did not express the true sentiments
of the veterans of the state is brought
out in the resolutions which further
state that neither the ex-union soldiers
nor loyal and patriotic women of the
state were consulted. and that contrary
to the impression given out they are
unalterably opposed to the placing of
the statue in the hall of fame.
The paper goes on to say that while
Kansas veterans do not fail to recog-
nize the great generalship of the con-
federate leader. he received his military
knowledge and education at the expense
Of the government of the United States,
in whose service he should have en-
ployed it, instead of to his dishonor
and disgrace, resigning to traitorous
cause.
To place General Lees statue in the
hall of fame, according to the veterans,
would be but to render meaningless to
the young people and future genera
lions, the constitutional provision
against treason, and while opposition
to the placing of the statue is lodged.
the G. "A. R. and w. R. c., do not wish
to be understood as rejecting upon the
generalship, or ability, or upon the
bravery or soldierly bearing of the gen.
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field.
In one of the closing paragraphs of
the resolutions it is resolved, THAT we
assure the thousands of our brothers
in the south who have Joined hands
with us in the establishment of peace
and prosperity throughout the land, of
our sincere love and respect and admir-
alton for their assistance in maintain
ing the supremacy of our flag In the
war with Spain. but in justice to our
selves, our manhood and loyalty to the
Union and our desire to perpetuate the
principles of loyalty and patriotism for
which we fought and IN an effort to
blot out the least trace OF rebellion
against the government. we deprecate
the efforts of few disturberS in the
south and resent their constantly striv-
ing to keep alive the cause of the con-
federacy by Haunting the stars and
bars in our faces by the erection of
monument to that arch hend Wirz. in
Scr1b1nS the name OIL .JeH Davis on the
silver service of one of our battleships,
the proposal to place Lees statue in
the hall of fame. and their threat to
remove Washington's statue from the
hall of fame if not permitted to do So"
The two kindred bodies further voice
themselves by saying that they have
no fear of such an act. but deprecate
the fact that there should exist in the
brain of anyone such reasonable
instinct, and much more that anyone
should utter such reasonable senti-
ment. They cite that a statue once
placed in the hall of fame is the pro-
perty of the nation and cannot be re-
| moved except by an act of congress.
who would not dare. even If so dishon-
orably inclined. to remove from that