The National tribune., 1910-04-28

of our common country, and to keep
.undimmed and untarnished and invio-
late the luster, splendor, power and the
glory of the Stars and Stripes" The
resolutions were introduced by Capt.
Irving Holcomb, and were unanimously
adopted.
E. F. Tefft Post, 355, Brooklyn, n. Y,
declares by unanimous vote that the
placing of such a statue in Statuary
Hall is an insult to the memory OF the
dead and the survivors of the Union
army. Chas. II. Hauxhurst, Adjutant
Franklin Post, 256, Monticello, ILL.,,
urges upon every patriotic representa-
tive in the United States Senate and
House of Representatives to use all hon
orable means TO prevent the acceptance
of the statue of Lee, as the Union vet
! Grams are not yet ready. and never Will
be, to recognize the would-be destroyer
of the noblest Nation in the world. Il.
F. Craig, Commander; II. W. Conard,
Adjutant r. ]. Tatman, Ezra Marquiss
and John =. Andrew, Committee.
| Gen. Mansfield Post, As, Department
of Pennsylvania, declares against the
following six insults to veterans and
the Flag: First, the floating of the Con-
| federate flag and entwining the same
with Old Glory on public occasions;
second, allowing the statue of that arch
traitor, Robert e. Lee, in full Confeder-
ate uniform to remain in the Capitol at
Washington; third, the placing of the
| portrait of Jefferson Davis on the sill
yer service of the battleship Mississippi;
| fourth the erection of a monument to
that infamous murderer, Wirz on Unit
ed States property at Andersonville;
fifth, the removal of the portrait of that
great General, George H. Thomas, from
the State House at Tennessee; sixth,
the removal of the picture of our mar
tyred President, Abraham Lincoln, from
school houses of Texas and other States.
The Post also indorses all the protests
from Grand Army Posts and comrades
thruout the country against these in
suits II. c. Bailey, L. Kingsley and o.
f. Haight, Committee.
E. S. Young Post, 33, Amsterdam, ".
Y, declares that the members of that
Post discountenance and protest against
so monstrous and unprecedented a
proposition as the placing of a statue
to Robert Z. Lee in the Hall of Fame
in Washington. They declare that to
thus conspicuously glorify the foremost
leader of the movement to destroy the
Union would tend to weaken loyalty and
to make treason honorable, and would
be repulsive to every patriotic senti-
ment and an insult to the loyal defend
ers of the Republic. Augustus Myers, |
Commander; n. ]. De Graft, Adjutant.
Meade Post, 2, Department of Ore
gon, declares that it would be an insult
and the cause of great humiliation to
those who fought for the preservation
of the Union to place statue to Robert
f. Lee in the Hall of Fame. 1t would
be putting premium on treason, and |
would set an unpatriotic example be-
fore the rising generation. ]. A. Tufts, |
Commander; H. S. Clyde, Adjutant
w. W. Warner Post, 46, Fayette, |
Iowa 6aclarac that Virginia n
place a statue IN the Hall of Fame un-
der a law enacted in 1864, when Vir- |
ginia had declared herself out of the |
Union and Lee was exerting all his pow
er to destroy it, and the Post says that |
to place a statue to one who deserted !,
to the enemies of his country that he
had solemnly sworn to defend and led
that enemy thru four years of bloody
war would be contrary to the spirit of |
the act under which it is sought to
honor the traitor, and they declare that
1t would teach the coming generations
that the man who fought to destroy
the country deserves the highest honors
the Nation can bestow. The members
of the Post therefore protest most en-
phatically against the proposed out
rage, and urge and most sincerely pray
their Senators and Representatives in
Congress to secure the removal of the
Lee statue" George f. Comstock, Com
mander: r. q. Latimer, Adjutant.
Luther NJ. Wheeler Post, 80, Sara
toga Springs, N. Y, most earnestly pro-
tests against the acceptance of the Lee
statue or the honoring in any manner
whatever of an arch-traitor and a vio-
lator of his oath of allegiance to our
National Government. H. B. Ormsbee,
Commander; John S. Fassett, Adjutant.
w. w. Rockwell Post. 125, PittsfieId,
Mass, by unanimous vote protests
against the acceptance by Congress of
the Lee statue as attired in the uniform
of Confederate General James H.
Anthony, Adjutant
Burnside Post At, Auburn, Me-. by
vote "of the 160 men who
sacrificed their health and their ma
terial interests to the needs of the Union
in its greatest hour of danger, protest
against the placing of the statue of
Robert e. Lee, whose treason in any
other Nation but this would have cost
his prompt execution at the order of a
field court-martial upon capture, in the
rotunda of the Capitol in Washington
dressed in the Confederate uniform"
The Post declares that the acceptance
of the statue is out of the question, first,
because of Lees treason, and, second,
because it Is an insult of the most fla
grant nature, and so intended by the
Virginians who caused it to be placed
where 1t is. These fine resolutions were /
the result of the united efforts of Geo.
&. Clifford, Murray b. Watson and De-
lance Young. i. II. Sawyer, Command
er: n. L. Meands Adjutant
Morton Post, 10, Snohomish, WASH
declares, first, that the Post is righteous
ly indignant, and views with alarm the
persistent and long continued efforts of