The National tribune., 1910-09-15
POSTS AGAINST LEE STATUE.

California and Nevada, at a stated
meeting in its hall in Oakland, adopted
exhaustive and stringent resolutions
against the retention of the Lee statue
lin Statuary Hall. The resolutions re-
cite that he had been fed and clothed
by the Government and educated In
the finest military school in the world
West Point; that he was transferred
and promoted to high and confidential
positions, and that he voluntarily and
of his own free will took the solemn
and binding oath and obligation to sup
port and defend the Constitution and
the Union of States against all enemies
both foreign and domestic: that at the
very first and only opportunity offered
and that at the breaking out of the wal
of the rebellion, he wilfully and traitor
ously disobeyed and violated his oath
and obligation by failing and refusing
to support and defend the Constitution
and the Government of his country;
that he abandoned and deserted its
armies and military forces to its enc
mics and cOnspirators toward its dis
memberment and destruction.
The resolutions then recite that the
faithless Lee. who was guilty of the
| highest and rankest treason of the
most unforgivable and objectionable
/ kind and character, was mercifully per
mitted by Gen. Grant to go from the
| bloody field of battle and murder and
conflict on terms almost of his own
choosing, to enjoy the same benign
| freedom and sublime liberty as his
| former loyal comrades in arms, who
had kept their oaths, obeyed their or
ders and performed their duties, but
notwithstanding that he was received
and treated with leniency hitherto un-
known and unrecorded in the history of
the most civilized warfare in the world
yet this traitor Lee, caught and cap
tured in opcn-handed war and red
handed rebellion. haughtily and con-
temptuously spurned and refused to re-
take and subscribe to the oath and OBJ
legation of allegiance and fidelity to his
Government and Constitution. and stub
bornly went to his death and his grave,
as he was taken, and in the capacity of
a captured and convicted outlaw and a
wilful and unrepentant foe and enemy
of his native country and birthright
Nation
Appomattox Post then declares un-
compromisingly and unalterably that
the statue of the rebel, Robert f. Lee,
be Immediately removed and forever
forbidden from our American Court of
Honor and Hall of Fame, which was
conceived and dedicated, set apart and
icOnsecrated to the pure and unsullied
founders and lberators, defenders and
preservers of our Republic and its lib
that for similar and for possible great
er causes and reasons the same course
and action of rejection and reputation
shall be adopted and enforced. for now
and all time, as to any statue or me-
mortal of Jefferson Davis, also a de-
serter of the Union of States and the
head and front of the war of the re-
bellion.
The resolutions are signed by W. r.
Thomas. Post Commander, and Bryant
3. Campbell, Post Adjutant.
Harlan P. Miller, Sergeant, Co. G,
31st Ind, of Indianapolis. Ind, ven
lures the opinion that Comrade Shout
ter, who thinks the Grand Army Posts
do not display brOtherly feeling when
they demand the removal of the Lee
statue from the Hall of Fame, is not a
Grand Army man, or he would know
that there are no more generous class
Of men, with a truer brothcrly feeling
to repentant rebels than members of
the G. A. X. COmrade Miller then re-
marks: Robert Il. Lee was not only
a rebel: he was also a traitor, and he
died as he lived (after 1860 traitor,
and the G.. A. r. TO a man ought to
condemn. and ! believe does condemn,
every effort to perpetuate the memory
of Lee" He would like to have the
statue of Lee removed and that of Geo.
H. Thomas, the grandest man, the tru-
est patriot and the best General that
Virginia produced placed there, and
thus honor the State of Virginia and
prove her loyalty to the Union she
once tried to destroy. She can never
prove her loyalty by placing a statue of
"A traitor to his country in the Hall of
Fame as her most hOnOred citizen.
Benz. +. Butler Post. Of POrtlands
Ore, declares that the statue of Robert
F. Lee. in Confederate uniform, in the
Hall of Fame at Washington, is an .eter-
nal nisfit and not only dishOnors Lee
by perpetually calling attention to his
ineffable treason, but also dishonors all
who promoted or in any wise abet its
presence there by the inevitable -taint
of association with or the condOning of
the disreputable principles and prac-
tices for which that Confederacy must
ever stand in history; and the ia@t de-
cIares that it will etcrnally protest
against that statue or any other statue
of rebel in the Hall of Fame. Signed
by the Commander, Samuel Vaughn
and II. w. Spear, Adjutant
A. r. Gum, 2113 Columbia avenue,
Philadelphia Pa, very pertinently asks:
BY what manner of reasoning can this
Nation have a new birth of freedom :?
as proclaimed by the immortal Lin
coin. Is treason's uniform to accom-
plish this by entering the most sacred
shrine of the Nation as token of rec
onciliation? Are the Daughters oe the
IConfederacy to dictate Its terms to the
yictOrs? ?" He tn IN declares that the
Daughters of the Confsderacy, against
the protests of their sires have raised
n monumentto prisoner murderer, one
who was neither a soldier nor an Amer
| lean, and have given it an inscription
| which breathes an insult to civilization;
that these Daughters of the Confeder-
acy would replace the stars and Stripes
| by the stars and bars. He considers
these Daughters of the Confederacy very
dangerous creatures, and he thinks that
if Virginia would manifest true spirit
of patriotism it would send the statue
of one who was faithful to the Flag
and stood for the right. Cofnrade Gum
ends n very fine letter by saving: "Ii
the Lee statue is TO remain ia the Hal
of Fame, the answer must be reversed
| on the penalty of treason being death
and made to read the penalty Of treason
| is the Hall of Fame, and the criDples
who saved the Nation from destrfctl u
may struggle for bare recognition"
S. l.. Roberts, Of Alma, Neb., says
1T certainly makes me tired to see 81
many comrades kicking on Gen. Lee!
statue being placed in the Hall o
Fame" And he wants to know if they
don't know that the war has been ovel
for 45 years He says that IL we haC
never had the civil war we would no
have had Gems. Grant, Sherman, Meade
Hancock or Sheridan, and that il wa!