The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-19
Indiana Veterans Adopt 9
~ Resolution that Consed
ate Eeader Should Not Be
y, So Honored. t,.
HALL OF FAME NOT
,RLACE FOR Statue
Pointed Out That When This
Hall Was Created, General
Lee Was Bearing Arms
Against Republic.

lndiana department. Grand Army Of
the Republic. 10 IN earnest In its part
Of the campaign to have the federal
authorities ut Washington remove
from the Hall Of Fame the statue of
Robert y. Lee. This morning shortly
beeore adjournment. the encampment
! ~ unanimous v0te adopted a res0lu-
tion setting forth very clearly and de-
cisively the stand of the Indiana men,
bers ol the Grand Army Of the Repub-
uc. The resolution was drafted. II II
said, By william A. ketcham Of In
dianapolis. In full II follows:
when the thirty-eighth congress
passed and Abraham Lincoln approx
- the law setting aside the old hall
Of congress ~ . statuary hall to be
adorned BY the statues Of those desig-
mated BY the several states a. worthy
Of this national commemoration, the
nation was in the throes Of the great
war for its existence and preservation.
there since been . time when the word
national had more precise and &C.
curate meaning that II had then. The
most vivid imagination could not have
attributed to It 4 meaning that would
embrace and include q confederacy. .
confederate president or = confeder-
ate general.
Was Fighting v. ..
At that very time Robert e. Lee,
who had won renown in the service of
Ais couatry was In arms against Il;
was In aupepmo command Of the con-
fedsrate army. battling with all his
strength and power to destroy that
nation and upon ito ruin establnh an
other whose corner stone was slavery.
HE every effort was to pull down the
edihce that the fathers had establish
tribulation. Had It been supposed to
b within the bounds OF possibility.
that under the broad terms Of the in
vitation extended to the states, one
or more Of them would avail them
solves Of the opportunity to place In
the national Hall Of Fame, clothed In
Confederate uniform. the chief com.
mander Of those armies. we are con-
strained to feel that the tongues OF
congressman would have been para
lysed before they could have answer.
ed aye on . roll call on the passage
Of the bin. and that It would have
dropped from the fingers of the kind
", earnest. brave. foreseeing man
who, under God. presided over the des-
tinios Of the nation and led II through
the red sea Of war into the harbor Of
peace, before he should give It the
sanction Of. his name.
wherever tho statue of Robert E.
Lee may be rightfuly or In good taste
placed or maintained. in statuary hall
which II devoted to patriots who have
deserved well OF their country. II not
one Of them. and We earnestly protest
against the sacrilege Of its longer con-
tinuance there. The Grand Army Of
the Republic. speaking. In the name
and for our comrades living. and in
the name Of and for our comrades who
died that government Of the people.
By the people and for the people
should not perish from the earth.
earnestly request the proper authori-
place beside the statues Of Washing
ton. and the true patriots OF the ma
tion whose fame was earned by serv.
lcs for and not against their country.
Nspsa, " Necessary.
III TO accomplish this II be neces-
harry TO repeal the law OF "a. let It be
repealed. II II be necessary to re-
turn 10 the several states al the stat.
uss that have been contributed. let
them be returned. But keep the hall
free Of any uniforms except those that
have been worn by soldiers Of the ma
tioa and Of any figures except Of those
who accomplished great deeds for and
not against their country"
The omcers Of Indiana department
viii send copy Of the above resolu-
tion TO John =. Gilman. COMMANDMENTS
chief. The delegates from Indiana, de-
partment to the national convention at
Rochester next fall were instructed to
stand pat" for similar action by the
national orRani1ation.