The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1922-05-11
LEE AND GRANT ARE EULoGIzED

LEE AND GRANT ARE EULoGIzED
At the dedication of the monument
to General Grant, Vice-President
Coolidge made an address that was
so generous in the references to the
Confederate soldiers and to General
Robert E. Lee, that Senator Swanson
of Virginia commended the address
and asked that it be published in the
Congressional Record, which was
done.
Some one has suggested that the
Republicans made mistake in the
Presidential nomination. They should
have put Coolidge at the head of the
ticket. Readers of The Advertiser will
agree to this contention when they
read this eulogy of General Lee and
of the soldiers of the Confederacy:
Grant had great adversaries. They
fought with a dash and tenacity,
with gallantry and an enduring pur-
pose which the world has known in
Americans, and in Americans alone.
At their head rode Gen. Robert F..
Lee, marked with a purity of soul and
a high sense of personal honor which
no true American would ever stop
to question. No force ever quelled
their intrepid spirit. They gave their
loyalty voluntarily, or they did not
give it at all. It is not so much the
greatness of Grant as a soldier, but
his greatness as man; not so much
of his greatness in war as his great
ness in peace, the consideration, the
tenderness, the human sympathy
which he showed toward them from
the day of their submission, refusing
the surrender of Lees sword, leaving
the men of the southern army in pos
session of their own horses, which ap-
pealed to that sentiment of reconcil-
lation which has long since been COM
plete. It was not a humiliation, but
an honor to remain under the SOW
ereignty of flag which was borne by
such commander"
Not to be outdone by this eulogy to
General Lee and the soldiers Of the
lost cause, Senator Thomas f. Wat
son, of Georgia paid this tribute to
General Grant, which we take from
the Congressional Record:
Coming from the South, as / do,
/ wish now and here, by unanimous
consent to pay my tribute and that
of the South to the memory of the
great soldier, who at Appomattox re-
fused to accept in surrender the pur-
est of human swords-that of Robert
E. Lee. In behalf of the great section,
whose army of northern Virginia The
odore Roosevelt said was the greatest
that ever took the field, 1 wish to say
that we honor General Grant and we
love him, because at the surrender he
was so kind, so magnaminous as to
say to the ragged and starved Confed-
crate soldiers: Take your horses
home; you will need them in planting
your corps
"Had General Grant been President
after Mr.. Lincoln, we never would
have had the agony of reconstruction
and the bitterness that followed the
Civil War.
II see him on that monument,
which is to be unveiled today and
which think is one of the sublimest
conceptions of the human brain, and
! feel like lifting my hat every time
i pass it. My heart swells, and / am
proud that our reunited country pro-
duced this great captain and that his
family lived side by side with mine in
the old country--his just above the
Scotch border and mine just below.
and that the clans never had a feud.
I'VE of southern blood and men,
ories bear in mind that, when the ad-
which followed that of
Mr.. Lincoln threatened to arrest the
paroled Confederate officers, General
Grant virtually put his hand on his
sword and said to the President in eff
feet: "You shall not do it. My honor
is pledged; I signed those paroles"
"And the President dared not vio-
late the pledged word of General
Then in closing this patriotic love
feast in Congress Senator McCumber,
Republican from North Dako-
Ia said:
1T is always a pleasure to receive
such evidences of a united country,
and to receive from men of the South
such a tribute to the great leader Of
the national forces. I think we can
Justly say that for many long years
here has been no bitterness between
any sections of the United States
out of the Civil War that we
Ill feel that we have today but one
lag, but one country, and we honor
he great heroes who fought on both
'ides in that great conflict"
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