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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Lee , Davis and Lincoln . (search)
Lee, Davis and Lincoln. Tributes to them by Charles Francis Adams and Henry Watterson.
Lee's statue in Washington urged—magnanimity of Lincoln.
He could not have offered to pay for the slaves of the South.
The thirteenth annual banquet of the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York, held Monday night, January 26, 1903, at the Waldorf-Astoria, was made memorable by eloquent eulogies of the great figures of the South and North during the Civil War, delivered by men who themselves had fought in the armies opposing them.
Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts, a soldier of the Union, responded to the toast of Robert E. Lee, and Colonel Henry Watterson, a soldier of the Confederacy, paid tribute to the character of Abraham Lincoln.
Toast to Robert E. Lee.
The opening toast, To the President and the Army and Navy of the United States: A Prince among the Rulers of the World and but the Servant of a Free People, was followed by the toast to General Lee, Nature Made Him and