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tion. Sooner or later the fragment of Dixie, protected by the bay- onets of Shelby and Bazaine, would have come back into the Union, as the result of conquest or through amicable agreement. Doubt- less this will be the judgment of the great majority of my readers.

LEE, DAVIS AND LINCOLN.

Tributes to them by Charles Francis Adams and Henry

Watterson.

LEE'S STATUE IN WASHINGTON URQED-MAQNANIMITY 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 char- acter 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 then Broke the Mold." In responding, Mr. Adams said:

"A New Englander by birth, descent, tradition, name and envi- ronment, closely associated with Massachusetts, I was a Union sol- dier from 1861 to 1865, and the one boast I make in life was, and is, and will ever be, that I also bore arms and confronted the Con- federacy and helped to destroy it. Formerly of the Army of the Potomac^ through long years I was intent on the overthrow of the Army of Northern Virginia. So far, moreover, as that past is con :