Show JEFFERSON DAVIS A VIS PUT PHI IN NEW NEY LIGHT I D Dr Or Guy Carleton Lee Como Compares Com Corn o pares Him to Wash Wash- 1 ington APOSTROPHE TO UNION i lure Lei Chen Glnn lt In iii II Nun I for FIrM Tune Time TIIU Virus War ai Nor Northern s h 0 as A rl Dr Guy Carleton Le Lee Iee of or Baltimore last Jast night delivered for Cor the fr first t time north of the Mason Ian and Dixon line lne hl his lecture The True Jefferson Jeferson Davis Davis- before a h g large audience 3 at Barratt Barrt hull hall hall The lecture I Is replete with wih beautiful word pictures pl presented present present- ed cd received with wih animation and It U was well vell Dr DI Lees Lee's estimate of Jefferson on onD D Davis vl is rather different from from that commonly entertained ai nt the north but bLit hi It I was tas presented with an nn array of or facts which gave g C It ha basis I and embellished embellished em em- with wih such a SEII series s of garlands garlands gar gar- nr- nr lands for other men mm of the period north as well veil wel as aM south that little Itlo offense could have ha been taken talen With lh the exception of oC an extremely In insolent doorkeeper Barratt Darrat hall ball haJ was waR prepared In Its Is usual admirable man mali 11 mice ner Proe Professor cor B. 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S university Introduced the th brief f anti and speaker in a witty willy speech and auth Dr Lee lau launched at once into his subject lie le I Is a rapid speaker antI and gifted with wih a n command of gesture gesture ture and expression ion which would make mal any address pleasing He spoke of the decade preceding the civil civi war when Webster Cla Clay Calhoun Calhoun Cal- Cal houn Douglass and Houston were members rs of the United States senate with wIh Jefferson n Davis and declared that the Ja last lasi l named was tas the peer of of an any of those great men J Jefferson on Da Davis ViR was born June 3 3 In Kentucky was f educated nt at West rest Point and served t rr on the fron fron-f tier was adopted by br an aim al In Indian lan tribe and In iii the Blackhawk war ivar administered adminis to Abraham Lincoln and Caplain Caplain Captain Cap- Cap lain tain Anderson their oath of all I- I once to the United States when the they I went into that service a against the ra red men muon The speaker followed with wih n a record of Davis Davis' service In th the Mexican Imel can Cl war and crowned him as ne the hero the th winning winning win win- of if Buena Vista declaring ning of that battle haU made General Ta Taylor Tay Tay- lor- lor president of oC the United States but bu that Davis made mach the a advancement possible by hy hl his herti heroism m in th the fl tight fight ht and hl his use of the V formation for for- CO mation malon of hl his troops when charged charged b by overwhelming o numbers of the enemy Davis na Work orl for Union D tr r r. r Leo told of Mr Ir Davis as a a senator and as nR a secretary of war In th the former om office e mention menton was ma made e of oC the measures of national Importance importance im Im- lm- lm h he aided and In the latter lattera a long line lne of oC notable achievements were mentioned d. d It I was stated that I Davis reorganized the arm army improved ed the character of the arms enforced c ed d 1 the th study of modern tactics and was was the first to set el In motion moton the work worl Which later resulted in tn the building of oC the transcontinental railroad In Inne one ne' ne of orthe the Davis ls reports as secretary of war var the speaker stated was to be found the declaration that he did not urge the building of the thE road mad for military purposes alone b hut but t for t th the e better tetter r advancement of settlement in inthe inthe the great gnat west and anti to insure the re retention rc- rc of oC the Pacific count country in the theUn Union Un 10 fl In the civil war storm which arose Dr Lee Iee makes maks it I clear that his view is IH of a n northern aggression which forced secession on the southern states and anti adds with a good deal of at o h heat t that no other Cur course was left lef op open n to the men of that re region lon He painted with wih some Rome feeling the scene when the senators from rein the south fouth ro roand roseand row rose rowand and bade farewell to the halls hals where the they had labored for tor their common country countr and amI told how they followed their states out of the Union to which a constituency no lon longer er commissioned com corn ml lone them He told tol of the organization organization organ organ- of the confederacy purely a ann as asan nn an administrative bo body antI and not for or defense for the south dl lId did not be believe he- he Jh hove lieve e the Worth north would laade Invade t the territory ter tee below the Ohio river he Rid said He Ht told hO how Davis was wac forced forcell Into the position of president without seek trig Ing of his own and how in that po poI poI- l- l tion lion he was WIS constantly made the scapegoat for every ever failure of arms and never ne given credit for fOl a success Compared to Washington W A parallel was drawn between between th the character of Washington and anti that of 4 Davis wih with the sole difference of oC re result re- re suit sult ml In their labors Jabon Then he spoke of oC the growing poverty and distress of th the south and amI the Increasing power pow pow- er or of the tho north and so o on to the end nt at Appomattox He was exceedingly bitter hiter at the order compelling Davis to be ho placed In Irons while a prisoner at al Fortress Monroe especially at a aHmu alimo limo when Grant was being almost deified at Washington Yet a a high tribute was paid pahl to General General Genral Gen Gen- eral ral Grant remo remorseless In war and anti magnificent in peace anti and it I was the the- the ed belief belef of the speaker thaI tha the south was wak blest by hy the defeat defeat since It I made an en end of human slav slav- lar la ery r Of OC the reconstruction period the darkest eft picture pIturo was aH painted But of the present status of the south loyal loal n as any other section of the country a better heller scene was wa presented Dr Lees Lee's lecture cl closed er with wih a de description le- le of th the funeral of oC J Jefferson Davis at nt New New Orleans In 1872 and an apostrophe to the Union reunited ed d and destined e to a splendor beyond nn aim any other glory glor In the world So swift was vas the now how of his oratory oratory oratory ora ora- tory that there were few pauses In Iii II could reward him bur hu two or three times the tho vivid word picture stirred the people to han hand hand- I clapping and when the lecture Jecture was was' concluded U 1 the a applause use was genera general Tho rhe speaker held an Informal reception recep recep- lIon tion ton at the foot fool of the rostrum a tho the conclusion of his effort and then was escorted to his hotel hotel He starts today tOllay for the conclusion of his lecture tour and will wi shortly arrive In Baltimore Baltimore Ball Ball- Balti Balti- more his home |