Show A AIL 11 HONOR TO BED GEN SHIRMAN ERMAd SH senator sherman speaks to the toast AT THE LOYAL LEGION BANQUET H few I 1 the work and labors of the 7 warrior aal respected citizen n I 1 nsw april 6 at the lo 10 loyal y al legion banquet tonight to night senator she sherman aman responded to the toast in honor of the memory of general IV T sherman in an interesting te speech of great length he reviewed the t to career of the general from front earl early y childhood lie spoke about the warm confidence 11 d e lie e and an d affection which had always existed between them told bow they separated after the death of their father and arid stated that at that sipie when the general went to west point there commenced between them a correspondence which r it continued up to within one week of the gen enla death only interrupted when the thread of their lives brought them together at washington he lie detailed the generals career in california through ugh the gold fold excitement as a banker and a lawyer he e told about hia his return to alie kast east and employment in the military academy in louisiana As to the general taking sides in the war the senator said the movement which led him into it was his intense patriotism secession sion would destroy the union and therefore helas opposed t to 0 secession this is certain lie ile di did not ent enter er military service on account of slavery for iab hl sympathies and friendships were largely with the south in a letter written in the fall of 1854 congratulating a brother upon the election as member e ber to congress he lie said As a voun member I 1 hope you will not be too forward especially on the question of slavery which it seems is rising evea every year more and more inore into a question of freal real danger noth compromises I 1 having lived a great deal in the south I 1 think I 1 1 know practically more of slavery than you do if it were a new question no one would contend for introducing it bat but it is an old and historic fact that vou you must take as you find it after reviewing general Sher mans resignation from the lousiana academy etc the senator said the general came to washington in march 1931 to advise the authorities a tiei of the conditions of affairs in the t lue S south e ath and offer hia his services he lie was abaz amazed ed at the apathy he lie found foud he ile talked to president preside nt lincoln who said he lie hoped they would not need soldiers what was said aid by lincoln was kindly meant but it had an unpleasant effect on general sherman who when leaving said to hl bis 5 brother these men are sleep ln ing on a volcano but I 1 have done my rity dut duty tk ane senator touched on the attack of c er in newspapers on the general at the time of his assertion that troops would be required to open up mississippi river and said in reference thereto 1 I knew full well the charge of insanity was false and arid understood better than any one else hia his strong opinion as to the nature of the wa war r and how op to trigona easily rily his frank and open but true declaration could be used as seIde evidence beof of timidity ot or elin even insanity a ity i the senator went on onto to show the drift of 0 f events soon gave sherlian Sher nian pian an opportunity to demonstrate demon his sanity speaking breaking of his part in the battle of 0 shiloh shi oh the senator says that there commenced his friendship with general grant gran which like damon and pythias has been made the subject of song and story it was one odthe of the most interesting incidents of the war and confined con tined unbroken while white both lived speaking of the row which was raised over the first surrender as arranged between sherman Bli erman and johnon johnson tor ter said sold he lie knew that the general believed that in agreeing to those terms be he was carrying out the policy outlined by president derit lincoln in the famous interview at hampton IIan ipton roads he lie did not know however that the brutal murder 11 t ader of lincoln had aroused in the minds i rids of northern peo people le a dee deep feeling of resentment which wound would not tolerate toy tolerate erate thai that liberal terms be granted to johnston and the remnant of the rebel forces the fatal bullet ballet had changed the whole situation but for this desperate act the whole history of reconstruction would have been reversed As it was the old cry against sherman was again stirred ed u until the generous kindness of general grant came tn t his relief new terms were agreed on and the war closed sp speaking eak agh of the he traits of the generals ch character t r he senator said aid he was distinguished gui shed h 0 first of f a all 11 f from rein early boyhood for the be 1 love a and end veneration e ratio for and arid obedience to hia his mother and affection for his family he ile spoke cf the affection in fit the army to for r uncle billy ly |