. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. interest to the Queen City citizenshe related a correspondence with a Cincinnati merchant just after thebeginning of the war, in substance as follows: I came through here before getting into the war, and I want to seea member of the Chamber of Commerce of this city who sent a certaintelegram. He got a telegram from a southern planter saying: -Sendme a hundred barrels of flour. The war had commenced. That Cincin-nati man replied: Eat cotton, damn you. I want to see that is all right. Ill bet he
. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. interest to the Queen City citizenshe related a correspondence with a Cincinnati merchant just after thebeginning of the war, in substance as follows: I came through here before getting into the war, and I want to seea member of the Chamber of Commerce of this city who sent a certaintelegram. He got a telegram from a southern planter saying: -Sendme a hundred barrels of flour. The war had commenced. That Cincin-nati man replied: Eat cotton, damn you. I want to see that is all right. Ill bet he was a fighter. I want him to see meto-morrow, but PU bet now hell trust me for a hundred barrels of flour. Gen. Douglas is a forcible as well as eloquent talker, witty andpathetic, and his address was certain]) one of the best of the bristled with love for the old cause and the old leaders, and with thehonest patriotism of the man of the south to-day. His memorial homageto Lee was greeteil with cheers, and his tribute to the women of thesouth elicited rounds of applause. 0^^^-:. 93 At tlie conclusion of Gen. Douglas speech the ladies arose and weregiven the exi]uisite flowers that decorated the table. Good-night andhappiest dreams were wished them, and, with their departure, thebrightness of the royal occasion faded out into the shadows of pleasantestrecollections, as the party retired shortly after midnight. [Extract from the Cincinnati Trihiiii,. June 2, iSgj | The banquet was a fitting climax to the day of Queen City hospitality, for is notthis great municipality the gateway through which the stern northerner passes to meethis soft-tongued hospitable brother of the warm, langorous south? Is it not here thatthey seem to meet on neutral ground? Here it is neither north nor south, east nor west,for the census places the center of population within a few miles of this City ofCincinnati. Then who is there to say that the banquet at the Grand last night couldhave been
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