The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-18

Celsbration Of the L>nding OF the PAixr"'s ~ ~
STEAMER PLANTER,
Monday night, May a.
AT about o'clock this evening, this steamer LEFT the
Frederick street wharf agreeably to previous announce
nent and passed gaanty down the harbor, bearing an
hundred and ty buoyant heart participate in the hal
lowed festival OF tomorrow. She walked the waters
resonant with martial music. while from her bow, as the
darkness of the evening deepened the glare OF the rock
et-no unfit emblem OF the light of those sacred lives
which tomorrow we celebrate-cast Its showers OF
golden spray the silent waters All around u.s. as
we wrte is merriment and socabiity-and "fair women
and brave men" greet each other with frankness IN
unison with the occasion. The evening s cool upon
the water. the wind being fresh. and drifting clouds
erend clergy, recently in attendance at the co9nS %
bishops among among whom we oose5Vea i1 NJ
Rev Bishops vandevelds OF Chicago ra anu Provn
cia OF the Society OF Jesus OF the Province "a
and the Provincial Of the same socle s OF lsnn;ns Nc
and the Rev Fathers Young, Whlte f-ueI !enAih1' ~
Youn9 Cs,bocs Friend Society, of Baltimore which
society attendance Scene aer Iteh h and
,hs nnht has been envened by the songs OF ladies and
gentlemen upon the deck above This incident so re-
Pss with gen's sTsdaaV dispersed to rest But the
nights enjoyment was not destined soon TO terminates
for The gentlemen, not to be excelled In courtesy no
sooner than the ladies had retired, approached their
cabin. accompanied by the band and gaany serenaded
them in return The mass OF windy clouds, which had
during the early part Of the night obscued the heavens
whilst write the stars have come for'h IN me SKY
and upon the waters, gemmng the nipples OF the broad
bay with their shattered beams. At length, IN truth me
dreamy beauty OF the night and silence "are upon the
deep" 49,.
Tuesday af,srnoon-At little past four o'clock this
mornings we entered the beautiful river 81 Marys; anu
ness approached ST. negoes, discovering the steamer
Baltimore lying of that point, which was Immediately
greeted by rockets and music from the Planter Ihe
Baltimore brought with her the faculty and students OF
Georgetown College, accompanied by the venerable Z
W. p Custs the orator and chaplain OF the day. the Un
ted States officers commanding at Fort ashingon and
number of the citizens of the District of Columbia.
Mutual and cheerful visits from each boat soon followed
and at about eight O'Clock we landed upon the beach.
near the estate OF the Jesus at that place Below in
the river appeared the steamer Patuxen while along the
shore many vessels thronged with those who had
come to participate in the celebration The morning
clear and pleasant and the dsembarcahon was &C
compished in most satisfactory manner
THE PROCESSION.
Forming upon the beach, the procession moved to the
chapel in the following order, to the sound OF martial
music. and with waving banners:
James I. Blackstone, Dr.. John M Broome. Col John
H. Sohoron, Robert Ford. VIM Watts, Lewis Cornelius
Combs, and Henry w. Thomas. esqrs. Dr. Randolph
Jones. and George c. Morgan, and George Frederick
Music Of The Philharmonic Band, OF Georgetown Col
Rt Rev Bishops
Rev. Clergy, Priests, &c
Distinguished citizens and strangers, public function
aries, &c.
Orator and Chaplain OF the day.
Phodemc Society of Georgetown College.
Faculty and Students Of the same institution.
Music Leinhardts Band of Baltimore)
Young Catholics Friend Society, of Baltimore.
Citizens of the District of Columbia, Baltimore, and
the different counties OF Maryland
THE RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES.
On reaching the antique little chapel of St. Inegoes,
which. by the way; like fountain or lusrous gem.
sits secluded in the haowed groves OF St. Mays the
procession greeted by the presence OF the beauty and
the chivalry OF the county and distant points, TO the
mors de~b IeIea assembage Of the fair and the gentle
and the young than awaited arrival upon the lawns,
with bright eyes and laughing lips. smiling welcome
upon the grateful hearts of other lands who had come TO
pay pious pilgrimage to the iombs OF the founders OF
Maryand-their own more than princely ancestry.
The solemn sacrifice Of the mass was then offered by
the Right Rev Bishop Vandevelde. OF Chicago previous
TO entering upon the civic ceremonies of the day. assisted
BY the Very Reverend the Fathers Provincial OF the Soc
ETY. of Jesuits of Marylan and Ohio, as deacons, and
Father Young. of the order of ST. Dominic, as Master Of
Ceremonies The music accompanying the mass was ad
mabIy executed by the ladies and gentlemen attached TO
the choir OF St Peters church. Baltmore-,he orchestral
accompaniment being performed by Lenhardrs admirable
band All Of the many hundreds present who could pos
sbly crowd into the chapel had done So and the effect
Of the services was doubtless heightened by the unusual
fervor which seemed to animate the congregation through
out II may be, indeed that the teemlDg associations OF
the spot-the eloquent memories which breathe and burn
in every cherished relic around the reflection upon the
bright ution and sheering foliage which now, in our
day. have spread themselves all of our vast country
the glorious production of the seed and slender germ OF
the day of the pilgrims the grateful heart stirred with the
proud emotion OF lite conscious full unreserved freedom,
religious and menal-it may be- indeed, well it might,
that these things lent unusual soemnity to the time
but s that when the had concluded, ard the
Right Rev Bishop Spaldng. Of Kentucky entered upon
his sermon, many appeared though disturbed in train
OF thought which had absorbed external consciousness
Bishop Spaldng selected his text from the Sd chap 18th
" of I'd Corinthians: 1.-THE Lord is spirit, and where
the spirit of the Lord is, there liberty" Ay remarked
the reverend gentlemen, where the spirit of God is, there
lberty-liberty should benot that thing call
ed liberty, and in whose character true liberythe ber
had been too often and too fatally abused There was
no liber,y-nothng good-where the spirit Of God
not-hat alone could ennoble. dignity, purify human
liberty. He did not understand true liberty to be H.
oense nor believe in the pseudo apostle of liberty who
would free others, whilst he himself was manacled in
the deepest dungeon Of others before
he had taken the necessary preliminary lessons of gov
ernng himself He doubted all loud -tongued liberty the
liberty of the spirit of God OF the hea-he knew the
slavery Of the devil to be trumpet ongued upon the sub
ect of liberty 1t should be the object of liberty ally
itself with religion, ascending to the highest ber!y-he
liberty OF Heaven--and not beginning at Heaven, to
work by that certain rule of slavery, descending from
thence TO the corrupt of By the cross of Christ
alone had the world been free and if that cross was
not the stone all experience proved however fast
the edihce might rise it would fail as rapidly With
the American people, their stern independence would
never brook slavery by too much the danger
was if they fell al all would be by the opposite extreme
OF too nei not extending enough of that self sacrificing