New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-11-23
Dedication Of odd Fellows Hall.


with their brilliant banners and flashing regaa presente
: beautiful and imposing appearance.
About eleven o'clock the procession formed under Ii
direction Of Grand Marshall G. W Race his aids Henr
Forno and Chss. IT, Churchill, and the Assistant MAJ
shais Of the different divisions These followed
music, preceding the different divisions, banner and
paraphernalia Of the order The whole
brought up by the divisions composed Of the EneamI
rnents and Grand Lodges Of the State The processo
moved up st. Charles stet thence Though some Of til
principal streets of the city and up Camp street to IL
| Hall. ss5 n 8l9@
Before the Procession arrived at the Hail. thousands
ctisens including very large number Of ladies' shic
seem to have regarded the occasion as one of
jubilee and rejoicing thronged the galleries besieged til
avenues Of the Square with battery Of smiles rted thei
ahyacnhne locks in deHance at the hosts Of bachelor
and shut up every approach Scene Of the cere
monics Inside the Hail. every filled with rusl
Of the fair delugng the lookeron with rosy shower
smiles, and in the general JAM doing sad havoc anon,
bonnets bareges curls aud capes ounces and aumery
The column arrived In front Of the Hall at about on
O'clock and marched in inverse order into the ballroom
o. the where the ceremony of dedication took place
and an oration was delivered by Professor Aexande,
Dimitry
A-hymn was, sung, composed by.a young lady of th
city, and an ode by George W. Christy, Esq The cere
monies we're extremely imposing and in every particular
honorable to the glorious brotherhood
PRoFEssoR DIMITRY's ADDRESS.
LADiEs mn GKsrlEMEN We have met to dedicate !
noble structures leared for noble purnose From man.
parts Of the State andaven ON neighborng portions q
the coniederaey members and friends have gathered
participate in solemnties which shall live in niehory
wnen the pageant will have long faded from the sight 81
those Who share in thu gladstone popa of the hour THIS
Is day Of graduation for the Order to which it is our
the city in which you love to dwell proudiy nav tbs
who conceived the idea of this stately fabric Who stood at
tne sinking Of It's foundations who sustained its gradual
may they exut at its conpleton greet
Cd BY the smiles Of beauty the aspirations Of friends
T. landmark not only Of the thrivngs of the Order
but testimonial also spirit Of useful
spirit which must have Its way in community I'LL
shis 81 enlarged intelligence and Of tastes refined IN
deed was but few days that another Society invited
me public within their newly FINISHED walls to inaugurac
tne desnies Of an edce in which, in connection with OBJ
ects q wider scope shall given to indus
on az yn III your midst I was but yesterday that
msnt OF the services Of OF the great trumyrs of
elect who have passed away and left none to wear the
long exercised in your council halls in virtue Of genns
aud 81 patriotism 1t will be but short time wa hone
tns cry Will have reared the statue shaft which
10 late posterity, tell of the truly American in
stincts the consistently unbendng OF him who din
hs day Of deed linked the name Neworleans with the
impershabls gories of tho land = - s-S
It Is truly cheering that such indications should b
FOUND IN your emporium for Of all the forms which the
mind puts on TO speak to the eye and heart Of ma
that Of the arts For thswe find reason the fc
sensible forms speak orciby sometimes to tho
MIND OF the Masses though they may fail to prasp MI The
details than could the most skul Of words
many nation has disappeared leaving neither oral trn
por written word ofts history yet in many in
sanees nave we been allowed partly at least rebuild
mat history from the shattered pages and instructive
Weeks q their surviving monuments IT relative in.
= modern days boon gained 1t has been 80 because dis
,arding the specuationo of dreaers We have spec ont
ms t.eaenngs OF their ionnmentth true and only
eahng witnesses OF annals which, ii they ever did exist
ave passed away from ken into the shadows Of in
Nh hms, Hence even on mere fragments and SCAT
erea ruins still deying the rush of ages has the patient
Investigator read traces OF customs records of sapoy
ven remnscences OF the religions and morals Of races
pig buried In the dim archways of the past TIE
~ ia NO vague assertion, therefore, to saw that the
III particularly the art Of architecture; have a reach
.suer tnan one Of mere fancy taste They ou-the |
pursuits. beautiful work Is essentially
aora. and cannot be without expressing some
az ths ha q the world We claim this feature
~ Wy na which we have this day dedicated to the obs
Gets Of Odd Fellowship The idea Of the building and it,
afe associated with that of the Order
~ lts aims The conceptions Of the architect baye co.
ned with the skill of the mechanic to rear teple in
.nien musc.&nd poetry, painting. and indeed ali the
piogeny o. mind will open their treasures to the
y an,.y put especially eloquence have they been put
acquisition to build dwelling place. in which Love
iiendsnip and Truth shall find ever haowed shrine
Sat the prospect of increasing spendors ressrxad t
luture OF the Order the heart swes with emotions If
@ nv yet the mind insnctively turns to the trial
which goomed upon the birth Ct the infant Society,"
oon y the preaent We stand in the midst Of fabric
elegance and taste-the monument of your devoted L
yests go energy Now Look at the
baltimore, five men assembled to law in our country
y .ras foundation of our Order. Five men wanderers
om aheir early homes strangers in the straugerapd
distant parts Of the republic met this congress Of
nevolence And yet not as strangers either for the
"a me pledges IN which they had communed In other
lus pouhd tnem ny the common tie of efficacy and
under whatever skies the chances Of life might have
Liner iot Vney girded themselves for the work in
;. osy pue WIN nxsdncss Of aim. for the wisdom of
men the ample properties of our Order have nobly
uched bike the first apostles Of the diyiuer creed
XXI; r. ne unknown to fame unheralded by pomp,
tne precincts OF meagre they met as broth
!, ~ toreay ground Of morazing action which the
y apors Of other men, of higher influence 1t may be-
10 generation, to either shore of the oceans that S
ntinent Like the knights the DAYS of ehiyn,rv
~ ~ o. arms before the contest of the morrow
whlcn tney We're to wage against selshness in behalf
tne great cause of brotherhood and truth night Of
1ious care and SOLICITORS conference in which manv
nofy was invoked, many a sorrow assuaped mani | /;
pc confirmed night Of anxious care aud conference
wca after the abors of the day. and the wearness Of
I'M came glorious visions from above whilst through i
solemn shadows Of the that night they caught cheer
gnPses OF me mystic ladder, which destined to
ltng principle - "a "A Il
ney met brethren for no sensual revel for no fu
use treason against religion, society or God No no w
spirit OF philanthropy ruled the hour and warmed the h
's VI ther honest hearts The first stone had been
n o9t o. the quarry for future and with noble Of
In the stiffness OF the night the very murmurs of 81
ina whispered in their ears Freedom of conscience nj
oom 81 thought, freedom of action and freedom Of Ii
ech Here then, they said let us set IN monument y;
human progress that shall live sn the hearts millions
Wnen shall still be uprising in beauty when the Ba at
VI onnar and the pyramids of Giseh will have ceased H.
% even the shadow Of memory on the minds of men ~,
looked abroad over the surface of favored coun mr.
and they saw, in its Spread the Canaan of modern (,
prototyped in the records of ancient DAYS Ia
ney saw no repeliing foeno giant brood Of Anak sy
ospa ts entrance or deny its enjoyment And even w.
.s tboSs., In snsir genial enthusiasm, they had 500
en- no other means wanted but tho strergth.n W
nand or friendship: rallying cry naedea hut ~
which has never faiad-the appeal of love III o,,r a.
which foars No I,in.; "sapou was required but int
pom Of Truth, fashioned ind tempered in the armo ~.
OF heaven itself Thus ready and thus armed they ~,
wed the solemn VOW Of prouder chiyalry than aver VII
,tered lance In the idle list welded III
onracenc shores of moral chiyalry--a pori ~,
nght-errantry of kindness and truth-a VOW which ns
in LETTERS of l;cbt W. IN vi ."e eternal page pal
dead solace the living and educate the orphan Ito
dated the regular organization the Order in the
~ was that peered the dawno of ur morning SIM
OF which has since give increasing intensity and i've
over mountain and valley and bearing ali
e ana cheer to many shattered frame and bruised ha
lney, that have done aught benefit their isf,
~ uele 70 sEateiui rembfance then shold hes
~ remembered in affection and praise Many its,
has many an applicant for pseudo distnc frit
usulped place in history whose claims were not low
,worth ~ VI Widely Wecl Dunedin Cheatham, and mu
IN ~ ~, ~ oe:eupy place upon its page. hea
III Scasion OF this kind, 1t may be expected from he
,S snt nave anticipated the expectatiop-that nal
fnl exnos;t;on ns each OF my limited abilities the
h II il omr h A. VI .as principles Of the Order to it il
duties Is known TO many of my hearers and 70 " :
At ny power should have Jagged behind INV incl; tba