The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-09-24

"A long string of four and six horse wagons all de-
corated with flags, and full of people, brought up the
rear making continuous line of more than two miles
in length
The sidewalks of the streets through which the pro-
cesson paraded almost blocked up with people,
from whom cheer after cheer went up for Fillmore and
Donelson, and were heartily responded to by those in
the procession.
AS the procession passed along the levee the scene
was magnificent Multitudes We're assembled
on the wharf, while the windows and roofs of the
houses We're filled er covered with people, many of
them ladies. Each delegation or organisation
ceved with cheers and the waving OF handkerchiefs
and hats. The houses fronting the levee mostly
decorated with flags which added to the magnifcence
of the scene.
The Kentuckans escorted to the Walnut street
ferry, and passed the river The remaining por
ton ofthe procession marched the public land
ing and dismissed.
The CEREMONY UPON THE RIvER-This took place at
o'clock in the evening, shortly after the dismissal of
the procession. A rope suspended from shore to
Shore and from this directly the centre of the
er, hung immense national flag with UNION upon it,
The rope was hardly perceptble, and the proud flag
whose lower edge almost touched the water seemed
sustain itself III the air Three floating batteries
stationed in the river the whole surface of which
alive with sailing and boats gaiy decorated with
flags.
At O'Clock the steamers Champion and Hartford
City pushed out into the stream, the former from the
Kentucky and the latter from the Ohio shore. Both
prettily decorated with flags On board of the
Champion the Continental band number of dis
tnguished Kentuckians, and the following ladies' all
dressed in white with blue sashes each representing
a southern State:
Arkansas-Mss Laura Hughey.
North Carolina-Miss Louisa Upton.
Texas-Mss Kate Mexican.
Georgia-Miss Helen Wade.
South Caroiina-Miss Ellen NJ Smith.
Deaware-Miss Ellen Shrom.
Alabama-Miss Mary E. Brewster
Florda-Mss Bette Tarvin.
Virginia-Miss Viola Boss
Kentucky-Miss Kate Brown
Maryland-Miss Sophia Oldham.
Loulsiana-Miss Elizabeth Dye.
Tennessee-Miss Mary Thompson.
Missouri-Miss Mary Alexander.
Mississppi-Miss Mollie Crawford.
On tho Hartford City were Menters band, some two
hundred persons from various northern States and the
following ladies, dressed in white with blue sasn4s
representing the north, as follow:
New Jersey-Miss Moe Bemis
Maine-Mlss Kate Bassford
New York-Miss Mettie Huston
Vermont-Miss Alice Edwards
g Pennsvlvania-NIiss Mary Roberts
Ohio-Mss Fanny Hutchens.
Wisconsin-Mss AIDA Thorp
CoEnecticut-Miss Isabella Witt
Indana-Miss Henrietta Clark
Illinois--Miss Sallie Jones.
chgan-Miss Eliza Scott
California-Miss Martha Ross
lowa-Miss Mary Drake.
Massachusetts, Virginia Hanna
Rhode Isand-Miss Eliza Askins.
New Hampshire-Miss Celia White.
AS the boats pushed out from the shores the bands
struck up the national air of Hail Columbia. The
river side at the time covered with dense of
people, cheering and waving their handkerchets, and
presenting an animated and magnificent scene Both
boats turned their bows up stream and slowly proceed
&c onward some distance apart AS they reached the
Union flag they loaed slowly towards each other and
soon We're side by side Cheers went up from those
board, which was followed by swell of voices from
the two shores really indescrGable To those the
boats the scene was Of extraordinary interest The
banks of the river on the Kentucky shore were lined
with masses of people. On the Ohio side the wharf
seemed OF heads, while the steamers at the land
ing and the houses fronting the river were black with
people. And such shouts as followed this union of
north and the south we have seldom heard At this
moment the batteries also poured forth their
salutes, while the bands sent forth yankee Doodle
to minge with the din
As the boats touched, colonel James, of Ky,
advanced to the edge of the deck surrounded by the
southern sisters, and addressed E. P Norton esq., of
Ohio, (who accompanied by the lovely represen-
tatlves OF the northern States,) as follows:
T HE South TO THE NORTH
Sir and Representatives of the States of the north
The occasion which has brought together, apty
conceived, and is Of the deepest import.
Omlnous indeed are the signs which have appeared
in our political armament. Clouds have gathered
above us, and oated in portentous folds athwar our
sky. New stars would eliminate in the heavens, and
mar that beautiful galaxy which has long gladden.
ed our vision aud claimed our adoration and glo
rous orb itself seems to be disturbed in its pathway of
light. Faction has reared amongstou people, in most
imposing attitude its awful FORM and sectionalism
would rule the day and the hour. 1t becomes then
as members of long cherished brotherhood, prayer
fully appealing to the Most High for aid and guidance
through the darkness ofthe crisis to make signal de-
onstration of the 'tath that is within US, and our
unswerying deyotonto the Union ofhese States which
has so long been our shield and common glory.
In performance, sir of the ceremony which awaits u.s.
how numerous and how glorious the recollections
which crowd our minds. The father of our country
stands in estc form before us-I776 lights up the
canvas and we behold Jefferson and Adams franklin
Sherman and Livingston, standing and pledging for
us at common altar their lives, their fortunes, and
their sacred honors. long and bloody passes
before us-l7s7 then reflects vision, and that go-
rious char-the constitution.spreats its ample and
luminous pages, and we appended, In letters of
fire, written by hands guidedby Jehovah himself the
names of Washington and Franklin, of Madison and
Hamilton and then moves in the grand march ofthe
greatest country which God III his providence ever
gave to men. States increase upon States gathering
power at every step, and united for the advance
ment of the greatness and glory of the Union Shall
such fraternity be broken? Shall such union be dis
solved? And shall present civic desolation to the
world? The responsive heart of Americans from Can
ada to Mexico from the Atlantic to the Pacific an
swers Move believe the God of nature answers, no.
We have met, then, in obedience to the behests of
he OCCASION and for the immortal spirits
of our patriotic sires to the pledges fther uni
~ conseerate forever the berty which they
achieved and the priceless inheritance which they have
oequeathed to We come, sir, with these fair re
of the sovereigntes ofthe southwoman
"a guardian angel over mans life presiding,
Doubling his pleasures and his cares dividing /
lending herself, an emblem of love and devotion, to
these hew nuptals of the States. Stand
ng midway this dividing line on the bosom ofthe blue
Ohio itself symbol of purity and Of life rolling from
he mountains to the sea, let our hearts, like its wa
ers, be mingled in peace" And now l implore you,
the bright sisters unite and let the States whose
notices they bear continue one that mighty orb roll
ng on in grandeur, accumulating upon accumulation,
md not dissolving sphere
Let now beneath that proud banner, its stars an
stripes bright at morning gorgeous at noon
md gloriously reflected by the mild beams of
he descending god of day, pledge with one accord;
4 union of hearts, union Of hands,