Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-05-20
WELCOME.

So your hencfcence eNcrlled
When our Knight Templar's nam"
Was registered with those most dear,
Beneath your proud roof tree,
Whose termination ble-t the care
OF Mason ancestry.
With stranger worship ut your shrine,
Tho Craftsmen tried and true.
They came. with cross, device and sign,
"volunias Del" too.
Like brethren, long-lOved and known,
Masons Of high degree,
We made each day a magic ZONE
Each hour i memory
That twined around your altar stone,
Memcnto wreatls, so rare
That, till liies latest thought has town,
Their charms will cluster there.
Could woman's voice proclaim In song,
Like pecan chants NJ yore.
Responsive echoes, pure and strong,
Her hcart-strings pul-aie DEF
Should tell how nobly, good AMI true
To suffering mankind,
Amid the haunis, where joys are lev,
Thy footprints We c'er find.
Within the sorrow -clOudcd home,
Beneath the pail Of grief,
With ministry Of peace ye come,
With soace and relief.
In many u cot, however poor,
By many a saddened hearth,
THY sacred mission opes the door,
Aud points above the earth,
Like dew-drops on the arid soil,
Like balm unto the heart,
So Charity, like holy oil,
Lends life a better part:
That while Il blessts, elcyates,
In comforting II cheers,
Through life the spiri: Il ela'es,
In death bright hopes II rears.
Let floral ince l.c emblem well
Tie friendship we'd extend,
And beauty OF each tinted bell
'llright hieroglyphic' lend,
Till, like a precious rosary,
Each blossom seems Il prayer,
Each petal hallowed imagery,
To 'all who've passed the square,
May, l~9. u. n. H.
.Ancr the presentation, Giimore's Boston Band performed
a splendid operate gem Of music, which ELECTED the ap,,
plause OF all present. Grand Commander Parknan received
the cross, coronet and poem. and returned his thanks 70
the ladies OF Richmond, assuring them that the cross thus
presented TO them and representing the eight beati,udes,
would ever conduce to make The Knights esteem them and
act In accordance with the symbolic gin.
Mr.. Bullock, Eminent Grand Master Of New Jersey En-
campmcnt Of Hugh de Payen, In a highly iniproniptu man.
ner, presented TO the Richmond Commandery the nag OF
Be ,u.cant. white, with three horizontal cross bars Of black,
a token Of amiy for friends and Of terror to enemies
Thanks for this noble gin from the knights Of Sir Hugh de
Payen OF New Jersey, we're returned by Mr. Ilios. :! Evans.
After these congra,ula'ins scenes Of welcome and friend
shin were concluded the Knights paraded through the city.
They partook Of an excellent collation. AT tie Mas"ns Hall,
and thence marched up Mains,reet Che s.; Johns Ene1nP,
ment marching In form OF a crosSl AMI thence 10 t!c frt
Baptist Church. on Broad street.
Attic First Baptist Church the crowd Of ladies
and gentlemen WAS immense. Aitcr Il truly craft
like PRAYER hy Rev. +. j. Boggs, a Tc Dcum was fine
ly sung by the choir. Meanwhile, Gilmore rcnown-
cd Boston Band performed snndry appropriate pieces
of music. Next came the address by the Rev. SIR
Knight t.. Lansing Burroughs. This address WAS real
" one Of the most appropriate ever delivered III
Richmond. The Rev. Doctor was peculiarly ielici-
tons in lis remark, to the Sir knights around HIM:
and frequently Won general cheers while lie addressed
them. After the service at the Church the guests
were escorted TO Mechanics Hall, where 4 uiasri!i-
cent collation. awaited them.
AIT the dclicacies Of the season, from every quar-
ter of the globe. were there, and every liquid I" Ell
livcn the heart flowed from numerous bottles. During
an hour or two, the gallant knights enjoyed thcin-
selves most heartily, IL all ircc-born SOILS Of the an
Gent and honorable craft should do. Music lent i,S
cnclian,mcut to the scene, and when n lively AR
was struck up, none but one Initiated could realize
The fun oil the light fantastic toe among OLD anu
young. Good wine and good company are appreciated
hy the lovers of reasonable enjoyment.
From the Mechanics Hall tile whole party march.
cd, linked as Fate just bound them, to the Ballard
House. Here they passed their time, ~ they say,
.srloriously,i till the banquet hour. ) +. M, Wien
another grand entertainment was laid ont Tor our
friends from Boston and Rhode Island.
We have no room to-day for 4 description OF the
interesting scenes which %,ran;rireh a. the banquet: 4
number Of toasts were drunk With much enthusiastic
Among them was the follownGi
ymGIsh:
Who never 10 himself hath s,id.I
This is my OWL, my native land =
O. JENNINGS wisx, ESQ, on behalf OF his father Governor
WISE, read the following letter as a response to the above
IlcuxoxD, Va, May 18th, 1859.
To VIZ. n. IsIAcs, ESQ.,. for she Committee, etc.
Ny Dear Sir and brother Two days ago ! regretted TO
he Obliged to apprisc the Committee Of Invitation that !
could not be present at the reception Of the Boston anu
Providence brethren. ! had thought they would arrive
here about Wednesday Of the past week, and hasteneh 10
return TO this city from a visit TO Norfolk on that account.
and long before had made appointments 10 be In Washing
ION this week on my way to Accomac These appointments
I cannot, with any ~propriety or convenience, forego. II
was due to you and TO your worthy guests that ! should
have been present to do my humble part In rendering to
them the Inequalities Of brotherhood and Of our Homes
TO which they are so deservedly and cordially welcome;
bu, Tor the reasons l have named, I cannot he with you In
person. though leave my house aud heart and this letter,
behind Inc, 10 aid Ia greeting your guests with my warinest
expression OF welcome. have requested my son 10 repre-
E.rnt te. as I hnd he has heen hon0red by tickets, nnd ne
will open the Executive mansion. IFS doors, beds anu board
a. your command.
I wish ! had time aud space to respond to the touching
,en,Imen, upon which you proposed 10 call me out at the
banouet. Ii has In It all the life aud spirit OF the fervor OF
patriotism. MY own, my native land is-my country
nv Who'll. country-my blessed, and best beloved country.
mi the love OF country, the amor pdtriT Is founded. ma
tIonaIly and fervently on the love OF Home, the amor loci.
The people OF the United states have Homes. They have
A confederacy and union Of States, and these States have
cities and towns and corporations and counties, and parish
e, and hundreds, and these have houses and house-holders;
and these house. holders. are pairiarchs OF Domestichy.-
They are Husbands OF the soil. and they have wives and
identity of offspring. and their children have fathers and
mo,brrs. and brothers and sisters, and cousins and kindred
around heartlI-s,ones OF Homes. And these homes are sa-
cred and these relationships are holy, as the fases Of Hea.
ven And In these Homes Of America are terminated and
trained the tcndris OF childhood and early affections, under
the light ami law Of Liberty, which are as enduring as the
everlasting hills. They grow aud multiply, and increase
to rank and luxur!ant and fruit bearing, strong vines
which cover the whole earth Of country and are indie.
s,ructible. Al home l. the cradle OF infancy, nnrsed
by mother-si home Is the bread toasted at the hearth
stone constructed By faiher-at home Is the play
ground consecraied by the joys and tears Of brother and
si,t.r-near by home Is the school hogse-all around home
are the forests and fields Of youthful exercises. and every
spot i, marked by memory. And when manhood leaves
the maternal roof OF home. memory endears more and
more every scene and all its incidents in every stage OF
childhood and youth, from the cradle and the cupboard
and The mothers knee-,hat household altar where the
'nov Law me- was first lsped-to the speling-book and
the slate, and the pony, and the gun and dog, up to the day
Of leaye.,aling Of all for the greater preparations for life.
And life long and life through these feelings, local and indi-
yidual and divided from all besides, AS they are, isola-
led and topical In their beginning, become the sure
and safe foundation OF the strength Of a whole state, as
The states are the pillars Of the whole nation. Does the In
yader assail my country In its most distant and to me
stranre.t part-to the uttermost part | will march to meet
him. why: lie can't invade my country without inva-
ding nv State-he can't invade my State without invading
! nv bome--my o~n, my native land lie shall be rcpel.
led. at whatever cost, though it may cost me labor and ia
,i-ue anJ treasure and blood, and 1; may be life. And how
much The opposite OF this is that cosmopolitan and philan-
,hropic. and abstract, and generic and vague and wander
Ing and fana,ical love Of ones own land, which begins
In The clouds and forms abroad, and far above earthly a1ec.
lions and their germs, TO make men love and respect them
sely., and try TO serve their ~neighbors and their State and
their whole country, without q nucleus Of affections and me-
mories 10 Inspire patriotism!
The love OF home expands TO q passionate love Of = whole
land and becomes generic, and universal, and conservative,