New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-07
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REJOICING FOR VICTORY!
NETWORK TO THE NATION!
Glorious Popular Demonstration
THE CITY WILD WITH ENTHUSIASM.
NEW PLEDGE OF PATRIOTISM.
MAGNIFICENT PARADE.
IMMENSE UNION MEETING.
Speeches Of Eminent Soldiers
and Citizens.
IMMENSE UNION MEETING.
BRILLIANT DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS.

The splendid successes which have lately
attended the Union arms were yesterday hsly common
osded by the people Of New.York. Emerging rom
years of sacrifice and suffering the great Empire City
cat aside her mourning robes once more for tie hab'
mmS ofhappness and shone out with al her old time
splnlor. In the telling victories recently won by the
arni's Of the Union every one sees assurance of an
earlyand an honorable peace. And this assurance no
less nan the natural exultatiOn which accompanies the
hour IF triumph lent strength and vgor 10 the popular
demonstration And unquestiOnably it was one OF the
most enthusiastically unanimous exhibitions Of pubic
rejoidDg that the city ever behed.
ASIDE from the formal arrangements for the occasion
the prade and display set down in the programme the
stress presented spectacle such has not been seen
heretofore since Sumter fell From early dawn when
III. hupderous artillery first gave voice to the wild
enthusiasm which weed up from every heart, and the
;oybels rang welcome to the day till long after sun
re, the CITY was alive with festivities With the rising
Of tte sun there burst over the city such bloom Of
bunting as is rarely From housetop and steep.e
fronwindow and balcony. and high over every street
hun, the starry emblem of the Free. An round the
city too, from myriad masts ioaed the flag
Of very nation-from truck 70 taflrail every
crst in port moored or moving, fairly blossomed
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hoe from city and suburbs thronged countless thou
aads along the thoronghfa-es through which the pro
ceson was to pass. And all these people show ed IN
thir speech and in their that they had come TO
wacome the white winged messenger. Not craven nor
coyardy they; sign OF relinq ushng the stern
tax which they had themselves 20 do hut they seemed
10 say that Grant and Thomas Sherman aud Sheridan
wre achieving that for which they had hoped long
srd suffered and sacrificed much, and they had come
t1ether to thank God FOR the great victories which He
bad youclsaed u.s. and TO take heart ri courage for
mich OF the work yet remained 10 be accomplished
II was glorious day-a day bright with blessings
Bestowed, and beautiful in the promise OF those 10 come
"A day Respondent in the soft sunshine Of the early
Sring-such day attunes the!heari to hottest emo
tons and teaches poor human nature that after the
cd and dreary Winter the CHEEKY season Of flow
els and fruit out Of the long trial and trbulaion Of
war comes at last thrice welcome. the time when strife
must cease and the nation return!to It's wonted tran
guilty.
And these feelings found fitting expression in the
reant Yesterday In the bravery of the show there was
no brayado The city sent her soldiers many OF them
brcnze in the bvouac and the battle her men Of worth
ard repown her artzans and her remen till the process
sicn seemed intermnabe. In quiet way they all said
"See how little this war, which has worked destruction
20 the South has into the North Lei Dut the ac-
lion OF the people follow up this ovation 10 Victory and
ell our sbrnnken armies from the full ranks that yester
day filed past il review well the vast throng that
followed in their wake and the work brayely carried
forward thus far viii speedily be completed
OF the minute details of the procession, the pro
rramme which have twice published has already
informed our readers. The arrangements were admi-
rabe Prompt to the hour most unusual occurrence on
such occasions the column moved cat of Fourteenth
st. into Broadway and thence under almost contnu-
Gus canopy Of bunting past sidewalks soops' baico-
MES bousetops crowded with people, smiling, cheering.
waving hats and handkerchief, and maniestng
nv every sign, srticulate and inarticulate
the 10Y that filed them 10 Overlooking,
passe down the great thoroughfare 20 the booming OF
cannon and the music Of hundred bands. Through
ont the line of march around the Park, through Centre
and Canal sts the Bowerv Fourthaye, Twenty'third-
st. Madison.ay, and around the square, down Fifth
ava TO Fourteenth.st and Unonsquare, where 1t was
dsmss ed the scene the same-one sea OF people
one blazing sky of banners. and vast tIlumphal
column measuredy marching along, resstless as The
waves of the sea- Its great extent may be estimated
by the fact that although the troops moved with 'front.'
almost as wide the curb stones and many OF the car
riages were two abreast, the time occupied in passing
rur TRIBUNE Office was three hours and twenty minutes.
Order Of Procession.