The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-07-01

/ The band contributed largely to the en-,
I ioyment Of the occasion, and all seemed
/. very much pleased. But if you will not
reveal his name TO their "deforml'Ies,'
your correspondent would say that there
would have been twice as much cnloymcn,
If most Of the speeches had been Just nag
! as long as they were.
Celebration OF thc Jefferson Society
Friday Night. Junc 2sth. 1867.
The crowd tonight was even larger and
more brilliant than last night. The deco,
rations. &C., were the same save that 81 "
was substituted for "W" in the transpa-
rencies. A polite committeeman gave
| vour correspondent comfortable chair
near the stand, and he should have been
able to hear every word Of the speeches
but that some young ladies and their beanz
forgot sadly the time-nonored maxim, IL
is impolite for two to speak at once"
After prayer by the Rev. Dir. Lindsay.
chaplain, the President introduced Mr.
Thomas II. Burke, Of Caroline county,
/ Va, as the orator Of the evening.
| In a graceful introduction he paid a
passing tribute to our fallen heroes and to
the women who strew flowers On their
graves: alluded to this as the forty-third
! session Of the University !; spoke OF the
memories which it recalls; what the conn-
try was and is; and announced as his
theme "1he Claims Of tie Souh upo, her
| youn1 men,"
He spoke first of the claims Of her " no
! tie past The young men of the South
! should be proud of her past history-hcE
deeds in &c, 1912, and during the Mexican
war: the great men she has reared, and
! the conservatism she has always mani
! tested. Let Us cherish and be true to our
past history.
(2.) Let US regard the claims Of the
"sorro,grM present." 1t is not wrong to
weep for our blighted hopes and fallen
heroes; but let it not be the wall Of
despair. The young men of the South
should take courage, and come up man
| fully to the duties Of the present.
t3) Let MS regard the claims OF me
",tncertoin fuhre." Things look very dark
now. but rejection must come, and wc
| should be careful so to conduct ourselves
! as to hasten The glad hour. 1t is no time
| for vitupcration and rccrimination. We
should by no means cringc and fawn at the
! feet Of power, or initiate those miserable
men who seek TO ride into power by
dccrying the land that gave them birth
and villiiying the people among whom they
live. But let us initiate the example OF
the old hero who, after series Of brilliant
victories, yielded his sword at Appomat-
toy to overwhelming numbers and re-
sourccs,'' accepted the result in good
faith, and has quietly gone 70 work TO train
the youth Of the land for the duties IN
crnhcnt upon them under the new order
of things.
We must fulfil our promise to take care
Of the families OF orr dead heroes, and the
best way to do that IS to become "rccon-
structcd' as soon as possible.
The speaker then urged mat education
is one Of our safeguards: spoke Of The IN
pOrianCc Of a concentration .! cur elPitS
in this direction: made q passing hit at he
attclnI,t to remove the medical school OF the
University 10 Richmond, anu cl"qucntiy
urged that we rally around the University
and MAKE il the great cdt!cGttpaM centre OF
the South.
| lie closed with few words Of aHpro-
pirate vglcdictory 70 his society.
Mr. Burke has L fine voice and very
graceful delivery.
regret to feel constrained to add, IL ali
| kindness, that he committed 10 some cX-
| tent the some fault complained OF III my
last communication, and gave lo a small
| dish Of politics, which might have been
very wei! left out, and which lin the judo
mCnt of your correspondent married tc
that extent the success Of the speech
Your CORRESPONDENT may be an sold
fogv," but he has n very decided convic.
ton that neither the pulpit nor the col
lego rostrun is the place for politics
whether the speaker be some distinguished
politician, las the gentleman who came tc
the [ University last year To issue hIsspohu-
cal bullctin.l or some young orator JUS
beginning life. Surely the wide fields o
Literature, History, Ethics, Science, sc.
afford subjects enough without having tc
choose them from Federal or State politics
and make the celebration OF a literary Socle-
~ degenerate into Il political gathering. Tho
President then presented the "dehatcr's
medal" 10 Mr.. Alexander i. HUMPHREYS
Of Louisville, Ky, and spoke of IT as al
honor which he had won without oppoSi
ton lat the elcction), so apparent TO al
were his merits.
Mr.. Humphrics received the medal ii
an exceedingly neat little speech, vel
conceived, well expressed, and delivered
with the easy grace oil an experienced
orator. Indeed, it is no disparagement tc
the rest to say Mr.. Humphries' was, OF
the whole, the best speech | have hear(
during these exercises.
Music and promenading on tie lawn
t. | fp nj Snti 81 az tn Il
from the small boys who hung around The
music stand to the pcnsive couples who
sought the Shadicst rcccsscs Of Occurring
Square ALuMSrs.
Cnrrns nnnLancc IL iIn Eichlunul nisnltrh