Tennessee staatszeitung. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-187?, 1867-12-27
ii q GFoREFATHER's DAHeN ,
NASHVILLE
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tourney, l0A1AO@l iAsa ~ A~-O0e-e
out of her cabins, not at all to be com = !
pared with the staterooms. Of the palace
steamers now crossing and re-crossing the
Ocean, issued forth those brave and dar-
ing men. and gQwomen, who planted the
seed of what is now called the world over
s'FhesUniyersal Yankee Nation. Andon
each anniversary Of that winter cay,
wherever children and defendants Of
thosg PILGRIM Fathers are, % be found
IN the world, be it at the Hub of
the Universe Itself, be ii at the North Pole'
sor in the regions of me Equator or way
down on the Cape of Good Hope, they
Join to celebrate the day in social gather
ings, in praising the lands of their biith, 10
Teasing on home dishes and IN REVIEWING
the adventures and deeds, the hard trials
through which the 3 Yankee nation has
passed. and the glorious achievements it
has accomplished since that forever mem
erable day on Plymouth Rock.
So in the capital Of. our adopted State
4 as Everywhere else throughout the Uni
verse, the day was festiyely celebrated py
the 'sNew England Society OF Nashville
and their invited guests at the new ana
= elegant Hail of the ss'Coneordia, /" on the
corner of Cedar and Cherry streets. A
finely set table was ready by eight o'clock
for the men and women of New England,
- who have found their homes under the
sky. of Nashville. A gay and festive
crowd it was, who, to the sounds OF the
music executed by Professor Bornste'ns
Orchestra, marched up and down between
the long tables, until the President of
the Association, H H. Thomas, Esq, ).
with few appropriate remarks, in his
usual fine address and with his accustomed
portly manners proclaimed the hour ar
rived to be seated.
After prayer by Rev. Mr.. Huntington,
ehe first part of the festival was fairly in
aueurated and soon the tables sighed
- under a variety of Yankee dishes, as
" clam soup, Goldfish, oysters, Yankee pan
cakes, moose steak, pork and beans,
bluenose potatoes, hasty, pudding, and
who knows the names of all those eata-
bles prepared for the occasion by the
caterer, who, unfortunately, not q Yankee
from the New ENGLAND States, but Yam
kee rom France, had done the best he
4 ,could. Er}3 EEk4 $3.50
The meal was over and the second part
of the programme, the feast of the soul
and heart began. Col. Henry Stene, the
handsome and worthy Secretary of the
!. Society, read letters from distinguished
persons who had been invited to take
partin the celebration, and who were pre-
vented from being present. Among the
letters we noticed those from Governor
VIM. G.. BroWnlow, Gen. Geo. Ii. Thomas,
GOV. A. q. English, of Connecticut,
81 Senators J. w. Patterson, Henry Wilson
and William Sprague, from the Honorable
George f. Evans, and from Major General
w. p. Carlin. The President then intro
duced to the assembly our amiable friend,
D. W. Peabody, ESQ.,, the POSTMASTER.
Space does not permit US to give the
happy responses of the gentlemen who
were called upon to respond, and we
therefore must content ourselves with
the sentiments of the worthy Toastmaster
and the Programme, as it was executed
The Day ace Celebrate, spoke tbs
silvery voice Of Peabody,
Times heaving Ocean in its ebb and swell, =
Has marked no prouder day - a
Than this whose story lis our pride TO tell
Though widely drtfted from old Plynoutl
bay. s.
Major Hopkins, from Connecticut
a regular specimen OF those Yanks who
as he says, need half an hour to eat, ter
hours to work and five minutes to speak
and who, as was stated by a succeeding
speaker, to be the handsomest man pres
emit, responded. a t.eit
Music-'sThe Breaking Waves Dashe
High -
Maine-Her proud motto need excit
no jealousy among her sister States; fo
many of their noblest adopted sons CRATE
fully claim her SHOWS and her pines a
:. the happy Surroundings Of their boy
hood. ,
Response by Col Henry Stone.
NeaO .HoDapshire-She boasts some (
the grandest mountains, some of tt
busiest spindle moving rivers, and SON
= OF the greatest men who have grace
American history.
Response by the Hon. d. ID. Dickey.
ab Vermont. Refined, like her sisters,
the fires of colonial and reyolutional
trial, her defenders have bequeathed
their descendants am unsullied name ar
the best patent of nobility. ~ q
Response by Rev, Mr.. Gee.
Massachusetts, She needs no eulol
except her own contributions to learnin
literature and reform. E1EI g4E
Response by the Hon. Mr.. Bosom
Rhode Island Her narrow dc1nai
should not be regarded as the limitatil
-. OF her boundaries, for her capital and q
it9z' terprise have pushed their invasions I
beyond them.
- Response by Rev. Mr. Braden.
COnnecttcut.-Her sons have been
frus % their convictiens as clockwol
and firm as the timber OF the Charter o
in its best days. saF
& Response By Judge VIM. Mills, "
after some. exceedingly witty remar
- ss'aa read the following beautiful poem, writ
by alady Of the Association:
sssls The Pilgrims. 20
.ssaiess Long years ago, sturdy ship,