Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-23

mas come ana tue days tnat remain 10
US are few and full OF trouble. To you
the golden glories of life's sunrise lights
up the splendors of the dawn. Yours
are the bright hopes of early manhood;
ours the doubts and fears that cloud the
closing days OF life. To your hands we
commit the destinies of your States.
We make you the guardians Of their
honor. Among you there will be no pur-
chGseable renegades. Receive the sacred
trust and remember that the duties Of
life are more than life, and that it is not
all of life to live.
Mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, of
the men Of Mississippi, l cannot speak
TO you. No angel has touched my lips
with the burning Goals from the altar Of
/ the sacrifices. | leave to others the fine
/ phrases and the empty compliments
that you would not value. What you
have done in the past is sufficient guar
antee Of your herOism and devotion IN
tue future. You have more than ri
Vailed you have excelled, the women of
ZtragcZa and Corona, and the Hebrew
/ matrons and wardens who helped defend
the holy City of jerusalem against the
/ iegiOns of VespasiRn. You will also do
/ your duty ia the DAYS, dark or bright.
| that are to come. You will teach those
/ Who love you, fidelity to principle amid
all temptations, to prefer honor to pros
| perlty and the dangerous truth to the
safe and profitable falsehOOd eonstRncy
l and courage and the manly auG hopeful
| endurance that BELTS a man.
You are the cOnquerors who take all
men captive, and whose silken letters.
stronger than tempered steel, we are
glad and proud to wear. Into our souls
your eyes shine like stars, and we bow
down and worship, and in love
find new strength 70 undertake
great enterprises or endure great calsmi-
ties. o flowers brought to us by the An
gels from the gardens Of Paradise, you
bloom here to bless, to encourage and to
console. We are all your willing slaves.
/ Age gives no exemption from that ser
vice; for in the sad and sober autumn
Of our days we still cOyet the living
smile and the loving look that can be
] ours no more.
The sober autumn OF our DAYS For
/ you, dear girls, the vi0lets and roses for
us the leaves redeemed by the frost and
soon to fail. For you the bright and
glad anticipatiOus Of the future, the
dreams thai make youths happiness :
for US the memories Of the Past, Of Joys
and sorrows istermingled, Of the hopes
and loves and bitter disappointment and
cruel losses, Of the days that are no
more.
Our country also, our own dear South
land that you love so well, has its mem
cries OF the Past, Of glad, bright Dawn
and morning full Of promise, that dark
ened into day full Of gloom and terror
and disaster. Out of tkat darkness the
faces Of our dead look sadly and pity
Mgly and lovingly upon Us. They have
not died in vain. The land they died
for shall yet reap the fruit Of the great
sacrifice. Our country also has its hopes
hat are not delusive, for the Future.
To it the sober autumn days have not
come, nor even those Of LIES summer
For 1t the rosy days OF sPring have not
departed, though the iBlnOrtC ties planted
by angels bloom on many graves.
Every dark night hath It's morning,
Ling, though oft, delayed its dawning:
Wait! BE patient! Pray for Dixie.
At the close OF the Generals address.
which occupied about one hour IN the
delivery, dinner was announced. The
arrangements for feeding this immense
crowd, which, by this time, o'clock p.
w., had sgOlien to about twelve hun
dred persons, were admirable. The
tables were arranged In hollow square,
one hundred and fifty feet each way,
aud capable OF accommodating five to
six hundred persons at time. In the
center Of the square were large tables
erected for the carvers; hers the bar
becue was served to the gentlemen and
ladies appointed to wait on the tables,
and they in turn carried it and distrib-
uted it around the different tables. To
gFfy of
Of food prepared, we need but say ninety
head of animals (oxen, sheep, sh0ats, etc. )
were barbeeued. This does not include
chickens and turkeys. Everything was
in the greatest abundance, and managed
with so much skill that all went away
sstisfied-a rare thing at barbecues and
picnics, as frequenters Of those institu-
tioRs can testify.
After dinner was over, and a proper
time bad elapsed for the assemblage to
"cool of" from the heat engendered
this hot weather by the exertions con-
comitant on eating, the ladies again
took their seats, and the assembly was
called to order. Capt. Aldridge was pre-
sented and made a handsome speech,
mostly on literary topics, and addressed
principally to the young men of the
societies present. At the close of
Captain Aldridge's remarks, which
we regret we cannot give on account OF
the lack of space, after a few stirring
strains from the band, the chairman put
the following resolution to vote, and it
was unanimously carried:
Resolved, That the Conservative pa.
pers Of Memphis be furnished a copy of
the able and eloquent address read by
Gen. Pike here to-day, and that they be
requested to publish the same.
We regret exceedingly that the ex-
treme length of the composition will
preclude the possibility of complying with
this request of our friends.
The passage Of this resolution closed
the order of the day, and as soon as the
sun began TO sink little in the west, the
crowd began to break up. A few of the
young gentlemen began to canvass the
prospects of continuing the froIie by
having dance in the evenings prOpO-
sition which we need not say was not
long in taking with the young ladies
It was finally arranged, we believe, to
adjourn TO the dwelling of Mr.. McCargo,
! and have the dance there.
By seven o'clock most Of the vast
crowd had left the scene, and, as we
drove away, the whippOorwlll was whis-
Ting his melancholy note from the very
arbor which few hours before shelter
ed the eloquent speakers and fair ladies.
In conclusion, We tender our thanks tn
the gentlemen and ladies for the MANY
acts of Kindness shown US. Our thanks.
and the thanks of the whole assem- bisge
are especially due to DIR, Stout, for cou-
! pie of barrels of ice, which he sent to re-
place that carried on by the railroad, by
mistake; and also MIR. Ammonand Iadv.
DEMOCRATS OF GREENWOOD, RALLY
RALLY You are earnestly requested
TO meet at College Grove Garden-the
southern terminus of the fernando street
railroad-On Friday the oath inst, at s
pm, for the purpose of organization. 1t
is hoped that all within the nelghborhood
disposed toward a free government, and
restoration of our liberties, will be
punetuRlly present. Judge Z. w. Brown.