Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-26
zuE PEACE .JUBIEE.

. brethren T" must have been
at a loss for the past three months to
divine what was the purpose of the
great National (?) Peace Jubilee OF
we have read so much lately,
and which has just finished jubilat-
ing at Boston. AL the advertise
editorial notices and pronunci-
amentos of the jubilee indicated to
such a person that peace had Just been
restored to our unhappy country, or
that steps would, on that occasion, be
to give US peace. All the world
@ and the rest of mankind" were eX-
pectedto be there to celebrate the
event, or participate in the proceed
ings. The presumption was that the
whole American people without dis
tinction of race or color were to be
made happy by the event. But we
who have observed and know a little
of the character of hyperborean
brethren know better. We were not
fooled. We knew the affair was a catch
penny concern to put money In the
purses of the thrifty New Englander.
The summer season promised to be a
dull me-. Trade with the South and
West was not as lucrative as it
had been. ShOddy contracts and
" good things" in the way Of
Government stealings were not as
abundant as theyfOrmerly were. The
profits in cash to the denizens of the
Hub were not going to be as great as
in former days. The good people OF
the modern Athens were SOrely
troubled until one GILMORE-an IN
! ventive genius-conceived the idea OF
calling in strangers to assist in in
creasing the sums on the profit side OF
| their ledger account. SUraightway
the conception was caught up by the
mOneved men of that city, anda grand
peace Jubilee WIS the result. The
name and the style of advertising the
thing caught the crowd. Twenty or
twenty-five thousand people from
around about the Hub went to the
Jubilee. They spent several days in
looking at the eight-legged calf, the
doubIe-headed negro, the four-eyedk kit
ten and such. Boston entertained
them. Boston took their money, and
Boston is happy, though we hear a
wall now and then that they did not
make enough on the speculation.
One of the features Of the jubilee
was the speeches. HORACE GREELY
had protested earnestly against
speech-making. GRANT, the tact
turn, would be there, the
lion of the occasion. He was
not a taIkist. Hence the crowd must
not talk, said HORACE. But HORACE
had the odds against him in this mat
ter. One Hon. A. H. RICE "a frs
cousin of RICE, of Arkansas, NJ
doubt, was selected to welcome the
crowd; and he did welcome them in /
grandiloquent speech Of an hour
length, from which we make but on
short extract. This is all the orato.
said bearing upon the staE pet then be
fore his audience:
Peace is the theme Of our song-Peac
the ideal goddess of u Jubilee, lie
us have peace " are the watchEoEds Of tn
GREAT hero of the war, to whose militar.
enown the country has now added tn
highest of civil hOnOrs. They are both
commentary upon the past and a promls
of the future; they reflect a state Of wa
/. or of its consequences, and they plead 10
permanent tranquility. Peace has no
come by a compromise which might leaV
within the country the seeds of still
mightier wars in future years. Nor is
a peace in which the different sections q
E the ountr shall be held at bay by mill
tarv power, as France restraints Englan'
and Prussia Restraints France, and Eng
land reciprocallY restraints both.
But it is a peace resting upon the mmu
table basis OF Justice and humanity-upo
a common Interpretation Of the funda
mental law, and upon a more homogene
GUS civilization in the states,
Ifthis had been uttered anyWber
outside of New England the speake
would have been regarded a prope
subject for an insane asylum. But
is perfectly right and proper that sue.
sentiments should be uttered at tn
grand jubilee in Boston. The aiiai
was mis-named Isl its conception; j
was falsely advertised in it's progress,
and it was meet that patent false
!, hoods should fall from the lips of on
+ who represented the getters-up Of tn
humbug at the grand opening of tn
farce. These people have been prat
ticing this kind Of deceptiOn for year,
: They are adopts at the business. w
willingly yield the palm to them
all the arts of humbuggery. "
make a note of the language used 0
this OCCASION, simply as a matter
history. 1t is useless TO prOte'
=, against such things. Our press ha
: done this for the past forty year,
The spirit of the jubilee viii be II
, peated as long as there are humbug
in New England. We are to haV
peace, but only upon Ii assimilatio
in religion, politics and social customs
!, with the projectors and patrons of tn
grand jubilee.
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4 COOP SIGN.