Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-18
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are celebrated for many things; among
others for their early subjugation o.
the Pequods and Narragansetts,
whom they sold bad liquor and hung
for drinkingi it for burning of Quakers
and witches; for driving the great
Baptist from their doors; for their tea
party; for their patriotism at Bunker
Hill; their unfaltering devotion to
the cause of the revolution their blue
light rebellion in 1872; their skill and
industry; their enterprise "al over
cr~eation;" their abOlitionism and
other peculiar "notions;" devotion
to Fanuel hall and the big organ;
and for their enthusiasm in con-
nection with the peace jubilee of GIL
MORE, who has been footing a horn
for many years, and at last has had
an opportunity for a big blow. GRANT
and a whole host of big bugs, the tel
egraph informs us, were present at
the opening thunder, and from as far
west as San Francisco representatives
of the musical art contributed Oftheir
lungs in an effort at noise, perhaps
harmony as wonderful as the great
JULIAN elected from a thousand
Threats and as many instruments, in
the New York Exhibition building in
1853. Cannon and bells, brass and
reed instruments, the big organ and
a vast congregation of voices, all in
unison, directed by one mind, have
rendered the jubilatee of peace ar
ranged of many airs. The noise and
din have reverberated along the corri-
doris of the old hall where the stub
born Puritans were wont TO preach
for liberty and union one and indi-
visable, and its echoes will be carried
to the uttermost parts of the earth in
the hearts and minds of those who,
from the four quarters Of the globe,
have been gathered as an audi
ence. They will each depart
for their homes bearing with them
the memory Of an immense gathering
of people, of a great musical festival,
OvershadoWing all others ever heard
heard of; but will they bear with
them the assurances that the intelli-
gent people of New England really
mean the "peace and good will on
earth" which they have sung and
nOised from trumpet, drum and Gym
bal? Can they tell Us of prejudiceS,
the most violent, overcome and for
ever laid aside? Can they tell US of
an impudent, arrogant spirit that
would intermeddIe in the affairs of
equally intelligent and refined,
forever subdued by the effects of the
great organ and the greater chorus?
VIII they assure US that all thought
of Yankee domination has been dis
by this musical clangor, or that
amid the roulads, the quiyers and
guavers OF a thousand Threats the
New England people have sent kiting
the peculiarities that render them even
Objectionable to themselves? We
doubt it. Nothing short of being
born again from other moulds could
accomplish 50 great a feat. We be-
Iieve, then, that as a peace jubilee
monster concert is a fail
lre; but that as a commercially cute,
sharp dodge for filling Boston pockets
n the dull months of summer, and fill-
.ng Boston hotels with customers, it
IS a great, Il grand success. 1t is, after
Ill that has been said of it, only an
)ther advertisement for the HUB"
,nly another glorification of Boston,
which for the time feasts in presence
II the President and a host of men
Who consciously (and unconsciOusly
.ome of them have been legislating
he past ten years to make every in
crest of the country subsidiary to
lers and those of the States she rep
esents. Great is Humbug. New
england is his dwelling place, and
Boston his present field of operations.