Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-23
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greatpeaee jubilee in Boston:
1 New YoRK, June s. 1969.-Ever
one is talking of the Boston Peac
Festival. OF course you have lon,
ago heard all about this. pecuia
} Yankee idea of celebrating the adj
vent of peace by the biggest kind o
uproar The Bostonians intend t.
prove to the world that they car
make more noise in q given timt
than any other people. They hav,
already the biggest organ in th,
couRtry, and the only Batter in the
civilized world. Any reasonable
man would suppose that these two
things could make noise enough to
satisfy the most insatiate Yankee,
but it seems that they want still
more din and discord. Consequent
| ly, the thnnderous uproar of the
Peace Festival has been imagined.
Everything connected with this
festival is to be, conducted on q
scale of the utmost immensely.
First, there is to be the opening
prayer by the Rev. E. E. Hale, &C
companied by the orchestra of one
thousand performers, all the bells
in the city, and battery of one
hundred fifteen inch cannon. This
will unquestionably be the most i'm
pressive prayer ever addressed to
an American audience.
Then tho national parody on the
British nations anthem will be sung.
This parody, entitled aAmerica," is
a great favorite with the New Eng
land Yankees, who firmly believe
that the English stole the tune from
them, and called it "God save the
Queen" The Bostonians have
added a new verse to it, for this par
tictlar occasion, which admirably
expresses the patriotic sentiments
of the eight thousand New Eng
landers, who applied to Gen. Grant
to be appointed to consulates in
those favored regions of Europe,
where democracy is a pleasant the
DRY, and not, as in Boston and New
York, particularly dirty reality.
Here is the verse ...,
MY country It's of thee
Sweet land Of the Palidee
And whisky rings
Land where our fathers IT.
Land where their children spit, ...
OF thee sing" - -f
After the national anthem, there
will be grand terpsichorean inter
lude-as the minstrels say-consist-.
ing of war-dance by Messrs. Chan
dler and Sumner; the former of
whom has kindly consented to keep
sober for this occasion only, and
the latter of whom has been POI
litely loaned by the Peace Society,
of which he has long been promi
nent member. The rumor that Mr..
Sumner was the original protector
and manager of the Peace Festival,
is, / know to certainty, totally in
correct. He has never had any
connection with this enterprise, or
indeed with anything else of a fes-
tive nature, and his services as
dancer were only secured q day or
two since. /
Next there is to be a comic song
by Mr.. Greeley, setting forth the
Beauties Of Protection, and the
Enormities of Free Trade. If this
song should prove to be half as
comic as his articles on the same
subject, now in course of publication
in the Tribune, it can hardly fail to
be tremendous success. /
Minister Daniel 4. Sickles will
then recite an original ode in praise
of peace and forgiveness, accom<
panied by the whole musical
strength of the orchestra, with the
exception of the cannon, the sound
of which makes the General rather
nervous, owing to the shock re-
ceived by him On the field of Get
tysburg, where, by the cruel inhu-
manity of the Federal commander,
he was exposed to the fire of the
enemy. The ode has been set to
music in Key particularly pleas
ing to Sickles, and one with which
he has many happy associations, In
this ode he will exhort his hearers to
shoot their masculine enemies, and
to forgive the women who have
Wronged them, providing they viii
make confession in writing. The
moral effect of this ode will, it is
thought, be exceedingly beneficial
to the audience sg.. .,.f .. <
A splendid symphony, entitled
"The Murder of the Innocents,Y
composed by Boston physician of
rare musical abilities, and dedicated
to the women Of Massachusetts, viii
next be performed by the orchestra,
and even if it should prove to be
the worst musical abortion of the
age, will, beyond question, be
Landed to the skies by the fellow
townsmen of the composer.
After the symphony, Madam e
Parepa Rosa will sing the ballad,
"My loves like the red, red rose. I
She will be dressed as a flower girl,
| and will carry her husband, Gard
Rosa, in little hand basket by her
side The original programme in
Guided 4 dance by Madame Rosa,
but it was afterwards found that no
architect would undertake to CON
struct stage strong enough to en-
dure the strain to which such a
performance would subject it. Z
Time would fail me were to at
tempt to tell of all the varied de-
lights in which the Bostonians will
indulge at this festival Therefore,
/ will not mention the temperance
address which is to be made by Gen
Hooker, nor the comic song emit
tied "ORly Sixty Days" TO be sung
by Mr. Seward, or the beautiful
Sunday school anthem, sung by five
thousand infant BOstonians, the first
lines of which are: =. ..,... -.s si
i a % II xuank 40 h N akozr,,, s.-.