Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-14
ITALY.
Her Glorious Past---Her Noble Present..
Her Glowing Future.
The Grand Reunion at James Park To-
day---PrOgramms of the Day, Etc., Etc.

To what well-read man or woman
youth or maiden, at all POLITICALLY in
clined, does not the very sound OF thu
word 'ItaIyp come, fraueht with a thou
sand romantic and delightful r~ecollec
tons and imaginations7 What thoughts
arise of sapphire skies, eternally bright
of a land stretched beneath them whose
hills and wales drip with wine and oil; OF
the tawny Tiber, rolling yellow to the
tideless sea; of soft inc gentle Arno, OF
brawling Busento, beneath whose waves
sleeps Alaric, the "bravest of the brave;' y
of marble cities, thick strewn, whose
very names are suggestive of remote an
ttquity and historic greatness-Rome, the
Eternal City, =" who sat upon her seven
hills, and from her throne of beauty ruled
the worldh-Florence the blooming-Ven-
ice, the proud-all, all, arise in a glowing
panorama, and everything beautiful, we
seem to see, eOniuTed up by the magic of
that one word s'ItaIy!"
And TO those who have travelled beneath
these skies, and over his garden of the
world, the home of all Art Yields and Ma
turs can Decree" how much more vivid
the pictured How does the heart leap
when memory swiftly reverts to the mo-
ment when a turn of the mountain road
revealed below, spread out like a map,
the promised land, glowing in all its love-
linessl
ITO him who starts up from q Dubbed
dream,
And 10, the sun is shining. and the lark,
singing aloud for joy. TO him is not
such sudden rayishnent as now are felt
At the nrst gitmpses of fair Italy"
Thick crowding come the thoughts of
the ambrosial nights and days that fol-
lowed. Oranges, olives, tinkling guitars,
m~oon-lighted terraces, gardens and
groves, the cooling OF the turtles aud the
~bubbling OF nightingales, still lagunes
and gliding %gondolas, skies all %throbbing
with palpitant stars-and our hearts, like
an o~'erbrimmed cup running over with
beauty Again, We hin of Laura's and
Portals and Juliet's loves ; there we
almost seemed to have met Tintoret
Titan, Rafaelle, to have known the calm
and grand Leonardo da Vinci, 10 nave felt
the grasp of Angeles hand, to have
walked in that glorious company whose
starry and eternal names above us are
seen like constellsaons in the sky.
Is it at all marvellous when ace, born
under a foreign, though, perhaps, no less
glowing SUI should be thus enthused and
inspired by the magic of a name" that
the hearts of the sons of this beautiful
land should glow with pride and love
when her natal day" as it were, again
came round2 Is it wonderful that Ma
genta or the waving of the Tricolor over
Milan (which was but the type, as the
oN0A "a AN AAA9 VS. Va AAl 81 viz VI FIX I
Savior, of Italian freedom) should be cele-
brated as a day of rejoicing by every true
Italian7 Mol and we should marvel
much did one of them to-day linger be-
hind, and study the cold, mercenary die
tstes of trade, instead of hieing out to
James Park, with the great mass of his
countrymen, who, under the greenwood
tree, to the sound of drum and trumpet,
celebrate the deeds of those whose name
and fame never can diei On such a day
as this the truth and beauty of the war
song of IL Ray g~aLLdRtU0RO ome home
to the heart.
Isl Sc0proR Ee tombe, 81 JeUdno / mort
I mdrtyri HOStTi son tutti TeSoTti."
They are all there. The dead who died
10 save Italy. They hover in air over
9very gathering of her true sons, and
bless their every congregation. To-
lay, at James Park, we hope to see every
who speaks the Italian language, and
who claims Italy as his home.
THE PROGRAMME I
# the day has been given by us frequent
Y before, but for the convenience of our
Italian friends we reproduce it again.
Members of the procession will meet at
heir hall at 9 am, on Front street, be-
ween Washington and Adams streets, {
where a column will be formed in the fol- I
order: s
MUSIC. 2
Members of the Association. !
Triumphant Car. c
Marshal-Jas. BriZzOlara, Esq. q
Assistant Marshal-A. b. Vaccaro. 9
The line OF march will be down Front I
Adams; down Adams to Main; down :
lain to Beale; up Beale to DeSotO; down ! Z
eSoto to Vance; ont Vance to the Park. e
be following are the appointments of Z
Jmmittees, etc.: $
Orator of the Ddy-James Brizzolara. v
arrangement COmmittee-Louis Podesta, a
!. B. ZAnoglia, R. Buchignani, James '
riz5olara, g. Gergetti. L
Reception GOmmtttee-B. Vaccaro, +. Luz 9
.rini, John Sturta, p. c. Ounce, L. Brig o
A. RaggiO. L
Floor Mana9ers-A. Fazzi, AasDevOto, P
ouis Lucarini, L. ID. Cassinelli, James Il
oppiano, K. Lucsrini. n
Gate OOmmiaee-Dan Venfurini. A. d
rata, V. Botto, L. Michallitti, A. Pasha, u
imes BOggisno, l.. PerPoli, G. Canappa. II
As to the selections, we can only say "
lat no better could have been made. AS q
Mr.. Brizzolara, he is too well known D
a rising young orator to need a word "
pm US. The other gentlemen thoroughly a.
their duties, and will give Ia
tire satisfaction to all guests. CT
JUST RECEVED.-Those new style of e
,rset called Lucy-one OF the. best ~
sped COrsets made; it is one of our spe- ~