Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-02
GERMAN PEACE cElEBRATIoN.
Procession, Speeches, Songs and Gen
eral Rejoicing Last Night.

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eral Rejoicing Last Night.
The watch ON the Rhine and Seine.
Our German fellow-citizens, old and
young, we're jubilant last night, and eel
ebrated in q grand manner the peace or
hollow truce between France and Ger
many, and the consolidation Of the Ger
man States under an Emperor. Anime
o'clock the procession moved down Main
street in the following order:
Squadron Of Cavalry.
Butchers Association on horseback.
Old Memphis Brass Band.
Marshal and aids.
The orators Of the, OCCASION essrs. John
Resident Gronauer, in carriage.
Germans in carriages.
North German flag, with escort.
Miss Langpoint and Miss Miller. representing
Germania and the Goddess Of
Liberty. in carriage.
Soldier Of the Rhine on horseback.
Wagon with a German soldier in full uni
form and French zouaye. ,frater-
MIXING over n table OF Nldnuh.
Turner Association.
German Benevolent Society.
German Casino.
Sodality Brass Band.
Order Of Druids.
Bruderbund Association.
Bakers Association.
Citizens in carriages.
The Grand Marshal, Mr.. Miller, and
his aids, L. Roescher and Chas. Kney,
conducted the proceedings in credit
able manner.
A number of residences and saloons
we're decorated and lighted up along
the route from Main to Union, Shelby,
Mccall, Beal and Second streets. The
procession was about half mile in
length, and presented brilliant appear
ance beneath the glare Of burning
torches. The transparencies carried
in the procession were of a modest char
acter, and calculated not to give the
slightest ohrense, to French residents,
whose country is so trampled upon and
crushed. 1t was evident that our Ger
man fellow-citizens felt, in their hearts,
not only feeling of gratitude to Provi-
dense for peace, but pride in the war
like prowess Of German soldiers, who
went smashing things from the Rhine to
the Seine, from Woerth to Paris, and
their blood kindled with enthusiasm at
the soul-stirring words of one of their
great poets:
"Was list das Deutschen Fatherland2
list Preussenland2 LIST Switzerland?
Ist wo um Rhine die Rabe bleht?
Ist wo UNI Belt die Nave Zeiht?
Oh Nein, Nein, Neinl
Sem Fatherland muss groesser Sein."
Germany is a great, united and glori-
GUS Empire; but we would prefer to be
able to say: Germany is freel heaven
born Republicl On yesterday the Prus-
sian troops under Won Boil triumphantly
entered Paris and surrounded the Arc
de Triumphe. Yesterday was day OF
rejoicing for victorious Germany and a
day of humiliation for shattered and
conquered France, and the march OF
Napoleon | into Berlin was avenged.
At Cochran Hall our German fellow
citizens assembled to hear an address in
German from Colonel Buttinghaus, who
recounted the ancient and modern glories
of the Fatherland, and congratulated his
republican countrymen on the fact that
Germany was united under the Emperor
William, through the craftsmanship OF
Bismarck and the generalship of Won
Moltke, the Crown Prince and Prince
Frederick Charles. At the close Of his
eloquent address Mr.. Gronauer intro
duced Col. John Bullock, who spoke in
English on the peace and its results, and
the realization of the German dream, to
unite all who speak the German language
into one government.
The bands played national airs, the
Germans applauded, and the scene closed
with songs and congratulations. The
lights went out and our German fellow
citizens retired to their homes, having
celebrated in a most becoming and
creditable manner the end of the great
European drama which has convulsed
and astonished the civilized world.