Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-04
GREELEY Ar BOSTON.
An Immense Crowd at the Jubilee
Mr.. Greeley Makes a Speech.

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BosToN, Jnly 8.-The concert this
afternoon was listened to BY a very large
! audience. The chorus was not there at
all, if the sound from the seats was to
be depended upon, but the military
| bands made up for all the deficiencies.
/ Strauss was more than himself In con-
Quoting the Wine, Woman and Song, y
Land on the eRcOre, the = Polka OF kra-
! taZ.n Fidal Peschka Leutner sang the
Venzana Waltz with striking effect,
and was eacOred to a repetition OF bril-
| liant passages. Mr.. Kasleck, of the Berlin
| Quartette, gave a fine exemplifcation
of his accomplishmentson thecoEnet, and
English band performed Viviane's pro
eessional march, and the Silver trum-
pets, as played at st. Peter's in Rome,
with splendid effect on the audience.
The Garde Republican band viii Gel
ebrate the Fourth of July by dance at
Dedham, at the instance of Lance
Lache, French resident. They viii
give six concerts in New York and three
in Philadelphia, and will probably visit
Chicago before returning TO Europe. Trl
Horace Greeley was escorted 10 the
pressroom by Alderman jerks, previ-
Gus to the concert, and introdueed to
the ladies and gentlemen representa-
tives of the press. After q few minutes
pleasant conversation, in answer to the
general call he spoke as follows:
1t has fallen to my lot recently, as
you are doubtless aware, to be placed
before the public in somewhat con.
spicuous attitude; that is to say, we who
work for the press and live by press
work, and live in public sight and un-
der public criticism to greater degree
than most people, and yet l think to-
day my position is a little more exposed
to caEil and disappointment than that Of
most Of you. II has been said OF me
and I take it as a great testimonial and
compliment, that while in the business
that have pursued throughout my life,
I have shown myself very fairly compe-
tent, very fairly diligent and successful.
Yet if I were or should be invited into
another line of life, into different, if you
please, higher responsibilities, l should
be found unequal TO them. Wen, ladies
and gentlemen, l cannot well expect to
have anything better said of me by my
friends, much less by my adversaries
than to say that ] have done well that
which ! have had to do. I Applause.
1t would seem a tolerably safe deduc- ]
ton that one who has been doing wen
all his life, that which he has tried
to do, may possibly, may reasonably be |
expected to do well something else, if he
were to undertake it. Some of my crit |
les observe that, although for myself, |
personally, / am tOlerably honest and |
respectable person, yet my associates are |
not very desirable, but are an unworthy |
set. Laughter and applause. I am
sorry for that, because my associates |
through life have been mainly the gen.
tlemen and ladies / see about me lap /
plausel, whose acquaintance / made |
while engaged in the matter of prepar-
ing information for the public press, and \
if my associations were disagreeable, |
can hardly hope to find better ones
in my future life than those l have
had. I trust this was not meant |
TO say that such gentlemen and ladies,
as l see before me, have not on the I
whole performed their work and dis
charged their responsibilities with rea-
sonable fidelity, with human error, with
human imperfeetiOns, with human faults |
doubtless, but still with fair reasonable
human fidelity. At all events, ladies
and gentlemen, with such as you my for
tune has been associated through life,
and with such as you it will be associated
to the end of the Werld. 1t shall say of
me in the end that he was a good print
er, a respectable publisher and an honest
editor; then all my ambition will be sat
isfied. Ladies and gentlemen, Iwill tax
your attention no longer (Applause.l !
FAt the conclusion Of his speech, Gree
ley was conducted to the city reception
room, where large number sought an
On entering the vast au-
iitorium, much enthusiasm prevailed,
the people in the parquette rising to
greet him, and those in the balconies
waving their hRndkerchiefs in recOgni-
ton. Cheers were given and few
minutes elapsed before the programme
could be continnAd