The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-07-18
THE BOSTON PEACE JUBILEE IN ITS
NATIONAL AND 1NTERNATION-
AL ASPECTS.

Whatever may be the final verdict of men
competent to decide upon the merits, artist
ically considered, of the musical jubilee now
drawing towards its close, there can be no
question that aside from the object which
led directly to its inception, it has served
several important and valuable purposes.
1t has given the city of Boston an opportu-
nifty to exercise it's hospitality, and it has
given the representatives of other cities, as
well as the high officers of several states and
of the General Government an occasion for
the acceptance of this hospitality. Such inter-
! changes OF courteous expressions and of mu-
tual good wishes among the civic, state and
! federal authorities of the country as have re-
Gently occurred in Boston cannot but be pro-
ductiVe Of beneficial results. The extent OF
our sectional territory is SO great the dis
| lance between many of the communities
! yielding allegiance to our common flag is SO
vast, and the claims Of purely practical cues
| lions upon public consideration are so press
| ing that we ought to be thankful for every
service or celebration which tends to bring
our widely separated fellow citizens together,
to make them to know and to esteem each,
other, and to remind them of their absolute
and essential oneness in interest, aim and
sympathy. Our people meet not infrequent>
entifc convocations they come together Oft
en- in ecclesiastical meetings, and they as
sembe at stated intervals in representative
political conventions. All this is very we'll
but it is desirable that they should some~
times greet each other on ground broader
and more catholic than sicence or the pro-
LESSONS, commerce, or religious denomina,
tionalism can supply, as members of one
great political aggregation, as citizens of one
continental commonwealth, as brethren of
one national family.
But the Boston Jubilee has been som thing
more than national, and the scope OF it's
plans has been grander even than the
strengthening into perpetual durability of
the bonds which make us one people; it has
been international in it's composition and in
it's pervadlng spirit. Indeed, this is the fea-
turn which marks the musical celebration of
1872 as different from and superior to that of
1869. The presence of the best military bands
OF London, Paris and Berlin, in brilliant uni
form and as representatives of the dig nifty and
the power OF three great European sovereign
ties, in the midst OF almost countless cborists
and performers, citizens Of the United States,
has impaired a character to the Boston Ju-
bilee such as comparatively few public Occa-
siOns possess while the enthusiasm of our
citizens in the reception accorded each in
turn TO these foreigners, and the Unstinted
applause given IN recognition Of their re-
markabie performances, has furnished q new
and striking illustration Of the common
brotherhood of the race. 1t meant much
more than appeared upon the programme
when the largest American chorus and Or
chestra ever assembled performed God Save
the Queen" and the "Marsellaise =" and when
the bands of the Grenader Guards, Of the
Garde Republicaine and of the body guard of
the Emperor of Germany played and in re-
spouse to rapSurous encores played again,
the "Star Spangled Banner" That was a !
broad platform upon which in turn Carl
/ar ohn \ limo y,in1 LODI
GeGrge Panlus, Heinrich SAre and Johann
Strauss welded the conductors baton. Then, |
also, there have been opportunities for per- |
sOnal intercourse between these foreign Wis !
Itors and their hosts public and private din |
neTs have been given, various social civiIi- |
ties extended, and many kind words spoken
on both sides. All this will not have taken |
place for nothing. It will not have been in |
vain that the band of the Grenadier Guards,
in charge of gallant officer, was permitted |
y Earl Granville 20 visit Boston, and at a
time, toe, when the diplomatic complca- !
tiors between England and this country I
were more perpleXlng and more difficult ap-
parently of settlement than ever; nor will it |
have been in vain that this celebrated band,
at the very same time, received welcome |
from the people OF Massachusetts and from
those gathered together with them, more
spontaneous, more generous, more enthusi-
astlc than was extended to any other, al.
though 70 one of the bands did or could COM
plain OF any want of cordiality or warmth
ia its receptions. Many circumstances have
conSplred from time to time to cause irrita- I
ton toward each ether on the part of the
two branches of the Anglo Saxon race many
circumstanc, have conspired happily of late |
to heat this irritation and to bring these two
great nations to better understanding of,
and higher respect and esteem for one an
ether, than has been possible since the SEP
arati0n Of 177G; and among the latter, the
Boston Musical Jubilee will prove to have |
been not the least influential. It has also
brought Paris, Berlin and Vienna nearer to
Boston and nearer, therefore, to every part
OF the United States it has demonstrated
anew the universally Of Abt and it has sup
piled one more token that the Creator did |
indeed make of one blood all The nations of
men that dwell upon all the face of the
earLh.--IilaU0Wkee Sentinel.