Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-22
hEMPHES APPEAL
THE BUsEER HILL CELEBRATION

TUESDAY, :: JUNE ., 1875.
THE BVsEER HILL CELEBRATION.
The great event Of the seventeenth
nss4ei of as we expected, most enihusi-
asticlHy. The people Of Boston, de-
lighted with their guests, treated them
with an overwhelming hospitality.
Never before in its history since the
battle OF Bunker Hill was the Hub so
sturred up. The parade was, to use a
word 20 often mIssppliedr splendid"
and the speeches ali that the most
patriotic couId,desire. General Fitz Hugh
Lee, son Of our revered hero, speakiT g
in response TO anjalmost overwhelming
reception, said: awe come here, fellow
citizens, 70 show that we appreciate those
achievements OF these patriotic fore
fathers Of ours; these men who planted
seeds from which our nation has sprung.
We are here to show by our actual pres
ence that we are fully in sympathy with
the sentiment which found expression
upon recent decoration days, when low
ing hands entwined beautiful fiow-
ers about the graves Of soldiers
Of both armies, without dis
tinction." And General Kilpst-
rick,'o New jersey, following, spoke in
terms Of warm admiration Of General
Lee enforcing the views Of good fellow
ship he 60 beautifully expressed. But
General Andrews, Of SOUTH Carolina,
responding TO the reception Of the
Charleston Light Infantry, surpassed all
the speakers, aud put so much In so little
space that We lind ro1ml'or al his speech.
He said:
South Carolina receives with the deep
est emotion the greetings Of Massachu-
sets great applause and three cheersl |
an emotion whose tenderness, whose in
tensity, whose amplitude can only be
measured as when twin sister meets twin
sister, and the fiery tribulatiOns, the es.
tranging viclssitudes Of the past, are put |
aside rapplause7, all lost sight Of, all fOI- |
gotten, in the happy auguries OF an IN |
clOuded, and an undivided future. Loud |
cheers. How opportune is the happen |
%
is a Providence that shapes our ends, |
Long and rugged and dark may be the |
road, but in the fulluess Of His Time He /
causeth light to shine, and in ways un-
thought by human ken, brings about re-
suits that ill US with sdmirng wonder
and surprise. Who can fail to be i'm
pressed, that just at this especial juno
ture we should be catching sight Of aud /
coming up to these huudred-mile stones
III the journey OF our common country
at the very moment in our history
when their sight and presence seem 50
so fortunate, so suspicious.
And that this feeling was not confined
10 the southerners is proved by what we
find in the Boston papers. An extract
from the Transcript, in every way arep-
New England paper, will
speak for al. II says:
Never since the days when favorite
regiments of our own were returning,
after long and eventful absence, has the
drum beat along State street rallied to
doors and curbstOnes more eager and en-
WelcOmers. Never were faces
Of OnloOkers more radiant with Joy and
pride, or cheers and hand-clappings
more hearty and contagious. An cleo
tric stream Of sympathy ran through
the crowd pressing almost lovingly and
upon the ranks OF the SOUTH
erners, and the guests seemed worthy of
il all. a finer looking body of citizen
soldiers never paraded in our streets.
Marching beneath their prOudly-b0Tne
flag Of the Union, the southeTners came
hither several hundred miles to re-
jOice with our rejoicing over glorious
deeds Of New EDglanders. Let us be
duly thankful for the spirit go gener-
ously poured out over the land to-day,
making this event possible. As men
and gentlemen, they are again our
brothers; as soldiers, they are under the
old flag of the whole country, and we
are so much the richer by our kin and |
the stronger in our national strength.
The great celebration TO which Boston
gives herself 10 this week will not have
been in vain 10 bring this to realization.
And the Boston advertiser, one Of the
oldest and best Of the Massachusetts
journals, in an editorial brimfull of
genial and generous sentiments, affords
Is 8 concluding paragraph worth re-
and thus happily ex-
PRESSED:
All now, indeed, after so many years
4 arrangement and undreamed Of (
'eyils and suffering, we sse fulfilled that {
plendid and prophetic utterance Of
abraham Lincoln in March, 1861: 1--WE
re not enemies, but friends. We must
lot be enemies-thOugh passion may
ave strained, it must not break our ]
Onds Of affection. The mystic chords
4 memory, stretching from every bat
lefield and patriot grave TO every living
leart and hearth-stOne all over this
road land, will yet swell the chorus Of {
he Union, when again touched, as '
urely they will he, By the better angels ]
Il our nature"
And go the Bunker Hill centennial
las come and gone, leaving memory
( patriotism as sweet and as enduring
s that which Presc5tt's men left to the
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