New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-21
Tile Ell or coon FEELING.

These sunny June days appear 20 have put
all the world in good lamor; the cOlliery
strikes are at an end and peace reisns in Lc-
high; railroad bellgerents hob and mob to-
ecthcr; even the grasshoppcrs, ashamed of
their brutality in such an amlabe atmosphere.
have lifted themselves in body and gone OFF
TO Canada Visiting delegations of all sorts
are fyng TO and fro ut all points of the COM
pass. dining and winning together, and ex-
changing mutual condolences of admiration.
To-day the fire companies start out to seek
heir fortune as guests, Tomorrow the Journal
ISIS, or the photographers, or doctors, OF oyster
packers. The very peach growers, who in
variably hold a convention this time every year
to grOan in concert and announce that there
will not be peach worth mentioning in all
jersey or Delaware, have caught the cheerful
infection, aud actually came together the other
day tO tell us that they did not know how to
manage the enormous crop % the coming
Summer, and that they expected peaches to
overflow this country and become drug in
the markets of Europe and Canada.
The National Board of Trade in Phila
d,pha might at least have been expected
to conduct matters in practical, unScntimental
fashion, but after some dry discussion of finance
and transportation and rules of trade, they
suddenly met over dinner table, and over
flowed into handshaking and patriotism and
hearty good fellowship and unboundcd hospi
talitv. Chicago sang the praises Of New-York,
and St. Louis eulogizcd New-Oricans, and
Philadelphia assured them that her latcl-string
was out for '7G, aud the least country-town
represented in the Board invited every city
there to visit her. and see her especial elevator
OF pork packing apparatus or Normal School;
and then in chorus they sent hearty messages
to Bunker Hill and England and the universe
in general. Americans have worldwide
reputation as a jealous, bilious, cynical race,
but there never was a people more disposed to
take their ease and think well of themselves
and of all mankind than they are at this pres
ent time.
Seriously. the meeting in Boston the other
day struck keynote of kindly feeling that
has reverbcrated like music all over the cOun-
try. Much has been said since the war OF the
cxpediency and propriety of restoring hearty
brothcrly feeling between the North and
south, and many individual efforts have been
made to that end. But when Fitzbugh Lee
came to the celebration of Bunker Hill "be-
" cause ne iGiu llgnt I'd NE theIe, ana WIS
welcomed with heartfelt earnestness by the
men of Boston, and when the Maryland troops
quietly laid cross Of flowers on the grave Of
the Massachusetts soldiers who had fought
against them, we all felt that the work of
reconciliation had indeed begun IN earnest.
Personal contact is needed more than any
thing else to bring our divided people to-
gether. The great masses of educated kindly
Northerners and Southerners did not meet and
knew nothing of each other during the war;
The North judged of the South by the polti
clans who misrepresented her. and the South
rated the North too often by the measure Of
some few of her troops who degraded honora-
bic warfare. Both parties forgot that in war
times the most savage and lowest elements
ferment and come to the surface. Ii j. time
that they should remember it now, and the