The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-08
THE FRATERNAL ERA.

Gen. FitE-Hugh Lees Speech at Boston.
At the close of the mayors speech
introducing the noted confederate, Gen.
Lee stepped to the front of the platform,
and was received with the widest en-
thusiasm. q rerfect babel of applause
rising from the vast audience; the men
threw their hats into the air and YELLED
themselves hoarse, while the ladies in
the galleries waved their han7kerchiefs
and clapped their hands. When quiet
was at last restored, Gen. Lee said ;
''Mr. Mayor and Ladies and Gentlemen
I thank you for the most cordial vel
come you have extended to my comrades
and myself. 7 came here with the Nor
folk Light Artillery Blues, a confederate
organization, whose guns have roared
upon many a haTd-fought field. AS we
arrived before your city, this afternoon,
and were steaminR up your beautiful
barber, the first notes that reaehed me
from band of music sent to meet me
were OF that good old tune called Aud
Lang Syne, and felt I was not going
to Boston, but that I was returning
again to a common country and a COM
mon heritage. Applause. I should
have wished that my poor presence
would have passed unnoticed, or that I
NAMED a silent visitor in Boston, When
I ponder that this is the first time /
have ever stepped on the soil of Massa-
chusetts, I necessarily feel some embar-
rassment at addressing such snlendid
audience as is DorOro Eao, but when ]
renect that 1 am an American citizen,
that l, too, am a descendant of those
men who fought on Bunker Hill, I feel
that ], too, have a right to be here. to
celebrate their splendid deeds. TGreat
applause. We come here, fellow citi-
zens, to show that we appreciate these
achievements of these patriotic fore
fathers OF ours-these men who planted
the seeds from which our nation has
sprung. We are here to show by our
actual presence that we are fully in
sympathy with the sentiment which
found expires ion upon the recent deco
ration days. when loving hands entwined
beautiful flowers about the graves of
the soldiers of both armies without dis
tinction. lGreat applause. I recall
that, right here in Boston, one hundred
years ago, a particular divine spoke in
substance as follows I'VE pray the
Lord, If our enemies are DESTROYS to
fight us, to give them fighting enough,
and If there are more on their way
across the sea, we pray thee, o Lord
to sink them to the bottom of it.
| Laughter and applause. Now, wher
| 1 see this magnificent demonstration.
when my eyes look on yours beamine
with kindliness and heartfelt good will
toward me and mine, feel that hereaf
ter, if foreign or domestic foes threaten
our commo n country, Massachusetts, anc
! Virginia, California and Florida would
shout with one voice, eff they desire t.
fight, let them have enough TGrea+
applause. I may be pardoLed if
recall to your minds that, in these day,
of darkness, when the clouds of wa
enveloped your cOmmonwealt my stat,
of Virginia, sent right hel g into you
midst him, who in the language of M
grandfather, was First III war, first il
peace, and first in the hearts of hi
countrymen,' whose character, in tb,
language of Andrew Jackson, cannot b.
too profoundly studied and his example
too closely followed. Washington ap
peared here in your midst, brough
order out of confusion, and saved on
country. I thank you, ladies and en-
tlemen, most cordially, for the name
in which you have received me.
! Applause.