The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-22
MAeHANIMoUs BOSTON.

MAGNANIM0US BOSTON.
Removed from Bosros by many degrees o.
latitude and longitude, and from the GATE 2.
the anniversary Of the Battle Of Bunker hull
by several days, we cannot feel much q sne
warm enthusiasm which there marked the
18th day of June, he hundredth return o.
the date Of scene as important and as dra-
matte AZ this continent has ever Witnessed.
II was grand affair in every sense. Boston
guests on that day outnumbered her own
home population by many thousands A
warm reception greeted all strangers. Crowds
were poured in by many concentric railways
all the day and all the night Of the 10th, the
influx not ceasing until after sunset OF the
battle day. The hospitality Of the city was
tested severely, but it bore the severe strain
most nobly.
The guests Of the day, whether organized
bodies representing other places, or distin-
guished visitors from American and foreign
cities, or the rank and file Of the citizens Of
New England Or Of adjoining States, were al
entertained and cared for. Whatever the mag
unanimous people of Boston could do to make
the occasion interesting and impressive 70
their visitors was done with characteeiseic
generosity. The details are too extended to
be even summarized in our columns. We can
only refer with grateful appreciation to the
noble spirit which the event developed.
A little more than year ago, in time OF
deep and bitter affection 10 the victims Of the
great food of the Lower Mississippi, we had
occasion 70 record several most philanthropic
donations from BOSTON for the relief Of the
overhowed. Installment came after INSTALL
ment, ten thousand dollars at q time, for sew
eral weeks in succession. until it was officially
announced that donations were ample for re-
Lief We remember well the impression
caused by this open-handed and open-hearted
philanthropy and the expressions Of gratitude
and admiration which it called out We re-
member how little adequate mere words
seemed to be in utterfng the sentiments Of
our people. We, in Louisiana, are therefore
somewhat prepared for the nobly patriotic
spirit of the Bostonians as called out on the
recent anniversary, which showed itself in
marked and emphatic welcome to Southern
citizens and to Southern military organize
tions, guests Of the city. a,f IS q
The magnanimity Of Boston on tho 18th
June went beyond all We had reason to anti
cipate, even under the light Of recent and
signal evidence Of the generosity Of her
wealthy and enlightened people. That on
the great day of her glory, which is identified
with her history, the doors Of her houses
should WOO her friends and stranger guests
With warm welcome is not to be remarked as
singular; but that her people after the lapse
of no more than ten years from the end Of
bitter, fierce and bloody war, could take
their late enemies by the hand and honor
them with hearty plaudits all day long, is
fact for the reception Of which the country ct
large is only beginning to be prepared.
1t would be an error to credit this outflow
Of magnanimity to policy, since, if the dis
play had been possible as an artificial one,
there was no direct interest that could have
prompted it. Nor was the mere impetuous
food of sentiment natural to an occasion Of.
general pride and rejoicing. It was nothing
less than the outspeaking Of genuine Ameri-
can feeling. Those intelligent citizens who
know most of American character can tell by
instinct whether any doctrine or any course Of
action viii please the American masses. The
people of Boston poessss this intelligence in
a high degres. andalsSl ssnsitively everything
which the American people feel now, or will
soon feel. They know that nothing cen be
more grateful to all real, manly and chivalric
hearts than to forget hostility and hatred,
and to accept cordial fraternity instead.
As an evidence of the genuineness of the
spirit of renewed fraternity which Boston
courts and exempli6es, we quote part Of the
speech of welcome made June 10th, by Mayor
Samuel O. Cobb, whose name is familiar to
our readers as that Of the philanthropic
magistrate through whom the princely gifts
of Boston were sent last year to the distressed
in Louisiana:
And now, fellow-citizens, while we solemn.
~ ring out the old century, let MS hopefully
ring in the new. It belongs to the men of
to-day to inaugurate the second century of
our country's life. The omens are propitous.
brighter to-day, think, than at any previous
period. It has safely undergone al the tests
that could be crowded into q century. It still
stands, and may now be said to have almost
passed the experimental stage; at least. as far
as that can be said Of any eerthly polity. We
have experienced all the trials and danger by
which the permanence of nations is put to
the test We have had the severe test Of un-
exampled prosperity and rapid expansion,
and have survived it We have had CONNER
cial crises and industrial depressions of the
seveseot character. We have had bitter po-
litical and sectional strifss. We have had
foreign wars-and, like ell nations that have