The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-15
IN MEMORIAM.
The Meeting Last Night.
Grafton of DR.. J. Dickson Bruins.
Four Thousand Persons Present.

] To stranger it would appear as though
there was only one common center in our city,
and to that center our people were being
irresistibly drawn.
The sidewalks on either side of Camp
street were crowded with a moving mass, and
it appeared as though the whole people had
turned out en- naasse to do homage to the Illus
trious dead. From all parts of the city,
from the uppermost limits to the lower, they
came by hundreds, and in twenty minutes
the capacious hall was filed. The large
attendance of ladies was marked feature Of
the occasion Ever patriotic and brave they
lent their soft graces and womaniy charms to
beautify and instill nobler sentiments Of the
hour and its ceremonies.
There were there not only those whose
sympathies were enlisted in the cause, and
who had not participated in the event of Sep
TENDER Fourteenth, but with them the brave
and true who on an afternoon one year ago
had charged for their own and their posterity
the howitzers and Gatling guns of tyran-
nical usurpation.
The outpouring last night was an energetic
response to the old saying that republics
are ungrateful." The tender regard, the re-
vering sentiment felt by our citizens for those
who fell, could not be more strongly evil
denced than it was last night by the silent
yet impressive presence Of the elite of our
city, called thither to pay respect to the sac
ri6ces made on Libertys altar, from the
households of New Orleans.
The Hall
On entering the hall the tasty decorations
at once indicated the care and attention which
had been given them. No reckless profusion
of hurried ornamentation, no gaudy faring
of flaming drapery, but only simple yet
beautiful designing Of appropriate flags and
banners suited for the day. Over the center
of the stage rested golden eagle with out
spread wings, holding IN its beak wreath of
white roses, benea.h which hung the white
victorious banner of the Crescent City White
League. just below was a shield, on the
field of which was inscribed, "I4th Septem-
Der, 1874" and below the names of the
killed.
On either side hung tie graceful folds of
United States flags, tastefully looped with
bands Of evergreens. A long testoon of arbor
vitae ran around the stage above frame, as
it were, to the picture below. Company G
of the League had their banner beneath that
of the League itself, its white folds vieing
with the bright lights in purity.
The Attendance.
st. Patrick's Hall has seating capacity of
a little more than thirty-fve hundred. Last
night, however, it was not alone that this
was tested, but its possibilities in the way OF
holding hundreds more The seats were all
taken long before the meeting opened, and
even those who were punctual had to stand in
the aisles and door-ways. In the adjoining
halls and rooms there was pressing tnrong
all eager to hear, if they could not see, the |
evenings ceremonies Many were compelled
to turn away at the door for lack of room, and
it is safe to say no hall in the city could have
held the throng that visited the place to show
by their presence their allegiance to the prin-
ciples for which the day was observed. Fully
four thousand persons attended st. Patrick
Hall last night
ing gentlemen took their seats upon the stage: |
Rev. Drs. Palmer, Leacock, Markham, Messrs |
Blu Ike, Leeds, Allen, Ogden, Lusher, =. B. New
man, Southmayd, Arnoult Col. vaudry, Jas.
Graham, Arch. Mitchell Greenleaf, w. A. Bell, |
Walter Hare, Jno. Payne, Jas. Buckner, E. John |
Ellis, Dupre, Glynn, J. b. Walton, NJ. Musson,
Hoylsnd, B. F. Jonas, Renshaw, Estlin, Dr.
Chopin. L1met, A. N. Ogden, Ferriere, Raymond, |
Arroyo, feathers, Col. Flower.
Amid the most tumultuous cheering and |
applause, Gen. f. N. Ogden advanced to the |
desk and opened the meeting He said:
"Comrades Of the White League, Ladies and
GentIemen-It is my proud privilege to call |
this meeting to order, and l can only say to |
you that / am most glad to greet you. |
would most respectfully ask your silence |
whilst with the Rev. Dr. Palmer we unite in |
prayer"
Dr.. Palmer then, in fervent aud devout
prayer, asked that the Divine Providence look |
down upon those assembled and bless them |
He, in a touching manner, referred to the |
sorrowing families whose memories were, by |
the al niversary of the day, carried back to |
the sad hour OF their affections
When the prayer had closed the band struck |
up the IS ar Spangled Banner" after which |
Gen. Ogden, advancing, introduced to sea |
of upturned faces the orator of the evening |
DR.. j. Dickson Bruins.
The Grafton.
DR.. Bruins, in low, well modulated voice, |
his exordium. Graceful in bear
ing, magnetic in his presence, he had hardly |
rounded his first sentence before the assem- |
blage recognized his ability and paid de-
served tribute to his eloquence and classical |
1ictlon. He spoke OF the Gay with its asso-
1tttlOuS, VI luc ucdu WuOSo LII LII oS nave De- |
come the household words of our people, and |
in chaste phrases referred to their sacrifice for |
their State and people. Waxing eloquent as
be warmed with his subject, he, in fervid, |
glowing picture threw out in relief the noble |
gallantry of their deeds and the worth of the |
glorious cause of liberty and freedom.
He in stately words breathed out the |
nobility of patriotism and warned those who
regard the trespasses upon inallenable rights
with aught than jealous eyes that their future
was sealed. He showed how insult after in
suit, contumely on contumely, had been
neaped upon Louisiana's sons and they re-
NAMED patient how, even when some of
heir constitutional rights had been en-
,roached, they were passive; but when the
light to bear arms, the right to protect and
shield the home and its tranquil fireside had
been invaded, the people in a whirlwind of
ire had smote their oppressors
He then referred to the organization of the
White League and the causes which brought
t about Repudiating the falsehoods which
had been SO assiduously circulated by even
Republican press, which had been once with