New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-18

bratiOn. There was oratOry or course ahu
there were various formalities OF welcome,
with becoming official responses; but it was
not in the set speeches or the perfunctory
civlities that the interest Of the day consisted.
If the chief address was not commensurate
with the dignity Of the occasion. that was
little matter and will soon be forgotten; the
real observance of the Bunker Hill Centennial
was in the unprecedented and deeply signifi-
cant Outburst of popular feeling.
Indeed, we are not sure but that the features
of the festival which history will describe with
greatest satisfaction, the salient and most
memorable demonstrations of these two or
three important days, were certain quiet anu
transformations performance in Winthrop-square
on Wednesday, of which many of the citizens
of Boston perhaps knew nothing until they
read of it in this paper, and the scenes IN the
Music Hall on the same evening, OF which we
have published terse and graphic account
by Bayard Taylor. The Maryland soldiers, on
their march to the Common to receive flag
from the Grand Army of the Republic, turned
aside to pay q graceful tribute at the monu-
ment of the Federal dead; and when the
soldiers and citizens Of Massachusetts,, Nir-
GINA, and South Carolina came together at
the Music Hall, the official words of cOmpli-
ment and hospitality were drowned in great
overflow of spontaneous fraternal feeling. The
Boston organ looming above a miniature forest
of palmetto, the Confederate veterans OF
Charleston waving the old revolutionary flag
of Eutaw in the shadow Of Faneuil Hall, the
strains of Dixie and "Auld Lang Syne"
mingling with the shouts of a reunited and
heartily recOnciled people, who had been
enemies not only through the brief accident OF
four years war, but through the intense
inherited bitterness of ancestral anlin0sity,-
these were the scenes and incidents OF the
Bunker Hill Centennial, which klndled all
over the United States the deepcstA'nterest
and the livelicst gratitude we know 'hat
on days of general excitement, when gun
powder, music and elOquence are abundant
people sometimes give way to an ELUSIVE sort
of indulgence which means very little; but no
one could listen to the cheers which greeted
Fitzhugh Lee when he claimed in the name OF
the South right to share i'll the glorious
legacy of Bunker Hill, or the shouts winch
shook the building when the Mayor named the
commander of the South Carolina regiment, or
the applause bestowed in an equal measure
during yesterdays parade upon the hero OF
Atlanta and the veterans of the Rebel army,
without feeling that here was certainly the
genuine expression of sincere and we'll
founded sentiment.
How could we better celebrate the centen-
NAL anniversary of this memorable battle than
by Just such demonstrations of the new spirit,
binding together the union of States which the
heroes of Bunker Hill died to establish Until
now the work of 1875 has not been perfectly
accomplished. 1t took eight years to make us
an independent people; it has taken hun
dred to make us one. But henccfOrth we can
honestly wear the motto which was once little
better than a SATIRE" Liberty and Union, now
"and forever one and inseparabe."