Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-08
Z UMMU NIEATED.
scraps from my Note Bo0ix---EHe LATE
session Ovation,

FAIRFAX, G. H., VA, july 1.-THE late
Boston ovation and reception of Gen. Fnz:.ugh
Lee,aud accompanying military, with its display
aud speechlylug OF the tablcau yiraut 10 ali ul
which Certain newspapers and classes are sing
lug mln OF praises, were all we'll enough ia
their way. The Bostunians, where they have
purpose to serve, know how to be civil to in.
Vltcd guests, when those guests went cast 10
swell the pageant Of b Jstou : renowu aud gori-
fication. Having accepted and gone up, it was
proper and right that Southern gen.lerueu
should, on such an OCCASION, reclprucate the
clvlllIy, While on the part Of the former it may
have been just as Freuchmau would be civil
to your face while plotting your destruction on
the gulIlouue. \ Brdouiu Arab would give
you hosptab!c reception aud lodging for the
night but rob you Il few miles from his camp
the next murulng. The kind oil cvllty [ shuu.u
most appreciate would be Tor the Bu,tunaus
aud all acting with them, 10 advocate assures
OF justice aud restitution to u WrOugeI aud
puudered people. What have they done that
the S0uthern people should b. gratclu, or uveu
civil, to them Tor? Have they cot gone 10 tie
utmost extremity OF their power IN attempting
to degrade and despoIl u>? Gen Ettz. Ice
may exchange clsIiucS and say pretty thugs
to the B2stonlans Oh such OCCASIONS Having
gone thcre | would not nave hun appear other
wise than civil aud polite. His utteraucrs. how.
ever, bind nobody, and cud with the occasion
that called them torlk Besides, ior oue
should have greatly preferred his ,e>;imo,y of
reconciliation had ne omitted the aI.u,i u 10
the old Boston political preacher Of the Buckcr
Hill epoch, as they seem never to have gottca
rid OF that class vi preachers from that day to
this, and If there is any Que thing, to ny sense,
more demorallz.ug and dcvllish than a another,
1t Is to CONVERT the pulpit OF GoSpci peace into
political and war nachiue. | say am sorry
that Southern man should have lent his APP
parent sanction to anything 50 degrading and
utterly repul>lve. | want peace always want
ed II, but will accept OF no tinsil nor 'counter-
tclt presenmcut" Oft. Want the ecuuiuc ar
tcle or none. In this country, especially aud
among men here, We should never forget the
tact that there Is but a step from the sublime
TO the ridiculous. L tor cue am NOT So fond
OF kissing the rod that Smote U.s. The New
Eoglanders are suutiug something iu the brc, re
alar They have tried to get along with free
labor, aud to do without cotton as a regulator
OF exchanges for now over ten Years. but have
met with nothing but disappointment and con.
S''1 LUG nuauld uuttIcus. W eli,
grand centennial is coming off Dcxt year,
aud grand national schcmc Will follow, only
you will never know VIVA is designed by what
Is said. ludlrcctlou covers everything, and ere
the coming OF the second centennial the people
OF this country will have travelled all around
the historical circle again aud discovered that
there is nothing new under the sun. "Tha,
which has been is now; and that which is to be
hath already been; aud God rcquireth that
which Is past Ii this be not true then Sul5-
mon did not tell the truth will not question
1t. FAIRFAX.