The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-05-02
THE BOSTON DINNER PARTY.
Southern Congressman Feted by New
Engllnders.
BosTON, April q

BOSTON, April 70.
The delegation of Southern Congress
men, consisting Of Senators Gordon,
Morgan and Jones, and Representatives
Carlisle, Ellis, Yeates, Whitthorne,
Clark, Hooker, Young, Morey and
Goode, who were invited to visit the
city by the Boston Commercial Club,
arrived to-day, and were escorted to the
Hotel Brunswick. After breakfasting,
the Southern guests visited the State
House, the wife OF Senator Gordon and
the daughter of Senator Lamar accom-
panying. Gov. Rice, surrounded by his
staff in full uniform, received the party
in the executive chamber, each member
being separately introduced. After 60
ing over the State House, the city hall
was visited, where the mayor and several
aldermen greeted them in an informal
and hearty way. Old South Church and
Faneuil Hall were next visited By the
Southerners, members of the Commercial
Club acting as escort to all these points
of interest.
At 3 o'clock large number of the
party accepted an invitation to dine at
the Hotel Brunswick: with the CONNER
cial Club at their regulay Saturday gath
ering. Gen. Gordon of Georgia, Senator
Morgan of Alabams, Senator Jones of
Florida and Gen. Chas. E. Hooker of
Mississippi were present, together with
the majority of the visiting party. The
club turned out in full force to do honor
to the Southern guests. The Hon. John
w. Gambler, president of the club, filled
the chair. Among the most prominent
Bostonians present we're ex-Gov. Rice,
ex-Gov. Castor, Mayor Pierce, Collector
Beard, and Others.
Mr.. Gambler welcomed the guests of
the day and expressed the belief that the
new ers OF good feeling between the Sec
tions would result in strengthening the
common country, and at no distant date
in reviving the commercial prosperity of
the nation.
Senator Gordon made one of-the prin-
cipal speeches of the night, but entirely
devoid of political bearing. He well
coined the return of fraternal relations
between the North and South, and took
most hopeful view Of the national fu-
ture. Its resources, he said, were limit.
less, and with peace and union the indus
try and trade of the nation could not
fail to be built up on permanent and
enduring basis.
Gov. Rice, speaking for Massachusetts,,
extended to the visitors a warm and sin
cere welcome. He spoke eloquently of
the advantages which must ensue from
these friendly visits, ty which men of
both sections were brought into personal
sympathy one with another.
Senator Morgan, of A ALBANIA, followed,
and gave utterance to similar sentiments
Mayor Pierce, of Boston, echoed the
Governors welcome.
Senator Jones of Florida, Mr.. Whit
thorne of Tennessee, Collector Beard of
Boston, Gen. Hooker of Mississippi, ex-
Gov. CASTOR and Mr.. Ellis of Louisiana,
followed in the same strain, politics be-
ing entirely tabooed.
Gen. Hooker's speech was one of the
most striking and powerful of the even
ing. He spoke of the industrial resour-
ces of the South in glowing terms, and
alluding to the approaching emancipation
in the West Indies said that when that
event came, as it would, the result would
be that the great trade from sugar pro-
duction would pass largely if not wholly
to the South, where they had many years
the start in the organization of free Ia