Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-06
THE HEROES GREETING.
WashIngtOn's Ovation TO Hon. Casey
Young and Colonel J. ". Heating.

| WashIugton's Ovation to Hon. Casey
YOuug and Colonel J. ". Heating.
| Washington Gazette, first instant: The
| generous ovation intended for Hon. Casey
| Young, of Tennessee, and Colonel j. NJ.
| Heating, editor of the Memphis APPEAL,
who served so nobly on the rayaged field OF
| death when the demon plague swept through
| the south two months ago, was brought to
| glorious royal climax last evening at Will
| Iard's hotel, and served the double purpose
| of house-warming for Wizards and re-
| ceptiou that was royal that was prepared by
| the citizena of the District of Columbia.
THE RECEPTION ROOM
presented scene of the utmost brilliancy,
and was decorated to the highest extent Of
| tasteful art. Rich lace curtains dropped
from the windows facing Fourteenth street,
| and embroidered lambrequins hung In heavy
| folds above them. The walls were festooned
| with flags and notices, and IN the center OF
the room, against the west wall, a raised car
| peted platform was arranged for the speakers
| and the expected guests. Above this stand
the Prussian and American colors were
draped, falling about full length portrait
of General Grant. The marine band occu-
1 pied a position that was separated from the
| main reception room by the American, Eng
lish and German colors, neatly arranged; be-
| yond them, divided off by lace curtains, was
| the royal banquet hall, which was to be
| visited later on. Choice music was dis
coursed, and the Jets from FIVE mammoth
chandeliers at eight o'clock shed their light
over an assemblage of elegantly dressed
ladies and gentlemen, anxiously awaiting
| THE ARRIVAL OF THE TRAVELLERS.
| II was ten o'clock before the strains of Hail
| to the Chief announced that the party had
/ arrived And as the first notes were sounded,
1 Elk. Governor Shepherd and General Marcus
| J. Wright, who met the guests at the Baltl-
| more and Potomac depot, marched up the
center of the long, elegant room, accompan-
led by Colonel Heating and MIR. Young. The
company arose and stood until the speaker s
| stand was reached, then resumed their seats.
| When quiet was restored
| GOVERNOR SHEPHERD
stepped to the front of the platform and
said: SIT is my privilege and pleasure, gen
| tlemen, on behalf of your friends, the citi
zens of this district, to welcome you once more
| to the national capital. The few short months
| which have interviewed since your departure
| from us have been fraught with intense sor-
| row and suffering to the section of our coun-
| try represented by you-so intense, indeed, as
| TO awaken a most tender and sympathetic re-
Spouse, not only from our own people, but
from those who dwell in other lands In the
midst of the terrible pestilence, which desc
lated tresides and paralyzed business,
who, regardless of danger and death, re-
manned unfinchingly at their posts, mindful
only of the duty they owed humanity. With
pride we greet you, gentlemen, as worthy
representatives. of those heroes and heroines,
and with feeling hearts thank you for the
grand exhibition of courage and fidelity dis
played by you and your companions IN hu-
manity's sacred cause. So long as good
deeds are remembered, so long as heroism
Is cherished, will you and your cO-laborers
live in the hearts of all true men. We
thank God for your preservation, and give
you hearty, cordial welcome to the nations
center.
HON. CASEY YOUNG,
in response. spoke as follows: 81 scarcely
know how to make a fitting acknowledge
ment of the kind and generous reception
with which my friends in Washington have
welcomed me upon my arrival in the city.
and am wholly unable to convey in tei ms at
all expressive of what | feel-my grateful ap-
probation Of the kindly impulse and friendly
feelings which prompted q demonstration of
approval so little deserved by the recipient |
If l had thought that the courtesy you have |
been good enough to exhibit toward me this |
evening was prompted by no higher object, |
no broader aim, than the mere bestowal of a |
personal compliment upon me, Tshould have |
begged you to withhold it; and deeply |
touched as | am by the kind words In which |
L
ferred that they had not been uttered if they |
are only intended to serve the purpose of |
commencing my personal conduct In a period |
of trial and affection to the people Of my sec
ton and the friends and neighbors of my !
home. ! do net feel that deserve any such |
distinction as is implied by the reception that |
is given me, nor any such conmendation as !
Is conveyed by the chaste and elegant Lam |
guage IN which it was rendered by your
spokesman. | only endeavored to discharge |
in an humble manner duty which | thought |
was imposed upon me by the official position |
which CHANGED to occupy, and by my rela |
tons to the community IN which | lived; but |
for doing this l am entitled to no honor and |
no reward that does not belong equally to |
hundreds of others in our stricken city, who |
confronted the terrors of the plague without |
fear, and stood b-avely by its victims, watch
ing them with the gentest care throughout |
all the long, weary days and weeks that it |
held carnival in our midst, walking in dark
ness and wasting at MONDAY While do net |
and would not accept this demonstration as
a personal tribute to me, | do most cheer
fully and gladly accept it as an additional |
evidence of that spontaneous sympathy and |
Astounding charity which showered upon the |
afflicted people of the south untold bene-
factions in their hour of calamity, and which |
have not yet ceased to animate the generous
heart of the north, the east and the west, |
even after the pestilence has fled, aud the |
light OF health and returning hope breaking |
through the gloom of death once more falls |
upon blighted homes and sorrowing peo- |
pie. l am glad to accept it, for the stronger |
reason, for the higher and nobler considera- |
ton, that it furnishes me fitting opportu- |
nifty of saying something of the manner in |
which the noble philanthropy of the north !
is esteemed by the stricken people Of the |
south. If l were speaking alone for myself |
giving utterance to my individual sentiments |
and feelings-my task would be an easier |
and shorter one, for then | should content |
myself with brief and simple expression of |
the sincere thanks and grateful obligation |
which your goodness imposes. but | am not |
so speaking, nor am before you to receive Il |
personal honor or public testimonial of pri- !
vate respect and esteem. | am here as one |
of the Representatives of the people in the |
region recently desolated by the pestilence, |
and speaking in the name of the SORROW
ing friends and relatives Of its fifty thousand |
victims, | tender you, as the only Offering |
they can now send, in return for charity |
and sympathy that knew no stint Or bounds, |
the gratitude, love and affection of the whole |
people of the south, and bid you lay it on the |
altar of broad christian philanthropy, which |
shall fill the land, and a national fraternity |
which shall never be broken. For the accom-
plishmeDt of this purpose which is so near nv
own and every other heart which is alive to |
gratitude and responds to the touch of kind
ness, am glad to avail myself of an occasion
so ausplcious for the discharge of that sacred |
duty, and though have not been commits
stoned for its performance, know it will be |
expected at my hands. since your kindness
has selected me for so hattering an exhibition |
of public esteem. The people of the south,
and especially of those unfortunate sections
which were ravaged by the plague and desc
lated by death-standing In the midst of |
ruin-barely escaped from the doom of utter
destruction, weeping over half hundred
thousand new madeH graves-remember-
ing the horrors of the recent past,
and the noble ministration which mitigated |
the terrors of the plague, and brought hope
IN the midst of despair, turn with fearful
eyes and grateful hearts toward the peo-
pie of other sections of our common
country invoking upon them heavens richest
blessings; for their benefactions lay at their
feet all that their misfortunes have left them
the tribute of lasting gratitude, perpetual
friendship and unchanging affection. Those
who were encompassed by the terrors of the
pestllence, and did desperate battle to stayits
fatal march during all that fearful reign of
death, when it held dominion over so many
towns and cities of the south, will always
bear in grateful recollection the noble, gem
erous men and gentle christian women in