The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-02-28

| Richmond, endeared by the ties of home
and all the associations OF later life, is now
to me that
| \ "spot of earth supremacy best,
| A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest"
Mr. Chairman, better day is dawning
for cities in the South. While elsewhere
great cities have arisen-the centres OF life,
energy, and enterprise in the South ad-
verse causes have hitherto retarded their
growth. State legislation is still somewhat
unfriendly, but the prime obstructing
causes have now ceased to exist, and our
people begin to realize the value to sur
rounding territory OF large centres Of con-
sumption and distribution, and they will
now foster and develop their own cities.
Richmond and Charleston, each the me-
| tropolis OF an extended territory, will start
| forward on new careers Of enterprise and
progress, and will become themselves large
centres Of population and wealth, and will
yet bring prosperity and plenty to their
now Impoverished States.
The tale of these two cities is soon told.
Daughters Of illustrious lineage, they have
| each been tried by seyerest Affections.
.sLoveIy and pleasant" in their unclouded
! days, in their adversely they "were not
divided" In the coming era OF the New
South may they be united in their prosper
| ity.
Adjutant Sterne brought down the house
in uproarious laughter and applause by the
following speech:
We have been taught in Virginia that
among the many accomplishments possessed
by Virginians, South Carolinians, and North
Carolinians, the Virginians excel in speech
making, the South Carolinians in war. and
that the North CaroiinianS, while they have
both these arts reduced to avery fine point,
yet are most effective at the banquet-table.
Being myself one half Virginian and the
other half South Carolinian land il there Is
ANYTHING OF which am prouder than that
am one half Virginian, it is that the other
half is South Carolinian and to make my
banniness complete / only need third and
heffer half. which il had the selection OF
should also be South Carolinian). it might
he expected OF metz be half orator and half
warrior; and so doubtless I should have
been, but outside influences, over which /
had no control, forbid. 1t so happens
that several OF my OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
large majority Of them-Were born
In North Carolina. / could not prevent
that. In fact, was not consulted as to the
State in which they should be born, but
born they were, and find that l have
OfCI ohSh AuoSAAeSN
directly from my grandparents their pecu-
liar weakness for the banquet hall.
Being then neither orator 'aascttar nor
warrior fit / am tit for nothing. especially
at Q O'Clock in the morning, except to pro.
perly represent the Walker Light Guard,
whose members being too young to have q
war record are not warriors, and whose
tongues always get too thick to make
speech, and it was doubtless because OF my
fitness as a North Carolinian that have
been designated by Captain Binford to re-,
spond to the handsome toast to his COM
ipanys
The company has instructed me to ex-s
plain and beg pardon for an erroneous inn
preston under which 1t has labored since
the. 9th Of April, 1865, which, as startling
as IL may appear, was that the Father OF his
Country was d failure that he at least conn.
mitted i great mistake In establishing us q
Sfree and independe nt people for the thriving
Yankees to capture and treat as no civilized
people have ever beer treated before.
We have in Richmond an equestrian