The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-03-02

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wee following from shc Brooklyn Eagle
"A the best and fullest report OF General
Fitxhueh Lees Brooklyn speech that has
vet appeared, and sill be read with no less
sntercst because neomes to hand late:
Cslovel Austen, Soldiers OF the Thir-
feentla and Genslemen,-I rejoice that we
meet here tonight In peace. rejoice tnat
the drums tbrsb no longer IN spirit OF
war. rejoice that the spear Is Idle now,
and that the crimson tide OF battle eoDs
and flows no longer In this Union. APP
plaf,se.l The white wings of peace are
spread over us. and we are here to-night
not so much as citizens OF New York or
Virginia as OF Americans equally Interest,"
ed IN making the great republic what oui'
.Sorefathers intended 1t should be. III
stretches from the northern lakes away 10
where the great Father OF Waters rolls
ifs tribute into the gulf. AS l heard
once said, it Is bounded on the north by
Ice and on the south by bananas, and any
body that attempts to enter IL from either
side is very apt to slip up. Laughter and
nuplause.1 II is great and growing ana
prosperous republic, and we OF virginia
recognize that we are part OF this great
American nation, and that we are only IN.
fercsted, as every State In the Union should
be. IN making its component parts healthy
and prosperous and peaceful. lApplause: j
This cannot be done by you gentlemen cali
ing us rebels voices, " No, no y, and II cam
not be done by us calling you "cantankcr-
Gus Yankees" [Laughter] We cannot
use these abusive words any longer. The
-spirit OF peace and reconciliation Is dawn
ing upon US, and il Is determined to sweep
from one end OF the country to the other
and make itself felt in the national contest
for the Chief Magistracy OF this Union.
When Wesley got TO the gates OF Heaven nc
asked, IL IL said, whether there were any
Methodists there. He found that there were
no Methodists, no Baptists, no Episcopal
ians, and when ne asked who was there
the answer came back full OF tender
Datbos. "Christians," and straightway the
gates were opened. I trust that whatever
States we come from in the great future we
shall be able 10 say we are American citi-
zens toiling together in peace and love and
unity. lApplause.] II has often been my
lot, gentlemen, TO stand upon some dark
morning watching and waiting for the
coming of day, and have seen the clouds
gradually become lighter, and at last the
great orb OF day has burst forth In ali the
splendor OF its unclouded majesty. i see
here tonight dawn OF reconciliation and
friendship and fraternity that we have
watched and waited for. Ii has at last
come; and trust its light will swell I'M
ill il shall permeate every State in the
Union. [Applause.] We have great duties
to discharge in the future il we would per-
petuate Republican institutions. Great
shoals lie in our path, and they can only be
avoided by the best efforts OF our citizens.
I recollect very well the bitter feeling which
the war engendered. Many of us on our
side lost our dear friends, and your dead
have little mounds dotted through my own
State: but time is a great healer. These
things can now be properly understood.
We OF the South had a different political
education from you OF the North. Our State,
for instance, when it entered the Union
stipulated that when il felt aggrieved it
should be privileged to withdraw. You
were educated that the Union should
never be divided, and we are getting
to be a little differently educated than we
were. [Applause.] When your senator's
withdrew from the Senate for some reason
OF another, we were watching you in Vir-
ginia to see II YOU were going to secede.
ELaughter.] We have got rational guard
down there watching the Union, and we
knew that in 1861 the trouble began by
senatorial Withdrawals, and we were pre-
pared to resist anything OF this sort.
laughter Virginia did her share in
colonial times toward the formation Of
the great republic. In 1916, when 3d.
900 British troops crossed from Staten
Island to where Brooklyn now is, they
found $4,000 there under Sullivan and
Putnam. The English were largely in the
ascendency, and the victory was upon
their side much more than upon the other.
But the next day the command OF Amer
lea was assumed by one born iii my State
whom we call " first in peace, first in war,
and first i'm the hearts of his countrymen"
Iapplaiisel, and he generally took the
Amepwn soldiers away from Brooklyn,
whitehall that time, as now, was pretty
hot place. laughter. Virginia has
given YOU Jefferson, Henry, Marshall,
aud Madison, and when man
was wanted to pour oil upon the
troubled waters she produced Monroe.
She is ready. II you will raise a national
anthem and send II down we will catch it
down there and let it roll over the sparkling
surfaces OF our rills and rivers. We will
make it look as though 1t had been swept
Into the heavens and send IL back to you.
"The Star-Spangled Banner, long may it
wave DER the land Of the free and the home
OF the brave" We desire that the Ma
tional Government, which holds its pro-
tecting shield over you, shall hold it over
us. We fought to the best of our poor
ability, and IL the Government would
recognize that and trust us rs &C.
equal citizens, we would say: "fhy
gentleness has made me great" Zap
plause.l Virginia is going forward
once more. She is increasing in manuiac-
lures and population, and we want you ia
help us to catch her unframed waters and
send them splashing over the wheels OF
commerce. (Applause.] am delighted Ia
be able to 60 back to my State and tell them
OF the kindness we have received here. !
do not know that / could conclude more
appropriately than with the paraphrase:
When deaths dark stream ferry DER
day tina, surely shall come
In heaven above IN ask no more
Than Il Thirteenth-New-Yor k welcome.
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