The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-05-22


be in search of information in regard to
the State of Mississippi.
By W A Henry.
RESOLVED, That committee of three
be appointed 10 wait on the Treasurer
and ascertain the amount of money on
hand.
The committee also to ascertain what
what will be the cost of printing $50
copies OF the minutes of this organiza.
ton from its organization to and incIud-
ing the present meeting, and report in
the morning.
Committee-W A Henry, P K Mayors
and A J. Frantz.
On motion convention adjourned till
a. M, Thursday.
MUSICAL AND LITERARY CONCERT.
At night grand literary and musical
entertainment was given at Robinson's
Opera House. The theatre had been
neatly and tastefully decorated for the
occasion. Evergreens were entwined in
every available place and all its sur :.
roundings correspondent admirably with
the magnificent audience present.
A life size crayon portrait of the late
f. II. Cooper was suspended in the pro
conum box to the right of the stage;
and n similar portrait of Harry Moss
WAS seen in The left hand box An in.
scripion mississippi Press-Moulders
OF Public Opinion, spnnned the stage.
The grand overture was faultlessly rend-
cred by the Yazoo City Band, the best
organization of the kind in the State.
Chorus of selections from Mascot and
Pirates Of Penzanoe was given by eight
young ladies and ten gentlemen, with
the queenly Miss Mamie Robinson rs
accompanist. Followed by Miss Cola
Bars address of welcome, as given be-
low:
GENTLEMEN AND LADIES OF THE PREss
ASSOCIATION:
The mission of your lives make you
the distinguished and welcome guest of
all liberty loving people. The object
of your present visit to our Capital city
assures You of a most sincere, loyal and
spontaneous greeting. We greet you
not AS ambassadors from foreign land,
with courtly pomp and studied speech
But we open our hearts and homes TO
you, in we'll merited approval of the no
bic, manly and determined spirit which
animates and prompts you as individuals
and as an association, in your uncensing
labors for the maintainance Of those
dearest of human rights, Civil and Reli
gious liberty. From every quarter of
this broad commonwealth you COM"
From the North, where unduating bills
are clad with waving grain or forest
green; from the West, where rolls n
lordly river bearing upon its restless
bosom the commerce of dozen States;
from the South, our own dear sunny
South, where the splashing waters of
the Mexic Gulf, ref, cts the unequall.d
splendors of the Southern sky. and wh.rs
the mir is redolent from the magnolia
and jessamine blooms.
We throw wide open the gates Of our
city and bid you enter to the fullest GU
joyment of all its liberties and pleasures
We bid You to renew your VOWS of eter-
nal warfare against all that threatens or
attempts to pollute the fountains of jus
tice and of truth. We look with conf
dence to you as the guardians and pre-
servers of those arts, which are best
suited to keep our homes and principles
as holy affairs, pure and unprofaned. To
you is committed the sacred charge OF
keeping alive in time of peace those
heroic virtues of the people, and to de-,
fend the body polite from those dangers
that continually threaten our social
fabric, dangers Which are often more
calamitous',han acts OF an open foe or
any army with banners
AS long as our press is untrammelled :.
As long MS Mississippi can find hsr
greatest and her gifted sons voluntarily
and enthusiastically adopting the edito-
rial profession, we can rest assured OF
the safely Of our liberties and happiness
Yes, of Religious liberty. Civil liberty.
Liberty protected by order and love. In
the pane of the citizens of Jackson thrice
welcome to our midst. We feel that
each one OF us in this city, and each
city of this great commonwealth, has II
vital interest in the harmony of your
deliberations and in the full success of
your plans for future usefulness to your
country. We hope and desire that each
ono of you in returning to your various
homes after your labors here are ended
will bear with you such pleasant reool-
lections Of your sojourn with us, that
no further attempts will be made to de-
prive us Of the seat of State government.
Situated near the center Of the State,
almost equi-distant from our eastern
and western boundaries, with her sail
wraps reaching to every point Of the
compass, Jackson Justly claims geo
graphical priority to this honor over any
other city within our borders. Around
those walls within whose sight you are
convened cluster the most sacred men,
ores of half century. From base to
frieze are written the most thrilling
chapters OF State history. Within them
have been conceived and formed liberal
laws; the first enforcement OF which has
elevated Mississippi to peerage IN the
sisterhood OF States. Those legislative
halls have resounded with the magnetic
elcquence OF our most gifted sons, and
from those doors have gone many able
and heroic men to represent us in the
council of the general government. Let
not the inovating spirit of the age de-
stroy those memories, let not the tradi-
tions of the spot be disturbed, but let
the civic temple be shrine where the
neophyte, in the mysteries of govern
ment. can go and learning lessons OF
wisdom from the illustrious heroes of
the past, fit themselves for the onerous
duties of public life.
Again let us extend the hospitality oil
cur city to you and if it in any way falls
short Of the sumptuous entertainments
you have received elsewhere, the vel,
come is none the less warm and true.
May the guests that are now gathered within
these doors
Be cherished throughout life with plentiful
| store.
And may friendship and love be the joys that
unite,
Every heart that beats manly with us here to
night,
And now | have only to sing or to say,
May we live to see many returns OF this day,
And, anoth er year gone together be found.
To renew the warm welcome, we extend to you
all.
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