The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-03-17
LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY,
GENERAL GORDON
win Deliver His Famous Lecture
in Lafayette, Friday,
March 80.

Through the intelligent efforts OF
the Ladies' Club of Lafayette, the
people of the town and parish will
have an opportunity to hear Gen.
Gordon's great lecture, s'The Last
Days of the Confederacy."
Arrangements have been made
with the Southern Lyceum Bureau
and the gallant Confederate leader
will be in Lafayette on Friday,
March 80, to deliver his wonderful
lecture. Gen. Gordon has no su-
perior as a lecturer. The Ladies'
Club should be encouraged in their
commendable efforts to place within
the reach of this community this
great Intellectual treat. If the peo-
of Lafayette show a proper appre-
citation by attending this lecture the
Ladies' Club will secure the pres
ence here of other we'll known lee
turers. If the ladies are successful
this time it is their intention to
make arrangements for lecture by
Gov. Bob Taylor.
The following are a few Of the
complimentary press notices of Gen.
Gordon's lecture:
A soldier above reproach, statesman
without blemish, an orator whose peers
are few. was to tell them the story of
time whose smallest incident is the
American can consider. Many hun
dreds of the men present had been actors in
the civil tragedy, no less brave and cour-
ageous, if less renowned, than the man who
was to depict the last of its touching scenes.
And even if it had not been SO, even if every
man, woman and child IN the immense hall
had been free from tender memories OF the civ
il war, and merely came like holiday seekers
to be amused ard entertained, the pathos
and eloquence, the brilliant wit and pictur
esque fancy of the orator would have moved
them to Just such sobs and tears and laugh
ter and spontaneous bursts of rapturous APP
Proval as the sentiment of the occasion in
spired last night.-Washington Post.
He told the story of Lees surrender in a
mastery and most effective manner. He
briefly outlined the early stages of the war,
and rested the burden of his narrative on
Gettysburg and ApPomattox. His humor
story was simply told. More than one in
cident brought tears to the eyes of the au-
dience. All the incidents cited were illus
trative of the spirit of American manhood
WHICH PctVaOeO tne ranks due ana the ranks
gray. Grant and Lee were faithfully pict-
ured. The closing scene of the bloody
drama was splendidly presented. 1t was a
tale inspiring to the young and intensely
realistic to the old.-Brooklin Eagle.
Without a faint of disloyalty to the
cherished traditions of the South, without a
word of offense to the champions of
Northern opinion, he kindles anew the
love of every follower of Lee; he deepens
the admiration, of every Federal survivor
for the military genius and manly
of Grant; and he awakens in
both loftier patriotism and more consecrated
devotion to t'this nation,' which, in the
immortal words of Abraham Lincoln, t'under
God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and
that government of the people, by the
people, for the people, which shall not
perish from the arth".-Agusta Chronicle
General Gordon is a speaker of magnetic
and the scene in the Tabernacle
last night was more like that at stirring
political meeting than at mere lecture.
The audience was at times aroused to the
highest pitch of enthusiasm. General
Gordon is full of fire, and his style of oratory
has Southern warmth, dash, brilliancy and
force not often to be found in Northern
York Tribune.
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