Year: 1872

mentS were announced, and whilst some par
| took of the sumptuous fare served above stairs,
others kept up the merry making, and the
stately quadrille and the glorious waltz of
Strauss claimed undivided attention from this
time until the small hours came and the throng
dispersed. L c1l


With this grand reception our entertainment
at Watertown closed, and we know that none
of our party can ever forget the beautiful city
of Watertown, nor the fair ladies and other
citizens who did so much for our enjoyment
They showed an unexpected and unequalled
liberality in the grand ovation they gave to the
Editors of New York and of the South, and
Watertown has won place in our hearts where
the memory of her generous people will ever
be treasured with pleasure.


From the resolutions adopted by the Con
vention of New York Editors, we extract the
following:


"Resolred That it has given US brotherly
| pleasure to meet our editorial friends from the
| Southern States, and exchange friendly greet
| ings and social intercourse with them. AS an
association we have been glad to know them,
| to take them by the hand as citizens of a COM
| mon country and members Of the same frater-
nifty, to listen to their patriotic speeches and to
welcome them to the hospitality of the Empire
State. For this high privilege we are indebted
to the Union-loving and honest Major N. ii.
Hotchkiss, and the liberality of the Chesa. &
Ohio and Richmond & York River r. r.
And from the annual address of Mr.. Parker
of the Geneva Gazette, we qnote the following
paragraph to show the manner of our recep-
ton and the warmth of our welcome by the
Editors of the Empire State:


81 may not conclude, however, without express
sing the sincere pleasure which L feel-whlch,
my brethren of the Northern Press, know
you all feel-in the presence and companion
ship to-day of SO many of our fraternity from
the sunny South. A right glad and hearty
welcome to you, fellow-knights of the quill and
scissors-welcome to the hospitalities of our
homes and municipalities-to full communion
in all the doings and pleasures of our annual
reunion. May we forget in the reciprocal joys
of this occasion, that we were other than friends
and brothers, sharing alike in one common her
itage, God appointed to one common destiny


Thanks, thousand thanks, to the glorious
old leader whose generous heart conceived,
whose influence and lndomitable energy have
enabled him to carry out this grand scheme tor
your needed recreation and enjoyment. FOL
low your icaUSE, dHu 1tdi uO AduSOis ONOu
with the same confding faith the children OF
Israel followed the pillar of cloud by day and
the pillar of fire by night, conducting them
safely in their journeyings out of the wilderness
into the promised land. Noble Col. Hotchkisss
never so happy as when surrounded by and
making happy his friends. Northerner by
birth-a Southerner by adoption-a Cosmopo-
Titan by nature and impulse, whom Webster
defines as no where stranger, having home
in every place-and | may add in every gener-
Gus heart that knows him-how much is our
country indebted to him for measures and
means of conciating and healing sectional an
imosities growing out of the regretful past. For
has he not grasped and united in action upon
common fulcrum of peace and good will, the
great lever which moves the world


The next morning we left Watertown in COM
pany with some of the Northern Editors for
Boston to attend the great Jubilorum.


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