Year: 1875

A lecture by A. W. Spates, lawyer of Baltimore and member of the Fifth Maryland regiment, on GA Southron' s Impressions of Boston "-impressions made by Boston's reception of her Southern guests at the Bunker Hill centennial-was delivered in New York. The following extracts are taken from his address, which was received with applause:

 I thank Heaven to-day that the opportunity has been presented by your centennial to have the North and the the South meet together and understand each other as they never have before. Coming to you apparent strangers, we discover you to be the worthy descend ants of that noble ancestry whose deeds of daring and renown are marked in im- perishable characters upon every page, telling of your noble actions and illus trating beyond the power of description the genius of the people. If upon the 17th day of June, 1875, you commem- orated the laying of one of the founda- tion stones of liberty, you also laid broad and deep the foundation of fu- ture nation on the place shaken by re cent events, carrying joyto the hearts of the sons and daughters of the South, telling them to forget the past and join hands with you in that grand triumphal march destined to astonish the world, plotting out the terrible recollections of that sanguinary struggle which shrouded their homes with gloom and filled their land with graves. I speak from the deepest depths of my heart when I say that no words can utter or sentiments can offer can adequately express my sense of your glorious conduct. Your warm welcome will ever be remembered with the strongest love and affection, and with the certain feeling that if suc- cessful 1n war you have been more so in peace, forcibly demonstrating the fact that " peace has it's victories no less re- nowned than war;" Would to God that the people of every section of that fair country lying between the Pacific and the Atlantic could have seen you as I have seen you. I thank Heaven that 8 better spirit than that of blind patisan- ship is on it's way, and that in many places in the South on memorial day the weeping friends of Southern dead came with the brightest gems garnered in the laboratory of nature, to deposit them upon the graves of Northern and South ern alike.

 But, people of Boston, citizens of Massachusetts, freemen of America, will you not assist in transmitting to pos terity this land of the free and the home of the brave? Anticipating your an swer, the South is desirous of joining hands with you; we greet you as friends, as brothers represented by one flag, hay ing one country, worshiping one God. Oh, if there is any one having feelings of revenge or hatred, let him stife them for the good of America, and future ages will bless him for it. Will you assist in wiping away the tear of sorrow, in healing the wounds of the past, that once more we may be united and pros porous people, and we will show you that we have not forgotten Bunker hill, and Concord, and Lexington. The sons of the South came from their far-off homes to greet you, and you have con vinced us that the teachings of Webster were not in vain, that you recognize and appreciate other sections than your own. Henceforth let us not despair of the republic should enemies threaten it with destruction and seek to obliterate it from the list of nations. Maryland-I think I am justified in saying the entire South-wil be the first to join hands with Massachusetts in striking down that power having the temerity to make the attempt.