Our Great Peace Festival and Pow-Wow

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Excerpt from Our Great Peace Festival and Pow-Wow: To Be Held in Boston, June 1869We have not, as a people, commemorated this great event, except in the hanging of Wirz, and the acquittal of Surratt, and my proposal is that this happy and united country assem ble on Boston Common on the 22d day of June next, which being the anniversary of the chopping down of the cherry tree by Geo. Washington, will not cause any unpleasantfeelings to arise in reference to the difference of Opinion existing between the North and South, for the four years prior to April, 1865.The object of this gathering is for the purpose of having a grand Musical Peace Festival and Pow-wow, for a season of three days, in honor of the restoration of peace. My first project in reference to the carrying out of this scheme is the erection of a cheap but substantial board-fence around the Common, eleven feet high, which when done, will form a grand coliseum, capable of holding several millions of people. I have consulted several of our leading architects as to the cost of such a coliseum, and the most unanimous one thinks it can be done for and a tri¿e of ten or possibly eleven cents over. This includes whitewashing, and the puttying of knot-holes, to prevent small boys and unrepentant rebels from looking through. My present object then is to find 743 men in Boston who will give each, in aid of this great work, or men who will give each. This insures a triumphant success. And if the thing works well, I may get up some little ones for ten cents.The scale upon which I propose to carry out the musical part of this gigantic festival is most magnificent, and is called the Fairbanks scale. I shall allude to this hereafter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.