illumination-memory

Updated: June 16, 2025

After this intellectual repast, then succeeded congratulations; the air was made vocal with song; while, through the foresight of the gallant captain, at the evening hour, the sky about the good ship Joseph Whitney was brilliant with those various pyrotechnic displays which must be so grateful to the spirit of patriotic John Adams, of bonfire and illumination-memory.

Jefferson Davis - Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; delivered during the summer of 1858.