The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-12-23

0srs- shn1I Whole
country OF which he is Citizen Sir mast word in
co injection with that which have assembled to
mmemorae. II has seemed III TO the jewellers in New
rk Yankees by birth descent to form this society
the have formed for the relief OF the poor andithe dis
tres se and for the purpose also of commemoratng
ally the great OF the settlement the country from
viii ch they sprng-(cheers) II would be great pre-
pon in me to back to the scene Of that settlement
OF to attempt TO exhibit IT in any colony after
the exhibition made of ii to-day yet it is an
event that in all time since, and in all 10
come and more in times TO than past must
stand out in great and striking characteristics the adj
irai ion of the universe The SIMS return his winter
sotce in 1920 is the epoch from which ne dates his first
aequ aintance with the small people now of the hap
piest and destined 10 be of the greatest that
his rays fall upon oud cheers)-and his annual
visitation from that day 10 this to frozen
region has enabled him TO that progress pro-
,ess which shows the characteristics of that small peo
Pile He has them from ahandfu that of his
beams coming through key hole could illuminate and
sSe bee ANN he bas ne changer
though this globe shall revove round her for tens Of thou
sands of wears 10 see another incpent colonization upon
any part this attendant upon!his mighty orb (Chees
What else he may see in those other planets which
voye around him. we cannot tellat least until have
tried the fifty feet telescope which my Lord Ross pre-.
pairing for that purpose daughter and cheers) There
is not gentemen-and we may well admit tin any
great events have taken turn and while iml
Portant to us are not unimportant to the coun.
ny from which we came (Cheers) The settlement
of Plymsuh-coAcurring, always wish it to be under
stood with that OF Yrgniawas the settlement of New
England, by colony from Old England. Now, Gentle
men take these ideas and out the thoughts sug
gested by both What has been and what is to be Old
the providence Of God, New England j would not
dwell gentlemen with any particular powerupon the
great diversity in the races of do not know how
lar in that respect might not encroach on that admins
ration Of Providence which, while adore, ] cannot
comprehend but does seem TO me to be very remarka
hle that may go back to the time when New England
orthose who founded IL were subtraced from Old Eng
land and New and Old England went on nevertheless,
in mighty career Of progress of power Let
begin with New England for moment What has result
ed embracing as say the nearly coiemporaneous
settlement of Virgna!whe has resulted from the plant
ing upon this continent of two three island colons
from the mother country Gentlemen, the great epitaph
commemorative of the character and worthy of the disco
veries and glory of Columbus that he had given
new world TO the of CASTLE aud Arragon.-
\ great mistake. II does not come up at all
10 the merits of Columbus, (cheers). He gave the
territory of the Southern hemisphere the of
Caste and Aragon but as place for the plantation of
colonies place for the habations of place
which laws and religion and manners and science
were TO be place in which the
OF God come TO be multiplied and fill the earth Columbus
gave mot to CASTLE and Arragon he gaveit TO the old
world-he gave it to universal loud cheers)
from this seminal principle and from hundred Saints,
shores of Plymouth and elsewhere along the
united as have said already than once with the
settlement at jamestown, have sprung this great people
do not rank myself among quite the elders of the land
and yet II so happens that very recently recurred with
some dissatisfaction TO speech Grafton of my own,
lions opeople could hardly persuade myself that with.
in that short period had doubed and the present
ment does exist most unquestionaby, as great a pro-
liability of the continue progress of the population to
The sameextent as has existed in any previous
not know whose conjecures, may almost say wild
enough to tell what may be the progress of this of
things IN hall century to come-Qoud cheers) All we
know is that here is people of twenty mil
hons intelligent educated reeholders freemen republ
cans possessed OF all the means of modern improv
modern science arts literature with heworld before
there nothing to check them till they reach the shores
oil the Pacific, and then they much accustomed
water that that's facility instead obstruction
daughter and loud applause So much for this branch
% the English race but what has happened meanwhile
70 England herself since the departure of the PuIitans
IRON the coast Of Lnconshire-rom the English Boston
entemen in speaking of the progress of English power
auth9rty and dominion from that period to the present
shall be understood of neither entering into
any defence or any accusation of the policy which has
conducted her to her present state As to the justice of
her warsthe necessity of her conuuests-the propriety
ofthose acts by which she has taken possession of so
great portion of the globe is the business of the
present occasion to enquire But speak OF them, in
tend to speak OF them, as facts Of the most exraor
binary character included in the history of any
nation on the globe, and the consequences of
which may and must run through thousand ge-
nerations The Purtans left England in the reign of
James the First England itself had then become
what settled and established in the Protestant faith and in
the quiet enjoyment of property, by the previous
setic long and prosperous reign of Elizabeth Her
cessor was James the Sixth, of Scotland--now become
James the First of England and a of the
crowns but not of the kngdoms-a very important dis
tnction Ireland held by military power and you
cannot but that at that day whatever be
untrue in recent periods her history Ireland
held by England by the two great potenciesthe power
spects, England nothing like the England which
now behold Her various possessions were quite ncon-
siderable. She had some hold of the West India Islands.
She had Nova Scotia, which King James granted be-
lleve about seven times "a laugh and granted for
knghthoods and forth. And what has been her pro-
gress2 Did she then possess Gibraltarhe key Of the
Mediterranean Did she possess ports in the Mediterra
mean itself Was Malta hers Were the onian Islands
hers Was the Southern extremity of Africa hers
Did she possess the Cape of Good Hope Were
the whole of her vast possessions in India hers
lowed the western under its guidance and committed
itself to the duty of settling ferzng and peopling
unknown Wilderness were pursuing their desnie other
under the direction Of Providence were leading
English power eastward and southwark in consequence
and by means OF her naval authority and the extent her
commerce, until in day have that within the
hedterraneanon the western coast Of the extremity of
Arican Arabian the neither India and the further In
she mas population ten tmesi as great as all that
which fills the British isles. And recently will say
with how much truth and ustce-policy impolicy-I
VIII not speak at all of the morality of the action only
speak OF the factshe has taken China
has carried the christian religion and the Protestant faith
TO the shores of three hundred millions of people whose
gates had for many centuries shut the civ
and arts OF the rest of the world II has been said that
Mhoso would see the Eastern world before it becomes
western must make his visit soon because steamboats,
aud omnibu,es-commerce and all the of Europe
extending themselves from Egypt to Suezfrom Suez TO
The Indian Seasand from the Indian all the
pored regions of the applause Now, gentlemen
do not know what practical views results may take
place from this great expans of the two branches of
England. II is not for me TO say. only that on
this continent all is TO be Ango-American from Plymouth
itock TO the Pacihcfrom the North Pole California
that is certain and in the eastern hemisphere only
that you hardly place finger on map of the world
and be an inch from English settlement applause
there be any thing in the supremacy of races the
truth in the idea that those who issued the great
Caucasian TO react Asia they on
the whole western world il may not be for us
children, nor our chidrens children TO but it will
be for our descendants of some the generations
70 see the extent Of that progress For myself belev
there viii be limit fit to be assigned by the human
mind because find work every where both sides OF
the Atlantic in various forms and degrees restriction
various degrees the other hand OF stimu
lus-l found at work where, the great prin
cple Of the freedom Of human thought and the respecta
bilty Of individual character Great applause) find
cherry where an elevation Of the character OF
find, every where elevation of the individual
as component part of society. find, every where
arebuke OF the idea that the many made for the few
and that government is anything but agency for
kind. NpplauseJ And care beneath what zone
frozen, temperate or orrdofwhat complexion white
hFownl care not under what circumstances of climate
or cultivationn can find Of men in a spot of