The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-12-30


That flag, still floating DER us. ...
Now since we've got SO nation strong,
We curious have become sir
And on our railroads all along,
Our locomotives huIn sir.
Our ships go steaming DER the sea-
We steam Il too on land, sir
And Morse and electricity
Are rushing hand in hand, sir!
Yankee doodle, speed the flash
All along the way sir,
rrin Orleans hears the breakers dash
In Fundy's stormy bay, slr'
This nations course cannot be ourbd,
Its genius cannot stay, sir,
For storining Monterey, sir!
The civil world before meier saw
A thing so neatly done, sir
Old lack, TO carry on the war,
The Rough and Ready one, sir!
Yankee doodle was the
That led them ON so handy
The fiers flied, the drumiers drummcd,
Old Yankee doodle dandy.
We calculate New England
Will always be our home, sir,
Wherever else, in this broad land,
Il is our chance TO roam, sir;
But though our hearths and affairs there
Have bright and brighter grown, sir,
brother OF our own, sirl
Yankee doodle, good old tune,
The Nation all can sing, sir,
Then strike the chorus, one and all,
And make the wekin ring, sir!
The ninth toast being given, Mr. Washington Hunt,
of New York, responded briefly He said he felt himself
embarrassed in being thus UNEXPECTEDLY called upon TO
respond TO the sentiment generously proposed in honor
of his native State. But his embarrassment dimin-
shed when he considered the intimate ties which existed
between New York and New England, Perhaps no
State largely indebted TO the descendants OF the
Pilgrims for its physical development and its moral and
intellectual progress Diversified is the population Of
the great State to which he belonged very large il not
preponderang part, had been derived from New Eng
land emigration They brought with them the virtues OF
their ancestorsther ndomtable energy, their ndepend
en spirit, their love OF civil and religious liberty Wher
they planted themselves the blessings OF civza-
ton seemed to cluster around them AT every step, they
hal reared monuments OF social and intellectual progress
and this was nowhere conspicuous than in western
New York, in which he had grown up. Schoo-houses
and churches, internal improvements, and constant pro-
gress in all the useful arts seemed to attest the presence
every neghborhool II New York great and prosper
GUS, she feels-and is ready to Acknowledgements
her eastern brethren have done much towards making
her what she is. Contiguous in territory and next Of
kin by the consanguny of many of their children,
he believed New York and New England would ever
cherish sentiment OF mutual GOODWILL and affection. Ia
conclusion, he would beg leave to propose as sent
ment-- 49,.
Tie Sons of tie Pilgrims. Wherever found, always
the sandardbearers of civil and religious liberty
The tenth toast drew out his honor the Mayor w. w.
Seaton, esq He said that he would not be guilty OF
what he ha avoided even in youth upon such occasions
(ma AZ sPeech He Offered the following sentiment:
would have ever hearl OF the sons of the Plgrims'
To the eleventh toast Hon Thomas Corwin responded
Festivals Of this kind united the present with the past,
In rejecting upon the early history of the northwest,
embracing his own State, he scarcely remembered hav
ing seen school-house church, or steamboat but
that the Yankees were in some way engaged in the
terprise Wherever the descendants Of the Pilgrims were
found they were always fond OF tracing the line OF their
ancestry back to antiquity or obscurty However long
the line OF ancestry might be, it was always found in
some OF the historical annals that great-great-
great-greatg randmoher was a Yankee, or that some
Uncle Jonathan was found in New England with whom
relationship could be claimed The president hal ex
pressed fear that these celebrations might be looked
upon as something sectional There fear Of that
Not TO mention the abors Of the descendants Of the
Pilgrims in arts and science, wherever they went they
scattered themselves abroad widely, and multiplied
population, that there little fear the charge OF
sectional I Mr. then traced the infueace
where else the Yankees hal two institutions, upon
which they looked as the nsess,e, Of s-thc school
these seemed to emigrate with them, To these they
held with the grippe OF death These they had carried
to the west and with them had crossed the Rocky noun
tains They stood upon the shores Of the Pacific;
and If the Yankees emigate1 westward of Oregon,
these they would still carry along with them Mr.. G.
b h eGaa i sna % iss BY
Pilgrims "ocatel,' they wouli still remember the home
Of their ancestry, and emulate the virtues Of their fathers
Hon. r. G.. Schenck OF Ohio, being also called for
unexpected compliment, but that while he felt gratifed
and Obliged by the ausion TO so humble individual
HIMSELF where so many gifted and distinguished gentle
men were present. he thought they ought to expect
deed ne was at loss to know why he might not be per-
nte1 escape unnoce1 altogether He had come there
only to look on quietly, if they would let him. with
sort OF philosophical purpose OF observingand the first
lime il was he had ever had such an opportunity
manner in which the sons Of the Pilgrims accustom
I'd to celebrate their annual and time honored festival
He wanted TO study the habits of the genus Homo"
species yankee" under circumstances where the 'crt
err would be most thrown off his guard, and might most
develop his true character and pecuares
And he had not been disappointed he sad in the genial
md social qualities he expected to discover But he was
prepared for this He had had the good fortune to
zee "New England at home.' He had made his first
yisit to that wonderful "town OF Boston" last summer
md he spoke warmly and feelingy of the kindness and
generous hospitality OF the people there.
II Ohio had not already been called upon and answer
"a for herseanswere1 much better than he could do
for her. in the person OF his excellent and eloquent
rend, her senator, MIR. Corwin)-t might have been
air and proper enough to let her say word through
ZONE other representative But tmght inlecoroas
now and too much like great, overgrown, forward
MISS for her to speak ios in that cool company
spoken to-" "a voice SEQ on ~ Well, il was more
especially forward nasmuch not one OF the elder ais
ers of the companyalmost all of them represented and
70 ably, therehaa opened her lips more than In
ieed some Of them, who could 50 well be heard II they