The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-04-10


sa,vs hosdin our mdstwh all the kindness and
homeliness Of family representative 81
England; one sir, whose name pom 10 literature ana
who we feel and know would Join with US. did occa-
sion serve 10 those investigations into the history OF The
past, that would 80 soon unite US with common pur-
pose upon common ground,
propose then. Mi. President. as toast
Sir Hsary Lytion B'arU: The missionary Of kin.
Of Ss sad s Of
thought May these be the effective pledges Of
tual and unbroken friendship between his people and
people
This was received with hearty and continued greet
ing, after which Sir Henry Bulwer arose anu said;
That in rising after the senator from Massachusetts, he
speak s alter he great Mr. burke said only
task BY exclaming. Gentlemen. beg say duo to
would suit him especially for his very profession that
of silence nevertheless, there one feeling that he
would not omit to give uerance to, nor even allow the eo
quence of his friend the senator OF Massachusetts,,
express for him. namely. the warm and lively gratitude
which he felt for the sentiment which had just been
kindly proposed and so aaiterngy received i he had
wanted any illustration OF the fact that the people OF the
United States and the people OF Great Britain ought to live
terms of the closest friendship with each other he
should have found such illustration in an anecdote re-
lated 10 him during dinner, by his friend to the left
wandering day." said that gentleman, "in the
woods Of Baden and lost my way when luckily met
lard, Duchman Italian, this accident would not have
helped should neither have got back to my road,
home to my dinner but the strange gentleman an
Engshman he gave me English answers to my questions
in English. and. understood each other we were
OF one country, we soon forgot not" Exactly
the law Of language is the law Of God and they who
cut each others throats II any two people in the world
should dwell together in peace. was those whom you
have coupled in the toast just given, and who were
already drawn closer together by the very fact that ii had
been given He would furthermore say that if treaty
Of eternal peace to be contracted between these
people, there was no place 50 proper for signing and rat
ifiuO traat tn uhic
any witnesses who could duly testify to its proprety
society dedicated to the purpose and pursuits Of his
Yes, it was history which united the two people in
question, by giving to both property in things
imperishabe. Hence were gathered round their heahs
the household deies and breathed into their ears
in infancy and age around their cradles and over their
biers, the same holy names The lusrous Alfred, to
whom both countries indebted for their old Saxon
indebted for their speaking the English and not the
Spanish language the brave and polite William, who,
while defyng the great monarch Of France the CONT
nent lay at home, in the recognition OF the great pnc
pies OF civil and religious liberty, the OF
every solid edce of free government and he knew that
he had only TO mention civil and religious liberty in
Maryland, in order to excite the warmest enthusiasm y
the great Princes and not only they Shakespeare and
Milton. Raleigh and Bacon, Coke and Littleon, New
ton and Locke, Blake and Electromagnetic these, and
others almost equally worthy of mention, though he
should not then enumerate them. in their fame
and much the inheritance OF all there present,
as his ownwere dear and familiar TO every American
heart. to the heart Of every Engishman the other
side OF the Atlantic But whilst he dwelt on those in
whom the history Of the past gave Engshmen and Amer
leans opartnership and proud OF them, he was
proud also TO that shoots of the old tree trans
planted they grew up in the original form, and brought
forth ru OF the original character and Tor this reason
England and whom future history, nevertheless, would
claim altogether American. Where, indeed could he
find in Old Eng land senator and orator clear and
concise in his logic copious and noble in his illus
traons, extensive and profound in his requirements
than the senator and orator from New Englandthe great
the almost incompatible Daniel Websieri And where
amidst the statesmen OF his country, for whom he
felt periodically paralwhere could he point 10 states
man more gallant IN his bearing, more chivalrous and
heart stirring in his eoquence, mild and mode
in his counses than he who united the experience
of Nesto with the spirit Of Achilles the knight and sage
OF Kentucky--his able, amabe. and universally beloved
friend, Henry Clay whose absence the only draw
back to the pleasures OF that entertainment
And if such were American orators and statesmen,
such also were American historians and warriors He had
for his part never had adequate idea OF the achieve
mens Of those great Spaniards who first carried the
and the sword into the New World until be had read of
Herman Cores in the page Of PRESCOTT and vet Just al
the time when appeared TO him that the heroes drawn
that great artist machless il not fabulous there
on the very country which he had taken the subject OF
his immortal work. equalled or surpassed by their
PLOTS those whose marvellous deeds he had been de-
scribng. gentleman had spoken OF Agncourt The
name had suggested to him (Sr n. Bulwe) singular
coincidence applicable to the topic he then speaking
Oh October on the plains OF Picardy in France There
i were that occasion the English forces, few in
bers fatgued by marching enfeebed by sickness, and
surrounded by great and gallant army, confident in
victory that IFS chief previous giving the signal for
the onset herald 70 the English leader to bargain
for his ransom. That leaders answer had been thus
| given:
\ go tell your master here lam;
My ransom is this trail and worthless trunk;
My army but weak and sickly guard,
/ But God before. Tell him viii come on
and on went King Henry and his gallant band, and off
went, though not without fight, the Wanting enemy
/ II was great victory, and won St. Crspin's day
Well, in is47 fought another battle in a valley in
Mexco and this time the descendants OF those who had
fought and conquered four centuries previous
their had been the occasion alluded to, few
in numbers fagued by marching, enfeebed by Sickness
and encompassed by foes, who like the confident and
over-lusy French" felt of in the ap-
preaching contest that their commander sent TO the
American commander, summoning him TO surrender at
discretion. Did gentlemen remember the that
returned to this summons ! They ought TO do so. II
would live in their history II he (Sir H. Bulwer)
membered rightly, II ran thus:
"HEApouARrERs, BUESA VIsrA, Feb. 70.
"SR, In reply your OF this date, summoning
surrender forces at discretion, beg leave 10 de-
cline accedng to your request.
al am sir with greatest respect your obedent SER
| want, -
This not poetry, but il stout and sterling old
Anglo Saxon prose; and il was followed up in an Anglo
Saxon Again there great victory, not this
time the day OF ST. Crispn, but the birthday OF
Washington But did not the old battle OF Agncourt
resemble the modern battle Of Buena VISTA Might not
they, who proud OF their fathers having been
be proud that they themselves had been at the