The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-04-19

Iuve, also, in meeting the ofRcers Of the st. Law
renee figate He had graat respect for the Ameri-
can character. clear, hear) Uniting with them (the
to meet together. Until lately, the steamships OF
the Company with which he was connected called
at one American port every month and they had
always experienced great kindness and forbearance
from their American brethren. He again thanked
them for the henor they had done him.
Capt. SANDS said he had the honor Of proposing
toast which would be acceptable to every person
there present, and, whilst some had bowed to suns
in the ascendant, he would turn to one whose sun
for the present had set-Mr. Laishley-the gentle
man who filled the honorable situation Of chief
gistrate Of Southampton when Captain Paulding was
here with the st. Lawrence upon her first visit Gap
plause.) The many expressions Of kind recollec-
tions he had heard from Capt Paulding not only of
the then mayor and corporation but Of the inhabit
ants of Southampton, had often warmed his Capt.
Sands) heart little thinking, then, that he should
SO soon experience the same kindness CLEAR and
cheers) Captain Pauldng had shown him the ad-
dress which the corporation had presented to him,
and which he kept in prominent place in his cabin,
with gratitude, There, see what these good fel-
lows said to me-" He might much enlarge upon
this toast, butt as he was unwilling to engross more
of their time than he already had done, he would
call upon them to drink, in full bumpers, the health
of George Laishley, Esq. QateMayor), and the Cor
poration OF Southampton
Mr.. LAIsHLEY, who was warmly cheered on rising
said The first visit of the st. Lawrence to the
interest to the town and neighborhood, it being the
first ship of the United States Navy that had ever
been seen in our river; and the impression made
upon the authorities, and the inhabitants OF the
town generally, by Capt. Pauldng and the distin-
guished officers under his command, was that of
the highest respect not only for selves, but to-
wards that great country they SO well, and so
deservedly, represented Applause.) There are,
however, circumstances connected with the present
appearance of this splendid frigate in waters,
and the mission of Capt Sands, still more interest
ing (hear, hear) and fraught with far greater con-
sequences, only to Great Britain aad the United
States, but to the world at large coming, she
now does, laden with cargo for the Worlds Exhi-
bition-that marvellous display which may give a
new and mighty impulse to the civilization and
peace of the world-a spectacle such as the world
has never yet witnessed; people of all countries and
all languages co-mingling together, striving to
promote one great object-that Of embellishing,
improving, and elevatng, their common humanity
where the representatives of kings and queens,
presidents and princes, manufacturers and mer-
chants, artisans and mechanics, will meet on neu-
trail ground, to behold and admire both the Won
drous works of God, and the gigantic achievement.
of man cloud cheers). But, Mr.. Mayor, OF
all the contributions from any from every other
country in this vast world of wonders will pro-
duce feeling of deeper emotion, more thrilling
interest, than those hundreds of packages of the
rarest the most remarkable and the most valua Die
specimens of the minerals and vegetables, the arts
and the manufactures of the country and home of
the gentleman whom tonight we are met to honor
the consul of the United States, and the all ant
captain and the disting uished officers of the St.
Lawrence and especially amongst the inhabitants
of Southampton. OF all the incidents Of historic
interest connected with our lovely town, and they
not few perhaps there is not one more exciting,
or more pleasurabe than that the streets of South
ampton were once trodden by the feet of those de-
voted patriots-the Pilgrim Fathers--whose names
and whose deeds will live the page of the world
history, to the latest generation (hear, hear and
cheers) that our ancestors should have actually
shaken by the hand that little band of heroes !;
aad that the Mayfower-that tight little bark
should have started on her tempcstuous, and peri
lous, but successful voyage, from the waters Of
Southampton. The great contest had then began
in this country, between the governors and the
governed-the great question being shall the one
be despotic, the other free!-a contest which,
happily for us, has long since ceased, and with what
result! Where now Is that royal house, with all its
pride, and pageantry, and power! 1t has passed
away. Its descendants have become extinct; at
this day they have neither habitation nor name
amongst the sons Of men; whilst from that hand
full OF prosecuted, expariated patriots the objects
Of their hatred and cruelty, their contempt and
scorn, has arsen still survives, and still ending
itself, one Of the most enlightened most powerful,
and most prosperous empires in the world cloud
cheers) What a lesson through all time both to
to princes and to people, to the governors and the
governed; and, it was well said by that great
and enlg htened statesman, Daniel Webster, as yet
we hardly begin to realize the vast Importance to
human society, and on the history Of the world of
the voyage Of that little vessel that carried across
the Atlantic that handful of men, whose hearts
we're swelling and whose souls painting for
civil and religious liberty. AS they sailed down our
river the 5th Of August, 1910, with barely sutii-
eient stores, proracted was their voyage to pre-
them from starvation, little did they imagine
that on the 18th Of March, 1851, there would be
seen sailing up these waters noble frigate, from
the then unknown and distant country Of their
adoption, commanded and manned by their brave
and enterprising descendants, laden with rich and
valuable productions, representing both the re-
sources Of the country and the industry and skill of
twenty millions Of their children--(chcers); and
when, after their arrival on the bleak and dreary
coast of their adopted home, at banquet at which
they entertained a few Of their friends who had
gone out 10 join them in their exile, all that they
could set before them a lobster, n piece of fish,
without bread, and cup OF cold water, how little
did they anticipate that at no very distant period
that barren wilderness, under the operation Of An
glo-Saxon culture, would not only provide susie
nance, furnsh-with the necessaries, comforts, and
Injuries Of life twenty millions of their descendants,
but enable them to spare Of their abundance, and
port to other nations less favored than them
selves, to the amount Of twenty millions sterling
annually-(hcar, hear); or that from the crcuni-
scribed boundary Of the barren rock at Plymouth
their sons would have their territory
now to have trebled that Of Great Britain and Ire
land, mot including coonies), France, and Cor
sica, the Austrian Empire, including Hungary. and
all the imperial states, the superfces Of which
100000 English square miles, whilst that of the
United states is at this day (not including Califor-
HiHD Que mllHon eiRht hhoushnus OF tnht
her hardy sailors would have all but monopolized
the trade in the monsters Of the Deep employing in
that trade 100000 tons Of shipping and 1900 sad
ors, realizing an average profit Of million and a
half sterling, one million of which is expended in
the increase of comforts and Injuries at home, and
the other half million exported for augmentation
and farther profit TO nations abroad. Mr.. Mayor,
you very we'll member that ii was but late in the
worlds history when neighbors, the Dutch
then, perhaps, the best navigators in the world
performed the voyage from Europe to America by
leaving Amsterdam in the spring Of the year, sail
ing only by day, furling the sails and laying to at
night, on reaching New York discharging the car
90, unrggng the shin, and laying up for the winter
the return voyage being made in the same way in
the following summer. But how il IL now, Not
years, months nor weeks, but days and hours,
measure the distance, 50 that the space between
and America is reduced t. n comparative span.
Now, sir, see how this lengthens the life Of man
that Is, IL estimate the duration Of human life,
not according to the number Of days and nights
man loiters, and sleeps, and groyels the earth,
but according to the number of acts and the amount
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