The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-04-29

many guises. have just come from visiting him
| as Virginia planter; have shaken hands with
| him as western farmer; have been Toasted by
| him in this very hall New England pilgrim,
aughter;J have dined with him sociaby ~ New
York merchant, and known him well as an Anne
| rican statesman, both in and out Of Office, Zap
plause, and will tell you that don't believe that
there is generous honest hearted saint in
| the whole calendar. lApplause.1 One who 10 moro
willing give his best bottle Of wine to friend or
To drink his friends best bottle of vino If he gives
IT him. i who is more skilled to turn PEN
ny, or more splendid to spend guinea tApplausel
But st. Jonathan, though not solely is especially
vessel on tho ocean, about which ne 70 somewhat
anxious, though it il in reality in no sort ofdanger.
| think see flying from it's topmast the Union
Jack loud applause ! think hear cry OF
"iong pull. strong pull, pull altogether from
That vessel is called the United States renewed
applause and it carries its freight the language
OF Shakespeare. the code of Blackstone, and the
creed of Christ. [Great applause.l Let Us drink,
gentlemen, to its long and prosperous voyage, and
let no wind from the North or from the South i'm
pede its progress or peril its precious cargo loud
There is a French proverb. gentlemen, "Pappe-
| tit pient en- mGngednt," which translated into En-
glish means, Gone shoulder Of [laughterl mutton
driuss doton anoher There is peculiar value also.
as all philosophers agree, in the "rule Of three"
| and as have already proposed to you st. George
and st. Jonathan, viii you let me now propose TO
| 0eAItQ announcer
the place met in-I mean 81. knick1bockr,
| lapplause and laughtcr;1- land don't let US make
| any mistake!
| Isay this, because there were formerly persons
who did confound the Flying Dutchman with the
Dsuil Laughter Now, there il no sort OF
affinity between Old Knickerbocker and Old Nick
ilaughter;] and if you wish to have the difference
| strongly marked, you have only to remember that
whereas the one, according to the best information
have been able to receive. always keeps his vis-
tors psrched and thirsty. [!augbts.l the other as
plenty Of excellent wine, and has taken the great
est possible pains to procure for them an abundant
supply of capital water. IGreat applause and
have thus linked together, gentlemen. est
George. ".St. Jonathan and '.St. Knickerbocker,'
because this good city Of New York may, believe,
s% city Gheh
| title of the "Empirs City" in the Neto World,
our own city Of London, l will presume to say.
| merits the same imperial denomination in the Old
World!
You see, gentlemen, that have thus contrived 10
lead you from the stately banks of the Potomac and
the magnificent scenery of the Hudson to our small
but not altogether ignoble Thames [AppIause.l
Are you surprised at this? Mo-
| "Breathes there man with soul so dead
Who to himself has never said
| This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart has not within him burned,
| As home his footsteps he has turned
From wandering on a foreign strand?"
[Applausc.]
If such there be- am sure he is not in this com.
| pany. [Laughter.]
| For ii this love of country is 80 universal
throughout the human race that it thrills the In
dian hunter amidst the trackless and dosolate for
csts, and ia felt even by the slave who has often
been known, when proffered flight and freedom. to
cling to the recollecons round his masters door,
| how much more must it be felt by every British
breast! [Great appause.] But gentlemen, if
feel peculiar pride in the land of common birth,
il is not merely on account of
| ------------ssThc natural bravery of that isle
Which stands, like Neptune's, hook-ribbed and
paled in
BY rocks unscaleablc and roaring waters
Nor is it merely because that small speck in tho
measureless sea has extended out the vigorous
arms of it's ocean empire
| -"As far as the breeze can bear
Or pillows foam.' Applause
No. it is because see in that brave little island
the sanctuary of liberty and law; 1t is because
marked that, throughout that mighty and ex-
tended empire, morality and religion, commerce
and civilization, grow up everywhere side by side.
[Cheers
There were the Tartar conquerors; they swept
| over the earth. Their march marked by
slaughter, and their trophies raised up by
human SOULS. IApplause.] There were the Ro-
man conquerors; the mghtiest "thcy' Of all anti
| putty; but how does the Roman historian make his
ancient Britons subjected to their sway and de-
scribe the end and aim of all their conquests? He
says sadly: They make solitude, and call that
| peace Long emotion and loud appausc.l Long
will that phrase of Tacitus brand the fame OF his
countrymcn! But we English, instead of making
solitudes and calling that-peace. have made wars
that have peoplcd solitudes.
Our legions have marched through wilder
nesses and behind them have sprung up blooming
gardens and stately cities, (apPlause,] and many
is the fair land in which, since their passage,
brcathes the prayer of christian mercy; in whose
forests the savage scalped his foe ami the wolf de-
miro the great civilized empire; but I admire far
more the use of il. [Applause.] When take up
the map of Asia, and find there hundred millions
of Inhabitants subjected to the British sway, it is
| not this which fills me with pride. am proud
| when think that there is not one amongst that
hundred millions who, whether he be Mahomme-
of Mahratta, or a subtle inhabiant of the soft c-
ties Of Bengal, who does not fly to British tribu
nal as blessed refuge from the persecution of his
| neghbor from the fraud and injustice of his
own race and creed; and 30 when take up the
map Of North America, and there follow out at its
northern extremities that long line which encloses
name, the exutation which fila my heart is small
to that entertain when on inquirng into the laws
and condition of colonies therein situated find
that there s not people on the face of the globd
moro lightly taxed, more literally governed,
who can, though say it, be moro powerfully
protected than our brave, dearly loved, and loyal
brethren. who there acknowledge the bcnefccnt
sccptre Of Queen Victoria.
Gentlemen, as long as see things thus, would
not willingly consent that Great Britain should
| lose an inch of her present wide domain-onc par
ticle OF her present mighty power of rendering JUS
tce and doing good.
| Would that il had been ever thus!
/ Those who have studied the fortunes of these
countries where we now are, know that they were
built up by our hardy character, out of our own
free laws; but when we had raised them to that
height in which they furnished forth good and
noble edifce to inhabit, we unfortunately pulled
down the fabric about our cars and were not alto
gcther undeservedly stoned from the ruins Of our
own work. [Great applause] Yes, gentlemen,
and in proportion to the hardness of the materials
which we had put into that work was the hardness
| OF the blows which received [Laughter.]
will not say that rejoice at that event. kno0
that there oculists who tell you that if eye
s put out tho other the clearer for the loss but
l wouldn't try myself, and wouldn't recommend
any very intimate friend of mine to try this Poly
phemian operation. Applause and laughter.]
| will not say, therefore, that rejoice at this
| event. II would be humbug and affectation in me