New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-21

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but for my.ef that if American history 81 all w9rny
describe the gres; deeds Of the Army OF tne ou'sJ
states viii give the highest possible evidence Oh
its genius. give you. Sir,
American History and American HinorianL
Commodore MoKLEvIR also returned tnanAs
briefly.
The PREsrpEsT then said:
Down 10 A late hour II was supposed that the sub
iect Of the next toast would have honored our teeu
val; but have received note from zen. oeoi.
stating that he was unavoidaby called away W
Washington in order to meet the Secretary VI "~
there at ~ o'clock on this day.
Gen. WE1xoRE read letter from Gen. Scott CIV
in the above reason for his absence and expressing
the highest consideration and good wishes Tor the
Ne~.York Historical Society. Great applause
The PRESIDENT then gave the seventh regular
toast:
history OF the fsht Drunk with enthusiastic sPp1sn'eJ
The President then gave as the eighth regular
toast: s,
The Orator of the D.y-In writing the history of his cOun'
try, he has perpetustsd his own
Mr. R,soRoFr rose, and replied as follows:
Having taken up 80 much of your time to-day, l
have no right to claim your attentions but my heart
leans 10 my lips to respond IN the cordial manner IN
which you receive the ausion TO me. The traveller
who leaves New York. sees no day so happy az the
dsy of his return. Cheers. l have great reason
10 be grateful that selected New York for my home
For where is the hand, Applause where are the tn
fuences that quicken and excite 10 honest action
mere abundant than here Where Is the selrlt o.
universal liberation of universally, where IL it more
marked than in this City, which L. as it we're, con-
nected with all parts of the world, which is, as it
were the representative of all times Ii is not only
in the midst OF friendship and high excite nent that
find ny SELF living here but also in the midst OF every
! eI ioyuent by which | can be surrounded Where Is
nature beautiful than on the banks OF your own
! Hudson, of the Genesee, and the NagIa-where,
too if You turn 10 your history, It Is, as Il
| were connected with the very point and princi-
pie Of modern reformation. culture and advancement,
In liberty II we look to the deeds that have been
been done own soul in the revolutionary strus-
gle no State Of its numbers contributed more men 10
the service largely TO its substance OF all
the States in the Union may say that her frontier,
exposed to the most cruel nvasions was largest In
that struggle New.York stood foremost both in its
sorrow ard in its GROWING victory at Saratoga But
il II not chiefly these accounts that the State of
New York has attained its high place in the history Of
the human 1t is with regard to union. The
idea of union came with the first emgrants from HOl
land. Applause The idea of Federal Union
the first impulse of the hearts of all the descendeDts
of the ancient people Of Holland. They had natural
desire for indt pendence. When once bis connection
with the mother country was dissolved the Holander
painted only for freer republic than that established
in the land Of his pTogenitors Here the soil of
New. York held the first Congress. Here Is the
City Of New York, where Franklin, the great adyo-
cate Of union, received with unbounded ap
plause when he descended the river to report its
resolutions. Why as DIR. Francis has said union
seems to be native to the soil. for the Iroquois
were q confederation. The Government OF the
United States was founded on reason, and
on appeals TO the reason and the great and
triumphant appeal was made especially
through the Press of New York, through the pens of
ia own Jay and its adopted Hamilton Applause
Here too, was the first organization Of the Federal
Government under the great Washington-he who
81 uds IN
try but who stands throughout the world as the
representative of all that is dearest and most
sincere, and most true. Here 1t was that Washing
ton il augurated our Republic at the very moment
when Europe was rocking with the commissions of
revolution, and France just entering on that sphere
OF change which has not yet terminated. Cheers.
OBTAINING you no longer, shall venture to give you
sentiment. | will not propose that our prosperity
should be established on rock for | have learned
that rocks only of modern origin, but | will ven
ture TO propose:
Our UbiOn-Msy it last long the Empire of Love and
Reason
Loud and long, continued applause.
The President then gave the ninth regular toast:
Our Sister societes-Cosboe with in the OF
historical truth welcome them cordially this OCCASION
The Hon. RoBr. c. WINTHROP replied. He said:
Mr.. President: 1t is with real pleasure that have
found myself able, somewhat unexpectedly and at
the last moment, TO be present with you upon this
occasion TO participate in these festivtes and more
especislly, TO listen to the comprehensive and power
full discourse of one whom. you will remember, that
Massachusetts claims. and whose fame she will share
with New York ICheers. And who has just fur
nished brilliant title to be recognized as the
historian Of the whole country Applause. feel
myself Sir, highly hon0red too in having been COM
missoned, as one of the delegates of the Historical
Society Of Massachusetts 70 give to you the good BIRTH
day greeting and congratulations OF your elder sister,
Sir by few years, and by right Of seniority, at
least the head Of the whole family of IA storlcal
Societies. Applause. should do great Injustice
to those who have sent me here, il were not to
you Of the sincere and earnest delight which all
take in the singular manifestation OF your prosperity
and progress which this occasion has afforded.
[Appause Sir, if might be pardoned for borrow
ing expressive Orentslism and for playing upon it
little would venture to wish that your association
might flourish Ike the palm OF the plain and also
that it might fail TO supply to all who repose
beneath its shade abundant store of dates. Long
continued cheering For, Sir, much a. We may SEN
tmentaliZe about certain historical muse, | will
venture TO say that my friend near me, who has
coured her so ctssfuy, will bear witness with me
that she by no means feeds on air that the con-
trary she has most voracious appetite for this pre-.
else variety of fruit and that she cannot live without
IT, however dry, and husky, and hard and matter of
fact these dates often considered. Mr. President
several at least of the Historical Societies of this Union
combined together in common labor of love and
loyalty, in gathering up materials for the history Of
our best countTyi but each one has peculiar prov
iuce of Interest and of effort in illustrating the history
Of its own State and, Sir, how worthy and how wide
field this open 10 your own association the State
of New York-the truly imperial State of York
a nation in itself, with population already equal to |
that of the whole Union in the days of cur revolu.
tionsry struggle; rich in territorial extent; surpass.
ingy rich in every variety of moral and material re-.
sources unequaled 10 its internal advantages and in
the improvement of those advantages; and greater,
perhaps, than all IN lie commercial emporium, by |
every token and by all acknowledgment entitled to |
the crown as the Queen City of the weatern hemis-
pbere. Cheers What State is there in the Union /
which combines 20 many elements Of growth and |
GRANDEUR What state il there ~, atb the