Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-23


and claims an inheritance In the model Gov
srnor of Ohio.
But, one who first breathed the air of that |
Puritan land-whose feet first pressed her SOIL
whether amid the sands of Cape Cod or the !
rreen hills of New Hampshire-who was
aught his first lessons in a New England
,chool-who first heard the gospel in New
ENGLAND church-and learned what nome Is,
around New England fireslde-in whateYef
and he may subsequently find home'
"a In every cline, the magnet of his sCui,
Touched by remembrance tFenioies % I'M PO-o
Her very soil, stained and ennched by Patri- |
otic blood, is sacred.
Yes honor decks the turf that wraps their clay
There liberty was born, there freedom, IN
broad and true sense of that word, freedom OF
speech, freedom of thought, freedom OF con-
| science, freedom to worship God-Was nurseo
and nurtured to manly growth
And tonight, we point with proud emotions
i 20 the evidences, that its undying flame still
burns upon her altars; that the spirit of liberty
still lives and throbs in the hearts of worthy de-
1 scendauts of noble ancestors,
sWho, all unbribed on freedoms ramparts stand,
Faithful and true, bright wardens OF the land
Why, si-, YOU might as easily pluck up Mount
EWashington with your bare hands, and packing
It away in a knap-sack, carryit across the CONT
nent and cast it into the Pacific Ocean,as uproot
| freedom from her nGtiUe soil.
As Sons of New England we need have, we
will have no jealousy, no rivalry as to the partle
ular State Of our birth 1t is enough to have
been born in New England. And whether
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, or dear Lit
tie Rhoda," be our maternal ancestor, New Eng
land is the mother of US all
But, am expected to say word for New
Hampshire, and 1t is with feelings of proud sat
sfaction, that, with the present Governor OF
| Ohio, can point to it as the State in which l
was born-and that in her soil lie buried the
bones of nv parents.
There is needed no proof here, that New
| Hampshire has given birth to some small men,
out, State that has given TO the country Chase,
Cass, Hale and Webster, need never blush to
| compare her sons with those of any other State
Of the Republic.
She contributed her full complement of brave
| men to fight the battles of the Revolution, and
today her sons may be found in all parts of
our country, occupying honorable positions
as teachers, standing at the head of the noblest
| institutions of learning thai bless our land.
In the person of Hale she adorns the Senate
of the United States. In those of Woodbury.
and Parker she has given strength and dignity
to the Judiciary, and, through the latter, con-
trolls the leading Law School of New England.
Others may be justly proud of their native
State; but, sons of New Hampshire, ours IS the
equally proud pleasure to claim the home OF
Stark and his wife-Molly Stark-the Swilzer-
land of America as the place of our birth. She
will never disgrace us-lHay We never uishoh-
or her.
Syeet cline of my kindred blest land of my birth!
! The airest, the brightest, the dearest on earta
T. | Where'er may roam, hOw'er blest may be.
! Nv spirit instinetlvely turns unto thee.
: give as q sentiment-New Hampshire, the
only State that has beftting and finished mOn-
ument to the "Father of his country
4tb Vsrmoat-Celebrated for her Green Morn
tains the only green articles ever found in tht
Estate with the exceptions of strangers who some
times fcolishy attempt practical joke on her eit
zens.
a Music-'Yankee Doodle"
g The President, Mr. CHAMBERLIN was called
. for to respond to the above. He spoke briefly
of the claims of Vermont to be represented
!, here. Camel's Rump and Mansfield Mountain
4 are worthy a representation, but she also raise
y and sends out men and women-one OF which
y he would now call upon-Mr. C. II. PALMER
Mr.. PALMER, said, that the memories of emf
}. grants naturally turn toward their native land
! and could the trains of thought which spread
out from the hearts of two hundred and fifty o
those assembled here be rendered visible. thei
extremities would be found at the old red farm
houses on the hill, at the old school house, a
the injecting house," and at the homestead
= where the aged grandmother sat coming owe
d her Bible.
. The old places are there yet, and we should
find the same rocks the same hills and the samt
riIIs. but where are the old friends of ou
/ childhood and where is the old grandmother
Some lie low in the ancient graveyard, anC
some are scattered to the four quarters of the
t, world But be they where they may, their
Of recollections will ever go back to the homes o
RS their childhood and to each scene of our earl
n days. We met here to call up old recolleetion'
e and to bind our hearts together in pleasant
n memories of the good New England
l. Having no manuscript of Mr.. Palmer's re
!, , marks our report must be very limited.
h 5th MassachHsstts-She needs no enconium-
e She points to her honored living and the world ap
: plauds She laments her illustrious dead, and the
= nation weeps Her proudest eu.ogy is the history
y of her sons.
; Music-Road to Boston.
|. Mr.. Barlow, Esq responded as IOllOws;
n Mr.. PRsDENT-The words of the sentiment
d inst read contain a true and correct epitome O.
ID the glorious career of the good old State ol
II Massachusetts, and no multiplication of word:
h can more fully and truly portray her glory than
N the closing words of the sentiment,-" He
y proudest eulogy is the history of her sons"
1t Nations and States live in the character and
- remembrance of their representative men,
d Each step of the march of Empires up the long
= incline of their progress and growth, to the
= highest attainments of their greatest glory, i
1t but the impress of the genius and talents o.
n the men who controlled and moulded the time:
20 in which they lived, and engraved their thought:
d on their own day.
'e So. too. the decadence of States and Empires
lie is noted by the decline in the characters of the
n men in whose hands their crumbling destinie:
T find certain aid to national ruin.
o The history of Nations, is emphatically but
Of the biography of their guiding men
lie The proud array of names which Massachu-
n sets may Justly call her own, forms the great
framework of her history, and gives to each
E. pace of that history its own peculiar glory.
n In the field of political science as well as ii
= the domain of letters-in the realms of art
L science and commerce, as well as IN the higher
y school of morals and religion, she presents d
Of picture whose bold yet harmonious outlines and
10 coloring find no parallel in the records Of State:
- and Empires. She hls been, and still is, the
Of preat model by which the ins itutions, customs
: laws, and codes of morals of youthful States
J. are formed
But it is not merely the great names of hel
N sons which constitute tbe true glory OF Massa
l. chusetts The true cause of her greatness and
g grandeur, lies back and below the sPlendor o.
their renown 1t consists in the sterling cha
n racter, moral worth, and general intelligence
II refinement and education of her masses. These
/ form the great background, strong, symmetri-
1t cal, and harmonious, on which stand out In
A. strong proportions the grand forms of her no
L bic sons. 1t was the high-toned moral senti.
ID ment and pure patriotism of the masses OF "a
e which inspired the soul of Adams to utter his