Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-01


8. The Press.
az public veal the guard
OF truth the flag pnfurled;
OF liberty the sword;
And light Of the whole world
This toast was followed by music, and by
short remarks from Messrs. Flood and AL
lardt.
6. The memory Of Scotland Worthless.
Followed by a song from Mr. Buchan.-
Rev. VIM. Fiske responded as follows:
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen
l must crave your indulgence, if 1 fail TO
respond to this sentiment in q manner be-
fitting the ocession.
l am required to speak to the memory Of
the Worthless Of Scotland
Why was l not asked to speak to the
memory of all that was accomplished in
scienoe-elOquent in speech-beautiful in
poetry-charming in fiction, and yalorous
in arms.
Has not Scotland, as gratefully remem-
bered in the walks Of Science-her MaclaH.
rin-her Tbompson-her Stewsrt-her
Play fair, and her Reid.
And as orators, are not her John Knox
and her Chalmers her Erskines and her
Mansfield, unsurpassed.
And as poets, do not her Burns, her
Campbell, and her Scott, stand in the very
front rank? And in the higher walks of
fiction, who shall presume to claim equal
excellence with her Sir Walter Scott p
that almost divine delineator of human
passion. And for valor in arms, was ever
a Scotchman known who was deficient in
coursge2
Are not the very dreams of our childhood
associated with the Wondrous deeds of Scot
lands sons2 What boy has not fought
over and over again the battles Of RhodeT-
lex Dhu2 What youth has not painted to
himself the Douglass as the embodiment
Of all that was grandly irresistible in arms?
What maiden has not glorifed the Wallace
as her "beau idear of the hero2-so loving,
so true so fearless, so persecuted.
And yet over this hmitess field am re-
quired to roam in poor five minutes
Speak to the memories of the worthless Of
Scotland-no, if am but expected to do
even the faintest justice to their many
excellencies; yes if am but required to ex-
press my love for their many virtues-snd
my admiration for their sturdy, manly,
generous, and fearless, though somewhat
rough peculiarities of character-as a class
these worthless Of Scotland are like their
heaths and their mountains, and their deep
oavsTHotLs gLsnJ, and their iOiLd seiIuded lakes.
They are either grandly towering among
their fellow men, or they are wide reach
ing and far seeing, or they are In their
character and works, wild and weird aud
almost awe inspiring.
From whatever walk they be selected
as msn Of science, orators, poets, statesmen,
novilists or soldiers-the sons of Scotland
will ever occupy front rank in the worlds
esteem. They have WOn for themselves a
place in history which will remain while
time endures.
The student Of the present and of the fu-
ture, as he pores over the records of the
past, will ever regard, as entitled to the
homage Of his intellect and his affections, the
memory of the worthless of Scotland
7. The City of Cleveland.
Followed by music and responded to by
Mayor senter, as follows:
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the
st. AndrsVs Society.
It is creditable to your patriotism and
your better qualities of heart that it has
pleased you at this time, when your thoughts
and feelings revert with strong force to
the scenes Of childhood and the memory of
far-off friends thus to be mindful of the
home of yOnr adoption, by the presenta-
ton of toast, to which, in accordance with
usage, the Mayor Of the City responds.
Though it may be matter of regret TO
you that at this time, this usage has
brought to his feet one 50 lily able to do
justice to your sentiment and the occasion,
yet it is not thus with me, for It is an hon.
or to stand up, when your city aud mine is
called by name at the feast of st. Andrew,
time and place sacred to the remembrance
of birth and family. Whoa century since
could have been made to believe that in this
year and on this shore Of then wild lake,
company Of the sons and daughters Of a
land that knew the Romans footsteps
should be gathered together at q festive
board, within an elegant hall, linking the
past with the present. the distant with the
near, by cheers for old Scotland and toasts
for the City Of Cleveland2 The Wisest
could not have foreseen it, nor the most i'm
sginative could have conceived it. Yet SO
it is, and it was happy fate that decreed
that so important and valued an element as
Scottish character should be mixed 30
largely in the composition of humanity
known as "the people of Cleveland"
No country is unhonored that recognizes
IS a component part Of its people the emf
grant from Scotland, that land Of frugality,
Of labor, Of health, Of independence and
of loyalty. Not freer are the waves that
lash her Shores nor more firmly resistive
are the rocks Of her coasts, than are the
people themselves. Annexed to or united
with her Southern neighbor, she is
Scotland still, her people retaining their
distinctive individuality,a and the fame of her
old heroes Of liberty, remaining untarnish-
ed by aught disgraceful in the acts Of their
descendants.
The gales Of centuries have battered
against her rugged mountain peaks, and
yet they raise their heads as proudly as
when their Creator placed them there; the
torrents have swept with deluging force
from the hill side, but they have carried
naught Of the useful or beautiful away; the
waves Of old Ocean have forever beaten
with terrific force against her rugged pro-
montories andup her roek-bound friths, but
not point is abraded. nor an inlet widen
ed. The snow still glistens upon the noun
tain tops, the heather blooms in the valleys,
and the lakes like diamonds in settings of
emerald, lie smooth and placid amid the
green hills. So stand preserved, though
EOftened, perhaps, by kindly arts, the strong
sterling qualities Of Scotch character, emid
the lapse Of time, the mutations Of empire,
and the progress Of civilization. Change