The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-02-03

While daisy grows upon the les,
Or harebsll in the glen,
Or winding Ayr runs toward the sea,
Or Scotia's trod by men;
Or lovers walk among her braes.
Or Scotsmen cross the main,
Wen aye meet on thy birth days,
And sing thy praise again.
Mr.. I,cGavin, in compliance with re-
quest, sang
my Mamie, O."
Music by Dix's Bxnd-"Money Musk."
Sd Regular Toast:
The memory of Burns.
Drank standing and in silence.
9TH Regular Toast:
The land of Burns-our ain auld mither Scot
land. May her eye ne'er grow dim, her heart
ne'er grow cauld, nor her arm ever fail; and
from her mountains, moors, hills, wales, towns
lakes and glens, may the song of her happiness
be sung forever.
Drank standing, With cheers, and res
pondsd to by Mr.. Johnston.
President Sibree was called upon for .
song, and sang
''Of all the way. the wind eau blow,
dearly loe the West"
Music by the -"Hghlsnd Fling"
5h Regular Toast:
Robert Burns-the natural poet and selfmads
scholar. The world claims him ono of her
moe; poetic sona;-the civilized word fea.ts on
the richness of his thoughts, but his name be-
longs to immortality.
Responded to by Dr.. Ea,ton, as follows:
Mr. President.
But few men, out Of the many millions
that throng our busy world, will ever at
tain the high eminence Of the Poet Burns.
While other young men of his day en-
joyed all the advantages that BIRTH wealth,
and surrounding influences could bestow,
and made, comparatively, but little prog
ress in the literary world, he, though born
IN humble station and rocked in the cra-
die Of poverty-though he was made q
mark for the avarice OF mean and selfish
aristocracy-to our surprise and to the
surprise of the world, rose from among
Scotland's hills, and bazed forth his poetic
songs with unparalleled splendor. Net
Xix the twinkling planets Of the solar sys-
tenn, rejecting their light, but like the
sun himself, darting hi. beams with ma
tive originality.
So much more glorious for him, who,
from humble beginning, and by his own
exerti' Ms, attains a position of fame, hon
or and distinction among men Therefore
there is DO poet of the present age mors
deservsdlv popular than Robert Burns
Notwithstanding his poetry was writ
ten amid the bitter waters of adversely and
sorrow, Of drudgery and neglect, it will
ever exist, the delight of the world, and
will never be read-p.rticuIarIy if the
reader have drop of Scottish blood in
his Seins-without an expansion of the
understanding and Of the heart.
9Th Regular Toast:
The land we live in,-whose hospitable shore
is open to the stranger the wide world over
May her liberties expand, and her foundations
stand forever
Drank with enthusiastic cheering, and
responded to by Judge Walker, in sub
stance as follows:
Mr.. President:
OF the many peculiari.ies Of the land We
live in, of which we Americans are apt 10
boast, there is none more worthy of the
boast than that policy which admits to so.
cal and political equality, the stranger, of
whatever cline or creed. The founders Of
our Institutions originated a system of
government entirely new, in prsctice-al-
most realizing the Platonic idea of mod.
81 republic. A system based upon tho
principle Of a perfect political and social
equality ofits subjects. Under it the av-
enues to wealth, political distinction, liter
ary honors. and the thousand positions to
which high attainments in the Arts and
Sciences entitle men, were alike open to
the citizens ofnative and Of foreign birth
And this was necessary result of that
great principle which lay at the foundation
of the system. It would have been very
strange indeed, an anamoly in the system,
if the fathers Of the republic-who were
ready to sacrifice, if necessary, their lives,
their fortunes. and their sacred honors, in
maintaining the principles they promu'g
ted-had restricted the benefits Of Their
memorable struggle to themselves sndtheir
Immediate and direct descendants. Had
they done so, they would have msritsl
but little Of that honor which the patriot
and philosopher of every land, and for all
time, must bestow upon their memories
That policy was not only Just and philsn-
thropic, but was also dictated bv an en-.
lightenej selfinterest. The benefits they
conferred upon the emigraut and the exile,
have been returned TO them and their pos.
terity a thousand fold. The ningiag OF
the blood of the hardy races of the old
world with that Of our own, has contribs.
ted much towards the perfect and rnuscu.
lar physical development of he American
people. The tendency Of the American
people, aided, perhaps, by their system of
government, is toward rsdicalism. Men
who have been reared under the monarch
ial governments Of the old world, bring
with them, to a certain extent, conservative
opinions.
The constant intercourse Of the different
races and the freedom with which all So
cial and political questions are discussed
by all the people, will Of necessity soften
down the extravagsnt ideas of the Ultra.
lists, regulating public sentiment and b,iug-