The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-01-13
mr. T.F. neasher T.. Bosson.

ture, on Monday evening, tie eloquent
exile spoke az follows
With this word Of hopefulness and
promise, Mr. President, ladies, and gentle
men, the lecture Of the evening closes
Nv task is done, though, much fear, it
has been very imperfectly performed
Blu. cannot take my leave of this genial
and enthusiastic audience without travel
ing little beyond the record, as my gen
erous and upright friend, Counsellor Urea
nor, would say, and adding few infor-
NAL sentences to those pages, with which,
for An hour and more, your indugent at
tenton has been occupied. Dictated by
sincere and cordial sense Of my iBdebt-
edneas to those hundreds Of friends, who
have honored me in the highest degree BY
their attendance here this evening, | am
all the more anxious - speak these few
farewell sentences, since nv steps are at
the moment directed towards a distant
land, and many long day between this
and my next visit TO Boston, with, perhaps,
many an unknown vicissitude, is destined
to intervene. | seize, then. with eagerness
and warmth this occasion, in the full glow
Of which many pleasant and brilIian; mem
cries emerge before ne from the deepen
ing shadows OF the past. TO reiterate my
ardent Acknowledgements OF the resolute
friendship with which nv friends in Bos-
ton, now for eight years nearly, have stood
by me, and the constant services and IA
vors which, with such a lavish partially,
they have rendered me during all that
anne. Nearly eight years, | repeat it, have
elapsed since first | set my foot within this
solid and exemplary city IF Boston. As
though it were but yesterday, the greetings
with which in t1ault II popular favor
itisnI, was then received, sl!l! yibrate IN
nv heart and the scene which encircled
me in the Music hall, the night of the 18Th
of January, 1854 scene grand as the
sea heavlng and breaking in the sunlight
upon a whiteued shoGc-is still TO me an
exciting vision, full of life, full OF ecstacy,
OF the love Of an old race, and the bounte
business with which an exiied people re-
ward those VINO, c.ingiug to their cause,
have been true to freedom. There was, of
course, on that occasion, no little eXagger
alton of sentiment, together with q super
abundance Of the raw muscular material,
which a conspicuous novelty in public life
ELECTS and invariably auracts--especially
where the novelty ha. been imported from
Ireland into the United States, by the
Cape Of Good Hope, as though it were the
wish Of the importers, in doing 50, to i'm
prove the commodity, as they would a
cask Of Madeira, by 4 voyage round the
world-aud a mOmentary curiosity, no
doubt, in this region of peculiar inquisi-
tlyeness and sudden notions, contributed
largely to the general effect. The novel
: soon wore off. The most splendid and
sterliog novelties have a short run Of it
ere, and the curiosity referred to has long
s.are subsidized, or, a score of times, at least
has transferred to other and less mature1
objects its precarious affections. But al
that was dlsinterestedlY honest, all that
was courageously truthful, all that was
genuinely generous on that occasion, has
remained to the good, and is here-here
in It's iudestructibe s2undness and mex
haustible pIanitude to night. This
calling to mind the vicious attempts which
over and over again were made oy vulgar
minds t. estrange my fellow countrymen
and co-religionists from me throughout
the Union and at home-attempts which
st the outset encountered nought save the
passive resistance Of my silent and con
temptuous deiiance-wiic never, even in
their most proaigate excessea, did Iswerve
an instant from my straight onward path,
nor stoop an inch, to rotice-and the
Illustration Of which, exhausted as they
have been by their own vile wantouness,
now fails to excite in me the faintest ex
aItation. This, tie durability of your
friendship, despite Of these attempts, is in
deed something TO be supremacy proud Of
and glowiGgIy to eXt1l. Nor can | re
tain from admitting, as do most frankly
aud without the slightest affectation, that
these lectures of niao have had little in
them to cnchain the sympathes and in
flame the enthusiasm Of those who throEg-
ed night after night, season after season,
year after year to hear them. There i.
Mr.. President, ladies and gentlemen, there
is indeed, make! difference between q
lecture and spceeh-a marked difference,
indeed, between the cold, though it may
be somewhat polished, composition which
one submits in writing to a tranquil audi
ence, and the out5utst Of anger, Of aljura
ton, of hope and ins.:ga,ion, which has
had its source in the wrongs Of an out
ragged ald worried nation, anI it's rein
forced strength and augmenting volume
in tie resolves and passions Of people
awakening to a ucw destiny, impatient TO
b. free Between the two, there is as
marked . difference IS that which exists
between me dutnb s.en.ity Of the winter
with It's shining Ornaments Of ice and fall
ing leaves OF lis crown Of FURNISHED gold
flashing in the heavens, its feasts and per,
fumes and the me.D lies with which its
waters aud its forests night and lay abound.
This ifvrence-this chilling and alt,r at
ing difference between my utterances OF
1917 and 1918, aud those which, under
altered circumstances and in a less vital
mood, have fallen from me here and in
other placas-this difference you have
most generously and almost lovingly over
looked, and, regardless Of the di~appoint-
ments which such difference Of tone and
manner must have naturally produced
you hive rendered j g the applause ard
ensured me the success which happier
achievements might have entitled me TO
enjoy in the brighter days of my public
duty Accept, then, Mr. President, ladies
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