The Portland daily press., 1862-09-01

ter of April 10, 1905.
To this sentiment RI Rev. Bishop Burgess
responded
The Memory Of Sieu' dc Chdmpldin, the
fearless navigator and accomplished states
man, the first to explore and designate these
shores; whose plans of Empire, more vast and
sagacious than any of his time, failed of sue
cess, only through the short-sightedness of
his sovereign, in allowing the Atlantic shores
of New England, to fall into the hands of his
rivals. thereby changing the history of the New
World.
To this sentiment Hon. Thomas Darcy
McGee, of Montreal, member of the Canad-
an Ministry, responded, and it was one of the
finest specimens of genuine eloquence, and
language artistically put together, that we ev
er listened to. Mr. McGee is a native Irish
man, emgrated to this country about twenty
years ago, for while was editor of the Pilot,
| in Boston, removed to Canada i'm 1855, and in
1857 was elected to the Canadian Parliament,
since which time his star has been in the as
| cendant, and he has been one of the most pop
ular, eloquent, and influential men of all our
northern neighbors. Mr.. McGee, unlike too
many Canadians, is warm and generous
| friend of our country, aud warmly sympathiz-
es with the North in its contest with the pres
| ent rebellion.
| The Colony Of Massachusetts Bdy.-Found-
| ed in 1929, by men of the same unconquera-
| BILE will as those that brought Royalty to the
block, and discarded prescription as heresy.
| Their descendants have ever shown a faithful
adherence to the doctrine of " Uniformity."
| Responded to by Hon Amory Washburne,
/ of kIorcastnvs Maee ~ oft tha
Bay State. The speech was excellent, full of
humor, and abounded with happy hits. He
! thought, a few years since, that Maine was a
nec State, recently settled, and that all the
/ civilization OF the world flowed out from the
| Old Bay mother When he learned that the
daughter proposed, by this celebration, to show
record farther back than the birth of the
mother, he came down to enter his solemn pro-
test; but he had become converted-he gave
it up. He really believed the veritabe wolf
that sucked Romulus and Remus had been
seen to-day; that the peninsula of Sabine was
the place were the Romans found their Sabine
wives, and if the claim should be set up that
Noah anchored his ark in the neighhorns bay,
he was not prepared to dispute it. His re-
marks were received with shouts of applause
| The reason why the Popham colony was eph-
| emeral, he though easily explained. He
wouldn't say it if there were any Episcopali-
ans, or Unitarians present-he presumed there
were none-tthe joke was pointed by the fact
that the Episcopal element predominated) but
Popham undertook to osettle an English clergy
| man from the government establishment; if he
had settled a real genuine, old-iashoned Or
| thodox Congregationalist, his colony would
| have been Il success, and not failure; hurry
| ing from pleasantly, he said he had no question
! as to the reason why Popham faded out, while
! Plymouth became the germ of great nation.
The former was settled by adventurers-a
mere trading company, who came to the New
World for commercial purposes of gain; the
latter came TO establish great princple,-lib-
erty of conscience,-freedom TO worship God.
| To the former the winter was cold. dreary and
insurmountable; to the latter neither cold or
hunger had terrors, and they triumphed in the
strength of Him in whom they so firmly trust
cd.
The President Of the United States.
Responded to by the Band-"Hail Colum-
bia"
The Queen Of Great Britain.
Responded to by Hon. John j. Day. Presi-
dent of the St. Georges Society, of Montreal.
Change and Progress-These make up the
history of the world, mental, moral and physi-
cal. Slowly were they written upon its pages,
till Fulton, Stephenson, Henry and Morse,
solved the problem of INSTRUMENTATION by
steam and lightning.
Responded to by Hon Francis o. j. Smith.
The Sdco-The home of Vines, and COM
panions in 1916, and the first seat of justice,
in which the forms of the common law were
put into practice.
Responded to by J. w. Thornton, Esq, of
Boston.
The following sentiments were read, but the
intended responses were omitted 1t was vot-
ed, however, that all the speeches intended TO
have been given, with various interesting let
tiers, be published in pamphlet form, by the
Historical Society.
Richard Vines, the faithful friend of Sir
Ferdnando Gorges; whose occupation of the
country, to the time of his appointment as Dep
uty Governor of the Province of Mayne" in
l644, upheld the title of his nation against the
French, and saved New England to his coun-
try.
Pierre du Gas, Seiqneur De Moats, the Pa
tentee of the first charter of Henry of Navarro.
who sacrificed empire and fortune rather than
his religious faith and beheld the iairest por-
ton of the continent, which he had apparently
secured to his nation, pass into the hands of
his rivals.
George Weymouth, the early explorer of the
coast of New England; memorable for his de-
scription of our own coast, and his explora-
ton of" the most excellent and bencficyall riv-
er of Saehadehoc."
The Ancient DomiRioRs Of Maine Sabine,
Sagadahoc, Sheepscot, Pemaquid and Monhe-
gan; the theatre of early maritime discovery
and settlement; the designed seat of Empire
of our Colonial ancestors.
The Colonization of Manhattan, by the
Hollanders whose tolerant spirit and CONNER
cial enterprise laid the foundation of the great
metropolis of the New World.
Capt. John Smith, the daring soldier and
navigator; whose efforts, in acts of govern
ment in Virginia, and of naval skill in eXplor-
ing and defining the boundaries of New Eng
land which he made known by maps and de-
scription, give his name place among the
great men Of his time.
The Mountains and the Seds.-Hindrances
to the sluggish-Helps to the Adventurous.
The brotherhood of NdtionS-The holiest
of all Brothcrhoods; requiring only that man
kind should remember their parentage, their
relationship, and their inheritance.
The Fdu Of Quebec, under the leadership of
the heroic Wolfe, in 1859, which gave peace
security and progress to the frontier settle