The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-08-10

lakes ana clues OF tne great west. we Will
not attempt TO report the speech Of Mr.. jew
EFT, as we cannot do It justice. 1t was listen
ed to with marked attention and received with
frequent demonstrations OF applause.
J. p. GARRISON, ESD, Of Chicago, was then
called upon, who responded in a very happy
manner as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen, and Citizens Of Portland:
This day has filled to OVERLOOKING the cup of pleas
ure as well as the stomachs Of your delighted and
highly honored Western guests. We have visited
with ever changing enjoyment your beautiful city,
and paraken of your generous inequalities and last
night eyes Toasted with the grace and beauty
OF your ladies, in of brilliant festivty That
would seem to have been quite as much qualification
as it was in your willing power to give and il GER
iainly was moro than We, even with our full knowl
edge of the proyerbial whole-soued hospitality of
the old State of Maine, could have hoped to enjoy.
But this day snrpasses ALL for here all combined,
the feast of wit and merrment, the flow of soul and
good wine, the many bright eyes "that look love
again" of New England's charming daughters, the
pure air Of heaven the glorious sight, and sound
who and feel 1t for the first time, real, genu
ine unauthorized, old-fashioned New England Fish
Chowder and Clam Bake.
weheartily unite in the sentiment: "See Portland,
see its aud its fair women and SMELL and
above all taste its clam bake and fish chowder and
then de'
As we have gathered around the knees of our grand
sires and heard them recount the scenes of
those times that "tried mems souls," so have we,
with wondering and delighted ears drank In our
good old grandmothers glowing details of the mys-
ferries and charms of clam bake but was reserved
for to-day in the body to realize the dream that
to feel
..what we can ne'er express, but cannot all
We have in Chicago, and in our sister cities of
Detroit and Milwaukee, many of the sons and daugh.
tiers of New England, almost us many as you have
left at home and they are amongst our most loved
and honored friends and citizens, and we preserve
in their native purity many of her old and cherished
customs. When the sound OF the church going bells
have ceased, and have Joined reyercntly in the
services Of good ola dasnssgying Day with hearts arts
New England sons and daughters seek conso-
la,ion for the separation from the homes away down
East" in the same plump turkies and the same
uncuous and fragrant doug hnuts. krucrs aud pump
kin es and when the mental faculties are stretched
and absorbed in the consummation OF an pntricate
trade for the day. we too, have our insprer
and soace in the same everlasting jackknife and
soft white pine.
So we can share with you the charms of the pump
kin pie and the doughnut, and the soothing, never
paing delights of good long comfortable s white.
we have no salt water clans and no clam bakes; or,
II in hour of hilarious excitement with vivid i'm.
agination, seek our meagre substitute, we find il
but the shadow of the reality the substance only of
things hoped for the evidence of things not seen."
Now, however, with full hearts, realized hopes and
satisfied appetes, we can joyously cxclaim Eureka!
Eureka!" We have come, we have seen, we have
not conquered, have been conquered, and we are
all ready hereafter bear willing and hearty festi
mony to the merits or the well cooked CLANS 1t has
frightened our wits. 'disremembered us OF our cares
and made our faces to shine"
Shall dear, hospitable old Maine, with her sister
States of New England after this our experience of
her. be severed from the Northwest Who shall dare
TO utter the traitorous sentiment in the streets OF
Chicago. Milwaukee or Detroity Never, never.
whilst there are clans on the Atlantic shore to be
baked and Western men TO eat them.
In all seriousness and earnesfness ladies and gen
temen and citizens of Portland. hearts are full of
gratitude to you for your munifcent Inequalities to
u.s. They have far exceeded our utmost hopes, and
hall f.r,rn n
only trust that it be in our power Mt no distant
day to meet You at our own homes and In some more
substantial way than words to evidence our thanks.
Many, very many, strong and tender, are the ties
that bind us of the Northwest to old New England.
and shall those ties be severed But so long as
shall tell children and chdrcn's children
of Plymouth Rock, of Concord and Lexington, and
of Bunker HILL side by side, brothers in a common
country, with the same glorious old flag above us
land and the Northwest shall go down the years to-
gcther in amity, patriotism and property
His speech was received with frequent and
enthusiastic outbursts of applause.
Mr.. Britt, of Milwaukee, was called upon,
who responded in the following sentiment:
The good people Of Portland-With hearts as capa-
cious their magnificent bay, with arms as strong as
their love for the Union, extended as wide TO us as
the broad prairies OF the west not 70 know suea
Judge Upham, of Milwaukee, in response to
an earnest call, said he came there stranger,
and had been most delightfully."- taken in. He was
Vermont boy, had been in the far West about
fourteen years, and had come to witness the
truth of what he had often heard of the sun
rise State He had already experienced the
hospitality of its metropolis, and could not
find language adequate to express his graft
tude. He hoped our Union would be more
firmly united than was the East and West by
the iron bands of the Grand Trunk Railway.
He said he came through tube, the biggest
he ever heard or read Of that connected the
Queens domnions with Yankee land. He
spoke In the highest terms Of admiration of
our harbor, our islands, our city, our ladies,
and our clans. He said the great Northwest
was peopled to great extent from New Eng
land, with territory enough to make dozen
States yet uncultivated, with rolling prairies,
deep SOIL of which one hundredth part has
not been fully developed. The commerce be-
tween the East and the West will be constant
ly increasing. We want your fabrics, you
want our corn, -four and pork. In fifty years
the West viii be able TO produce corn and
-four enough TO supply the world. He said
the Grand Trunk was the only trunk long
enough to reach the overlooking granaries Of
the West, and cement in the bonds OF trade,
and in affection the hearts OF the men and
women at the terrnini, aud on the line of its
travel. At the close of the interesting re-
marks Of Judge Upham, three cheers were
given for Vermont.
The united voice was then for Gov. May,
who rather reluctantly came forward, and was
listened to with the most profound attention.
lie said, there is something novel to Western
men in clam bake, but nothing in speech.
Speeches with us are as common as showers,
but salt water clans can only be obtained by
long journey TO the sea-shore. Something
less than a battalion OF Western boys, some of
whom were too old to train when they left
home, but are now as young as the youngest,
made raid into Canada, captured Toronto
in two and half hours, marched directly upon
Montreal, took and held it for the space OF
twenty-four hours, and Aen pushed on to-
wards the natural seaport. Animated by our
past successes, we expected that Portland
| would capitulate ut once. But we have been
mistaken in our strength and strategy, and in
stead of capturing Portland, We have surren-
| dered at discretion, and find ourselves sent to
a l. Ind hoe ~