The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-09-11
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= EO1AAHNO 81 O1@SAoS-A
At the opening address of the dedication Of
the New Chamber of Commerce Building at
Chicago, the President welcomed. the New
England delegation as follows:
% @With the hope that this assembling of bns-
/ mess men from the various cities and TOWING
here represented may result in great good to
an, take great pleasure in Welcoming ia this
city, and on behalf 6f the Board Of fra dk IF
the cityaot -phlcago, our friends now before
me- New England finds Represented lives rom
Boston and Portland her chief commercial
cities, both intimately sonnected with us in
bus ness relations. We remember with great
pleasure their hospitality to ms, and shall be
N most happy # we can in any degree reciprocate
TIER proftise libefality.n iVltK pils
Samuel Anderson, ESD, chairman of the.
Portland delegation, being the first called to
respond for the guests, spoke as follows: y =
J. Mr.. President: i am surprised at the posi-
ton in which am placed 1t is true that the
State which / have the honor to represent has
for its motto the very assuming one Of "Dirt-
\ goS but Ibid natexpectg that the sins of our
\ fathers were tdSabe visited on their children
here to-day, that we should be punished for
their assuming so much. But, Mr. Chairman
and Gentlemen of the Board Of Trade of Chi
cago, selected as have been this morning to
respond to the kind and cordial welcome which
| you have given us here,-selected by the dele
| CATION which comes as representative Of the
little city down by the sea, away beyond the
granite range of New England, -come here
delegated by the Board of Trade of that CITY,
TO bring To you the kndest regards the warm
/ est sentiments, aye, the affection even which
they bear to their old friends of the Board Of
Chicago They feel that between them and
.yo0 there is a bond of sympathy which, with
all respect for the; commercial delegations from
other proud cities present, say it-exists for
them no Where else on this continent. Your
trade with them is large, for that little place;
i your intercourse with them, Notwithstanding
the great distance which separates us, has been
| frequent during the past few years; but other
than that, there is a familiar feeling between
us and you, that yon have been with us, sat
with US upon our rocks down by the sea, par
taken of our institutions, aye, even of our
characteristic @sclams bakes,s laughter] there
fore we feel that between you and us there is
bond which can never be separated, however
much you may feel we have gone off from you,
| we are near you in heart and always will be.
I've, as the smaller looking up to you, the
larger, feel that between us there is a chain
which cannot be broken But, gentlemen of
the B6arI of Trade of Chicago, we expect to
say something in regard to- the position which
y ".
/ II has been said by an eminent writer that
Italy and England are the only two countries
worth living n,--the former because nature
there asserts herself, indicates herself and tri-
umphs over the evils of bad government; the
latter because in England art conquers nature:
Atlere rivers, hits and wales are brought under
the hand Ola master, and hard, uncongenial
land Is made a Paradise Of comfort and plenty.
| But your men of the West have here garden
tarsmore productive IN all that is useful to the
! nations Of the earth than even sunny Italy can
boast; yet, to-day, you show that in the most
useful of the. arts you have no peers in this
country, and even rival the best lands of Eu-
rope. lApplauseJ We, who are separated
rom you by long miles of travel, could not but
feel, as we came over the great avenue now
open from the lakes to the sea, part of theway
through the territory Of our neighbors over
the boundary a kindred with them, people
| who speak the same language, worship at the
1 same affairs, have the same commercial inter-
ests, and are in every respect the same people
EaS ourselves, except that their political affairs
are administered by different people from ours
In all that tends to make nation great, they
are the same as we, and I felt, as came
through, they were all hut one people.-that
| the mere matter of political difference was of
no consequences, provided the great chains of
commerce should bind that nation and ours
| together; and felt then, and feel today that
| you and our people of New England have done
great work in building that great, road from
the lakes to the sea,-a work never since old
| Neptune brought up the islands from the seas
with his trident, or shook the throne of Jupiter
with earthquakes. Never was more energy
and determination displayed by people, than
| IN making this grand avenue to carry the pro
/ dpce Of the West to the ocean, Huge noun
.tains, vast wildefhesses and roaring torrents
lay between you and US; but summoning from
their offices men OF science, and from the fields
aad workshops those of energy and labor, you
/ struck the black-browed giants of the forest,
4 and way was speedily hewn from the sea to
the mountain; struck the granite hills that for
ages had canopied their heads with the clouds
OF heaven, and these, too, were bowed to earth
by the hand of the master; met the great tors
rents Ofthe st. Lawrence, and, ere it had time
to triumph, won their way upon lit, and
brought it, too, under control; old Eolus and
the monarch Frost disputed the way, but with.
A Dat avail; easily over the broad prairies the
iron bonds were placed upon the earth, and
you the men of the fertile prairie, were at
length closely connected with us, the men Of
the ocean and the rocks. 0uIIolb9
I We feel that we are, with our friends over
the line, bound by the great bonds ofcommerce
to you, men of the great West We will never
loose those bonds of connection, and we hope
i they will never be severed between us and that
afiOdO Oil bAc Obilcf SlQc OF the uQe.-
\ tApplause.l If there is one boast that We as
Americans have-and they call us, across the
water, q boastful naion-it is than in out
veins flows the blood Of the bold yeoman who
4 drew the long bow at Hastings, and FOUGHT
{. with brave Robin Hood-the rich, red Nor
il man blood, that we aea descendants of that
people with all their glorious history. I'VE are
ilapread of our English descent and never can
forfeit the right to claim the ancestry that be-
longs tous and we hope and pray that we
Imay always have the closest relations with
ouFdTiends over the imaginary Iine--over the
border. But, gentlemen, am, it may be, 90
ing out OF the line of the day. II sWouldf say
then TO you, men of Chicago, you men of the
prairie and great lake, that we have the warm
est feelings towards you;i that we glory In
'yotlr prosperity, in you'd of triumph 1t Is
N our pride as wellas yours-our satisfaction to
know that you are progressing and your pro-
igress Is our honor as, well as your own ZAP
plause lAnd we say to you that whenever you
choose to come baekto our old New England
Shores to stand by the tombs of your fathers
and there look round on the old homestead
you will lind the fires warm on the hearth
stones, the tables well spread, AMI. open hearts
and extended hands ready there to meet and
aWelcome yea back to your old home. ZAP
IKE A NOBLE MOVEMENT.
On the first Wednesday of October, at 10
4 O'clock, it is proposed to hold public meeting
in Boston, the object Of which is to organize 1
I society whose object shall be the discussion az