Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-01-18

Rebel resist, which will yet make Wiz
ginia what New England is, and say TO
South Carolina, "Friend come up high.
er." The word Yankee is as broad as
the country and when the quality OF the
tendency was to be tested, it CHANGED
that its representative man was born IN
| Kentucky and had never seen New Eng
land but twice. Yet of all men tha'
ever lived in or out of New England,
Abraham Lincoln was the ideal Yankee.
TGreat applause.] But, Sir, the tri.
| umph of Puritanism does not stop al
our shore. The principle of the May
| flower Constitution begins to throD IN
every form Of government. The most
powerful man in England to-day, who is
we'll called its future government, IS
positively the child of the Puritans. Al
this moment America is his strength.
America is the lever with which he
heaves the imperial opinion Of Britain.
The electric current between his heart
and ours was established long before his
friend did the cable. In the darkest
hour of the war he was truest to his
faith in America; through the stormy
debate over the Trent capture rang, like
a bugle cry, his want Of confidence in
Yankee honor. We know his name.
We love his name. No living American
is more beloved than he. Some day
may this true Puritan ONE among US,
and this country will rise from the sea-
coast to the prairies, to welcome the
man who is making n New England out Of
Old England the British Yankee, John
Bright. loud cheering, the entire au-
dience rising and greeting the sentiment
Sir and gentlemen: Such is the moth
er and such. her influences whose birth
day we celebrate. 1t is the mother who
has taught us that whatever wit or
wealth, or idea, or power of any kind
we may have, is not to be horded for
ourselves but to be given to the family,
to the great commonwealth. We leave
to Greece her glory, to Rome her gran
deur, to every land its choicest and pc
culiar charm. But tonight it is a flial
feast, our hearts behold New England
clad in her sparkling snow, crowned
with her evergreen pine, and the glory Of
her brow is justice, the splendor of her
eye is liberty, the strength other hands
is industry, and her Astounding bosom
shall nourish endless generations. Loud
applause.
Rise. crowned with Light, Imperial Salem. rise,
ESalt thy towering head and iii thine eyes;
See = long race thy spacious courts adorn;
See future sons and daughters yet unborn.
In crowding ranks on every side arise,
Demanding life, impatient for your Skies
To the seventh regular toast, "The
needle-gun of Germany" the Rev. Hen
~ Ward Beecher responded. He said
he had taken notice that if any toasts
were proposed about schools or church
es the Generals spoke of them, but any
thing said about guns were put on him.
[Laughter.1 He had derived an extra
ecclesiastical character from sharpshoot-
ers, and those present had come to the
idea when they could tolerate u rifle
themselves. The needle-gun wasafar off
it was in Germany and he understood
the toast to mean, simply, u aspira-
tions for liberty everywhere. The Ger
mans ever loved liberty, and though
Count Bismark had helped the Crown,
ultimately it would help the peoples
right ofliberty. France would soon be
q brotherhood Of free peoplc-[ap-
plause1-and though Americans had to
struggle hard for liberty, it tended to
nerve other nations to achieve the same
grand purposes. When he heard that
Emanuel walked the streets of
he was as glad as when he heard
that Washington was set free from be-
enemies, and would have
been n of the most enthusiastic in
greeting him had he been there. Zap
plause. New England sent greetings
to Rome, Lombsrdy and other strug-
Cling nationalities. And although with
England there was a few small business
matters to be adjusted-[laughter-
still they could say of her "God bless
John Bright" [Laughter and applause]
He then referred to Scotland and Ire
land and remarked that if they could
not be allowed to secure a good house
there. Irishmen could obtain it here.
They were wanted here. Now England
says to all these ain the name of God
be ye freei" [Applause.]