Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-10
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that was not offensive bat exceedingl
searching. Among other things he said /:
1r. President and Gentlemen. I am ex
ceedingiy Obliged 70 you for the very COZ
dial greeting You have given me, and 70
the toss. which has Just been given to tn
city Of New York 1t has been read with
out comment or ornamentation. Laugh
teri Whether il il supposed by the Ne'
England Society that I am the ornamen
and commentary of the city laughter m
Knickerbocker modesty would not permi
me TO inquire. If / were a New Englande
Judging from what / heard here to-nigh
i should in the true spirit of New Eng
land modesty-[ laughter assert that
was a living representation of the trutl
that the people Of New York are able {,
gorvern themselves. [Cheers and laugh
ter.
must confess that l do not feel entirel,
at home here. Loud laughter. l fine
when ] get into a New England church
that | hear always a mixture of a piety
and politics. Laughter. find when
come to New England dinner an equally
remarkable mixture Of politics and pastry
Continued laughter l can digest tn,
piety and pastry-although they even ara
pretty hard to digest sometimes, &C
cording to my ideas-but l have consti.
tutional aversion to some of the politics, and
] must be allowed to express il. laugh
ter and applause. / do it, Of course, with
all respect TO the great mass of the people
who are within the sound of nv voice. and
! should be sorry if anything should saw
should tone them down at all, after the
very extravagant and extreme iaudationf
| have heard Of New England, and must
be permitted TO look at things from my
own point.
My friend, Mr.. Beecher-I think NAV
call him 30, for we have never had occasion
10 quarrel much with each other-says thai
Yankees in New York have a hard time Of
II. Well, they are permitted 30 live here
That Is some consolation to them. TLauph.
ter They are permitted toenter upon all
branches of trade and commerce hers. and
make pretty much all the money; that is a
great consolatiOn to them. loud laughter
and cheering. They are permitted to eye
press their sentiments very freely here. and
that, with their notions of individual
liberty, ls a still greater consolation to them
Loheers, and they are permitted at New
England dinner, at a French restaurant. TO
eat pork and beans, which is no more Ike
the pork and beans Of their ancestors than
is the luxurious style in which they live
here like the simple style in which their
ancestors lived in old New England.
Loud laughter and great applause.
Now, If these things be all true, how can
the Rev. Mr.. Beecher-as he is an advocate
OF truth In so many cases-how can he
stand up here and say that the Yankee
have hard time in New York j have
listened with great pleasure to his remarks.
He has talked about the great ideas of the
Puritans, about their opinions of the rights
Of conscience, and how they impress truth
and morality upon the world So they do
cheers their own notions of il. TUp.
roarious laughter.l And yet cannot for
get-and certainly there is no heresy in
quoting New England writerupon New
England man-that it has been said that
the Puritan's idea of hell was place
where everybody was allowed to think az
he pleased. Laughter.
Now, in saying what / have said, and in
quoting what the New England writer
says, think | say nothing disrespectful to
the Puritan character of the New England
element in our nation. They have their
own notions and opinions, and ] am sorry
to say from my standpoint, they have had
very unhappy way of enforcing them
upon the country. But / hope the time
will come, and believe il is coming, when
they, with all the rest of the people of this
country, will concede the right of every
man to think "a he pleases and act az he
pleases, provided that, in his thinking and
acting, he does not interfere with the public
order and the rights of persona and property.
lApplause.
Now, perhaps l ought to stop, but lam
not going TO. Laughter and voices "Go
ON EGO on My friend, the President
here, intended | should stop at about this
point, for he gave me a very bold hint in
the course Of his remarks. He knew was
a Knickerbocker, and that is what he
meant when he said the old maxim was
that "speech was silver but silence was
gold" IL may be that he meant it for the
President of the St. Nicholas Society; if
40, he will be able 10 defend the Knicker-
bockers Of that society. My friend Choate
who has made a very happy and eloquent
speech tonight, as he always does, has adj
vanced some new views Of reconstruction,
which pleased me immensely. Applause.
He spoke of the times when New England
men will 60 to live in the South, and will
take with them their pianos, among other
things. ] sincerely hope when they take
that property down there, they wont take
any which they originally brought from
there during the war, according 10 popular
rumor. Great laughter.
In the present disorganized condition Of
the Southern States, with the courts in, to
say the least, very bad condition. notwith-
standing that my old friend, Judge Bus.
teed, is down there administering the law.
replevin suits may be plenty, although
judgments may be doubtful. | would sug-
gest that instead of taking their pianos
they take their tuning forks. Laughter.
Now, gentlemen, some illusions have been
made 20 my constituents in New York
not very respectful allusions, / think, to
my Irish constituents. General Sickles
has referred to the fact that when we get
Ireland for tie Alabama claims we shall be
able to get offices for all your Irish friends
who desire them. Laughter | am free
to say gentlemen, that would he very
great relief to me. Laughter.
And il affords another reason why | shall
always insist, "a 1 do now insist, that the
Alabama claims shall be settled, and the
rights OF American citizens, adopted as well
as native, shall be protected everywhere.
Applause. But while illusions have
been made 10 my Irish constituency and
my Irish friends-justice has not been
done them. The President of the st. Pat
rick's Society is not here, and therefore |
must make a slight reference to the fact
that they have contributed to the wealth
and greatness of this country. They have
built It's roads and canals; and in that
connection ! beg leave 10 call attention to
the fact that the only canal ever knew TO
be dug out by New Highlander was Dutch
Gap, and that was not a very great success.
If his nations of Reputation are not more
perspieuous than his notions Of canal build-
ing, I think they will prove as great 4
failure. Cheers.
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