The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-23
NEW ENGLAND.
Anniversary Dinner In New York =
Speeches by speaker COlfax and MR..


in New York city, last evening. In response to
the toast, 1.-THE Congress of the United States"
the Hon. Schuyler Coliax was called upon and
spoke as follOWs:-
Mr. COIfax's Speech.
Mr.. President and gentlemen of the New
England Society, am gratihed more than any
feeble words OF niue can express at tho oppor-
tunity i enjoy now 1or the first time IN my
life IN participating with you IN commemotat-
ing that eventful day in the history OF this
country, of citizenship in which we are soJuStly
proud. And thank you also most cordially
Tor the kind, and may even say ahecuonate
manner you welcomed me as rose to respond
to this toast. The Congress OF the United States
is BODY whose deeds are written down IN MS
tory. On the adamant of its eternal page will
be written It's record for good or tor Ill. 1t
speaks for itself only to this counirylor which
it legisates, but 10 an onlookng world, AMI
may say here, without even venturing into the
arena of controversial questions, that whatever
criticisms have befallen us on the right hand
and On the left from impatient friends or from
hostile adversaries, we who bore part and
parcel in that great record in which Is written
the deeds of earth, the blessings OF thousands
ready to perish have been invoked
upon our heads. (Cheers.) God graut that
the Congress here OF the future may be as
faithful TO DUTY and to principle and TO the
down-trodden aud the Oppressed, as the Con-
gress of the past. (Chcers.) | sand here
amongst you, my friends, not as one entitled to
mem bership in this famed Society OF the Sons
am l q New Highlander. l am in good aud
regular standing in that society whose patron
saint Ia 81. Nicholas, and which Is the glory Of
the Knickerbocker. (Cheers.) Born in this
city of New York (cheers) of whose grand
record of all that pertains to advancement IN
population, in wealth, in the progress OF our
whole country, is so proud, like you emigrated
to the West. As the distinguished historian who
sits upon my lett observed a few evenings since,
that American who bouored our country 80
proudly by representing 1t as American minister
abroad cloud cheers), the advancing tide OF
civilization seems ever to sweep like that
which brought the Pilgrims of the Maylo wer
from the east to the west But although nave
lot drop OF New England blood In my veins,
stand here willing to bear my testimony to the
worth of New England principles. They are
the principles of which you are justly
proud. that had cherished as the apple of my
eye, that / believe with my soul and strength
and mind, principles that l believe are wise
for this great country OF ours, and though not
IN blood nor alliance a New Englander, have
received so many kindnesses from the repre-
sentatyes of New England in our national
in their collective capacity, that / may almost
call myself New Englander, if not by alop-
tion, certainly by election. (Hearty cheers.)
But do not speak of New England as a section.
II, in the years that are past, we have, in our
unconscious love of home, OF the place where
we first saw the light of day with our ovn
infant eyes, and breathed the balmy air with
our infant lungs cherished sectional feeling,
in the dire conflict of war and shock OF contend
ing arms we were purged of It, aud taught to
love New England and the South and the West
washed by. the waters of the two great
oceans. New England resembles Old
England. But you have rivalled Old Eng
land in your manufacturing Industries;
you have more than Iiyalled the motherland
from which you took your sectional name In
the great triumphs of education, with the bea-
conlehts of knowledge flaming from every hill
IN that sterile portion Of our country. We call
N ri in
KNOWLEDGE and faith These principles kno Yn
all over the world as being advocated in New
England, when not crowned with popular
favor, liberty, justice, and humanity, have be-
come the nations common property in this
nineteenth century, and all of u.s. OF all parties,
and creeds, rejoice that the noblest OF them is
written in inefacable characters upon our
national escutcheon-that no matter how poor,
no matter how helpless. no matter how humble,
no matter how ignorant may be the man that
claims American citizenship, that all, all over
in the words of the Scottish poet. that
"A mans man for a. that" cloud eheers),
and know that it is the proud boast
two hundred and fifty years this quarter Of the
from which you took your sectional name In
the great triumphs of education with the
beacon-liehts of knowledge flaming from every
hill in that sterile portion of our country. We
call New England poor in her soil, but rich in
knowledge and faith. These PRINCIPLES, known
all over the Wo1ld as Delng adVocated IN new
great decade of centuries that marks the stream
of time, we have risen to grandeur never
known aud never attained by any other section
OF the globe. l will not weary you by adducing
the hundred-fold statistics which might be
brought TO prove this. 1t Is not for you to speak
IN words OF boasting of that prosperity, that al
vancement in wealth and power which God has
given to the feeble beginnings of the Pilgrim,
the Knicker0ocker, the Quaker, and the Hugue.
not We should learn protounder moral We
should learn from II nobler lesson. 1t Is the
grandeur of American citizenship; 1t Is that
which should be consecrated in our hearts; it is
that which we should guard as the nations
glory, as, in the olden time, the vestal fire was
never allowed to expire or WaveT. ~ is that
which fills my heart wheA / think of
the past history OF this country. The
rest of Mr.. ColfaXs address was q continuation
OF the topic of the true greatness of the Ameri-
can nation, and his views oil what constituted
national morality and the sure foundation of
our future prosperity
The Address OF Hon. J. Il. Motley.
The Chairman, in announcing the toast "New
excuse long address from Its respondent, the
Hon. j. L. Motley, as that gentleman was
fatigued with his effort Of last Thursday night.
Mr.. Motley, after returning thanks for the
warm reception accorded to him, spoke OF the
| energy of character of the people OF New Eng
| land, their wise attention 10 education, and the
all.peryading influence their genius has had
upon the character of the American nation. He
| continued:-If we go through Ohio, Indiana,
Minnesota, Iowa, everywhere, wherever you
have only to look around you, When you can
take the rugged Allegheny range from our
mountain system; when you can take
| the Hudson out OF our river system,
| then you can take New England out
Of our social system: !, too, sir am a