The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-23

capable of comprehending multitude, SO
much the more proud am OF the honor OF
being YOUR guest; for you will readily believe
that tie more widely representative OF the
press in America my entertainers are, the more
must feel the good will and the kindly sentl-
ments toward me of that vast institution. Ap-
plause.1 Gentlemen, so much of my voice has
lately been heard in the land, and have, Tor
upwards of four hard winter months, so con-
tended against what I have been sometimes
quite admiringly assured was "a true American
catarrh"- [laughter1-a possession whlch nave
have preferred to be naturalized by any other
outward and visible means, [renewed laugh
teri I say, gentlemen, 80 much OF my voice has
lately been heard that might have been con-
tented with troubling you no further from my
present standing point, were it not duty with
which I hepceforth charge myself, not only
here but on every suitable occasion, whatso,
ever and wheresoever, to express my nlgn anu
grateful sense of my second reception IN Ameri-
ca, and to bear my honest testimony to the
national generosity and magnanimity. lGreat
applause Also, to declare how astounced
I have been by the amazing changes that L
have seen around me on every side, changes
moral, changes physical, changes IN the
amount of land subdued and cultivated, chang
es in the rise of vast new cities. changes
in the growth of older cities almost OUT
of recognition, changes in tue growth OF me
eraces and amenities of life, changes in the
Press. without whose advancement no ad-
vancement can take place anywhere. lap
plause.1 Nor am I, believe me, so arrogant as
TO suppose that in five and twenty years
there have been no changes in me, anu tnat
had nothing to learn and no eX-
treme impres sons to correct when was here
first IApplause.l And, gentlemen, this brings
me to point on which have, ever since
landed here last November, observed str1ct
silence. however tempted sometimes to break
it, but in reference TO which will, With your
GOOD leave, take you into my confidence now.
f"(fo on, 90 on."l Even the Press, being hu-
man, NAV he sometimes mistaken OF misin-
formed. and rather think that have IN one
or two rare instances known Its information to
be not perfectly accurate with reference to my
self. tLaughter and applause.] Indeed, L
have now and again been more surprised by
printed news that have read OF myself, than
by any other printed news that nave ever
read in my present state OF existence. Laugh
teri Thus, the vigor ana perseverance, i, Will VII
which I have for some months past peen col
lectinc materials for, and hanmerinS away at,
new book on America, have much astonlshed
me Trenewed laughterI; seeing that all that
time it has been perfectly well known
to my publishers on both sldes oI
the Atlantic that l positively declared
that no consideration on eartn snoula IN.
duce me 10 WIltS oue' lL"161-I - .s
| have intended, what I have resolved upon
land this is the confidence seek to place IN
youI is. on nv return to England, in my
own English journal, manfully, promptly,
plainly. in nv own person, to bear, Tor the be-
hoof Of nv countrymen, such testimony to the
gigantic changes in this country as nave
limited at tonight. [Applsuse.l Also, TO re.
places equally with the largest, have been
received with unsurpassable politeness,. dell-
cacy, sweet temper, hospitality and consldera-
ton, and with indispensable respect Tor the
nriyaey daily enforced upon me by the nature
Of INV avocation here and the state OF my
health. [Applause.] This testimony, so long
as live, and so long as my descendants nave
any legal right in my books, snail cause 10
be republis6ed, as an appendix to every copy
of those two books OF mine in which have re-
ferred to america. [Tumultuous applause.1
And this I will do and cause to be done, net III
mere love and thankfulness, but because re-
gard it as an act of plain justice and honor.
fBravo and cheers Gentlemen, the transltio?
from my own feelings toward and interest ID
America to those Of the mass OF my country
men, seems to be natural one; but whether
or no. | make it with an express object.
I was asked in this very city, about
last Christmas time, whether an American
was not at some disadvantage IN England, as
foreienerl The notion OF an Amer1cans Delng
regarded in England as foreigner ut all, OF
his ever being thought OF or spoken OF IN tnat
character was SO uncommonly lnconSruous
and absurd to me that my gravity was TOR the
moment quite overpowered. AS soon as it was
restored, I said that for years and years past
hoped I had had as many American fI1ends,
and had received as many American visitors,
as almost any Englishman living, and that my
unvarying experience fortified by theirs, was
that it was enough in England to be an AMER,
can to be received with the readlest respect ana
recognition anywhere. Thereupon, out OF half q
dozen people. suddenly spake out two, one an
American gentleman with q cultivated taste for
art, who, finding himself on certain Sunday
outside the walls of certain historical Eng
lish castle, famous for its pictures was refused
admission there. according to the strict rule or
the establishment OH that day, but who. Oh
merely representing that he was an American
gentleman. on his travels, had not only the pic
ture gallery. but the whole ;stle plac d at his
immediate disposal. Laughter The other was
q lady who, being in London, and having
great desire to zee particular museum, was
assured BIZ the English family with whom she
STAYED that it was impossible, because tie
place was closed for week, and she had only
three days to remain. Upon that ladys gong
to the museum, as she assured me, alone, SELL
introduced as an American lady, the gaze new ,''
open, as it were, magically. I am unwilllngly
bound to add that the lady certainly was young
and extremely pretty. [Laughter.] Still, the
porter of that institution is OF an obese habit,
and. according, to the best Of my observation
of him. not very impressible. [Great laughter
and cheering Now, gentlemen, refer to
these trihes as a collateral assurance 10 you
that the Englishman who shall hunlby strive,
as hope to do, to be in England as faithful to
America as to England herself, has no previ.
GUS conceptions TO contend against. ["Good!'
sGood!"l Points of difference there have
been, points OF difference there are, points
of difference there probably always will
be between the two great peoples. But
broadcast III England Is sown the sentiment
that those two peoples are essentially one,
Tgreat applause1, and tina: 1t rests with them
Jointly to uphold the great Anglo-Saxon race,
to which our President has referred, and all
it's great achievements before the World.
[Bravo] Ii I know anything OF my country
men, and they give me credit Tor knowing
something, if L know anything OF my country
men. gentlemen, the English heart is stirred
by the 1uttering Of those stars and stripes, as
it is stirred by no other flag that flies exceptits
own. [Great applause.] Ii know my coun..
trymen, in any and every relation toward
America, they begin. not as Sir Anthony Abso-
lutte recommended lovers to begin, with "a
little aversion" but with great liking and
profound respect; and whatever the little sensi-
tiveness OF the moment, or the little othclI
passion, or the little official policy, now, or
then, or here,l or there, may be. take my
word for 1t, that the first, enduring, great
popular consideration in England is q gen.
erous construction of justice. [Bravo.l FiDallE,
gentlemen, and say this subject to Your cor
rection, L do believe that from the great
majority Of honest minds on both sides, there
cannot be absent the conviction that it would
be better for this globe to be rlven by an earth