The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-06-24
A Dobt OF Honor. q
from ALI The Year Round. june 81

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90, from ALI The Year Round, June g. y
Desiring TO record in this journal, in the
plainest and simplest manner possible, certain
words publicly spoken by its conductor on 4
recent occasion, we present the following eI
tract from the lstest-publisbed copies q \
.tAmerican Notes. and !.sMartin Chuzzlewit.f
1t is entitled, ,s.,s -
rPosTsCRRT.
sat public dinner given 10 me on Saturday,
the 18th Of April, 1868, in the City OF New
York., by two hundred representatives OF the
Press OF the United States of America, made
the following observations among others
!" $50 much of,,my voice has lately beepr
heard in, the land, that I might have been con-
tented with troubling you no further from my
present standing point, wereait not q duty
vita which I henceforih charge myself, moi
only, here but on every suitable occasioD, what
soeyer and wheresoeyer, to express my hign
and grateful sense OF my second reception Ip
America, and TO bear my honest testimony 70
Also, to declare how astounded Ihave been by
the amazing changes Ibave seen around me
on eyery side, changes moral, changes physi.
CAL changes in. the amount OF Land subdued
and peopled, changes IN the rise OF vast new
cities. changes in the growth OF older cities
almost out of rec gniti0n, changes IN the
graces and amenities OF life, changes ir the
Press, without whose advancement no advance
ment can take place anywhere. NOT am 1: y
five-ahd-twenty years there have been no
chang es,in me. and that I had nothing to learn
and no extreme impressions to correct when !
was here first. And this brings ma to point
ON which I have, ever since / landed ID, the
United States last November, observed strict
silence, though sometimes tempted TO break
it, but in reference to which WILL, with your
good leave, take you into my confidence now
Even the Press, being humans may be occa1
sionaily mistaken, or misinformedI and l
rather think that have in one OF two instances
observed it's information to be not strictly Rct
curate with reference to myself Indeed;
have. now, and again, been more surprised by
printed news thai / have read OF myself than
by any printed news that have ever read ID
my present state OF existence. Ihus. gne
yigor and perseverance with which / nave lof
some months past been collecting mate.lais
for, and hammering away at, new book on
America. has much ,astonished me-seeing
that all that time my declaration has been peri
fectly well-nown to my publishers: on .oota
sides of the atlantic, that no consideration on
earth would induce me to write ono. But
what have intended, what | have resolved
upon land this is the confidence seek TO
place in you), is, on my roturn to Engiano, IN
iol s the the beSoof Of my countrymen, such tessil
to he gigantic shs eha1sos Rso st t s9oa 9ocara
that wherever I hayo been, in tho smallest
places equally with the largest, have Sassa 5ss
cy. sweet temper, hospitality. consideration,
and with indispensable respect for the privacy
enforced ss5. p0a 4s ass By sss the Of aate y healthy a
Th;s testimony. 40 lopg as live, and so long
as @ nv descendsnis have any loyal right in my
books, shall cause to be reppu@bshemd @ ed ;;s1 as an
I have referred to America. And this l will do
or cause to be done not in mere ne T. love and
of plain Justice and honor
II said these words with the greatest earn
estness that could lay upon them, and re; e.
peat them in print with equal esrnestness., SO
long as this book shall last, | hope that they
inseparable from my experiences ana lmpTes-
sions of America. CHAfLES DlOAENS''
okIay 1863"