The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1868-12-04
GREAT SPEECH or DANIEL PRATT

The New York World, In It's elaborate
report of the proceedings at the Female
Suffrage Convention In Boston last week,
calls In the aid Of stenography to preserve
the speech Of Daniel Pratt, the great
American Traveller. Readers who have
listened to his oratory cannot fall to rec.
ognlze the genulnencss of the report. II
must be borne In mind that Mr.. Pratt fol-
lowed Colonel Higginson:
Mr.. Daniel Pratt, the great American
Traveller, here rose, and claimed the at-
tention of the chair, rs follows:
Mr.. Chairman, your speaker Is not a
going to take up much time to make
speech
Colonel Hlsglnson (courteously)-The
name, sirp
General Pratt Qmpresslvcly) - Pratt.
sir, Daniel Pratt. Of Boston. daughter }
Ono that has helped to elect General
Grant, sir. Who Withdrew In favor OF
him, sir. cloud laughter.)
Woman's suffrage, Mr.. Speaker, wo-
mans rights, arc among the scientific.
philosophical, physical, mechanical and
organic laws that govern the world and
govern mankind, man and woman, and
unite them together. (Great Laughter.)
l am happy to have this opportunity, af-
ter hearing such an eloquent and Oratori-
cal speech Us we have heard all Of us, and
-and-ah-he was speaking about new
impetus with n great stress) that this
meeting Is going to give. believe your
speaker made out little of what he has
already said that the constitution or the
nd-the Declaration Of Independence
made provisO and q powerful aud valua-
BILE one also. And, that Is that In order
to form a more perfect union, establish
justice, insure domestic ranqulllty-tran-
guilty - that Is the point, tranquility.
Secure the blessings of liberty to our
selves and our posterity, In order-mark
y0n--to establish justice and insure tran
guilty.
Your speaker Is a bachelor and It's
most the end of the leap year. Uaugh-
ter.) He has been travelling enough to
travel around the globe. ten times, five
times On foot and five times In different
convcyances; he has visited the principal
churches Of the country; he has spoken
to more people OH this continent than any
living man on the globe, and he will chal-
lenge the world to Outright or Outspeak
him In here or In England. (Applause.)
lIc can dlssect the world; he can take the
smallest particle Of your earth, whether
water or air, and preach an elaborate ad-
dress, or write an elaborate essay on II.
(Applause.1 He can dlssect, analyze, dis
criminate, draw infcrenccs. come to first
principles and reason from facts as well
us first principles. Laughter and hlsscs.l
Your speakers mother was humble,
humble, and rn-tin-unassuming woman.
She was humble and she was modest like
her son. loud laughter and hisses.)
Your speaker owes much to his mother.
My mother said to me years agO-twenty-
five years ago, at the least calculation-I
have been speaker the last thirty years.
In all the churches In Boston, where I
live, have chance to say word-0r
put In n word edgeways. Much uprOar.
She said to me, Danyel-my name Is Dan
yel-my great grandfather married Mary
BrOOks-GovernO Brooks sister, Of Mas
sachusetts, aud with great effectl be-
long to the Brooks family. am Of the
lineage Of Peter G. Brooks, the rich mer-
chant Of Boston. Although people In Bos-
ton thous Int wasn't of much consequence
and tried to put me down from being
heard In Music Hall and In Faneull Hall.
But the day will come when I will be
heard In Faneuil Hall, yes, and In the
Academy Of Music, and In the halls of
Congress and In the White House, may
be. tGreat applause and laughter and
The Chairman lColonel Hlgglnsonl-
There Is no motion before the meeting.
and the chair has no alternative but to al
low the gentleman TO continue his remarks
but Mr.. Pratt will allow me to suggest
to him that as he has expressed desire
to say word or two and has not confined
himself very closely to the subject which
we are met to discuss
General Pratt-rm coming right on to
that pOlnt-you went roundabout way,
you know, In your
Colonel Higginson-l wish to say the
afternoon Is short, and there are several
gentlemen here whom the audience desire
to hear, and II Mr.. Pratt would be rs
brief rs possible
General Pratt don't think I have
spoken five minutes.
Colonel Higginson-If Mr.. Pratt will
be kind enough to conclude his remarks,
then
General Pratt-I will close up with an
ode OH wOman's rights:
On tho green hills Of New England,
And the chalky cliffs of Maine,
From the extreme Of Greenland
To the cultured dales OF Spain
Where the sun In varied splendor,
Sends his sweetly sounding beam,
And the moon In strains more tender,
Der the darkness brightly CLEANS. &c.
I can outspeak any man on the globe
and outwrite any man. (Cheers.) ! am
going to London to speak In Exeter Hall.
a gentleman here gently but persistent
ly limited to General Pratt that he should
sit down by pulling nc his coat-tails. Gem
eral Pratt nhavad fha hint h,,t .,,iuaAa