New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-23

home within tho hOspltaDlo walls OF Gotham no
said That tune, Mt President In peculiarly apprUpri
ate Just now, ut least 10 myself feel Ike morning
star and huuIbly nope that you Will not before my
brief speech shall have reached solution OF is COntnu
ity, he strongly moved 10 sing the Dueali END OF mat
remarkably affecting melody, shoo. fly Don't Bodder
Mel" Your venerable President, 10 WhUIn now, rs a
City Father say, Bless you, bless YOU my chh.
little while ago had much to tell me con
corning the shurtness OF this day, and did not
neglect TO mention that the night was a long
one, thus gliding into astronomy by . natural as
socatOu Of IDEAS prompted perhaps by the slight differ
enco between that word and gasronomy, one OF hsmos
important words on an occasion like this. ! shall
not take advantage OF the length OF the evening
10 speak at length. There is limit
to the latitude which your Presidents remark may have
been construed TO allow me- but although one Of your
Pnritanc papers has styled me Dcgberry, shall not III
fict my tedOusness upon your worships. Like all New
Workers have great deal OF faith ia Plymouth kO,k
aud with slight reservations, pay due respect 10 the
memory of the Pilgrim Fathers; but you cannot
expect me TO by the Goldfish OF New
England when have all Mackereyillo at my bacI
Mr. Hall then INDUCED In pleasant pass Of wit. borrow
ing au expression from the Chairman relative 10 his foe
fathers, and then, the authority of the poet CRY
claiming that only Hamlet bad four fathers. Nr
doth not tho rhymester tells us that the
rude forefathers OF the Hamlet sleepl" His
also punued the names OF Carver and Staudish with
great succes andby OF those sudden transitions Dr
which he is nOied, FASTENED TO prove by Bancroft at
ForCahers Day should be celebrated on the 9th Of De-
cember. Old Style on the nth. New style that The
Pilgrims originally intended to run into IIudsoas
RIVER" but forced by storm to land on the shores
Intention was not carried out. In those days the
re gon around Manhattan was not healthy and old
GATE and thence 10 the Islands had proved danger
ons i'm that IL abOnndcd In perniciOus sayHges YOuPu-
rtans he continued To think that the pernicOus
sayagcs hayo not emgrated yet Yes, NewiOrk is hos
pitable IL Is liberal town. Here you en-
Tho press freedom Of marriage and divorce, and fne-
dom TO gamble In stocks. You have free lager, nee
voting and free love also. Then tho Mayor cracked -
iuks on the hOnOrcd name OF Adrian Block 1he Dutth
man who came through Hell Gate $40 years ago
ia the ship Restless Ho was not akin to Nlcolson BOd
10 Beg IAN Block, any Of those, either In the abstract
or Tie concrete. Ho spoke as "A New-iOrker when Ae
asserted that the rock under Castle Garden was
the Plymouth Rock OF America. lie then
punned ON Gov. JEWELS last name, ana predicted
that before long NewYork would be under the direction
OF one ruler aud would ultimately become abe great
Metropolis OF tho world. Ia conclusion ho SAID that th
city, IKE the place 10 which 10 often lkened might
DE paved with good Intentions but time would prove
that IL not rooted with broken promises
The Chairman then read the Following RON MI
Beecher: .
have an address 10 deliver in Brooklyn and cannot
ne with Won do not seek to hide myself from proper
share i'm those sucrngs which you w undergo Ia mem
ory of lie Pilgrim Fathers should rejoice 10 ait SILVER
Ing with You DemOnicO's bleak board IN memory OF
Plymouth Rock; 10 gnaw the crust and sup tho cold
water rs did. 10 does me goOd Ia those de
generate days occasionally 10 practice those setdenals
which assnilao us 10 the heroic men OF history. Your
crowd will unto my memory tonight as noble
boldly TO face the trial OF dinner at DelmOncOs,
which, | sulennly believe, would have tired the con.
staucy of the Pilgrims. What an encouragement
10 virtue II Is that tell our children, III yon
endure Plymouth Rock you shall DO rewarded with Del
m0niCo T.
The other toasts were responded by Messrs TiltOn
John q. Dale. PuiesOu, N. e. Barrett MI. Field. Gov
Low Gen. Hawey, Gov. Jewell and Gen. Mcdowell. Al
"A Late hour. after the excise law had been dcuUnstr
bly, nfraced the cain anniversary duuer OF the New