The New York herald., 1872-10-16
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE.
Complimentary Banquet to the Historian
by His American Publishers.
The Welcome by George w. Curtis Mr..
Fr0ude's Response Other Az
ter-Dinner Speeches.

ulnner was gwen iaet evening at Delm0nicO's,
Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue, to James An
thony Froude, by his publishers in this country the
Messrs. 6cribner, Armstrong a Co.
About eghty-five guests sat down to dinner,
among whom were:-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rev.
H. W. Beecher, w. u Bryant, DR.. T. D. woolsey, DR..
E. H. Chaplin, DIR. H. O. Potter, rector OF Grace
church; Dr. Noah Hunt Schenck, rector Of st. Ann's
church. Brooklyn; Dr. H. w. Bellows, A. d. White,
President OF Cornell University; Colonel T. W. Hig-
ginson, Dr. Abel Stevens, Bret Harte, Parke God.
win, D. A. Goddard, OF the Boston advertiser;
George w. Chids, E. L. Godkin, J. w. Harper, Jr.,
Judge Q. p. DAILY, Professor Arnold Gny0t, DIR. p.
Schaff, w. H. Appleton, George JONES' DR.. Edward
Bright, OF the Era,ntner; Colonel r. M. Hoe, L.
jennings of the Times; Augustine Smith, DR.. w. M.
Taylor, william A. Booth Judge Fancher, Robert
Bonner, Whtelaw Reid. Or. s. ]. Prime, H. O.
H0ught0n, Il. H. St0ddard, President Gilman, OF
the California University; Major J. NJ. Bundy, l.
Chamberlain, Of the New York World; Z. O. Sted-
man, DR.. Edward Eggeston, DIR. W. II. Ward,
Colonel John Hay, L. G. Davis, OF the Philadelphia
Inquirer; Noah Brooks OF the New York Tribune;
DR.. H. NJ. Field OF the Evangelist; Mr.. Goodrich, OF
the Boston Post; Edward King, Of the Boston
Journal; 9. d. Warner, J. r. Thompson, OF the
Evening Post, ana others.
George w. Curtis presided, and when the edibes
had been disposed Of addressed the guests az fol-
lows
ADDRESS OF MR.. GEORGE W. CURTIS.
As think OF the occasion which brings us to-
gether. and look about the table at TINS festive
company remember what Sir Philip Sidney wrote
should our thoughts be directed to various kinds or
knowledge unless room be afforded for putting it
result mimsclf IA scholar he thus deines @ the
highest function OF scholarship He nouts the old
tradition that made the scholar a pedant, and de-
clares him to be power. For the scholar receives
only that he may give. He Is not grave IN which
learning is buried but fruitful soil in which it Is
In q beneGccnt harvest. The scholar trans. ms
mlts knowledge into influence. HOspitable
to every tnoagntm,senegoSs syMpathetihc
truth and unhesitatngly. declaring 1t, he
puts his knowledge into practice, SO that public
brand him as aheretc. He may see his own book
burned by his own university. P1 81 nluOceis still
tal influence draws the restless waters OF the sea-
so, by the resistless laws OF the intellect, he lifts
the world higher and higher upon It's way.
stranger to most Of us, nut friend OF all OF u.s.
who yindicated the right of honest thought, despite
torch OF exploration into the obscurer passages OF
history has thrown new and disturbing light upon
what were supposed to be settled facts is the guest
whom we honor to-night--who sits by my side, and
whom we welcome with all our hearts as he lands
upon our shores.
kindness to tell him at once what he Will so soon dis
cover-that he has arrived among the most modest
ana meI1tOrlOuS people III the WOflu, uneSS-fOr i
see that Judge Daily IL looking at me-unless it be
that people OF whom he has come to speak to us. A
year or two before our war distinguished Amcri
can editor was IN Paris, and was looking one day,
with fellow American, at the pictures in the
Louvre, and talking Of their country 'sThe tact is
said the editor. 'that what we need IN America is a
darned good licking.n A foreigner, who stood by
and heard the remark, smiled eagerly, as If he
knew q nation that would Ike TO administer the
bing his hands with appetite and Joining In the
conversation, that is Just what you do want"
friend, as II he had heard nothing 1.-THE difficulty
is that there's no nation In the world that calck
u.s." SO we turned to and licked OurselveBd Ill
after. s"' ~ 'e""'' 1''a' '''' '''''' '0' ''e
rhis was the modest view that we formerly took
OF our merits, and am sure that our friend VIII
find us just as bashfu as ever. We are OF the
opinion OF the Yankee sailor in the harbor OF
Naples A United States ship had anchored there,
and the King and brilliant party Of nobemen
came OF to visit her. There was nothing to dis
honest eyes OF Yankee sailors one god-laced man
was as much q king as another; and, as one OF the
party tripped and disappeared q sailor stepped up
TO an officer and, touching his hat, said, "Pease,
air. one OF them 'ere kings has tumbled down the
hatchway.n And so think our friend will discover
disposed TO say TO him. "Pease, sir, all them 'ere
kings have tuTnbled down the hatchway."
But this modesty will not surprise him. 1t will
seem TO him the most natural thing in the world,
for he is an Englshman and we are chips OF the
old block. II our national pride crows a sonorOus
Yankee-doodledoO 1t is because 1t is fed upon the
traditions OF Magma Charta and OF the crOwning
mercy at Worcester Our fathers who gave this
country It's character so, ana We're English
one Continent to another In the great march Of the
same historic development. When James Otis
John Pym defended the ancient rights OF Eng
lshmen. When George Washington drew his
aes Kas GfSss SnS into II se sa
against King Charles. The road is straight from
Runnymede to Bunker Hill, and at Yorktown the
to the England OF Alfred OF Wickine and Of John
Milton. II IfJ0nathan Swift had been made Bishop in
soaheS o the se to ounS the
which their young enthusiasm dreamed upon the
banks Of the .'Susquehanna, "Gulliver," the "An.
Client Marinern and "Ihaaba" would have belonged
to the American branch ofEnglish literature, as the
books OF Bryant and Emerson, OF Longfell0w and
parents Of our guest but stepped across the sea
should ask you to join me In hOnOring the American
Ii is the old Morse blood leaping in our veins. as
In his, that makes our hearts thrill with his ma
tiOna lyrc:-
She quells the floods below,
AS they roar on the Shore,
wSn ne ssf Sae s,Hsms ssss wSs Ssa 70 os
And the stormy winds do blow.
A great indomitable heart beats In every line.
1t is the batte-cry OF our kindred, 0f our fellow
rOvers OF the sea. God forbid that the stormy
Winds o, war ever again blow US s INTO hostile col
neva may be clenched in friendly grasp that the
whole world cannot sevcrl
other words than mine, and remember that when
all would both glady speak and hear our speeches
must be short studies upon great subject.n In
deed, one word expresses what we would say. The
first salutation which our fathers received In their
own language upon this Continent was that Of the
Indian Sam0set to the Pilgrims, "Welcome, English
men ~ And 1t Is echoed in this latest greeting
which we offer to an English scholar in token OF the
friendly sympathy and interest OF o new nation,
welcome, welcome, to America ~
The welcome thus offered was most cordially ex.
tended by the assemblage In the highly flattering
reception which greeted Mr. Froude on his rising to
respond. Mr.. Fioude said:--
ADDRESS OF Mr.. FROUDB.
When, few years Since English squadron
ENGAGED with the forts on tho Pc evbo one of