Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-08-07

tersst in my welfare, tender you my
most grateful acknowledgements.
4 lgreatly value the good opinion of thi!
community, In which have so Ions
lived. 1 coslnt myself fortunate
4 that so much of my life ha.
4 been spent here in association
with you. About to be separated fol
a time from my native land, it is a joy
to me that l go with the good will and
good wishes of those who have knOwl
me best. Through your chairman, you
have been pleased to say that you re-
gret my departure. Those were grace
full woIds of the great Roman Senator
when speaking of the loss of his friend,
81 feel that no evil has happened to
him. 1t has befalien myself, if indeed
it has happened 10 any," In this hour
and in this presence l appreciate this
beautiful estimate of true frienship.-
There is in it nothing false and nothing
pretended. Whatever belongs to it is
4 sincere. 1t shines with brilliant hope
over all the future. He who looks up
on true friend looks upon the image
of himself. Wherefore friends, though
absent, are still present. Though in
poverty they are rich; though weak,
they are strong; though dead they are
alive.
In the spirit of frienship you have
Expressed the opinion that my official
service on which am about to enter
will be gain to the government of our
country. Your wish is doubtless father
to the thought; may your wish be re-
allied. But allow me to add that it is
not for any man to say in advance how
he shall acquit himself in a new and
untried trust. All that can venture
to promise myself is an honest endeav-
or to know and do my duty, relying
upon the favor Of Him in whom we
live, and who takes :sotire even of the
fall of sparrow. linus sustained,
cheerfully and hopefully go to the
post of duty assigned me by the Presi-
dent as representative of the United
States of America, near the govern
ment of Japan, earnestly desiring that
by good offices may advance the in
terests of our country, and the interests
of our country, and the interests as well
of that great and growing empire of
the East. Be assured, my neighbors,
that in that distant land shall cherish
gratitude for your kindness and affec-
ton, and for our common country.
Born and reared in this land, it is not
for me to forget that the United States
/ of America, though the youngest, is
one of the foremost of nations. The
vastness of her domain, in the extent
and diversity of her resources and pro-
duction, in the rapidity Of her growth
and development, in the achievements
of her intellect, In her public charities,
in her free press, In her free schools,
and her free churches, in her railways,
and telegraphs, and varied industries,
in her complex but united and COM
pact fabric of justice, which is for the
shelter and protection of all, by the
| power of all, and those graces of life
which adOfn and ennoble individual
and collective man, the citizen and the
State. Let America, by her example
teach all nations that it is their interest,
as 1t is tteir duty, to help one another,
to cultivate the works of peace and the
arts of peace, to. diffuse knowledge to
establish Justice, to yindicate every
right and redress every wrong, to re-
cognize and accept the fact that the
human race, however divided into ma
tionalities, is one great family OF intel
lectual, moral, and responsible beings,
capable of indefinite progress here, and
encouraged to hope for and aspire to
an Immortal life hereafter.
IT'S the divinity that stirs within us;
'Tis Heaven itself that points out an here.
after,
And tntimatss eternity to man. ,-...s4
May this goodly land of ours, sacred
to us all by so many memories, abOun-
ding In the productions of every zone,
broad enough and fertile enough to
furnish homes for hundreds of millions
of freemen, be filled with good men
and true of every cline, patriots and
statesmen, teachers, scholars and re-
formers, workers and builders, friends
of the world and fathers of mankind.
ToAsTs AND RESPONSES.
The remaining toasts and responses
were as follows:
9. 1.-The Cadiz Bar-Distinguished
positions seek Them"
Response by J. NJ. Estep, Esq.
3. 1.-THE Press-The peoples friend"
Response by w. B. Hearn, editor of
the Cadiz Republican.
A. 1.-THE American Flag-The ad-
vanced banner in leading the nations
of the far East to higher civilization
and pure religion" .-..
Response by Rev. DR.. VIM. Grimes.
5. ''The Girls "a -.
"Auld nature swears the lovely dears
Her noblest work she classes ..
Her prentice han she tried on man,
And then she made the lassies, O."
Response by Rev. w. L. Meloy.
| 6. Samuel M. Bryan, Japanese Post
al Commissioner to the American and
European governments; Cadiz boy.
Perseverance, and brains will tell"
Responded to by Samuel NJ. Bryan.
/ At the conclusion of the tOasts and
responses all adjourned to the parlor,
where, until late hour, the time was
passed in social intercourse in knots of
thran Or f0ur Minister Rinph9m and