New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-11-24
assembled with It In your honor bid you most cordial
and hearty welcome

! much feeling and eanestnese. His speech ire
quenty interrupted by applause and laughter He said
Mr. CHoArE AND GENTLEMEN: Before you spoke had
reception here 80 unmportant as Know my s s 10
have been before IN political ana social nlsi
| I have been received in the United States
OF America You. Sir, have given explanation Of that
problem which am very thankful 10 receive The habit
OF Americans TO welcome EnglIshmen whatever may be
their position, itself proves to that you regard us
as something above individuals, and that, somehow or
other you connect US in every way by Imagination II no
been the habit of many OF your ancestors
has alluded to certain events in my political
Life which says fully justify your kindness and remark
able sympathy OF Oday. and that matter there are
10 be any relations between myself aud the Americans
Sir upon that point can say that deserve credit dP
Icompetev comprehend as man to man. that in that
day of your greatest trouble the small voice that
came the great Atlantic was listened 70 with e1
treIne pleasure and unexaggeratcd sympathy.
Bnt when iook 10 myself / am bound to say find
extremely little merit IN the matter. There was one
ground OF sympathy between YOU and the English people
which you had the holest right 10 believe would have
been absolute and oyerpowerng The English nation
in the world Appause 1t had stated at the Congress
Of Vienna that the one point which England re
dured as sine qua was the abolition
Of the slave trade. For that purpose England
the utmost limit perhaps beyond me UNITS OF tne lW VI
nations with all the powers OF the world Therefore you
had perfect right to believe 10 suppose, that In qes
tion, in matter IN when we were not Oy
ay hut morally interested, the questions would
tfat II was So "A an individual l have not
the right 10 reproaeh my country upon t ti
matter. felt, knew slavery was doomed from the cly
lized world My heart, my instincts my sense OF tne
tinuance Of that Institution Appiause kneW 5 Sa I'm
condition Of the slave under many conditions, under
manr circumstances, might be better than that OF
dillon OF the slave was incOmpat-
bile with the highest form OF moral culture
and highest ambition always think that question had
political ss well moral and religious considerations,
and that through the unhappy condition OF TINS continent
the question Of slavery got so ntenl1ed Win the qes
ton of property that however human, however wise men
were yet nevertheless 1t would bring with an mel
dental condition of cruelty aDhOrTght 70 lhahAlhI aIu
that therefore institution could not continue to the
But masking clean breast Of it, that not the bot
tom Of my sympathy. Ny sympathy with you comes;
a. Mr. Choate has sad, 10y an llS'lpes uliaS and
any deductions might have had From the imagina-
ton OF my earliest youth from the sympathy OF the most
vivid time and from the most logical look al the sua-
ton In my mature life came 10 me conclusion that the
destiny Of the present and the future world rests WIN
great and undivided empires lAppiaise had
lived to Italy. out OF It's Confusion OF
the promises of the wonderful classic times and the glory
OF Rome renovated into a new and prosperous nation
taking place in Germany; In GERMANY hotWlIh-
standing the greatest division the most peculiar separ
ton of religion. and even OF races. Vet never
theless that great German Empire Is coming iGr-
ward "a a monument 0f the civilization OF the
ftnre world and as the Of all Europe against any
form of Oriental barbarism And knew nom the his
tory of my own country that no new principle,
hui one we had always maintained. England never u
any moment thought OF giving up the principle Of the
i ibe Evidences Of the energy with which We
sustained IT, Prolonged applause And We had
al our doors, had within us another nation IN many
points aliens ourselves; or different race largely
Of a different religion almost generally nation Whch
we had treated sometimes Win kindness sometimes Win
harshness sometimes with justice and many other times
with njusce but railways on the principle OF ne INTEGRITY
OF the empire Applause anu cO'I Iu1 ~, ~, a. -
hgent man could what Italy was growing TO- pr0phey
what Germany would become ana showing IIg 9li I
ties OF the present lItIalu' nov 'H man V et W." ~
destroy the integrity Of the United states. lap
plause1 Fact and history were against him, and
IN addition 10 that ItIt 'Ia' ~ o'i.i- 49,
In sustaining your separation, IN allowing special
and local sympathy 10 act upon NE, instead
of the great logic of historical tuhs-if could have AL
lowed myself act IN that line OF sympathy when would
have bound me 10 my countrymei-l should nave leli
had beed the truth Oi history a. Wei a. peiT llo
foundation OF general morality lGreat appiause mere
may have said upon that matter tell you that that
was The calculation the best calculation Of MY own mind
that the simple result OF the deduction or my Own re
sons . I'M in, ot ay tbaf have not felt i'm GER
tain sense il was not deserved, from the motives have
natbing wbatryer but the means of secui-
you have accomplished your Ogect; Laughter
and applause Ana IL you Ice ,n ny IN ,n
influence direct indirect which may exert, shall
speak as have spoken and think rs nave thought of
the United states OF Amerca-yOu may be Wc sure that
mn nofcr OCCASION when have been kindly received
have spokenof my literary sympathy with TINS country
Every Engishman rightly looks 10 llls country as lie
would with sense oil appeal 70 pOSteY NJ Ieeta ul
if he has said hing, II nc has written any tbhg ne
chord. II ne Las struck even any Nt4bd
assurance thai pleascs mankind. if You take DO up you
pas, II on not from tongue TO tongue IN the
httle distant Anglia Of Europe.
recognize thal have met III TINS country men WAoin
| shall be- glad TO meet any where and Win nose laI
arty have been honored. And might say TINS that II
1 was 70 compare the pcst men lhdt h4'e me- ~
here with the best men that nave Known IL
Europe / should say simply this, that the men that
nave found here seem equal 10 the circtim-
stances in which they have been placed. ~ intelligent
in all their relations Of life, as nOnIe III thclI
1I,rrnost impulses. As Just in their expressions
a. 1nv | have ever met with in my inter
bern honored with the familiarity OF many dis
tnguishcd men, have been received with great klnd-
fortune the other day to At by the delrbed of that
amiabie, honest man. your Nice-Presdeh IN me tdplo
an Washington. dying under the portrait OF Jei-
fersOu. 1 have seen some OF your dbit
mem with whom I have been intimate IN
Turnpe and one whom yOu Will allow me 10 mention
above all others. man whose career Witnessed duihs
that great and stormy tme Oh youI 5IulDies I n
tenanoe Of your dignity was concurrent with SENSE 81"
the Importance OF good relations between LhsiaAu am
Gentlemen next year you viii celebrate your Centen
NAL ana nave been kindly asked by every person Who
wished me good-by come back 20 the Centennial.
iIauGher A. for the Centennial itseii' nave no par
tcular inclination 20 come OacA ,uliiA IL Is 4 i4H
YOU should have your Centennial, bus 40
not quito see what an Lnghsluian mas T. 10 40
with II. Long laughter ana 3pplahnel ~ II
thing which philosopher might almost make
going 10 have this magnificent celebration oi
the 1OOth year of your hDeiatou rom VI,
horrible rule OF England, al the sane time accompany
IL with the warmeSt feeling, toward we bTlll7n
Laughter ana applau-e.I Now, II You Will csdIy uh-
der,and tins Centennial D. to 10 DE your Last ctI
brluon VI that kind, ana tni.t from tillt nln,u
you become part OF the great community u EUROPE, men
say it viii be- very useful celeb atom ana one winch
an the world viii be ready 10 hOnol. CtSnI"lns you.
independence you call II. \ very hoDie act az d
ned bv the folly and the stupidity and Ignorance Of
England. The causes OF England and America
You have your local difficulties just az we have.
You have your own religious Nihcullles' just as We
local taxation-a very serious question with
,f a.