New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-02

Dream Of the Maiden, all roseate bright;
Dream Of the Bride. in visions 90 white; ,,..
Dream of the Spirit, while yet fingers light;
Change is predestnt d the world must decay;
Fold it up Soul, and lay 1t away!
General sherman's Speech.
At the recent annual banquet of the New
England Society, General Sherman spoke
in response to the toast, 1.-THE Army and
Navy" He said:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the New
England Society," confess that l never
come to q New England festival in the city
of New York without feeling commingled
pleasure and pain. l always know l will
meet here everything that can please the
palate, the taste, the fancy, the eye, and
better still, the wit. Wherever our friend
Choate is I am sure Of that; whenever /
hear his name, and hear the name OF the
New England Society, and the distance be
not too great, and my health be sufficient,
surely will come to your midst. l always
| feel . sense of dread at the presence of men
every one of whom is capable of teaching
me, and before whom should be silent,
| but you command, and it is my province
as your guest to obey, and being present,
| if can say few words that will give you
pleasure, or pride, or satisfaction, 1t Is my
Look around you for the represen tatives
of our navy, as had right to expect here
| some of our old tars to speak for them
selves. Where are they! Where is your
Vice Admiral Rowan, or Paulding, or sew
eral other gentlemen whom l would insist
| upon being present az national representa-
tives to speak to you the sentiments which
| l know pervade that honorable body OF our
service who carry our flag 20 all parts OF
the earth, and make it hcnored and respect
ed every where! They should be here to
| say few words for themselves, and relieve
me from that portion of the task you have
assigned me tonight. The navy has all
changed. We do not know what the May
flower was 200 years ago, but there are
men who remember the old Maid of the
Mist and the Huntrese, and We remember
the clipper ships that used to sail to
California, and we remember how we used
to see the old Constellation 60 down the
harbor and look at her, "bull dOgs" We
used to call them. mere poPguns now-the
old sRs and VT. IT,. eS no~
are al our nd shipef They are all gone.
and in there place what have wet Little
creeping thinEs. calling along close to the
them, very powerful, going along like devil
fish, with q claw sticking out in front and
some sort of explosive material at their
ends. l think the days Of chivalry are
gone, 60 far as the eea is concerned. / do
not want to 60 to sea in that kind of ship.
Ii had to 20 to see would prefer the old
Constitution. But times change and we
must change with them.
We are no more like our ancestors of
Plymouth Rock than this room or these
utensils are like their cabins or like the tin
cups from which they used to drink. And
all Of Plymouth Rock is not gone, either.
We have here everything that pleases the
palate or satiefies the imagination; but to q
large part of our countrymen things are
can take you out where part of your
army is, which you have toasted to-
night, and for which l thank you with
ell my heart-I can take you there and
show them to you, perfectly satisfied
with their pint of corn for their meal, be-
cause Justice and law are the same every
where; they have not changed. The sun is
was first trOdden upon by the white mans
feet. The cold pinches a. it did then, and
the principles which underlie human ma
ture are the same. The laws which gov
efned our Pilgrim Fathers, the same laws
govern our people now, where they are
subject to like vicissitudes. You are placed
under different circumstances, and l hope
you thank God for it.
hope you are satisfied with the advant-
ages you enjoy, but the little army of the
United States is not as you are. They are
scattered here and there, some frozen up in
the Pembina and others on the Columbia
river and some down where they have to
import men with the dropsy, as my friend
Porter said, in order that they may tao
them and get water. This country which |
we have inherited is q very large country.
1t extends from ocean to ocean, and almost |
from the frigld to the torrid zone, denseF |
populated here but sparsely populated in
Meeting link between the present and the |
past, and / consider they have task just |
as important as your Pilgrim Fathers had.
They do not enjoy banquets like the pres
ent; but | hope that the time will come
when at Fort Yuma even there will be
banquet spread before them such as this at
Gentlemen, the toast you have given me,
tonight, rather turns the thought in an
,ther direction. The army now is an army
If peace, and it should lead our thoughts
20 peaceful subjects, and it does. There
vas time, not long ago, but short space
'go, only ten years, when the army and you
md all others were engaged in war; when
We were struggling for our very national
Existence; but few years ago-you all
it, your thoughts revert to it so
naturally that l need hardly refer to it
hen with a desperate struggle involving
he lives of million of men on both sides,
We of the North. we of New England stock,
do not say entirely, but mainly, were the
onquerors, and that determined the char
cter of this continent Applause !; and upon
he civilization of New England is based
he civilization of the continent of North
america. [Great applause. And just so
ure as there is God in heaven, that civil
zation which was founded on Plymouth |
lock is to govern the continent Of North |
AMERICA. Freedom of thought, msnliness
t character, self -assertion Of one man, let |
7ho may be against him, the character
+ the New England man is such that 20
7here he may, he carries with him q
entire around which will grow circles con.
family enlarging. The war of 1865 was a
'sr OF races; it was q struggle between
hese two civilizations, and the Northern I
IAN prevailed. All English speaking peo- !
lie, the Germanic race, those who believe {
our civilization, who believe in the fam
y. who believe in education, who believe {
! refinement, in honesty, in fidelity to con- {
Dvern this continent, and they will do it. I
l appeal to you all, and l appeal to the {
Orld at large, to say if there ever was euch r
! example since the time of Christ himself, Q
ben cODquering race gave to the con- I
Tered the same rights that they themselves | Il
ssess. But We of the army, the very Q
Oment the war ceased, the moment our O
es laid down their arms, shared with | ii
EN- our food and SAID: take with YOU a
lat you have got. Go home. Go to work Il
d help us to make the future destiny ii
the land which is to be our common d.
me- . glorious one" ] say tonight, | Of