Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-28
NEW ENGLAND At NEE YORK.

The New England dinner al New York Is
. always the occasion OF u collection OF choice
spirits. and II the oratOTy isn't always good II
is as good as can be got. II is getting to be
giorfy Der, bit that is q sure and sincere testi-
mony 10 the decadence of all merely Sectiona!
antaSonisin or divisions ''sutuTeS.' as Mi Ey-
arts happily called the old line between the free
ana slave states, line which separated and yet
Joined sectioEalitieS. Secretary Evarts' speech
we ind Sprinkled with parentheseS, vaiuly re-
Stfalning laughter" Ike the aching outlines OF
portly pauncheS, but his wit IS Disappointing In
! print. As ne vergeS towards political topics he
always seems TO be on the point OF saying
. something or great importance, OF evolving
some profoundly SagaclOuS policy, but when we
get it, il is only this generality" But it is for
us TO enter into the harvest and reap 1t; ami,
/ gentlemen, we must not wait always, standing
first On one leg-and then on the other, undecided
as TO which foot we shall put foremost in our
| progress to that harvest here. II we wish to
build ships, let us build them IL we wish TO buy
ships. let us buy them (appauSe); If we wish to
sell raw material, let Us sell it; If we wish to
sell the products of industry, let US sell them;
but let us understand that none OF these great
processes are TO be carried through by us in our
generation except by u e same enterprise, the
same courage. the same self-denial, which made
out of the poor OutcaStS from the old world the
great nation that we now have. 1t is easy to
waste Inheritance, however great and however
noble the ancestry from Whom it came The
only absolutely necessary, memorable demand
is that if the inheritance is to be improved and
enlarged and transmitted to our descendants. il
must De by the maXirnumS and the conduct by
| when II was Quit up from the beginning. Jap
p!auSe-l'
Chauncey NJ. Depew, the well-knoyyn LAWYER.
was very bright in bantering New England as
instance the following :-..fhere was a time
when every one born in the New England states
locked to Boston as the center OF the universe.
ana the c0DSummatiOn Of his life as the time
Wnen he Should visit that sacred shrine But
to-day. in the presence Of this New Engll0d
rival. Boston rises to Importance only when she
diverts train OF merchandise Intended for the
metropolis tLaughter.I FOlef&thers' Day VIII
De celebrated at Boston, and il makes a local
item In the local newspapers. read not fifteen
miles from home. FOrefatherS' Day will be
celebrated at Plymouth, and ii is remembered
only III the indigestion OF those who partici-
pated. daughter J But Forefathers' Day is
celebrated Ia New York, and the functions of
the government cease to work, ILaughter.l'
The climax scars still farther into the sub
lime 10y rel reSenting Congress as ad lourniner 10
permit the attendance Of the most brilliant.
"a gfeSslVe and progressive representative of
New England" Three cheers for Blaine1
MI. Blaine SPOKE as a 'bTOther-in-law" OF
New England and the father of six New Eng
land children. lie SObariy admitted as belong
ING 10 TINS section or he country 1.-The chief and
great merit of developing the country and
shaping It's Institutions He said that from 1870
10 1910 the real founders OF America arrived in
New England. about 2l.001 souls. not poor out
casts. as Mi. EVartS had described them. but
nen OF culture and OF properly. bringing With
them s2.500.0eG, which was worth six times as
nluch then as il is TO- day. .'sh0w he any town
is worth to-day over SIS, ,0J0' lie thought
the great fact of the last 150 years was the eX-
pansion OF the Englsh-speaking race, 100000
when the pilgrims landed, to 100. 1000 600 now
MI. Blaine repaid q demonstration, evidently
largely intended for his beneht, with a very
good speech.
DR.. StOrrs referred feelngly to Bayard TAYLOR.
and paid high compliment to Or. Joseph p
Thompson, VINO resides at Berlin. We hone
however, that DR.. Thompson will not be made
our minister to Germany, as was once prcp 1sed
fif
Who has lived abroad so long and has SO far for
gotten his origin as TO think il wise for our GOV
eminent to take measures to exclude socialist
eligTaDtS from coming 10 this country, is con-
SpfcuOuSly unfit for any official service He has
simply suTTendee ed 10 the local fright PreSt-
Gent seeiye OF Amherst spoke last, and uttered
this timely and interesting oh Derivation on the
Puritans: They did not build the college on
the basis OIL the common school, but they started
the college first and built the common school
with the strength which the college furnished
they were ignorant of the modern discovery
That you can only get tie best By eyolution
from the poorest. They began with the best
Instead OF attempting 10 ascend from lower
planes by gradual development unto Il higher
they started with the hi, her. Hazard college
was founded only seventeen years after the
landing at plymouth, but this was ten years be-
fore the beginning Oh common schools IN Mass
achGoetts. Ii is true that this accorded with
The history OF all education in Europe, the uni
VeTeltleS or Europe having been tie pr0genIt0rs
ard not the children of the common schools
and ii IS true that subsequent events have
shown that the lower Stages OF education in
stead OF mounting by themselves I'D TO the
higher, have been lifted up by the power which
mas come down TO them from that which Is
above. But do not believe. Mr.. President that
II was any historical deduction from the past
or any philosophical provision of TIE future
Which led our fOrefatherS TO make provision for
the highest education before they had uade
any provision for the lowest. Rather did This
grow out Of that Instinct or might saw that
Inspiration. which led them 50 often and 50 un-
consciously in way Of wisdom better than
thelr knowledge. They were accustomed to
look upon upward impulses as coming first from
above, and so they sought ia the modntain-tops
for the sources OF the streams which were TO
run among the valleys and which were to make
or desert land the garden OF the Lord
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