Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-14

done unnoted, and have often given me
credit for doing and saying things of
which had no recollection and was sure
that had no personal experience
in. [Laughter.] Sometimes the question
OF the curious as to my impressions and
views of America have driven me almost to
the limits of endurance, yet I appreciate
that there was no disrespect, no wish to take
me OFF my guard, but only that pressing
urgency which is SO marked a feature of
American character. When the questioners
came IN extra force I have
been tempted to say with an old
time Englishman, This is the humblest mo-
ment of my life that you should take me for
fool enough to answer all your questions.
Laughter and applause.l If there Is any
criticism would make it is that the mani
festations of kindness and friendliness have
been too many and too strong. The two
months which have spent on these shores
have been two years in actual work,
OF two centuries rather, since I
have lived through all American his
tory. In Virginia I saw the ear of the
cavaliers, or of the early settlers, and, as it
were, met Smith and Pocahontas, and wit
messed over again the drama of the struggle
in the great central State among the States.
In Massachusetts saw the work and sacri-
fees of the pilgrims, and in Philadelphia
well, lived in a way that would have
shocked the simple soul of VIM. Penn.
Laughter. There are two impress
sions which are fixed upon
my mind as the leading characteristic of the
people among whom have passed, as the
almanac informs me, but two short months.
Everything seems to be fermenting and
growing, and yet have been no farther
west than Niagara. AS I stood in the
moonlight at that great work and cease
less labor of nature and saw it for the
first time it looked to me like the in
cessant activity and tireless, restless, beat
ing whirlpool of life and existence here. In
the everlasting tumult of the abyss saw the
undying push and activity of America. In
the mist cloud that rose in the moonlight I
saw images somehow of American destiny
In the silver column that rose silent into the
night saw the watchful power that should
be the pillar of light to the posterity
Of each nation. The other impress
sion have had very strongly forced
aapon me is the ever-present hope
..fnllness and buoyancy of the people. Ready
ever to step forward and try again what had
been abandoned as beyond the grasp of the
older people of Europe, they work night and
day to supercede these progressions by new
devices and new methods. This will proba-
bly, be my last visit to this western world,
and [ have lkened it to Wordsworth's Var
row unvisited, Yarrow visited and Yarrow
unvisited The third stage would not
IN all probability be q full fruition,
but if it was, should come to land of
kindly homes, where I had been treated as
the best and with the best. But even were
1T never to DO my pleasure to repeat this
visit, l can recall it in my cordial greetings cf
my American friends abroad. The two lands
are bound closely together, however, by the
telegraph, and by my friend, Cyrus w. Field,
who crossed the ocean SO often that l hear
OF him, in the same moment in London and
In New York. Laughter. shall have my
friends, Mr.. Harper and MIR. Grove, to help
my friendly recollections. Without them I
could never have come, and they have taken
such good care of me that do not believe l
have handled So in money in the whole two
months of my stay.
In closing his remarks he expressed fer
vent hope and an abiding belief that the
bond which fastened America to the mother
land would never be broken. At the Loeb
Katrine of America-Lake George-he saw
an oak and maple growing on the same
root. He was reminded of the old oak of
England, with its gnarled and twisted root
and the young shoot of America, with glori-
GUS promise for the future. Might the
union of the two trees on one root be always
typical of the union of America and Eng
LAM