New-York tribune., 1880-10-03
tatue has already been fully described in THE

statue has already been fully described in THE
ERIBuNE
Then the familiar Scotch airs, " There was LAD
was born in Kyle" aud Scots wha hae," were heard
from Grafulla's Band.
MAYOR CooPER's SPEECH.
In accepting the statue on behalf OF the city,
Mayor Cooper spoke as follows:
How broad and genial the hospitalities OF our
with III: Ge@ccratie genius OF all nations and times i
was but little while since was caiieu 10, 10 "e, O.,
fpe1snas fp%s " great meiCdis Thomas Moore and now
The songwriter of coapd is at our gates asg S g
Burns Asking did say nay, long ago as early EAR as
our era ne ws as 50 most psthetc the
delsh,"i and SSanSf arrh 81 at
the earliest edition Of Burnss poems was reprinted M IN
this and from that time 10 se sns osf M grateful adj
rnraton IL was here. too, that his exceiiences were
ss s to % Sna as s Swn caro
his natcnlcss poems Wilson, the ,,v Ia'hvuS Of his
sSpss sSpss; Ca%poelI w grows poetic than than
wont his bis e has ssep SSa by Mnn
ham but nothing that has been said oI MIN raetic
II ipSs Of onr own maec composed yyen years
in tins city and gwen TO te % w01I ryant Many OF
you Will recall the lines
And his that music. to whose sdoDt tome ;,mo
In iSs cct eSl%GR or Sss1es eIisS miPth or
Ills 20, for me even to CLEAN in field where such ,
mighty masters have already reaped: eonii DIV Dns
ns~hsge ns iSpr sentiment Nor must | anticipate the
thoughts of The accomplished gentsman 10 To'to com
msnd shall attempt tell you OF the iowy origin
poet OF his narrow s 1t0on o S once TO
a%t 9Da' tue Old World ana to sail for these hes,
SspeT how IN SaSTSr despite Of 'i b. "S
raised himself to pinnacle OF M Heiiness @ s1d ia coe
ouence his simple strains came to touch an ~ nnnn %
hearts how he made the local rustic @ haen Rad and ad
mred IN all parts of the earth and how his S
globe, remember his birth as ,so DessIsc'iof sns OF
Statue. so deftiy moulded by lhehanas of masler as
monument to the Peasant Poet m, NJ omy ctr cytropoIis with
thanks which think express the heartfelt feehng OF
every of our people capable OF apprecauE genus
and manlness ana worth
ADDRESS OF GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS.
Mr. Shedden. of the Burns Association of Phia-
de,nbia then smoke a few words of greeting and
congratulation to the Caedonans of New-iork.
After this Mr. Lane the chairman. introduced
George William Curtis.
Ii was interesting to watch the effect OF Mr Cur-
tiss words. Among the Caedonians next the plat
form many faces could be noted that bore the I'M
press of direct Scottish descent. The sandy hair'
steel-blue eyes, high cheek bones and strongly
marked harsh features typical of the Scottish race
could he picked out here and there. AS Mr. Curtis
went on the rigid features that had assumed an eX
preston of calm and critical attention began 10
soften and relax. As he called up the " lovely vaIes
of Ayr and Yarow or Ieylot anu 1a fne and
when he pictured the Land OF the hareDen
and mountain daisy. land OF the laVeracK ana tne
curlew land of Draw youths and sonsle lasseS, tne
firmly set lips QuiveTed. and many stawart Hlen-
lander turned away his head 10 conceal the moist
ure that dmmed his eyes, or breaking down
sobbed outright. But soon the tears were changed
10 laughter rs 30, Willie brewd Peek o Mant
rang out from the speaker Ihroug9ont ms oraon he,r
Mir Curtis swayed his audience as II touching iheH
heart strings. He spoke aS follows:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: The year 1909 was
proud year for Great Britain. Two years be-
fore amid universal disaster Lord Chesterield
bad exclaimed ave are longer nation
But meanwhile Lord Chatham had restored TO
his country the sceptre of the and covered her
name with glory OF continuous victory The year
1853 saw his greatest tiumphs. II was the year Oi
Mtpden. where the French army routed; of
OuberOn aere the French fleet was destroyed; OF the
heights OF Abraham, IN Canada, where Wolfe died
bappy and the dream Of French supremacy upon the
American Continent vanished forever. The triumphant
thunder OF British heard all around the world
Robert Give founding British dominion in lndia
Boseawen and his fellow admTas were sweeping France
from the ocean and in America Colonel George Wash
ington had planted the British nag on the field OF Brad
docks defeat 1--WE are forced TO ask every morning
what victory there is" SAID Horace Wapoe, for fear
OF missing one"
But not Only In politics and war was the genius OF
Great Britain illustrious James Watt was testing the
,euny whch ten years later Arkwrght would complete;
and Wedgwood was making household ware beautiful.
Fiedjpg Tom Jones" had been ten years III PRINT ana
Gray's Eie&y years Dr.. johnson bad lately pub
Ished his dictionary and Edmund Burke his essay on
the Sublime aud Beautiful In the year 1883 Garrck was
the first OF actors and Sir Joshua Reynolds OF painters
GbbD dated year the preface OF his first work
Hume nubished the third and fourth volumes of his
history England; Robertson his history OF scotland
and sterne London to find publisher for TITS
tram shandy. Ohver Goldsmith. ''unfrended sohtary'
was toing for the booksellers in his garrett over Fleet
Dtch. but four years later with Burke and Reynolds
and Garrick and Johnson he would found the most
famous OF literary clubs and sell the vicar OF
Wakefield 10 save himself from JAN. IL was year OF
events ecis OF history and OF men whose
fame is an ustrous national possession But among
those events memorable than the birth OF
so In tue poorest of Scotch aud of all that
nowned and respendent thTong OF statesmen soldiers
and scamen philosophers poets and inventors whose
fame filled the world with accamation, not one is more
gratefully aud fondy remembered than the Ayrshire
plougbman, Robert Burns.
This great assembly in large part composed OF his
counrymen You. fellow-citzens, mostly born In
Scotland There is more beautiful country and as
Won stand here memory and Imagination recall your
native land Misty coasts and far-sretchng spendors
of summer sea; solemn mountains and wind-swept
oors singing streams and rocky gens and waterfalls
lovely wales OF Ayr and Yarrow, OF Teviot and
the Tweed crumblIng ruins OF ancient days,
abbey and castle and legends OF romance gliding
burn aad brae the light that never was on sea or
land ~ every hill with its heroic tradition every stream
with its story, every valley with lis song; land OF the
boreeu and the mountain daisy land of the layerock
and the curlew land OF Draw youths and s0nse lasso
of deep strong melancholy manhood OF deep true,
Sender wcnanhood-this Is your Scotland tbisl your
native land And could you so truly transport IL 10
the nome of your adoption, how interpret II To us be-
yond the sea- SO fully aud tly. as by this memorial Of
the e whose song is Scotland No wonder that you
proudly bring his statue and place II here under the
american sun, the chief American city side by SIDE
with that the other great scotchinan whose genus
ond fame like the aud sunshine. local boundary
con coufn. In Walhaa OF various nationality
it viii he long before fellow cOunrymen are COM
whose genius is at characterstcaly
national and 40 broadly universal who speak so truly
for their owu countrymen and for all mankind as wal
fer Scott and Robert Burns
w