New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-05

OF TlAT ThNT TInTHt-,
they founded also. which was to bear lruit
after many ages this vaster settlement Of the English
i0ik OF your American soil. In founding the Kingdom
OF England and all that that implies thew founded
as remote father may be said to found his remote
children the confederation of the United states and all
that mat name implies.
TAKING A WIDER VIEW.
Let us then go to take Il wide and general view Of
the history of the English people I say the English
people, or better still the English folk because that
spea',. best sets forth what have in my mind.
cannot with any accuracy speak Of the English
that would be to claim for ourselves great place
among the Nations Of the earth. The English folk
IN their three are, after all. one member of
greater family We are not race, hut Ony part OF
Wider than the bond which binds together all the
speakers OF the Engsh tongue. narrower than the bond
which binds together all the nations OF Aryan Christen
dom, comes the bond which binds should bind to-
gether al the branches OF the Ietonc race II can
not speak of race neither can In srctness speak OF
nation. cannot use the word naon" to take in both
the English people on the western side Of the ocean,
sn1 ho fae EmssG r, people on the eastern
political or local connection which cannot exist between
two independent political societies with the rolling
nation, do hold that belong the people,
folk" by that mean that come of the sto H.
that we speak the same tongue, that have long
| common history with cloud OF common memories /
mean tnat folk in all things except that OF
political separation which the hand OF nature and the
| facts Of history have wrought
And those ties Of blood and speech and memory surely
rise above the lesser facts of local and political separ
ton They shOulG make feel ourselves In the highest
sense one people We dwell different quarters Of the
| globe but are surely TO one another than
jewellers the quarter Of the globe who do not
cone of tue common stock, and who do not speak tue
incCd not trust remind you that the whole heritage
of the past, the history, the memories. the INDUSTRIOUS
names wicn oelong to the earlier Jays oi me EnSIn
iOk IN Bltan, are yours as wen as ours ihey dr,' III
| the rctCSt sense, your own Tue men who piled mp
the mighty fabric OF English and English freedom
your fathers your brothers, no less than ours
| In The long line OF hero kings who built up the
nave In building n1 the Kingdom o. England they
were building up the Commonwealth of America,
Brunenbark Yours the king who waCed the year of
battle wi the Dane, and he King who VINO wagrd the
day battle with the Norman. Ana, It the kings
cnrbcd tbe rower of fings Yours are the
tv1aIt. Yours the men who dictated the pro
VISIONS Of oxford: and the who gathered around
the victor OF oitiers nobcr held Good Par
Lament Your sLarr Is dhAc WIN ours III cFTN DO"
struck in behalf OF freedom nom the days Of Le"eS to
And If we boast that won 10 oar elves the men OF
otncr lands; changed he Dane and ne Norman INTO
En- ,IShHen, as true as II lhcT loIe d'htf-
had first the shores ct Britain from the 1ces OF
stran GERS whom we made specially our own; those
whoSc names we rank alongside ol the noo'esl oi or
clad isles OF Denmark from the deep Alpine valley ~
nr sIin,t the NormIn TO Hcro ne Eneiish,rcu on
English SOL, Canutc the kim, Ansclm ia" Bishop.
Simon tine aT tafy ARE IGt all G g2l by tue same Ia"
Between MS and you there is one word which should
never pass. That wo 4 Is torei-u" Foreign aud
f WIN ,,rn or the Fnc,is6 ioe IN Britain and men OF
the En.-u folk in Americas. II Crates htlc on my ear
when I see in tic newspapers news from the British
i E@ss1d Lands s doT c q h. news pcrha s
be borne land may, III a scn-c,h he called i"
cIgu 1t grated more on my ear VIII n. MOI very long
nacA at an academicai asenbagc in mis- country. they
hau the kindness 10 propose my health WIN words |
which hardly deserved; but at q same tlmr they |
spoke OF OF foreign nationality II grated on
my earand get was not sorry those words we're uttered
Tor gave rue the opportunity OF sethE up anu SaNulS
that Iutteriy discaiHed benz Of foreign nationality
from any other OF the United States II gave me
tne opportunity OF saying inil peiohsei 10 'he same
people themselves And gave t4eIn' an happy To
SAY the opportunity OF receiving what said truly as
mGn,ners OF the same people fAppau>c.l
mud tnis land YOU do not 50 completely carry
your brethren Of the Older land rs | think !
We do The OF ier way say YOU do not carry IT. about
i, nj The slIne ;oik on biti sides OF the ocean ~
soon as l say that it is Immediately taken IN, aud re
cr,\CJ Al The Same time it does not seem to come
quite So quickly into mems minds. IN the fret
in -tance. as could wish II to 60,
foreigners when You to visit the older England in
Britain. Aud am MOI foreigner viii not nsGm my
self a foreigner VIII not bear that you should Oni on
me $ ii foreigner when come 10 visit this newer Eng
land III America: AppIalSrl Here on or SOL am
not indeed IN mine own home b1t an none tle 'TS
among mine own folk. Apl!usc.l am among men OF
blood aud mine own tonEie. |
In land deems his pride aud :, happncsss
anotheri dow can we be oinsr than kl,doN alr
brethren OF the same hearth when we thlnk lna yor
oldest England of oil III the kees OF leuSst or o Ger
dIc, that they might have lurked tQSeihei |l,h AIr'
IN IDe marshes Atnclucy, that they may nave STOOD
Id nv SIDE in the thick shield wall on the nil OF Sc,ic;
Ut H. nav h1yn rn3r,bcd toyr tler AS brethren to
i've and die Tor English freedom alike on the hed OF
overthrow 1t at Evesal, ana On tue hcld 81 victory '
Let Inc 20 back to earliest Of those deeds in which
have just said that Your forefd ana mnr may nave
kccs OF Hcngist of Ccrdc. Aud speaking here IN
tnis land which once New NrherlanJ. IN TINS city,
which was once New Amsterdam mus! MOI ioiee. lil
many here-ncrc may he many IN TINS room
certainly many tins land ami city, IL whose history
the mt ana scconu NoldSe 1!' nc S"Hiv,
whose toreiathcrs came sralsh nom iie
oldest England to the newest without even passing
through me middle home folk. cannot forget
that alongside of aud specially so called Hes
get there still IN your land not lew whose
names and pcdegrces proclaim them 10 OeionE 10 lha
brauc the common stock by which the NtwNethtr-
Ian1s settled but from every point OF view, tue
men " no sailed from the European cont straight
The American continent were as . branch Oi te
cOumOn stock those VINO passed though the Isle OF
Britain 10 settle in Name in Georgia. tAp |
patIsc Those who came 10 Ncw-Amstcldan from the
elder Amsterdam In Europe aid but make The same
journey more speedily IN single hni instead OF two
There vessels which start from the Ravens Of the
elder S1H9ny "h'ch nan ia Hili"ln thr "eIt S'Aun
shore, and then make men way come 10 ht sh'th OF
what is more sticy New-Engand some to the shores
Of this Northumberland.
TYPICAL VOYAGES
The every day course the North German s
in TRUTH type Of the general history of II
starts the oldest home OF our blood aud speech, and
makes It's way to the newest 1t begins by making ia
way to which lies between the two-the middle
England on British soil. If there be, AZ do not doubt
there are other vessels which make their way straight
froi those Netherand and North German ports TO
American shores, they in the same way |
typfy the course Of those who come straight |
from the oldest the third without passing through the
second But especially intercollegiate curious Is that inn
mediate connection of the Eurouean continent which |
especially belongs this state New-IoTk and once
New Netherland. Yet, taking the United states III gen
eral, wrong in speakng OF tho people OF me |
United States in general rs EngllSh IN |
their third home %no pamc from more IewSet6er
land. You many of you here whose
names proclaim you 10 belong to Inc od
world Netnerland stock claim yOu as brethren also
but OF course, brethren quite so near az those
who arred Tor thousand years more IL the Isle OF
Britain On their way What ia tue difference between us
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