New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-23

other tourists over the splendid estate Of The Duke ~
decorating for his bride. heard Berkshire man an
| say to the gardener who acted guide, What yoli
nm gs nor ' WSa tho ca GDs h $
| lnnch he is worth Don't You Britishers know snys
tailed the few voyages freishted with haaanitys
hopes. The Grecian Argo has inspired fable and epic
-betwecn the Old World and the New-wit6 her ton,
and PASSENGERS numbered By the thousands is the
But OF greater moment than tabled Argo and tho
landing Of the Maynower and the Half Moon They
carried car s. dhe pnepes 81 new and higher civilization
The compact signed in the cabin Of the MayfOwer
laws" after hundred and FIFTY years Of strife h%
iati9n and civil war found permanent home In the
neutrality-suspicious. without regard 10 creed color
the universal blessing OF just and equal laws The Pur
ike clements in 1865, broke down the barriers OF caste
liberties with himself Applause.
And yet this splendid record Of matches achieve
ment, the inspiration OF every orator tonight would
have been impossible without the Dutch. The men who
wTssed country from the sea were of the same stock
for their homes and lives against the tyading
upon all sides they learned the lesson that freedom
rests upon education and education beget and fosters
| civil and religious liberty. They provided for the
Puritan both asylum and university The Puritan,
landed Ia Holland with fierce purpose TO find place
ion and no liberty for any body else They left applaud
ing the parting words OF Robinson, that neither 10
Calvin nor Luther any has God revealed all
His truth. The two most potent factors of modern
liberty were William Of Orange and Oliver Cromwell.
| made possible the victory OF Naseby.
In an sgs OF force their Gr9ti1s had Laid the fcunda
States In nm OF dense ignorance they had invented
colonial confederation the Declaration Of Independence
at The Hague OF 1881 the seed carried by the May
flower and the Half Moon 10 America from which grew
the immortal sentiment OF 1776.
THE TIBRRAIfZtNG INFTIrRvCr or TUE ntrTcu
New-York has always illustrated the cosmopolitan and
hosptable character of the Dutch. first and most
famous Governor Clinton, an Ifshman; her first
and most eminent statesu an Hamilton, scotchman;
her first and ablest urst, JAY Huguenot and her first
and most ohyalc soldier, Schuyler only OF the house
hold OF founders And IN the last election had tho
choice for Governor between two Yankees OF pure blood
one by way OF Connectct and the other Connect
lieut. around by way Of New-JeTsoy SO far as tue re-
turns nave c'ne H. tue Jersey man appears 70 have
would have ds0wned their registering descendants were
they introduced to this annual reye but their banquet
on the OF their departure from Delft Haven lasted
all night, though history silent upon the speeches OF
| the guests or their condition in the morning.
The PuTitans who came afterward burnt witches
hung QHakeIs and banshcd BaPtists but the Pilgrims
this bigory and Intolerance They were the eayen iber
alizlng their brethren with such mighty that in
this year OF grace Massachusetts elects Ben Butler Gov
! ernor-l aughterl-and New-Ehgland professors and
dlvlnes In this hall welcome Herbert Spencer and
smashing the pariarchs and knocking out of the Bible
| prophecy and hell Renewed aughter.l The
Plymouth HarboE the Dutch had been there, but they
were equal to neither the climate soil Eighteen
years be ore Captain Prng had landed there ani says
he Hospitality entertained by the savages with
eaming dishes OF peas and beans. This rnditOnalhnd
frugal fare at the dinner AT Plymouth last night has
prepared the representatives OF that society for Del
monlco banquet tonight l state this fact with
tlmidty, because stray remark of mine at the
Brooklyn dinner last year about the relations pc
tween New England progress and pumpkin pie
leading me newspaper Of Massachusetts ILausher
1t seemed to me to mark that decadence o. a race
where the 0yer-reilned descendant bushes for the
robust and hOmely virtues of his ancestor The senti
mrnt of to-day was freely expressed by the New Eng
tombstone and reading its inscription. said: I'm
from Boston" How simple, how sufficient The farmers
the inevitable expression of the eyer-eIpanding prin
ciples OF Plymouth. Applause.
aries. They plant the dollhouse and the church
every new settlement They maintain and finally vim
tend the suffrage in Greut Britain nationalze Germany,
repubicanize France and imprson the Car While we
OF descendants Of the Pilgrims that in his house is
chair and table that came over in the Maydower waie
icrelathers to compact furniture on sixty,ton snip;
the needs of continent it is weakness ana pride
noble titan that which boasts OF the arnlOr and
weapons in eudal castle and baronal hsll-rellcs Of
mage aud courage for territory and power
OF the kings princes generals statesmen preachers
audience can name one They rest In fol gotten
grads the names Of Miles sandh and his T Of
ten men, OF Brewster, Carver, winthrop and their
Ind
and liberation OF al creeds as the founders OF govern
ment OF the people, FOR the people and by the people
which shall not perlsh.from the earth Prolonged up
plause.
SPEECH OF GENERAL HORACE PORTER.
After Mr. Depew had sat down the president
called on General Horace Porter to answer to The
Embarkaton of The Pilgrims" General Porter
said
GENTLEMEN: Last summer two pilgrims might haye
embarkng from tue port OF New York 10 visit
once ' Embarked. One was the speaker Vino
just down, and the other the speaker who just
time Perhaps Mr. ChOate, with his usual disregard Of
the more accurate bounds OF yeraeiy, would haye you
"a season when there likely to be a general yaCa-
ton from business here; lLaughter Our hopes OF
did expect that tue land which discriminating
band as the Pilgrim, Fathers had deliberately
be very engaging country. We expected TO feel az
meme there upon the general principle that the
Yankees never appear much at home as when they
visiting other people lLaughterl have noticed
that Americans have desire 10 go TO Europe, aud 1
have observed especially that those who have certain
ambitions with regard TO public life think that they
ought to cross the ocean and that crossing the water
will add to their public populations, particularly
they think how 1t added to the reputation Of George
Washington, even TO cross tue Delaware RIVER.
lLaughIer aud appausel The process Is simply tots:
land you suddenly realize that the snip Las taken up
seriously is cOrkscrow career through the Cernn
sailing nder the Bsn dag Yoa always knew that
Britannia ruled the waves; but the only
trouble with nef. now Is t1at khe
don't appear to rule them straight [Laugherl
You lean up against the railing; you 70 be-
gin 10 look about much discouraged a Brooklyn
Alderman In contempt of court Your mo experienced
sympathsng friends tell you that It VIII soon pass
over audit does. (Laughterl You try 10 begule
your misery pleasant recOlections OF Shakespeare
The only line tnat seems to come to your memory Is ne
advice OF Lady Macbeth" To bed-to bed"- and when
tucked away in your berth and tue sap
rolling at its worst your advisory friends LOOK
in upon you and they give you plenty OF thit economt
cal advice that given 10 JOsephs brother not 70
fall ont by the way" Laugherl You actually Degin
to wish that you Josephifted vita the power 70
resist the temptation to to bed llaushter;l
For several days you ind your stomacn
is about IN the condition of the tariff question
Ia the present Congress-likely TO up any minute
Laughter Tails Is particularly bad upon these VINO
have been brought up in the army whose previous eh
perience mad been confined to throwing up earLnwork