The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-09-20
LORD COLERIDGE.
His Elegant Tribute Delivered to Emil
nent Americans.
The Close Of His Speech alta Boston
Dinner.
A Terse, Truthful and Delightful Treat.

Lord Chief Justice Coleridge closed his
speech at the dinner in Boston, last Satur.
day night, Is folows:
"GENTLEMEN: Passing away from the
kindness, and cordiality, and generosity OF
General Butler, how am to rise to the
heights which the reccleotions Of Massa-
chusetts and OF Boston would fain invite me
to aspire to2 l speak in the neighborhOod
of Bunker hill, in the neighborhood o.
T wharf, which friend OF mine has told
me since came In this room has nothing to
do with the Boston tea fight. scorn
scOrn such strictly historical accuracy, be.
iieveiaithfuily that thatadmlrsbls beverage,
which You have brewed ever since, he's been
imprOved since the fight ut I wharf.
have seen your old state-house, with the
lion and uaicOrn upon il. nave seen your
noble building, IN which your two houses
assemble, with General Burg0yne's cannon
in the ante amber. have seen Faneuil
hail, a plain but magnificent building
have seen that most magnificent building
within few miles of this piace-the Memo
rial hall of Harvard university. Gentlemen,
these things are tull of Interest and history;
and don't believe men who tell me you
have no history, 1t may be that you have a
short history, because you cannot help
it; but you have q great history.
''You have history of which any COM
monweslth msy justly and rightly be
proud. You know-iorgive my vanity Il
say that know, tOO-that you bred BenJa.
min Franklin. aud Daniel Webster. and
Joseph Story, and Theodore Parker. Dan
iel Webster whose hand was privileged as
a boy, at Eton to press when he was in
England as your representative, and whose
eloquence l have humbly studied ever
since; Story, q household word with every
English lawyer; Parker, perhaps one OF
your highest and greatest souls; Hawthorne,
If you will f0give the expression OF Tor
egner, is perhaps, taken altogether, almost
your foremost man of letters; Longiellow,
the delight and darling of two hemispheres;
Holmes, the autOcrat Of the brea kfast Ia
ble-the autocrat. If he chose, OF every
dinner table, too, but there am told he Is
content to play the part OF q constitutional
sovereign; Emerson; as broad and strong hs
one of your long rivers, and as pure; Lowell,
am proud to say, my own honest iriend
your representative at ibis moment in my
own country. Like Garrick in Joseph
Reynolds picture, he excels either In trag-
edy or comedy, and is delightful whether
as Hosea Biglow or as James Russell Lo-
well, skilled with equal genius to move the
hearts of his readers whether to smiles or
tearsS And Howells, the last OF your
American invaders who have taken Eng
land by storm. These are your glories,
these are the men who make your history.
These are the mep-forgive me for saying
it--of whom y)u ought to be proud, 1t you
are not heartily proud.
Gentlemen, in the person of q very
humble Englishman on one side, and OF this
great company ON the other let me think
that England and America have met to-
gether to night: that they have come to-
gether, and may ever stay together. Gen.
tlemen, we, are one, as Washington Allston
said. and most truly said-'he great painter
and the poet who worked in this city, and
who lies not far off In the Cambridge church,
yard-we are one in blood, We are one In
language. we are one In Law, we are one In
hatred of oppression and love Of liberty.
We are bound together, II may reverently
soy so, by God himself In golden chains OF
mutual affection and mutual respect. and
two nations so joined together, am Fl, mly
convinced, man will never put asunder."