The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-26
LORD COLERIDGE
His Elegant Tribute to Eminar+
Americans.

LordChief Justice Coleridge closed
his sl'e-cb 1T y recent dinner vivsn
in his honor in Bust n as follows.
"GE >TLEMEN: Passing aw.r
from the kindness. and cordiaIi1s
VI General Butler, how ran | rise ::
the heights winch the recvlIect,onS
of Massachusetts aud Of Boston would
fain invite ME to aspire L.? s,..S
in the ueigl,bOrhood OF Bunker Hill
III the neigebolhoOd Of T " ,arf
which u friend OF mine las tod maa
since | caIne into tt'ls room las lotn-
lug To d. with the Boston tea npnI
| scorn sucn strictly historic ayy1.
racy. 1 believe faithfully that thu
admirable beverage, which you have
breWed ever slnce, his been i'm.
proved since the fight ut T wharf.
huve 8 Ell your old State House. with
the ion and unicorn apou 1t.
have sten your noble building. in
which your Two houses a. Z ubIe
with GENERAL Burgoyue's cannon in
the ante chamber. L have s-en Fan.
euil Hal, u plain but magnificent
building. l have seen that Most
magnificent building within a few
miles of this place-the Memorial
Hall of Harvard University. Cen
llemen, these thing are full of inter.
est aud history; and | don't believe
men who tell me you have no his
tory. 1t may be YOU have a short
history, because you cannot help ii:
tut you have a great history.
You have a history of which any
commonw ealth may justly and right
" feel proud. You know-forglve
nv vanity it l say tnat l know, too.
that YOU bred Benjamin Franklin.
Daniel Webster, Jus"ph Story, and
Theodore Parker. Daniel Webster,
whnse hand l wa. privileged as a boy
at Eton to press when ne Vas in
England a. your representative, and
whose eloqucnce 1 have humbIy
studied ever since. Story, a house
hold word with every English law.
yer; Parker, perhaps one of Your
highest and greatest stul-; haw.
thorne, if you will forgive the tx
preston If u foreigner, is perhaps,
taken altogether, almost your tore
most man Of letters; L"ngfellow, the
delight and darling of two hemis-
pneres; Holmes, the Autocrat of the
Breakfast Tab'e-the autocrat, if be
chose, of every dinner table, too; but
there l am told, he is content to play
the part of a cnnstitutiOn"ls 'ver+ign.
as broad and as strong as
one of your longest rivers, and as
pure: L well, / am proud 10 Say, my
own h. net friend. your representa-
tive at this moment in my own coun-
try. Like Gar'ick in Joseph Reyn-
ODDS picture, he excels in either
tragedy or comedy, and is delightful
WHITTIER as Hos. B'glow or James
Lowell, skilled with equal
IT, move the hearts of his
whether to smiles or tears.
Howells. the last of your An1eri-
can invaders who have taken Eng
land by storm. These are your
plories. These are the men who
your history. Tn Sc are the
nen-forgive me for saying it-of
YOU .ughf to be proud, if you
are not heartily proud.
"Gentlem-n, in the person of a
very humble E%nglishnian on one
side, and of this great company on
the other. let me think that England
and America have met together to-
that they have come together
and may stay together. Gentle
men, we are one, As Washington
.llston said. AMI most truly said
ne great painter and the poet who
worked in this citv, and who lies not
ar off in the Cambridge church yard
we are me in blood. We are Que in
language. we r II in law, We are
,ue in hatred OF oppression and love
# lih-rtv. We are hound together.
f I may %reverentIy say SO, by God
in golden cnaiu> of mutual
Itfectiun and mutut Il respect and two
lations so joined together, | am
convinced, man W IL never
tut asunder.'