New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-13
MIR EVARTYS ADDRESS.

After DIR Barker had called on William NJ.
Evarts to respond to the toast 'The Bar" DR..
Moves read themotto from Hamlet and Mr.. Evarts,
arising amidst resOunding applause. spoke as fol-
lows:
DIR. BARKER AND GENTLEMEN OF TIE MEDICAL Pro
PEssION IL gave the greatest delight TO be
thought by your profession to DO worthy 10
my and worth Of Dr. holmes !" wbS ali tue
PROFESSIONS equally delight In sharing |
confess to considerable saIi,iac2n mt tne
bers OF your noble profession nave Prouncesu
upon me. and II you will allow me to say IT, how much
peasantr 1t TO be asked 10 meet 300 DOCTORS IMAM n
ask meet you. Laughter An Engll5n traveller n
the early part OF the century LAWYER IKE IKE I 6n
medicine from q very great and eminent physician
something. you may Imagine. not of humorous FORM
of oddly. This writer attracting attention 70
the valuable Instructions OF ms ro %SrT Ind
down this sweeping propo.ition-that AL tne m 49,
an the MS that .ut asa is ain heir all TO- had aSS
orig D. all besowed upon the human race ~ or ,
that skfu aud learned procession isI Inv Uy bnI mat
after all at bottom Is good deal Of feeling on tne
Of the tSTse y s1T"od OF prOiS human az
fairs. Estate, body and mindl they mi, make
up 90 they n tn INN a5p ant human rs And
abandoning profession the Laln esref Inn you
q, the Clergy y S your ppesspons We All the
same relations respeotvey 70 9isn
affairs The lawyer has the care OF estates anu ol %
ests the Clergyman the OF souls and the phy sca
the care OF the body and as the sheep ars Tor Tue
shepherd those taken care OF are Tor those VINO Ao
have polluted out once before to assembly ofyouns
physicians striking advantage winch az thcstrS y9a
gentlemen had; for though. alas e'dypouy
has not On estate and everybody has NOT a
mind yet rybody has body. Laughter, ana
altbongh we thus hunt tho human race In different
paths. as civilization opens them 10 on m aIsSo1rS
H. is a oheerless moment, yet 10 US thore n Tro
assaagng circumstance LagsntGr b SeisyG P b3
tb" not infreoiIent kind illusions which hear made TO
the medical address, that once had the honor o denver
ing 10 i've thousand people in the Academy OF MUSIC
that II { Id been medical professor
might have taught the medical stuu Ina enI INV
mt do moi like altogether to have any manned sentence
Wow mne watch lad ont so S ~ tSess
express import city the truth SOUGHT 70 uhod .. sIs9
heathfu relations between the different PROFESSIONS anu
their doninaney over human a S D nroe.sjon 40
wen represented tonight by tue Bishop Ia contastn
oar relations TO manhnd-tnat "ne.o IeI NOV ~
sheep am oDg wolves and yOu sent out as wolves
~ nmrsne With any Of our hosttcs tno clerical pro
fsson althoug t they tempt IA by that euSe Oh shoeP
uauSbterp and il ia they have disguise ana not
We who 80 In tho midst OF them , No" i ibaf
| for tie instruction OF mankind and for the
development OF the great in'egcnc the gIeal PniSi
sons Weld to mankind, these rtunes agl these oc'
ca ,on. were rendered in all the scbemo OF human me
N we used for bninan Affairs nom an analogy 10 his
| pco.cssiOn. ana may VIC not wisely say
A \
And ali the and women in 1t schoiarsi
DIR Holmes has the advantage OF being born and living
ueur u Bostou laughterl-a place winch no one learns
raIr ia lie without feeling 10 great advantage % nave
done So and one perhaps brst learned lat' IN ne
| without feeling that he IS glad no mas soon IL
before he dies. fLaughtcrl Having the adVaha-e my
se of h1ying been born and bred there, can ouy com
pare notes with Dr. Holmes upon The question wnloh o
rs he THINKS on tn whole. the wiser-I IN leaving
| IL ~ soon / had GOT AL the gond CUT
OF mat be had, an DOSING FOR the Wlier sphere
Of New-York for this exercise or m profession ol Won
amons sheep As Tor tn5 iano ~ or" W, n "a
Iiolurs there rs nothing IN tnht Jho Only CUR
had In this matter or fame was 10 see
and thnk may say that IL sounds very well II him
| for there IS not a note or tone IN mo BIoi'
| capacty Of this vast city less sweet nave
never known the Boston people were able 20 put up
reputation 10 Boston, took also prime pal
| snare Of the reputation OF Boston lLlu-hterl sir
! Henry Maine says that traveller re- eating visit
| New lea and and lnqNflug Tor an Olu auu u wise
MN whom he had noticed on his previous Witt, was
fold by tho NeWI'alIud oAief, Wen, ne gave is 80
| much good advice thdt We were obliged 10
| put him away" lLaushterl But our physician chrDs
even the nntIrd frrOcity OF the Boston people, ana
while by the methods or conveyance nov IN use, Dr.
! HOLMES can slip away into 40 ample leart as New
York opens him. he need not feei afr nd that II viii be
| necessary for the Boston people 10 put MN away.
Aud now. gentlemen, II IL not ht as We ara all pro
fr--ioua the rest Of the world smut Ou and ~
what Is said tO-ngAt VIII never 20 any further
| ilnughterl-is it not III Tor u5-do5s not our
really the sayiOurs protectors Of society Laughter
| Why should hide 10 even from ourselves I Let us
| nerve ourselves from these Reflections 10 move
In more minated. more vigorous, moro comprehensive
uur,uit OF our several interests. lLaugnter.l Let
| ia understand that the lah1rer ~ worthy
| of his hire [laughtcr and that those VINO
ara willing to be adod by professional SKIN ID part
lag with their prDperty-and win ther lyrs-drc ia
yorrnN of serious confederation. lLaughtCr.J