The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-07-20
MAYOR pEERINa's REMARKS.

sentiment--The City OF Portland.
We have gathered here tonight to do honor
to gifted son OF our city. And, meeting
around this festive table in such perfect ac-
cord it lis difficult for me to express in
few words even o suggestion of the possibly
great future OF Portland. But were there occa-
sion to defend the past or the present fair fame
OF our beautiful city by the sea, it would be an
easy and pleasant task to execute We may
we'll be pardoned for boasting of possessing the
finest harbor on the Atlantic coast, aud the
most beautiful seasand landscape views in the
world. :
And We may look with pride at Jour schol-
ars, our merchants, and our beautiful women?
Looking back we may ask the South, did not
Portland eend you the greatest orator OF his
day, the slver-tongued Prentiss? Has she not
given to the world the beloved Longtellow,
the sweetest singer of the poets? TO our coun-
try, in its gravest need, she gave the greatest
and wisest statesman Of his day, the immortal
Fessenden? When the country called Tor men
that the nation might not perish, the sons oil
Portland were found leading the attack. Wher
ever keel has ploughed the ocean, by either
naval or mercantile marine, the sons OF
Portland have been found leading the attack.
Aud again Portland is honored. In response
to the command of the President Of the United
States, the distinguished gentleman we hAvo
met here this evening to honor is called to
post OF duty at the court Of Sweden and Nor
wav. You will pardon me il predict he will
our Nation, and we need not fear 1t will be
exceled even by a Franklin or an Adams,
il his country calls for either diplomacy or inn
mediate energetic action in behalf Of the ma
ton. believe express the feelings Of each
gentlerasif present at this table when say the
good wishes Of every citizen of Portland Will
accompany him across the northern ocean to
that lovely city upon the Baltic, the city OF
Stockholm, 20 whose hospitality and confidence
the city Of Portland commends her distin-
kxt 10
full capital of the Swedes her most heartfelt
and kindest greeting.
To the toast Of "Our Foreign Relations"
Judge Goddard replied as follows;
JUDGE GoppARp's s SPEECH.
One might suppose that the high offices Of
great nation, like ours, would be filled with
mon Conspicuous not only for their national
ability, but for their adaptation by opportunity
and experience to the duties OF their posts.
And such, it is believed, has generally been
the case in the judicial military, naval and
scientific departments OF the government. But
it must be confessed that this is not equally
true OF others. Take our cabinets. How often
has the Secretary of the Navy been appoint
ed from a maritime state, likesNe Hamp-
shire? Usually, il my memory serves me,
somebody from Tennessee, Arkansas or other
states of the remote interior where salt water
never was smelt, has been selected. But, per-
haps, some OF the unluckiest appointments
that have been made in modern times have
been the diplomatic.
Everybody undarstands hoy delicate and
inapartaps are the duties OF foreign
and yet too frequently have we been repre-
sented at European courts by men of inferior
capacity and limited education, without ad-
dress, tact, experience or reputation, utterly
ignorant of the history, habits and ideas OF the
people to whom they were accredited, and by
no means proficient in a knowledge OF their
nfaff fUo
Americans. In some cases, l believe, persons
of foreign birth have been sent to represent
the United Estates at the court OF the very
prince to whom they once owed and who
still claimed their allegiance.
On the other hand, our diplomatic service
has always been illuminated by the splendor
of illustrious names. Sach men as Franklin,
the three Adamses, Everett, Lawrence, Motley
and Lowell, and many others would have hon
cred any nation in any age,
am glad to observe an elevation in the tone
of our diplomatic corps, although, in my judg
ment, there is still room for improvement.
OF the qualifications of our guest and fellow
citizen for the exalted post with wAich the
President has honored him it would manifestly
be most unbecoming for me to speak, except to
say that he is fortunate in having the adyan-
tage Of an early and thorough familiarity with
the history, literature, manners, language and
people Of Scandinavia, derived from an official
residence of several years in, and the conduct-
ing of colony from, that northern land.
But find that / am wandering from my
toast; "Oor Foreign Relations" At first :
puzzled me. "My foreign relations" | had
rather prided myself on the pure Anglc-Saxon
of my lineage, and was not aware that drop
of any blood moro "foreign" than the old En- q
lish flows in my veins. At last exclaimed
Eureka" had found another joke. 1t
flashed on me that my oply foreign relation In
tended must be the guest 81 the evening,
foreign by anticipation, about to become an
official exile. Now that young man is greatly
indebted to his relations, particularly 10 one Of
them, his uncle.
Unlike the typical cruel uncle OF the story
books, whose special call was TO plunder, ruin
and frequently murder his nephews aud nieees
his uncle was SO exemplary that to his coun-
sells the training of our guest was largely com
mitted and he brought him up in the way he
should 90. He early impressed upon the
youthful and tender conscience of his nephew
the siu of playing hockey, and never allowed
him to be abRent from school or the Second
Parish Sunday School. He taught him to shun
the company, not only OF bad boys, but of bad
girls; to be polite and attentive to ths ladies,
particularly to the young ladies. To seek the
company of the good and the virtuous, until at
last we find toiaght, in the best company in
Portland, and in fact the State, with theiGover-
nor, the Chief Justice, the Mayor and great
many other great and good people.
Il When he became older that uncle took him
to Europe, 10 all the capitals but Paris, which
he avoided, because he feared that, in spite Of
ali his cautions and precepts, that young man
might yet fall into bad company there. And
that uncle not only gave him his advice but
set him an example in all these things. Such
was the influence of his ancle, that il that
young man had perished nntimely, in the bud
and dawn of his life, there is reason to believe
that the American Tract Society would prob
ably have been employed TO write his memoir,
and some minutes were preserved in case Of
such contingency.
While his worthy parents desired his world
ly success, there was one thing on which his
mothers heart was specially set and which has
at length been realized, to have her soma
minister.
To the toast OF "The Bar" Hon. Bion Brad
bury replied as follows:
BIoN BRADBURY's SPEECH.
Mr.. Presidential gives me great pleasure
to be present on this occlsioB, when the citi-
zens Of Portland and the members of the
Cumberland Bar, whose everyday business
relations are most intimate, unite, without die
tinction of party or creed, to express our re-
gard for one of our distinguished citizens and
to bid him Godspeed upon his departure for o
foreign land
It also gives me pleasure to respond to the
sentiment, "The Cumberland Bar"
Though not TO the manor born. but the child
OF nearly twenty years adoption, am proud
OF its honorable name and fair fame.
Surrounded by so many OF my learned and
eloquent associates, it would be difficult to ex-
plain why / have been selected to make this
response; but for the fact that have very
nearly reached the time when l shall have
been at the bar for the period OF a half centu-
ry. But, more than century ago, the Cum
berland Bar bore upon its rolls the names of
eminent lawyers.
Theophilus Bradbury, afterwards Judge OF
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts,, practiced
law In this county as early rs 1862
Theophus Parsons and Isaac Parke, each
elevated to the position of Chief Justice of tho
Supreme Court OF Massachusetts, and both
great lawyers, commenced their professional
career in this city, and from that day to the
present there has never been tune when this
Bar has been without men of the highest in
Among the many names of distinction once
upon its rolls, | may mention the Chief JUS
tlces of the State csurt-Mellen, Whitman,
Weston and Shepley; the associate Judges OF
the State court Emery, Preble, Howard and
Davis; the judges of the United States Courts
Paris, Ware, Clifford, Shepey and Fox !;
of those holding no judicial office-Orr, Samuel
FessendeD, Greenleaf, Davies, Willis, w. Z.
Fessenden, Sewall, Anderson Deblois, Cod
man, Barnes, Haines and scores of others,
some of them but little less eminent than
those named. OF the living members of this
Bar OF those who adorn the high judicial posi-
tions to which they have been called and of
those who, actively engaged in the pursuit OF
the profession, shed luster upon it by their
learning and eloquence, lofty integrity and
high honor will not speak.
Our honored guest will have observed,
doubt not, that IN any enumeration OF tho
members Of the Cumberland Bar, 1 have
omitted one celebrated name-the name whi Oh