New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-22

thanks ana thanks. know that the TOAST WncD
has just been offered is but the loyal and respectful tribute
which at these annual festivities you are wont to oher to
your National Executive But in the nature OF things To-
night it has a wider and a personal significance
| for, Ike yourselves, am son OF GW-LnslahI up
are bound together by ties OF lineage and association and
all proud alike of the home Of our nativity and the
aud defend them appause, and grant to this so
cety and 10 oil its members length OF years and ig3r 81
health and an overlooking measure or prosperity! lLOuu
applauseI
REMARKS OF GENERAL GRANT.
Following the Presidents address came one bycx-
President Grant The mention of his name evoked
another series of cheers that repeated as he
rose to speak. President Silman introduced Gen
| eral Grant thus
GENTLEMEN: Fill your glasses for toast 70 another de-
scendant OF New England What a history OF mighty
events and results is condensed in his nlne What mus.
be the fengs OF the man Who surveying the map Of this
wisdom perseverance, faith and yaor in guiding the brave
men who composed our armies. that map instead o rep
Ito use the words of We5ster broken di.hon-
ored fragments Of a once glorious Union: states dsscy
cred discordant, bclligcrCnt; land rent with civil
feuds" ana sill drenched in fraternal blood" We give
a cordial welcome to General Grant. Loud applause
| General Grant said in responses
| Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN or TIE NEW FSGLASD
| SOCIETY: You would nave saved me great dcal"
to SVSFeeatc without the toast the fact that
! | have always been cordially welcomed by the
| ewEngland Society Of Brooklyn. Applause. have
had proof before only from the New-Engand Society
but from other citizens that on public occasions nave
IT, II would have been great deal easier for me to have
accepted your welcomes without having had to thank you
80 surfGunGod Se by good SPEAKER that
wTna hG SnE GT viii @ y my S time to Major
Beecher one OF the gentlemen who Is fortunate in not
learned froa your president his present occupation as
chaplain OF regiment would have rendered his lfc prob
and will leave the balance OF my lime Mr. BeecAer 10
add to his. lApplausc.l
ADDRESS OF Mr.. BEECHER.
On this toast card DR. Newman preceded by Mr..
Beecher, but Mr.. Silliman explained that at
General Grants suggestion and Dr. Newman's re-
quest the order of the toass would be changed,
Mr. Beecher speaking first lie then said that thcncxt
toast was "The Pilgrims and the Puritans' adding:
"In reference TO it, we shall hcarkcn to the
embodiment Of both-the Pilgrims and
the Puritans modified only by the cvolutions
of more than two centuries" Mr.. Beecher was
then introduced, and evoked laughter aud applause
many times in tie course Of his address. He spoke
as ows:
GENTLEMEN: Iroturned home this noon or afternoon
s Snp the text from which was 10 preach tongh
have good mind to tell you story. CTies of Dol do"
but if you have you laugh just II you heard
It before Laughtcr Bishop James told The story; 40 IL
Bishop.
The two were riding together in the West, and among
other things facility In preaching from text Ofhand
was subject Of conversation, and they finally agreed 10
each other; the young To preach
first the Bishop would not give MN Tue leKt un after
the preliminary services were all over ana then he gave
t iI The Young man looked at IL moment
and proceeded 10 say that all things In this world were
made TO praise GOd-cven the lowest ana the least The
brds and the worms and fishes and animate. and
the humblest of Gods creatures all made Of In
the scheme OF Divine Providence 80 II was amongst
men; the lowest and the poorest had something that God
had enabled him TO do-and the young man made very
as e. y The nGea and he cd To- ge from the yomER
In Of wi a
word. But when he came 20 The pulpit and the prcmi
eI Am not thine ASST @ng5er Thc bishop
looked at and 1t didn't say anything to him. Iaughtcr
Am not thine assT We see, 6rethren-we see-am |
not thine q lLaughterl Brethfen-'A Am not thine
/ think ain, brotherw lGreat lqugherl Now, when |
you give 9ie this toast on me very eve OF inns |
Brother Newman, to whom had looked to make me up
this OCCASION lLaughterI
PILGRIM AND PURITAN.
am to speak the subject Of the Puritan and the
Pilgrim suppose there is no difference between Them
except as there difference between leaves and bios
SONS of plant. The Pilgrim historically cOnsd-
cred phiosophicaly is nothing but Puritan gone
to bloom. They at the root the same thing One |
was q little more advanced than the other. The |
Pilgrim was Puritan plus the Pilgrim, and the Pilgrim
a Puritan also Now they both OF them nave their
mind in middle Europe, in witch man was found to DO
worth somethng Man had always been considered
he a prince, PHILOSOPHER, a poet.
orator, genius, discoyerer, inventor he always
was thought well Of But If he nothing but PLAIN
farmer mechanic, drudge, daylabOrcr he was not
worth anything and that the doctrine that
Teigned-we received 1t from antiquity. Plato,
IN his imaginary republic would refuse
mechanic TO have citizenship In the republic and
all the way down labor was held TO be inconsistent
manhood with the single exception Of husbandry man
might be farmer and eminent citizen, but IN all
other ayOcatiOns man that a abOrcr drudge
and an inferior animal He could not rise above that
and indeed, In HteraturcI know not how it be
ia the German and Frenchbut until you past the
time OF Pope and Dryden the time OF COwpeT, the Eng
fish literature Is cOntempuous OF the common people
the mob.
Now In the Reformation there developed pro-
founder Of what Is without regard 10 his
cdents He was the child OF God and susceptible Of de-
velOpment-eyOlution. lLaughter All II required was
TO give him time, opportunity and means. The Puritan
started of on that The Puritan undertook to give
10 the people education both secular and relg
Dus and IN that respect the Puritan and the Pilgrim
walked together. But the Puritan sympathized with all
that had gone before him; namely 1t was necessary
here men occupied the degraded position OF an ANIMAL
hal they that conducted the Government whether
en- pora or spiritual should substantially treat him
is, by force fear. That WAS the law OF
rand Of the magistrate held in the hand OF
ne hierarchy, and those were the great motives |
" which the classes OF restrained, were
eld In their proper place. But the Puritan was the Nan
hat believed that by proper application you could evolve
rational, intellectual moral being out OF the animal
nan they went work All that has been alleged
a he aud