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Mr. Phelps's speech at the Lord Mayors
Banquet.
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Mr. Phelps's speech at the Lord Mayors
Banquet.
From the London Tmcs.1
am very much indebted toyou, my lord
mayor, for the kind words with which
my name has been presented to this as
sembly, and to YOU my lords, ladies and
gentlemen, for the kind and generous
manner in which it has been received
| do not presume to take to myself in any
degree the honor of this reception. am
| yet but stranger within the gates of
England, and with no such claims on
| your personal consideration as my distin-
guished predecessor, but it is more graft
tying to me than any personal compli-
ment that could he paid to me to see in
this another proof, in addition to those
which have pressed upon me on all sides
since landed on your Shores of the cor
dial and hearty sympathy that exists
among English people towards the coun-
! try have the great honor to represent.
! Cheers. The American representative
who comes here finds that it Is no foreign
| mission on which he has been sent. On
! both sides of the Atlantic he is equally at
home. He has changed his skies, but not
. the hearts by which he is surrounded. 1t
| is an undeniable fact-a most important
]
tween the two people of the two countries
are growing more cordial every day
cheers and believe they were never
rs cordial as at the present moment. In
. ternatiOnal preiudices are usually the Off
spring of International misunderstanding
and international misunderstanding rap
idly perishes when there is much inter
national intercourse. Hear, hear. This
is the means under Providence that is
bringing the peoples of the two countries
nearer and nearer together. Steam and
electricity have bridged the Atlantic.
Both countries are full of the citizens of
each other. Many Americans live here.
many Englishmen live in the United
States, and each is overspread with tray
ellers from the other. How cordially on
our side of the Atlantic this feeling have
alluded to is reciprOcated those who have
travelled in the United States we'll know,
and those who have not been there | cor
daily invite in the name of my country
men Laughter and cheers. The rela
tons between governments, especially
| between the governments of great nations,
are most important, and we are to be fell
cltated on the fact that, as has been al
luded to by the lord mayor, the relations
between the governments of England and
the United States are now so happy that
there is nothing to he said on the subject
/ Laughter. The fraternity and sympathy
that exists between the two nations de-
ponds not on diplomacy or treaties but
on the personal sympathy and good feel
ing of the people of each country
| Cheers If / may be permitted to refer
to recent events. / can assure Won that
when the clouds of war that lately threat
ened to settle down on your country were
it appeared. likely to be dissipated, no,
where in all the range of intelligent I'M
mainly was that prospect received with
more Sincere satisfaction than bv the peo.
pie of the United States. [Cheers'l No
where, it seems to me. could the fraternnl
feeling between the two nations find
more proper expression than here at The
hospitable board of the chief magistrate
of the greatest CITY of the world whose
commerce has mt more than y ~irdIe
round the world, In no conntrv do hnsi-
ness men have SO large n share i'm fine nt.
fairs of government ms in the I-nited
states. America is able to afford homes
to all because if can give work to ali If
no home for the idle. There is another
reason why the American ministerMnnd
especially when he is an Amrricnn LAWYER
who has given the best wears of his fife
to his ofession-should he here to.niuht
We ioin with Won i'm admiration of The