St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-08
BENIGNANT BUCKEYES.
Sons and Foster Sons of Ohio Form q
Society in New York
City.
An Elegant Dinner Enjoyed by Promi-
nent Men of the President
Producing State.
Gen. Ewing and Senator Sherm an
the Speechmak1ng Stars OF the
Evening.
The Home of the Perpetual Office
Seeker Lauded to the
Skies.
An Ohio Society.

Seeker Lauded to the
Skies.
An Ohio society.
New YORK, May THE sons and fes-
ter sons OF Ohio resident in this city cele-
brated the founding of the Ohio society of
New York by banquet at DelmonicO's to-
night. The leaders IN the movement were
Gen. Thomas Ewing, Gen. Henry l.. Bur-
nett, Col. w. L. Strong, Gen. w. Wager
Swayne. Gen. Thomas 4. Eckert, Col. G.
Moulton, Homer Lee. Algeren S. Sullivan,
Whitelaw Reed and Others of national
reputation. Unlike similar organization,
the New England society, which is COM
posed of the sons of six states, the Ohio
society is made up of natives of one state,
the first born of the American republic.
The large banquet hall was filled to
repletion. More than $50 people were pres
ent and talked over the times when the
Buckeye state was the home or the Indian
and buffalo, and the site of many a log
cabin long since made famous in song and
story. All political differences were forgot
ten and sectional disputes are overlooked,
and as John Sherman and 'tJoe' Mcdonald
shook hands in the ante-room before the
dinner, all present felt that they had need
to feel proud of the state which ''sits in
the CENTER" belongs to no section and is a
bond of all. The hall was plainly but pref
tily decorated.
AMONG THOSE PRESENT
congressman Jacob Romeis A. G. ThOmp-
son, James E. Campbell, H. B. Payne, C. w.
Mutton, Joseph E. Mcdonald, Levi P. Morton,
Charles II. Grosvenor, a. W. Ellsbury, John
Little and w. G. Cooper; ex-Governors of Ohio
Rich Achl ,1o
Foster, judges; W. H Epson, A. R. Lawrence.
w. j. Arkell and John R. Brady,
Leon Abbott, governor of New
Jersey; Alexander Sullivan of Chicago,
Stewart L. Woodford, Stephen B. Elkins, A.
j. E. Hoye, Wallace Shillitte, Gen. w. B.
Hazen, William Henry Smith, Hugh j. Jewett,
Col. William Linn Tidball, A. d. Juilard,
Homer Lee, William Perry Fogg, Benjamin
Harrison, Parker Haldy, j. A. Bostwick, Ex-
Postmaster General Thomas L. James, Cyrus
Butler and Maj. q. K. Pangborn. The follow
ing cablegram was received from the Hon. S.
S. Cox:
Gen. Thomas Ewing, 155 Broadway New
York: Ohio full of civil and martial honors.
Her sons are peers without the heraldry, her
daughters peeris without the harem. Fill the
golden horn"
General Thomas Ewing, who presided,
after the table was cleared, arose and
said:
members of the Ohio society of New York on
our delightful and suspicious reunion. 1t is
good that we are here. The large assemblage
of Ohio's sons coming from far and near at
tests how strong and vital are the ties that
bind US to our mother state. We have every
reason to love and be proud of her. If Ameri-
can citizenship be
PATENT OF NOBILITY
it adds to the honor to have been born of
that state, which almost in the forenoon of
the first centufy of her existence has shed
such lustre on the republic, which has given
to it so long a roll of presidents, chief JUS
tees, judges Of the supreme court.
and statesmen in the cabinet and
in congress. Among whom is found
not one dishonored name, but many that will
shine illustrous in our countrys annals,
state which, in the supreme struggle by
which the union was established as indissolu-
Die and human slavery destroyed, gave to the
republic even more than her enormous quota
of noble troops and with them those great
captains Of the war-Grant, Sherman, Sheri-
dan, ROSecranS, and Mcpherson. Gentlemen,
we have not formed our society from desire
to cultivate state pride IN any spirit Of divid-
ed allegiance. No, No! aThere has been far
too much of that in the past and cannot be
too little in the future. We are, first Ameri-
cans, then Buckeyes. The blessings and mis-
fortunes OF our sister states are ours as well
as theirs. Love of our own state,
spring largely from the fact that she and her
institutions, in their birth and growth, are
purely American. She is the oldest and so
far the best developed of all the American
states. Neither round head nor cavalier
stood sponsor at her cradle She never
wore the collar of colonial subserviency. Her
churches and colleges are not endowed Of
King Charles or Queen Anne. Her lands are
not held by grant or prescription under Duke
of York, Lord Fairfax or Lord Baltimore, but
by patents under the seal of the young re-
public and the hand of George Washington
whose name will continue to be loved and
honored throughout the world long after the
memory Of the last king and peer of Great
Britain shall have sunk into oblivion
The early generations of her sons
were not reared amid the distinctions of
wealth and rank and class but in primeval
forest and prairie, where all stood equal and
had no aid to eminence but their strenuous
efforts, where recollectOns of sufferingS and
sacrifices of the revolutionary war became
inspirations OF patriotism in their souls, and
where nature threw around all her pure, low
ing and benignant influences, to make them
strong and great. Gentlemen, now have
the pleasure to present to you typical
Buckeye-the architect of his own fame and
fortune-who stands below only one man in
the republic in official station, and below
none in the respect of his countrymen-John
Sherman.
SENATOR SHERMAN,
who was vociferously and enthusiastically
received, said:
Fellow Countrymen: I am grateful for
this very warm greeting, but if you were to
receive every Buckeye from the state of
Ohio in this manner you would have the
hordes of Ararat among you. Cheers
Such reception as this would bring every
boy from every farmin the state of Ohio and
what would become of New York then?
CHEERS. 1t was happy idea to gather the
sons Of Ohio and those who have been iden-
titled with her history in so pleasant a man
ner as this, to preserve the recolections of
Ohio boyhood and manhood. Why should
you not do this? Why should you not have
an Ohio society as we'll as New England? Why
the citizens from the shores of old
England, from Ireland and Scotland
and from Germany form their societies
in the state of New York, and why should not
the state of Ohio, which is more than either
OF these countries [cheers]. Now, gentlemen,
there is one thing about the Ohio people
which has marked them from the beginning
of its history and marks it now. We are a
migratory race [laughter We are the inno-
cents abroad tremendous cheering]. Yes,we
are a migratory race, and why should we not
be? We deserve the best of any land cheersl.
When we go to any country we do not go to
rob them but to aid in their wealth. If wish
to prove this, what better evidence could l
desire than the men around me. Here is my
friend Gen. Ewing, who is from one Of the
GARDEN BEDS OF OHIO,
brought up under circumstances that would
lead you to suppose that he ought to be con-
tent, but he wandered off to Kansas, then to