Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-03
Mr.. TUCKER IN BOSTON.
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The Boston Herald gives the follow
inx report Of the speech Of Hon. John
Randolph Tucker at the banquet Of the
Boston Merchants Association
Mr.. Tucker, on rising, received per-
feet ovation. When the applause had
sufficiently subsidized he began, but was
again interrupted with applause. When
At length quiet reigned, he spoke as
follows Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen
Of the Merchants Association Of Bos-
son,--As the only man present from
south Of the Potomac river, and as .
native oil old Virginia, ] deeply thank
sou for this greeting. tGreat applause
The relations which have existed for so
many years between Massachusetts, and
Virginia make it becoming in me, APP
ptaring before you here, to avoid all
ihose things which have tended to alien
ate us and to remember only those
facts in the history Of those two great
Commonwealths which cement them
now in the eternal sisterhood oil
States as members Of this great repuo-
lie Of republics. lGreat applause No
two Commonwcalths in the Union
stand so closely related in their history
rs Massachusetts and Virginia. Viz
sinis. the first in settlement, whose bap-
tismal name was given to her by that
genius Of English poesy in his dedica-
sion Of the famous " Faery Queene y;
"To Elizabeth, Queen Of Great Britain,
Ireland, France, and vgirinia." lap
plause.l =.
In the first charter of old Virginia it
embraces Massachusetts,, and then by q
subsequent charter the royal edict was
that two colonies should be formed-the
one around Plymouth rock, the other
around Jamestown--but that they
should not come within 100 miles Of
each other. IGreat laughter.l But the
royal edict has found its veto in the
power of steam for | came from the
south bank Of the Potomac and was
transmitted here to Boston and to your
hospitality in eighteen hours. Modern
civilization has overleaped the bounds
Of the royal edicts, and has made
VIRGINIA ANDY ONE.
One Of the queerest things in our his
tory is that Massachusetts, and Virginia
have echoed and reechoed the great
sentiments of human liberty which
make us to-day q free people. told
your honorable senator on one occasion
turning to Senator Hear that the great
doctrine which inseparably knits us
together-that there should be no taxa
ton without Representatives, first
announced in the Commonwealth OF
Virginia in l623-'24, one or two
years before James /. yielded his
throne to his son Charles, who
could not keep the crown upon
his head because he lost his head.
daughter Massachusetts, re-echoed
the sentiment in 1886, and your own
immortal Otis, in l764, by his memo
rable resolutions, announced the doc
trine that the people Of America could
never be taxed except by their own
consent /; and Patrick Henry, by resolu'
tons which he wrote upon the fly
leaf of his Coke-Littleton year after
ward, announced the same doctrine in
Virginia, which has since been the law
of all free commonwealth. | stand
before you tonight in the centennial
month of a great act passed by
the Legislature Of Virginia 100 years
ago. On the 10th Of December, 1865,
the memorable act for religious freedom
was passed by the General Assem-
bly, Of Virginia, drawn by the i'm
mortal pen which drew the Declaration
Of Independence Iapplausel, and BEG
that the people of Massachusetts, to-
night will remember that if they live
in land where the freedom to worship
God has been retained as it was found
at Plymouth Rock [applausel, you vii
remember that when you threw the ties
overheard in Boston harbor-l don't
know that anybody can remember i
personally, except my learned frient
the Senator from Massachusetts, ant
my learned friend the Senator from Yer
mont--turning to Senator'S Dawes ant
Edmunds [laughterl-you remember
that when you fought the battle o
Bunker Hill, where have stood to
day recalling the memory of that i'm
mortal event; that, in the month o
June, when the battle Of Bunker Hill
was fought, the voice Of John Adam
summoned the youthful colonel Of Vir
.einia whose STRIPPING heroism led bacl
the struggling hosts from Pittsburgl
and called him to be the leader Of tn
forces of the American armies {; ant
George Washington came and drew hi
sword here in Boston to rescue tn
homes of Boston. lApplause.l | hav
but recently stood upon the :mmorta
heights Of Yorktown where that sword
drawn in the cause Of American liberty
wss only sheathed when
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE WA
WON.
Gentlemen, after independence wa
won it was important that the princi
pies Of American liberty should be lait
in foundations broad and deep. Thi
Articles Of Confederation banded thu
States together by loose league, whicl
made the Commonwealth in the con
federation free and independent State
TO enact commercial regulations no
only as TO itself, but as to its siste
States and to the world and the de
mand that brought it into the world
the present Union and Constitution
was the demand for free commerce be
tween the States and between the fire.,
colonies and the world. IApplause.l
The Constitution was formed, which
forbade any one State to lay CONNER
cial restrictions upon its trade with its
sister States, or with the world. tn,
doctrine, as understand it, Of the Fede
raj Constitution is this: That it is no,
In tho power, land l utter it boldly, even
in the face Of what consider to be the
opposition Of this assemblage,) that the
only power that the Government has
TO lay tax is to raise q
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