The Portland daily press., 1888-08-15
THE SPEECHES.
Judge Whitehouse Addresses Mr..
Blaine and the Latter Replies.
Especial to the Press.l

Especial TO the PresS.l
AUGUSTA, Aug. IA.
On the stand Mayor Macomber introduced
Judge William P. Whitehouse, who made
following welcoming address:
JUDGE wHIrEHoUsE's WELCOMING SPEECH
Mr.. Blaine: Your neighbors, friends and
fellow citizens have gathered here tonight to
give greeting to one of Americas most dis
tinguished citizens and the cherished object
of Names attachment and pride They
would come with simple words of cordial
welcome and congratulation rather than la
bored phrase of panegyric. Your progress
hither has indeed been continuous and i'm
posing triumphal procession. You were
greeted at the commercial metropolis by an
ovation as spontaneous as ever welcomed the
conquering hero returning from his triumph
at ancient Rome, as magnificent as any royal
pageantry that ever attended crowned head
In mo dern Europe. But you left the historic
scenes and storied grandeurs of the old
world for a calm retreat on the banks of the
Kennebec, because here Is your home. the
sacred refuge" Of mans life, around which
cluster his hopes and affections and to which
he is bound Dy all the ties that give happi-
ness and dignity to life. For a third OF a
century you have dwelt among this people.
This Is the scene Of your early labors and
triumphs. The people of Augusta have
seen your walk and know your ways. They
know that during all those years the cry Of
the unfortunates among them has never
failed to reach your ear the voice of suffer-
ing and distress you have always heard. The
appeal OF the organized charities for support
you have anticipated by your pr0ffered gifts
or answered by liberal aid. The business
enterprises Of the city have uniformly been
stimulated by your sagacious counsel and up
held and advanced by your substantial in
yestments. Its moral and religious life
you have contributed 10 sustain by your
munifcence and elevate by your example
No word or deed of yours has at any time
been wanting for the advancement Of the
best interests Of this people and the promo
tion of the general welfare and prosperity of
the city. When, therefore, your fellow
townsmen contemplate these things, with
your illustrious service in. the councils of the
State and nation, they are moved by COM
mon impulse, irrespective of partisan ties,
to testify their high and constant apprecia-
tion of your residence among them, and to
emphasize, in every appropriate way, the cor
dialty of tneir, greeting. They would well
come you in the spirit of the poet laureate's
greeting to the "Sea Kings daughter from
over the sea"
"For Saxon or Dane or Norman we
Teuton or Celt. whatever we be
We are each, all Dane in our welcome to thee"
They would welcome you again because
they know you have returned as you went
distinctly an American citizen, with nm
changed devotion to your native country,
with undiminished love and admiration for
the majestic hills and beautiful lakes and
rivers Of your own New England. They
know that nothing in the social life or sys-
TENS of government of Europe, nothing in
the perfection of her art. the splendor of her
palaces, the enchantment of her scenery or
the fattery of her courts, could shake your
patriotic fidelity to American systems and
American interests, your faith in American
institutions, or your love for American JUS
tice. You come directly from a country
whose boast has been that she is the work
shop Of the world and the banker Of the ma
tions and that her empire so covers the
globe that her morning drum beat, keeping
company with the hours, circles the earth
with one continuous and unbroken strain of
the martial airs of England. But while 700
Englishmen own one-half of all Ire
land, and as many more one-fourth of all
England, and the freeholders Of her ancient
fame are thus forced from the soil to be-
come i'll paid toilers in her crowded shops
and factories, and while she holds political
prisoners to be prosecuted and tortured to
death as in Tullam0re Jail, the British goy-
ernment fails to represent the wisdom, JUS
tice and humanity of the civilization Of the
age. Your friends rejoice that you have no
sympathy with the spirit of such govern
ment. They know that If required to pass
Judgment upon 1t, you would speak in words
as mighty as those of Webster: "The
lightning has its power, and the whirlwind
its power, but there is something more capa-
BILE of shaking despotc thrones than the
lightning or the whirlwind, and that Is the
excited and aroused indignation OF the
whole civilized world" They know that
throughout your public service you have
constantly illustrated the patriotic, spirit
transmitted to you from an honorable an
cestry, and evinced a phllosophic respect for
those .exalted public, principles and sterling