New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-23
NEW ENGLAND ELOQUENCE
SOME OF THE SPEECHES AT THE ANNUAL
DINNER AT DEI4MONICO'S.

Among the speeches dehVcFeu aI INC o"'"
dinner of the New England Society at Deimonco
last night, were those given herewith. AN az
cmnt Of this remarkably successful gathering
descendants OF the Pilgrims and the PURITAN
with the addresses that are not given here j
nnblished on the first and second pages OF Uni
paper
MR. pEpEw,s WIT AND ELOQUENCE.
Channcev NJ. Depew replied for The State OF
N.,y-yorls The City of New-York' The quota
lions Owen in connection with the toast were
these:
Know. you not not, ,v,,, the whole
How your State stands + the world win Inc ""O''
"or"' King Henry VIII, Act v, Scene
VIII VIM walk with me about the town. =
" Comedy of Errors, Act ], scene .
Mr.. Depew said:
osn for she State Of Sew-York and many times for
the city but never before for both A. me Me%-
nsana gso stands in either position supposed
10 represent resemble either the Governor or ihe
body them both. Qsughter.l Nothing but Yankee a1-
dacity could suggest that one man should DC DaEa D.
Wien Boston citizen first the sIamese twins,
he remarked to them Brothers, | suppose Bu'
Scber Governor and Mayor IS that neither is shedding
many tears over the total result this fall In the stare
who Sss ashore with all his baggage when the ship is
lost and the captain drowned, does not PERM, inc
mar his happiness II say more l talk politics,
but the New-E England Society has views and likes
The colorless hilarity of the other National ban
ques disappears with the anniversary night me
nua dinner of the New-Engla Society Is a NaiionaI
event lApplause) Sentiments spoken here nave
aroused the country TO fight for liberty ana mere
were spoken the most eloquent words OF reconcliao
and peace New-York holds the proud position OF
havirn, furnished the present President Of the One
states and nominated the soldier statesman who =
TO be our next President (Applausel Naive ana
insurmountatle modesiy alone prevents my stating
L,x~. how. cd had
wna her g ret Choice daughter and applause But
we Of the old Dutch stock were always magnanm9as
in dealing With our hereditary iOcs' anu VIC seeoo"
a Puritan Of the iuritans.
ALWAYS THE SAME LIBERTY-LovING MAN
1t has been for two centuries the beliei OF the
historian and the philosopher that the sleuIe SOIL,
The harsh climate, the difficult, bleak Ne"-Engiahu
were essential TO the development OF The puritan
That he needed the spurs of hostile Indians ana savage
nature 10 bring out his virtues, and thar his Elt
and gray matter were only reused by despair but
the brilliant example which proves tbat whemei
living under sunny skies ana WIN hospi.aDles Eur
roundings. or making a home in The MIDST OF lOr-
bidding wds and arctic SHOWS. whether cast upon
the frozen coasts Of Massachusetts, or WeIcomeo 10
the fertile plantations of Virginia, he was ever me
same ndoniitabe and liberty loving man, fearing
nothing but God Is the Virginia Harrisons (Lohe
The Now Tn glandcr and the Southerner of the same
SSSh S ev a gavc pah e bdS Sdp for fore reoas liberty
met again IN Independence Hall, with the same
courage the same martyr spirit the same devout ana
fierce confidence in the Almighty, to risk their lVes
and pledge their honor and property for clyll liberty
fa,tb which from the land Of sunshine and flow
ers furnishes signer Of the Declaration o. ihae
could not have done more. had II begun with the
Plymouth Colony ApplauSe)
PILGRIMS AND PURITANs CoNTRAsTED
The Pilgrim was wanderer and the Puritan an
egotist These two qualities have made them the
the formation Of its institutions. The Pilgrims rest
the formation of IT'S institutions The Pilgrims rest
a better home. and his
aggressive reliance stamped his individuality upon
the beginnings of territories and the infancy OF States
(AprIauseJ There are places Mohammedan
than Mecca, more Cavinistic than Geneva and more
Irish than Ireland-the last the CITY OF NeW-1orh
New Ems gland farms are owned and titled by races
alien in blood and creed 10 the Puritan founder bn
cims have framed its statues deced It's cNlnzaIuh
and organized its development. NpplauseJ The
Reserve of Ohio agalns, slavery the protest OF
Plymouth transplantcd to other soil and covering
ia 1881 that the Mississippi should flow unveAed 10
the sea. the hereditary cropping out unoer dli.el
emf conditions in their descendants OF the denance OF
restraints upon liberty and commerce which impeneu
their ancestors throw the tea into Boston hafpoi'
NETWORK sUBDUED BUT NOT CONQUERED
But the Yankee had to climb over New-hor 10
find room for the free exercise of his faculties lie
srbdued New-York but he never conquered 1t.
daughter and applause) The Dutchman thought
of the Spanish Armada and Of his part In It's de-
strlicton which the salvation OF Puritan re-
gion and liberty. Laughter lie rememoersa nov
DC had received at Leyden party OF via leHioeaS
who could live with nobody nor agree with them
selves had taught them liberation, and given them
the principles of popular education ana OF home
Rule. daughter and applause) AS tle GA ,piu3-
10 Alma Mater, full OF new schemes Tor me REFORM
of the college, listen TO them kindly and dismiss hen
compassonately SO the sturdy h2cHer9oeES aid
Yankee practices, and IN resiful content SAID 10 Inc
in, sders Your opportunity is n greener heds go
But New-York by Dutch thrift and Yankee energy,
utch nSTTa s ana and stropoan among cities
She Is the crucible in which the raw material IS
over the Republic She has become the arber Of the
political fortunes Of the country As goes New YORK.
equal to the two most Important Of the places
in President HaIison's Cabinet. and is even charged
%h asd ssa as 10 Size 6as ached That
height Of conscious greatness where she VIII lahe NE
awakening In the morning finds her stocking empty.
(Laughter)
AN OLD LAW THAT WILL NEVER BE- BROKEN.
In 1889 the Plymouth Council enacted that any
man elected to and then declining office should
be fined thirty pounds The influence Of that statute
upon the American people cannot be estimated
Shouts of laughter) There has been time in
a hundred wears when case under
Il could be successfully brought, and the descend
ens OF it's authors have created and governed most Of
The states ard directed he Ter policy Of me
Plymouth because as the heather would not come 10
them, they must go 10 the heathen" They braVed
everything TO go 10 them and then TO 60 for them
Qaughter) The Dutchmen welcomed the Pufians
with cordial hospitality. Their tolerant opinions per
mtted asylum to prosecuted PrOtes tants. Jews and
Catholics But while Pilgrims, humanized In Hol
land, protected the victims Of Puritan intolerance,
they advised them 10 move On-the witches 10 New
York and Roger Williams to Rhode Island. augh
teri The Puritan became colonist, not 10 an a
living find a fortune. or found home. lie had de
monstrated bis ability 10 hold his own in any COM
munty. He in name and purpose a
separatst. He could touch elbows with neither
the Pagan nor the Christian Of his period.
The Church Of England corrupt with The power
abandoned friends and fortune and fed 10 Holland
People who professed faiths which he believed bonn
Of the devil and leading 10 hell crowded upon HIM
Dutch Cavinism winding about him its rigid
dogma, and he chartered tho Mayhower ard sailed
10 America
WHERE THE NASAL TwANG CAME FROM.
The Pilgrims caught cold on that bleak December
Day when they landed, and ever since they have
e1ng psalms through their noses. (Laug,terJ But
fhdr snnrs have alMays been deyOnt aspIratOns for