Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-23
ronEFArHERs, DAY

Eighty-Finh Anniversary Dinner of
the New England Society at New
YorlK-Chauncey Depew,s Address.
NEW York, Dec. 22.-The eighty-ffth
anniversary dinner of the New England
society was hald in the Madison Square
concert hall tonight. Nearly. five hundred
members and guests were present. The
hall was profusely decorated with palms,
ferns and flowers, and the Hungarian band
played popular airs. j. Pierpont Morgan,
president of the society, was the symposi
arch of the banquet. He delivered a brief
address in introducing the speakers. Hon.
Joseph Fl. Choate responded to the first
toast, "Forefathers' Day." Mr.. Choate
spokei'of the habits of the pilgrims in
appointing men to the bench who never
had any training in the law. sWe have
to-day" he said, ga most unexpected con-
vert to that peculiar habit. He is our
own chief magistrate, who, thought,
would approve of all lawyers, or at least
of one lawyer in particular. Laughter.
But he has just appointed to sit at the
fountain-head of the dispensation of JUS
tice man who has never learned anything
about the dispensation of it and who is
only skilled in the dispensation of spiritu-
GUS things"
Mr.. Choate then went on to say: eve
have sat at the death bed of party who
believe in legislation to keep themselves
in power, and we have rocked the cradle
OF new party from whom great things
are expected and who have done much to
perpetuate our noble institutions.
This was taken for reference to the
force bill, and brought down the house.
Everyone applauded or laughed. 'We
have long followed party, which in its
time has saved the nation and which has
rendered it services which no tongue can tell.
1t should be our hope that it will not for
get the maxims of the Puritans, and may
we not hope that hereafter there will be no
Unjust laws, no unequal laws, no legislation
Tor special interests [cheers] no enactment
for partisan supremacy"
The second toast, ssThe President of the
United States" was to have been respond
ed to by Vice President Morton, but that
gentleman was unable to be present and
the toast was drunk standing General
Oliver o. Howard, U. S. A., spoke to "The
Army and Navy" He said the army to-
day was in need of new implements, new
cartridges, new cannon, and more than all
else, more men. ''The State of New York
and the City of New York" was responded
to by Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew.
Mr.. Depew said: This celebration is the
most widely read of our national ban
quets, because of it's broad liberty for plain
speaking as well as high thinking 1t is
the most significant of New York's many
festivals, but is seldom graced by the
presence of either the governor or mayor.
The governors of the Empire state-of
either party-have rarely been in accord
with Puritan principles or Puritan prac-
af fhap hov ,1o@,
cally and ostentatiously hostile. The Puri-
tan owns much property and has great
influence in this city, but he cannot be its
mayor OF an alderman. The Irish, with
higher genius for municipal government,
beat him every time. But he is an exceed
ingly lively critic of his rulers. He,
does not like Tammany Hall and is against
hall government generally. He has lofty
ideals for public office and does not ap-
prove of the appointment of Patrick Div
yer as judge. The contrasts between the
Newly orkers and New Englanders are hap
PLY exhibited in the methods and issues of
the early colonial elections. The New York
qualification for voters was ownership of
land; in Boston it was membership of the
church. The Puritan settled one thing at
time and concentrated his whole mind on
it. He had risked life and fortune in con-
tests with crown and hierarchy in England
and braved the perils of the sea to enjoy
liberty of his own conscience and to pre-
vent the souls of his neighbors being
lost by fooling with their consciences.
He cared naught for material things,
money, property, business, the things of
this world. In the same spirit he fought
at Bunker Hill and triumphed at York
town, threw his life and home into the
contest for free soil in Kansas and for
the freedom of the slave on John Browns
scaffold; marched with the Sixth
Massachusetts, through Baltimore to
save the capitol and closing his shop and
bidding farewell to his family went with
Sherman through Georgia to the
sea and stood by Grant at Appomattox.
! [Cheers.] The Yankee returns once veal
on Thanksgiving day to the Green Noun
| tains or the Berkshire Hills, and then goes
back to his activities with an impaired
digestion, torpid liver and serene salts
faction with the accident which made him
a citizen and power in distant commu.
nifty. The first thing Yankee does on
settling in new town is to buy family
plot in the cemetery, and the first act of 4
New Yorker is to arrange for pass bacl
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