New-York tribune., 1891-12-23

heritage an American and mem.er 1i tas ~ ~ rn
race leaves that ha featured forefather y QUIZ
on the shore OF Massachusetts Bay IN N: ss.ehsrm n
s and I'd %as oss TS RGt s wss n.
wore misses chief explanation Of the rtnne 70 WHICH
we and our children are bora Lo"o appiA"'e''--
DIR. HUNTINGTON s WORDS
At the clos, of Mr.. Twichells address, Mr.
Morgan introduced as the next toast "Unre-
allied Yankee Notions" and the Kew. Dr W. IL.
Huntington responded follows:
When, some weeks ago. personal friend ana valued
parishloner called at my house TO invite me 10 pe
pesent here tonight and to speak said to him. my NY
%ns accept, accept Will But TO e the honest truth.
Kind al the esncea faS oa O and IS
speaking; and the reason Is, never haye ea's"' 'n'
AnaeS Ses Si YES said my friend the representative OF
this know that We E ksSw tHnt SHt tes5
Said / Il will | am OF the opinion that my parish
ioner had the best OF 1t is Wholesome dsspnne;
Ty ano her consideration / am admonished to be
brief There is tradition and some OF you sen%uemen %
ara old enough to authenticate II, that at Sew-
England sociey dinner fifty years ago or thereabous
don't mean Bishop Potter, but bishop Potters pre-
decessors predecess himself into very hot water
S bdG BY as sp Gn ed Of @ R
The matter taken up outside and there followed
had scarcey been heard OF since Cotton Mathers day
Now, how do know that II l were 10 20 on AZ Any
tse least sn nsends S it, say somethng clever draw
upon myself speedy rerbn at the hshSS hSyeyer 'nt
might have been IN 1914 the ministers Of churches e
below Fourteenth,st have nowadays no leisure LOT
degos a. sSepheng their ocks for fear sheep
may run away to pastures further up the island
my feet should ike, Notwithstanding the thnness Of
the ice, 10 say p few things tnat appear " hc h''
wholly irrelevant TO the occasion.
NEw.ENGLANDERs STILL NEW
have had feeling for some years past that we
New Enganders were acquescng quite too readily III
the conclusion that our last work was drawing 10
close; that us distinctive race, peculiar people,
YOU please we were about ready TO be mustered out
of service What with the Boston elections ana the
dismal letters TO "The Evening POST from he hiii
towns of Massachusetts offering US abandoned iaruis
ior song some OF had become prematurey and, as
think needlessly possessed Of fear that the Yankee
might be going he way OF the mastodon ana tie aooo.
any family Of men TO settle down to the conclusion
that there Is nothing left in life to be acconpsheu ~
possb,e 10 shine in uses No. nothing will persuade me
that tho Yankee is functus ofcio quite yet II may pe
driven ont of New England, but in iat event he Wlli
make newer England somewhere else IN % ISct, u,a'
is lust what he has bocn doing fot the last 100 years
making newer Engands all over the Northwest zap
plausel ,,.., -, ~ -, .,s c-sat armv
Of intervewers with the request that would inrnisi
him Win for a eG%. ssEn@ e gt what said ' he
With an air of embarrassment such as have seldom
observed the pait OF the REPRESENTATIVES oi 'e pt
here in the city write out their views OF the way IN
which they would NE to pass the %,rs evening na OF man e Of
ms years. so ! replied Certainly You shaii hzne my
views but afraid hat they will scarcely fu at Gat
SViif @in the ti1ii 6Srness,' Appsa1c2 ,..,.,
am bold think Mr. President that In G 50 SsHdc dsesr
ing myself | spoke for my kind spoke as the gehclc
Yankee. The thought Is not 10 be entertained INA.
ace which as Is sse sS nas or sy the me
dictionary influence OF great prosperity to fod us
hands ana 81 idle for The rest OF the w1s mame fods
DO you happen, wonder to have heard Of the ates,
and most approved derivation OF the word Yankee
had theory That Yankee was the Indian corruption
Of the e9h man hd5 for @s tnS 9HH from the
way OF lake Champlaln, undergoing Transformation az
the learned Dr. steati Of the University Of Cambridge
has changed all that for he as.qres us ~ & tne spppe
Language" that "Yankee7 comes from norwegian
word which means Duickmoving active spry ana then
Dr. Sse2ts aad Wn dan 6sncs bSoET Which in an
Englslman worthy OF all praise. This goes to SHOW
Nova IaHfns r do Tcn imagine ins sf that s
quick this active. this spry parsonage OF the
PStf pSsre ot OF the 20 tu ut W" viii not for cannot be-
lieve 1t.
THD YANKEE IDEALIST
The truth is that the typical Yankee is always hos
been and always will be an ideslls IL Is In his blood
Arthur Hugh Clough the Oxford scholarpoet, VINO
made his home for while under the walls Of Harvard
a generation back writing 10 his English friends his
impression Of Massachusetts,, said There Is some
thing in this climate that breeds mysticism But
CIough was wrong; the mysticism. by which he meant
what just called ideasm was not n @ te sI rbo@ as s s
deneminated mystcs because Of their power of dis
ccrnlng things Invisible, had brought their mysticism
with them across the sea from the same land whence
CiOugh himself had come: 1t was an affair Of the
heart not Of the lungs. Yes in spite o. the prevailing
pread beef that practically Is the distinguishing note
Of the New Englander make bold TO say again tiat
the truly se Snkee SOns w lest
the name are not those which strew the counters or
es s1eSas wOes wasm Watches @ an
Waterbury clocks but rather those notions Of the mlnd
which in the phrase Of present-day philosophy We call
The forefathers whose day we keeping came over
here with their heads ehock full OF dreams put wa
There that hungry look IN their eyes, which IN ola
times men the name Of seeTs But though ugh ney ey
Of the sword and of the book as our statutes and our
pictures rightly represent them The Bible vast was tne'r
pieces whatever might stand In the way Of their
dreams coming true Applsuse know know tina that IT i has has
Puritans, but confess that although myself one oi
make up my mouth to speak lightly OF them Tho
profoundes view OF the history of the United @ states y
England. 1t IS more, but i !. that How pathetic
They left the old England because they cught-mls
akenly pc il has Turned out but they honestly thought
She past ssvnghey sft the 9ld England & Il, and
buiid an England new. They had set their hearts on
solving the problem Of the perfect commonwealth in
the algebra by which they tried TO work II
omt the two known quantities from which
thew started were Righteousness and Intelligence These
were the 4 and OF all their calculations But 1t
must In honesty be confessed that I'm spite OF their
hest efforts and orr best efforts the and OF the
problem have yet been ciphered out. They are
unknown quantities STU.
MAKING GREAT PROGRESS.
Not that we have made no progress toward the
coveted solution we have made great progress. Wit
ness that best OF all fatery, which at this very
moment the old England is paying 10 the new, The
fattery of imitation. would give pine-tree shii-
ing 70 witness an ipterview between Governor Win
throp and Lord Salisbury. How amazed the Puritan
would be TO learn OF the concessions made by Lords