Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-12-23
NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY
OF View Yerk Helds the ssh Annual
Dinner The Speeches.

8
ths ssh ADJ asi dinsef u tie Nsv 3 sisr
Seeisy here topigst A mJfe rsp,eseata-
i've los Of Americas ~as never gathered
/ together in social bonds. Uadtr the
a g Of New England and the stare ard
. ,uipeI sat shs master Of ceremonies, J
Pierp,nt Mofsan- oa either aida o. him
sat among othess Hon. VIM. q. Miller,
Hoa Frank Hisceck ChAuncey II Depev,
IssAe q Bromlss. Geo Hsrsce Porter.
R-v. Dr.. Parker Morgan, lssac Il. Bailey
! Daniel 6 Appleton. Rev. Joseph H.
rsischail, Rev. ". r. Hunt lgson, Hon.
John DsIeIl. Gen. Howard and Hon.
Caivia 3. fTstf.
Al right IL g,es to these sat the remainder
ef the guess Ii was 3 o'cleck before the
choice meru was discussed. PRECEDENT
Morgan arose amii spni use. Alter fe~
words OF welcome :bs first toast Was sn
nounced "Forefa hers Day" and vas
resp, ded to ny Res. Joseph II. fvichell,
Hartford. Conn. j Pierpont Morgan, the
retiring p,ssipent, 10 graceful speeeh,
surrendered the oface 10 his successor,
Dsbiei G. Rnllins. vho replied briefly.
Isaac II SFotnlsy responded to the toast,
"Connea1ieut's Part In the Business" His
spec ch vas . hu1e-ous attempt to extcf:
recognition Of tbs, Commonwealth for
whAtevar good they may have done in the
pact for which, he said, Massachusetts,
claimed the credit New England in
Congress in Early Dsys.n sas responded to
by Cor gfessman Johu DslzelI Of Ftsburg.
The speech Of the evening was By Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew. in resp nss to the toast,
" he Crsnkiness Of the PlYitsns Mr..
Depew said, in brief: ''Cfsakinsss has be-
came the most prominent feature OF ons
civiEz 1. .iion. Newspapers are iaconplete
without daily chronicles Of his achieve
ments The editor Of the Cep'uro dictiou-
sYy, Yankee Of Y ankees was compelled to
admit that the word ''ersnA" was Dot found
in Anglo Saxon or early English, bat like
most good things which the Puritan
possesses came frcm the Datch. The OLD
fashioned way was to look up people who
endangered life or properly or did deeds u
violence on either for the statutory period,
The new idea fends them to an asylum, TO
c,me out 10 few months TO the glory Of
the prote ssionsl gentlemen who wrought
the wonderful cure and terror Of the COM
NUT ity sho are the victims Of these ex.
periments.
The most important article Of the Puri-
tsn's faith ~as his individual responsibility.
He believed in roasting the sinner here ~
Q preparatory course for mauiculA,ion into
the lurid university below, where, accord
ing to his view. no superiority in athletics
would ever secure graduation. The Du ch
definition of Q crank was . person, who,
when possessed Of Al idea. never failed to
keep 1t before the world, ard II necessary
be very dissgreesble in urging 1t upon his
- nh douhsat
himself The Dutchmen invented the
word after Puritan settlement Ia Holland,
The Stuart kings psrsecu'ed ihe Puritsns
because they would not accep. the religion
Of the throne. The Puritan who was ready
to fight and ~iluog to die for the p'ivilese
Of vofshipping God a. he thought risht,
was The pbent mensl crank OF the period.
He was beyond dispute the moot disagree
able human being 10 all that constituted the
socisl and political power of his day.~ In
the une qusl contest Of the hour. be and his
co-religi ,nisis we're prosecuted. imprisoned,
executed or exiled.
But his Fl sht vas not for tima but for
eternity. The Stusr, kings are dead; their
thrones we're taken from their sons and
their pawer transferred to house slien 10
blood and faith but the sops Of the Puri-
tans govern half the world, and their prin-
cipLs are the vi,sl and enersiz
i forces Of the other half.
For 27I yesrs the A yht has been hot be-
tween crsnks and kiug. Monsrchs are for
cote ana their Kingdoms and principals
ties merged or lost, but the leaders of the
pilgrims band are for the new world, the
csnonized saints of civil and religious lib
erty.
Tjs Dutchmen understood that cranki.
ness indicsted surplus eneersiss and were
determined to prepare 1t for power by op.
portun,y and education. They gave the
free school to the Purit>n's children, free
press to the Puritan writer's. free churches
for the Puritan Ieligionists and opened
trades for the Puritan artisans.
'Sires and sons" was responded to by
G an. Horace Porter Unreal ze3 Yankee
Notions" BY Rev. W. r. Huntington, d.