St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-22
ELOQUENT CHAUNCEY.
The Great New Yorker Gets a
Great Reception.

Great Reception.
CHICAGO, Oct. 21.-After the chorus
had sung ''The Star Spangled Banner
Director General Davis introduced
Americas old aud eloquent Chauncey
Nj. Depew. The New Yorker was ac
corded reception only second TO that
which was given the vice president,
but without waiting for the applause TO
die away he dlyed into his Grafton. in
which he said:
This day belongs not to America,
but to The world. The results of the
event it commentaries are the heri
tage of the peoples of every race aud
CLINE. We celebrate the emancipation
of man. The preparation was the work
of almost countless centuries, the real
iZatiOn was the revelation of one. the
cross on Calvary was hope; the cross
raised on San Salvador was opportu-
nifty. But for the first. Columbus would
never have sailed. but Tor the second
there would have been no place foT the
planting, the nurture and the expansion
of civil and religious liberty.
Civil and religious freedom are found
ed upon the individual and his indie
pendence, his worth, his rights and his
equal status and opportunity. For his
planting and development, new land
must be found, where the limitless areas
for expansion, the avenues of progress
would have no bars of custom or hered-
ity, of social orders. or privileged classes.
The time had come for the emancipation
OF the mind and soul Of humanity. The
factors wanting for its fulfllment were
the new world and its discoverer.
God always has i'll training some
commanding genius for the control of
great crisis in the affairs of nations and
peoples. The number of these leaders
are less than the centuries. but their
lives are the history OF human progress.
Though Caesar. and Charlemagne. aud
Hildebrand, and Luther. and William
the Conqueror, and Oliver Cromwell,
and all the epoch makers prepared
Europe for the event and contributed to
the result, the lights which Illuminate
our armament today are Columbus the
discoyerer. Washington the founder,
and Lincoln the savior.
Neither realism HOT romance fur
nishes more striking and picturesque
figure than that of Christopher Column
bus. The mystery about his origin
heightens the charm of his story. That
he came from the toilerS of his time is
in harmony with the struggles of our
period. FOrty-four authentic por-
traits of him have descended to
US. and no two of them are the
counterfeits OF the same person.
Each represents a character as dis
tinct as its canvas. Strength and weak
ness, intellectually and stupidity, high
moral purpose and brutal ferocity, pur-
ity and RIGHTEOUSNESS. the dreamer and
the miser, the pirate and the puritan,
are the types from which we may select
our hero. We dismiss the painter, and,
piercing with the clarified vision of the
dawn of the twentieth century, the veil
of 400 years. we construct our Column
bus.
10 secure the means to test the truth
of his specuiations, this poor and I'M
known dreamer. must win the support
of kings and overcome the hostility of
the church. He never doubted his
ability TO do both, though he knew of
no man living who was SO great in
power, or lineage, or learning that he
could accomplish either. Unaided and
alone he succeeded in arouSing the jeol-
Ousies of soyereigns. and dividing the
councils of the ecclesiaSticS. L will
command your fleet and discover for you
new realms, but only on cOndl-
ton that you confer on me hereditary
nobility, the admiralty OF the ocean.
and the vice royalty and one-tenth the
revenues of the new world were his
naughty terms TO King John of POrtu-
gal. After ten years or disappointment
and poverty, SubSiSting most of the time
upon the charity of the enlightened
monk OF the convent of Ribija. who was
his unfaltering friend, he stood before
the throne of Ferdinand and Isabella,
and rising. TO imperial dignity in
his rags, embodied the same royal
conditions i'll his petition.
1t was happy omen OF the position
which woman was hold in A mPrioa
that the only person who cOmprehended
the majestic scope of his plans, and the
invincible quality of his genius. was
the able and gracious Queen of CASTLE.
Isabella alone of all the dignitarleS OF
that age shares with Columbus the hon
OrS of his great achievement. She ar
rayed her kingdom and her private for
tune behind the enthusiasm of this
mystic mariner. and p0Sterity pays
homage TO her wisdom and faith.
All hail, Columbus. dIscoverer,
dreamer. hero and apostle. We here,
of every "a and country, recognize
the morrison which bounded his vision
and the infinite scope OF his genius.
The voice of gratitude and praise for
all the blessings which nave been show
cred upon mankind by his adventure is
limited to no language, but is uttered
in every tongue. Neither marble DOR
brass can fifty form his statue. Conti-
nentS are his monument, and unnum-
bered millions, past. present and to
come, who enjoy i'll their liberties and
their happiness the fruit of his faith,
will reverently guard aud preserve.
from century to century, his name and
fame"
When Mr.. Depew had concluded Car
dlnal Gibbons was presented to lead the
| aSsemblage in prayer. There vas
movement toward applause. but it was
checked by the reverential attitude as
sumed by the eminent and Liberal
minded prelate. and who, occupying a
seat in the very row OF the stage. had all
! through the afternoon been the cyno-
sure of thousands of eyes. 1t was an
eloquent invocation. and, as a fitting
sequel, Beethoven's In Praise OF the
Lord" was rendered by the chorus
The programme proper having now
been concluded. the benediction was
pronounced by Rev. Henry G. McCook,
| of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church
in Philadelphia.
Scarcely had the solemn accents of
the reverend speaker ceased when the
deep-tOned artillery broke in with the
last number on the programme, lone
hundred years-the national salute"
Between the booming of the cannon the
ulrector-general stepped before his
desk. Il pronounce these ceremonies
closed" he said. The great event had
reached an end.
INTELLECTUAEB BRANCH.
CHICAGO, Get 2l-By no means the