Morning journal and courier., 1892-10-22
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

An Interesting Columbus Day Conn
memorat1ve Meeting Last Night
Addresses by Mayor Sargent, Lynde |
Harrison and Professor Baldwin, |
Poem by Judge Brewster.
The New Haven Colony Historical soci- |
ETY. held Columbus meeting last evening
at the Historical society rooms in the In
surance building, at which quite large
number were present. Mayor Sargent
read paper on Manufactures, in which
he set forth the development of American
industries along all lines. 1t was very
thoughtful paper and showed that the
writer was thoroughly conversant with his
subject.
Judge Lyman D. Brewster of Danbury
followed in poem, of which the opening
stanzas were:
WMsoR VS.. COLUMBUS
Winsor vs.. Columbus.-An Admiralty case.
| Brief for the defendant on motion to erase.
Demurrer to the Libel, upon its allegations.
General denial of the plaintiffs accusations.
Since Homer, Tell and Shakespeare have all
gone to the dogs,
The man who now writes history for credit and
Must either set some idol up or pull some idol
down.
Since most things in the makeup Of this fair
| universe,
The modern critic tells us, could hardly have
been worse,
The character Of satan,-so long misunder-
/ have no doubt will be revised, and made out
fairly good.
But Yesterday, an author proclaimed it his b.
That he could show up Washington, and he
unyrlH e. rrtaf
But stopping to consider, which life would suit
fer wreck,
| The tendency to publish, received a sudden
| check.
With learning stuffed with science starched
acutely analytic,
Would set aside the verdict Of now four hundred
And slit Columbus fame in shreds, with hi
| pedantic shears.
The closing portion of the poem was il
more serious strain, and the last verse;
were these:
Another race made this new world, the home o
And other thoughts possessed the souls of thos
who made us free,
But back o. ali the founders, on whom GU
| laurels fall,
The finder of America is father of them ALL
Than .s old King g. Lear, unthroned, in rags, bu
Columbus. dying in disgrace, unnoticed and ur
| known,
Still claimed the realms that he had won. tt
day they are his own.
Unlike Cordelia, Isabel had no attaint to bear,
No disinheritance was hers, to this new worl
But like Cordelia, faithful and loyal to the end,
Her epitaph In bistory,-"Here lies Columbus
frend.''
Like Lear, Columbus felt the pang Of sharp il
gratitude,
D From crafty king and jealous court, and all tn
courtier brood,
. To- ay the gathered millions unite to pay the
To canonfze the Argonaut, for his immort.
: cruise.
Judge Lynde Harrison then made fe,
! admirable remarks in which he shove
how many great men had never known tn
r greatness of their discoveries. Even E
Whitney, who invented the cotton gin, ha
: no idea of the Importance of his discovery
He complimented, in the highest terms, til
historian, Winsor, who has recently pull
lished history of Columbus on his exte1
sive researches in Spain among old man.
scripts and monasteries, that Prescott an
Irving had no access to. His address We
replete with interest
9 Rev. DR.. Munger and Professor Bald wi
+ followed with interesting remarks.
The next meeting will be held on the la
Monday in November, and Henry T. Blak
u will read a paper on the Wyoming settl
n | ment.