Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-12-23
THE ETERNAL RIGHT.

S"0HACS DuukcI DcAhNcEb u
Brilliant Address at the Dinner OF
the New England Society at New
York In Which He Gives the DEM
oeratic Party n Hard Rub and
Brushes the Fur of the Tammany
Tiger the Wrong Way.
New YORK, Dec. 22.-The annual dinner
of the New England society at sherry's to-
night was one of the most notable events
| of the season. The banquet hall and the
eight tables were handsomely decorated.
There was a good attendance and many
prominent men were present. Fraternity
and good fellowship held full sway until q
late hour. Ex-Surrogate D. g. Rollins pre-
sided. At the guests table were seated
Governor Russell of Massachusetts,, Cen
ersl o. o. Howard, Rev. II. W. Stryker,
professor in Hamilton college, Charles
Dudley Warner, General Horace Porter,
W. Lane Booker, the British consul, st.
Clair McKewey, John D. Crimmins, FL
lis q. Roberts, R. B. Roosevelt, Stewart
L. Woodford, Daniel F. Appleton, Charles
A. Dsshon, Charles T. Saxton, Rev. Mr..
Greer, General Taylor, George A. Morri-
cShf 4<AWo4o AidSs oaAcb W. occALuau,
Frederick J. DePeyster, Robert D. Bene-
dict, W. L. Strong and Isaac 81. Bailey.
Among others present were Elihu Root, ].
Pierpont Morgan, Cornelius L. Bliss, Hor-
ace Russell, Joel B. Erhardt, Chester s:
Lord, Brayton Ives, Thomas L James,
Rsstus Rsnsom and Melville W. Cooper.
Judge Rollins congratulated the mem
har he olahr Of trrhf
eighth anniversary and tie 273d snniver-
ssry of the landing of the Pilgrims. He
said that the tacisty has now over ], 300
members, and nearly 100000 in the
treasury. The frat toast was "Forefsthers'
Day" Rev. DR.. Stryker responded.
1.-THE honors of this opportunity are not
my own, but to that college as we'll to
which you owe yeur new president (Elihu
Root tonight to be inducted and to
whom Hartford owes these two great
citizens, Senator Hawley and that
in the World" have never weaned him
from his alma mater, Charles Dudley War
ner. (Applause) On the slope of our col
lege hill carved stone commentaries the
slime of property" which Johnson's treaty
of 1853 set to divide the east from the per-
petual west There Kirkland of Connect
cut came in 1898 to be our venersted
founder. Our forefsthersl They were
Huguenots, Scotch, Welsh and withal they
had the sinews of the men at HARLEM and
Leyden; people who were, in the details
of human liberty, century in the van. If
the day demands the state of Nathan Hale
can furnish other Ossawstomie Browns to
lead the forlorn hope, and other Whittiers
to hold to their lips the terrible trump of
judgment. The prevailing forces of this,
our country, have been Saxon and Morse
and Teutonic, not Latin. We are not
French or Spanish. We will not be Ital-
ian.
The Potomac shall not become an afsu-
emit of the Tiber. We need no larger in
fation of priestcraft into politics. We
stand by the old watchwords-s free state,
free churches, free press and free schools.
New England, mother of constitutions of
states, of senators, of churches, of col
lsges, of armies, of ideas, of mani
drink the pledge in water as pure as that
which gurgled down the sands at Ply
mouth Rock" Prolonged applause.
The second speaker was Charles Dudley
Warner. His theme was "The Way of the
He said:
''This seems not a very melancholy oc-
casion. Yet 1t looked little while ago as
if the pilgrim had lost his way in New
York. He found 1t November z. He was
"huucIluk Ill LILO Wl0CIASco Va Dustucbs,
of pleasure, of intrigue, and the judges
were blowing out the great moral lights
around him. There seemed to be no diff
ference between right and wrong 80 long
as you were prosperous. If a man were
caught manipulating returns for his own
ad vantage 1t was sufficient answer to say
Il am a democrat If a man dropped
fifty Thousand dollars into a party slot and
drew 6rst-elass Office 1t was sufficient
explanation to say 4 ana repub
lican.' In this confusion of moral ideas
the pilgrim, busy In getting his share of
the world, was losing his way. He was 80
absorbed that he no longer gave chsse
when there was cry of stop thief. The
cry was SO common. But suddenly In the
gathering darkness IL occurred to him to
turn on inner light, that of conscience. In
a flash he saw the eternal right, he saw the
enemies of 1t and he drew his sword. It
was the sword of the Lord and of Gideon.
The Pilgrim tarried at Plymouth long
enough to train himself by every variety
of climate known to man and by every
kind of experience to occupy any part of
the continent and enter into every condi-
ton of life.
Mr.. Warner sketched the training of
the Pilgrim, in winter and summer, in the
land of the grape vine and of ice, in hard
ship, in endurance, in poetry, craft in the
sentiment of love, of the family love. dane
ing. The pilgrims moral ancestors, he
said, fought the wild beasts at Ephesus,
and he may have had q premonition that
he would have to encounter the TammaDy
tiger. Trained for all climates and obsta-
cles on the continent-thst is the pilgrim
with sentiment for all gentleness and
pluck for any hardship. A lover and
fighter from waybaekl When the
king falls upon the board the
ace takes it. The ace is x, the
immutable, the supreme. Always the ace
takes the king, 1t takes the king of poll
tics, the queen of pleasure, and Jack the
broker. The ace Is the eternal right and
1t exists in the awakened conscience of
the people. The Pilgrim carries the
ace. When he Is hard pushed he plays
1t. That Is what happened on the 7th of
November.
President Rollins then introduced
Governor Russell, who responded
to the toast: 1.-The Commonwealth of
Massachusetts," The governors address
was well received.
St. Clair McKelway, editor of the Brook
Ign Eagle, responded to the toast 1.-THE
Puritan and the Dutchmsn."
General Horace Porter responded to the
toast, 1.-THE New Englander's Patriotism"
The last speaker was @. s. Saxton, and
responded to 1.-THE State We Live In"