Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-07-01

.,tR Martin VI. D., VI. >. llolsay,
Fac v,. Frank Il Partridge and Miss
uslso W,lier Of Augusta executive com
,O;,,se Gsorge V s. Michaelis, chairman;
n " Turner. N. D.. T.. T. Nash, +. W.
wbatso Miss Alice s. Reynolis' Miss
tt.l.o " Fuller. N.. Emma l.. Howe,
e. Maud T. Reed, Miss Mary True and
NJ. Marion Harlow all Of Augusta; secre-
.od rres.urpr. Miss Edith y. Moulton
Of Augusta
pVa rising vote the association extended
Il. ,l,pk, to Miss Emma l.. Howe, the re-
,irins secretary AMI treasurer for her faith
tul ,nl fner,torious services during the past
two years.
Reunion and Reception in the Evening.
vsoo,an hall. beautifully decorated by
the Cons high school boys, was taxed to its
utmost rap,rity to accommodate the crowd
Of graduates and their friends who gath
.,sd their To attend the reunion and literary
s,ertise, Higgins orchestra gave short
and GOOD concert at the opening and rem
Jered several selections during the even
ing
The meeting was called to order by Hon.
q. u. Baker. vho has been president of
The association SINCE II was founded in 1889.
Mr. Baker N . graceful little speech in
trglgrrI rrof Richardson a. one of the
hide, alumni ia whom NIL felt deep pride.
Hi. remark. were received with hearty APP
plan.e. Subject of the Grafton was, The
Nes EnlIan.ler Of the Twentieth Century"
4 burst Of applause greeted Prof. Charles
+. Richardson of Dartmouth cole ge, the
orator Of the evening, a. he came forward
to allrrs. the audience, showing that
although personally known to but few. his
reputation had preceded him. The profes-
sor graduated from the school in 1861.
The word Grafton is much abused and a
car fal writer besitates to use it and yet ii
j. the one word that would describe the ell
oqucnt address by rrof Richardson. In
Language finished hut terse ~ iti strong feel
ing tempered BY sound sense, with proper
pride in Nov England great past and a true
farh in her glorious future Prof. Richard
son dealt with his .ub lect ~ one who knew
whereof IN speak AMI what to say.
He began with magnificent culpgy of
the oh ds}- of New England. recalling the
proud record of the past, dealing somewhat
.nore particularly with the childhood of the
nirigo stat, ,nl the land of the kennebec.
II was m Oil subject qutekened into new
life by MISTER of English and man of
note
The speaker then dealt with the perils OF
the nation examining the history of the race
from the first faint dss nings of a mind To
til. results Of the oil worll civilizations.
iIp called ntt, uton TO that strange spirit OF
rsticssnes- aLiDh i'll i mankind after the
down fall of home and which eventually
resulted IN Producing Columbus anl the
SAID Professor richardson;
In thu, looking back upon the events
whlrl for rs Americans, eliminated II
the setrntgcuth-centnrY migration of the
Eugh.h people to its thru home west of the
Atlantis, II almost seems ~ though the
time spirit were Ike that of llnidy, oil
whom Lowell tells us that
"Au way 40 one, her i.elins dew,
Like sVark- iu bur az up paper"
But the BROADER view shows us that tn.
general movement of the civilization ol
mankind has been from the southeast te
the northwest from hot to cold climates
aud at length westward to America. And
Engbshmen have led in the Christian
centuries because of the Anglo Ssxon'
possession Of paramount qualities grit and
sPaa',r ~ GssimiJtioR. Without the frs
We would have been lost. without ttie
second, crushed Is this great sweep oil
progress now to cease?-lt ~ inconceivable
our Children must move onward with 1t
As regards the New Euglander of the
next ten decades. of course the thought o
the westward emigration of Yankee SON
AMI daughters ~ the first and most impress
siFe, and next 10 It comes the gloomy re
fectiou that their places may be taken b,
thf'ttlrr or more sor1rl folk of other ma
tomatoes. altering our religion. our educa
h0nsl system, our social institutions. Bu
ldst here serious fallacy exists in manl
mini-, Hasty gencralizers would have u
believe that America hail once y strict.
Heterogeneous English popniace. into which
IN The Latter half of the Nineteenth century
have rrrpt ar have s~armed. alien ele
ments. Nothing Is farther from the truth
II Is of course true that Massachusetts, an
virginia were ~ Adglican settlement, tu
never, never until lorg after the Revolu
ton, were English Americans uncon
fronisd by problems of assimilation NOR
serious than those which meet US tod,,
10 the north were thousands of Canada
French dominated by the intellectual an
social aristocrscy of the old Regime; i
New York the Stuyvesants. Van Renssel
aer'' Beekman>, Roosevelt-, and Rhine
lsh''er' held their sway. and the Dnte
language IN Albany di,i'ied rule with Eue
hsh As does French at pre>eut in the law
and coarts of the Province otQuebec Tb
nwt'ies IN Delaware. the Germans o
the Pennsvlvsnis Dutch" of various DE-
srees, ani the fluguenots in South CsroliH
Reid potent rule over rich domains, Will
south and southwest and west were foreig
nations, Spanish ami French, now for'Ht.i
in'ruding and now imperceptbly insluens
iag- Among us and beyond us. too. wer
Tue only true natives. the peculiar peopl
OF this continent, the North American In
dlsns. TO whom We are all but Gen'iles-ol
IN the expressive phrase applied by Mar
tacketers 10 off-islanders. mere "coots."
English blood. in proper and not unki1dl
sense, once rose TO the governing piac'
wthoat the aid of railroads, steamboat
&iegrapts. telephones. newspapers, World
fsrs, or a consolidated ard ever unifyin
government, shall it now grow thin IN
weak. AID give up the struggle ia the pre-
ence of German, Irish. Norwegian or ita
Ian, or Of the less welcome Hungarian, Pol
Russian, or Chinaman: No. the same con
hnstion of persistenry with fiexibil:sy vi
serve Us in good stead hereafter; and fro
the combination will still come, ss hithert
advantages to all. In the veins of those
you who most prize your purely Engiisl
uescent there are inevitable strains OF No
man, Celtic, Scotch, and Irish blood; viii
'ae 6ermsns are our cousins, Who mere
stayed in the fatherland little longer tia'
aid our grsndfsthers. Honest, industriou
home-loving, Observation-Disclosures. incl