New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-26
NATHAN HALE THE MARTYR.
HIS PRAISE SOUNDED By THE SONS OF
THE REVOLUTION.
DR. EDWARD EVERETT HALE. OF BOSTON,
KINSMAN, MAKES THE LEADlN" ADD"D>S
AT DINNER IN HIS MEMORY
THE GUESTS AND TOASTs.

KINsMAN, MAKES TIE LEADING ADDRESS
AT A DINNER IN HIS MEMORY
THE GUESTS AND T0ASTs
Tho Sons q, tho Revolution after the twilight set
in Yesterday turned toward relmonicos Tor their
annual dinner. About go guests and members were
present, and completely filled the big uih"s ioo,"'
The table Of honor extended along the west sue
and at this sat President Frederick IaHniause' "e
Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix. the Rev. Dr. Da'i'ei -
Weston Colonel Floyd GARRISON fostmhs'er
Charles w Dayton. the Rev DR.. EdwarI EVere"
Hale General 0. O. Howard, Ashbel F. fitch Dr.
Andrew II. Smith. John c. Tomlinson ASA p'.u
Gardiner. Jonathan Trumbull, Colonel LOOMS L.
Langdon, Captain Walllce, Paul Dana, a. H. Tap
pan and General Ruggles.
There six tables below the dais some OF
those occupying seats at them were Major Char'es
II. Whipple t. s. A.: Smith Ely. T.. Fellows Jeh-
kins. John King John Lawrence. Banyer LARK
son. Louis j. Sands. Rufus King. John H. lreIahu'
John Hone. jr. William Robson. James f. Hughes
Reese Carpenter Charles w. Carpenter, o. I. car
penter. Frederic II. Belts Clarence w. Bowen
W. Gayer Dominick Colonel Delaney Floyd Jones.
Smith f. Lane James b. Metcalf Henry F. Shoe
maker Charles H. Woodruff. Walter Phelps Dodge.
Charles a. Draper. Rufus Hatch. James NJ warm
um Walter T. Hatch. Daniel Buttcrheld. Colonel
George B. Mcclellan. Lieutenant T. i. NJ Mason
Major Thomas f. Sloan. William s. Lyon George
H. Coutts DR.. Friedrich +. Hyde. Byam Is
Stevens. Abraham V. W. Van vechten. Peter
Wyckoff. DR.. John a. Wyeth i. Bayard
Smith. Collins l.. Balch. Clarence NJ. Hyde
Frank Tilford. VIM Lummis Francis H. triihh
Jeffrey A. Wisner. Clinton W. Wisner. W. H. os-
goodFie r. Hudson Riley. Horatio 5. Wisner
Theodore VI. Barnes. Sheppard Knapp George C.
Holt, Joseph L. Delaield Or. George ii. Butler
William A. Shelton. DR.. William Freeman French
Amos NJ Lyon. John G. Marshall Francis r.
Fitch George NJ. Root, George c. Genet, William
Alexander Smith, Col. John X Miner. Dr. Ed
ward Curtis Albert Crane Abraham y. Valen-
tine. DR.. Walter II. Jones. John d. Lindsay. Ed
ward L. Paris. Henry II. Noble. DR.. George d.
Shelton, J. II. Hume and Manning Hasbrouck.
Nothing could have been more simple than the
decorations of the room. They consisted OF folds
OF red. white and blue bunting at intervals on the
walls. and back OF the chairman was a plain dark
blue banner bearing in gilt letters the words The
United States OF America" and on each side.
looped up at the ends. was United States flag.
The procession entered the drning-room at $50
led by President Tallmadge and the Rev.
DR. Morgan Dix Shortly before o'clock Mr..
Talmadge arose. and in a brief speech introduced
Edward Everett Hale to respond to the toast
Nathan Hale"
GREETING EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
The great Boston preacher with the blood Of the
young martyr of the Revolutionary struggle pulsng
through his veins had been sitting quietly by the
side Of the president OF the society throughout the
progress OF the dinner his intellectual face bear
ing a strong resemblance that OF Tennyson. n
study for those who sat In front OF him. and. as
the author OF that thrilling. patriotic story "A
Man Without "A Country" with the banner Of the
greatest Republic on earth almost twIned about his
head. When he arose 10 speak To the toast every
man at the tables responded by arising to his feet
and cheering the representative in krshp Of one
OF the Nations canonlzed heroes. Or. Hale re-
ferring the young martyr linked with his an
ccstry. said:
history u II his life has every
element Of dramatic interest Iis tweniy-hrs, birth
day as he IS in the midst ~ Intense action
More than nifty years asked Mr Sparks. the
author the Life u Washington. what the speca.
information Tor which Washington risked lie valu
able In service perous lie replied: 1T IS all the
ptcs in the world tina; before Washington died one
ever asked him" In the personal correspondence be-
tween Clinton ana Washington i've years after. when
Clinton was trying Andres lfc. there Il a
phrase in which think Clinton back 10 this
moment. He asks Washington - remember that no
has been hasty hts duty with such offenders |
he. Clinton. who then IN command have thought |
that Clinton meant to wash his hands % completely
in the fate OF Hale.
! Will only you that Andre died SAYING:
81 pray you 20 bear witness that meet my fate
Ike a man" Hale died saying: Il only regret
that have but lne 10 give for country" My |
country his last words. May his country know
how train her boys and how t. honor them. that
POEM ny ARTHUR HALE.
DIR. Hale then announced that he had been asked |
TO supply some verses. This he was unable to do In |
the midst OF his pressing duties but his had |
contributed something this line. which with the |
permission OF the assemblagc would De read There |
was great applause as Arthur Hale. the famous |
preachers son arose and read these lines:
would that lad thousand lives.
One lfe carried III ny hand
And tired % my native land
Can II help her II one survives
Would 1 could give Il thousand lives"
And a. the Contlncntals stood.
And watched The crowded feet, dsgorge
Those scfrlcd l,eiOns red i blood
sid,-ginclpl down the thin blue line
That stood between their homes and wives
And the hIh hcl-hounds Of King GEORGE.
Each soldier wished he had a thousand lives.
Walt forty years and loo. again;
a thousand rrcmcn.
Sicada-t behind the cctton-bale.
Pave with rod coIt- the hard fought plain;
\ thousand sailors In the glifr
or battle pluck the P,acock's tail,
Ride down the Pcngulns fatal dives
And humble the proud Gucrrlerc
Whose spirit made these men brave mcn1
Whose lives inspired their thousand liNesl
Only few years roll past
our nrs, invasion, aud last
htar the proud romantic news
CEeputclcc and Vera Cruz
Tell ne. II there j. survives
Whose spirit fired your thousand lycs1
Again our country risks her life
In deadly quickcning strife,
No hlrelings have here COW;
'Tls brother against brother now
IL l. no joke to staad your ground
Where cannon la'h and storm-chargc dives. |
And see your comrades fall around.