The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-23
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The New England SOciety's An
nual Banquet Is a Success.
Rev. ii. l.. Wayland, a Distinguished
Fastener. Makes an Address-Other
Prominent Men Speak.

One hundred and ten sons, daughters and
more distant relatives of New England
were there. Rev. DR.. N A. Hyde presi-
dent of the association presided with grace
and dignity. At his right sat the guest
and orator of the evening Rev. II. Ia. Way
land, D. d., editor of the National Baptist
and next to him Governor Matthews and
wife, and next the Governor Hon. John
NJ Butler and wife. On the left were ex-
Attorney-general Miller and President
Scot Butler and wives and Mrs. Hyde.
The cigars were not lighted when the
banquet was completed by those at the
tables who turned their chairs toward the
upper seat. In brief and appropriate al
dress in which he paid tribute to New
England, DIR. Hyde introduced Rev. DIR.
Wayland-a stalwart six-footer, in the lapel
of whose coat was the button of the Loyal
Legion-Dr. Wayland was received with ap-
plause and proceeded to speak on New
England, a Place, Race and an Idea"
Nothing short of a verbatim report can do
justice to an address, happy in expression
and coruscating with wit. No one who
has not travelled over New England, said
he, can realize the place it is, how sterile
is it's soil, how harsh its winds and how
brief its summer, yet these rugged parents
banker of America 1t enslaves the streams
and clothes a continent: Ii has overlaid the
imperial northwest with mortgages and
overlaid il with insurance The brief sum-
mers of the place has enforced promptness;
its long winters have afforded season for
reflection. have fostered the red school
house. This is the secret. 1t has all kinds
of weather and all sorts of scenery. Life
in ancient New England was epic poem
"a struggle against obstacles, a triumph
over nature in behalf of human welfare.
What would a poet sing about who lived
the Kankakee flats? OF course, the
epic poet must have a hero and an enemy
and The great enemy in those parts
is shakes; so Virgil began. sing of arms
and the man. the Kankakee poet would
open:
Il sing the glories of cinchona and the man
Who first invented calomel."
New England is race" said the speak
er. Its name was not England. but New
England. The race left behind the di-
vine right Of kings to govern, the divine
duty of people to submit. They started the
new and startling principle, later enun-
ciated by a descendant of the LincolnS OF
Hougham, The government, of the people,
for the people and by the people They
left behind the notion of privileged classes,
the notion that a man is qualified to be
grandfather, or more likely, a grandmoth-
er. The race left behind it the gorgeous
ness of the ritual and inaugurated severe
simplicity in worship The Puritans did
not have an adequate idea of the aesthetic
as portrayed in the graceful cathedral, be-
cause they saw it through Jail window
state church, but it pined on New England
hills. They did not escape superstition
but their witches executed We're only nine
teen TO the 100000 put TO death in the
Christian They
brought trial by jury, the open Bible free
dom of press and speech. They brought
ence between right and wrong They
brought large common sense which looks
to the end to be achieved as greater than
the means.
New England is an idea or ideas as
well as place and race. Individualism was
a leading item in the Mayhower cargC.
Every man felt that he was on his own
feet. He was his own underwater. he
| did not look to king to furnish him a
religion, but set out for heaven on the way
he thought right, and he did not wish any
| one to take him by the shoulder and pat
| him i'm different path. The lndivfdualism
of the Puritan meant to him al personal re-
| sposibiity which called out all there was
| IN him, and evoked the tremendous achieve
ments in the subjugation OF nature Whch
have been the wonder of the world LoN =
| of liberty was a Puritan idea Its price
was not too great; tenacity OF purpose IN
| behalf of great idea II was the real
| in 1880 by Matthew Grand, showed icSelf
, eight generations later in the man who
| never yielded and triumphed at Appomat-
| fox. the man who showed the same silent
| herosm at Mount McGregor that he showed
| at Belmont. and who descended TO nus
| and the reverence of the world.
The sons of the Pilgrims have always
h tday tha Tbs nTogress is iTstrsted in the
matter of liberty. At first they wanted IL
| for. themselves, but in time their thoughts
| widaned and New England became the
| refuge of the oppressed Progress is a
| New England idea In 1855 the descendants
| OF the woman who was executed as a
| memory, and all New England said, L was
| mistaken The reformation was sincere.
| for since New England men have changed
| the method in which they treat bewitching
| females. 1t is not necessary 10 add that
| the cargo of the Mayfower was suffused
| with shrinking bashfuneSs and self-de-
| probation which has descended I'm an i'm
| creaslng ratio and eliminated In this as
| sembly.
| England i'm all of its conditions. And yet,
| wherever brave women and purN men are
moved by strong conviction 40 forsake
| luxuries, and home, ana kindred, there
| will be a newer New England. ON that
| shore in that cline, the Pilgrims of an
| other day will land from another May
| flower: they will thankfully ask the bless
| ing OF God upon "A scanty handful of
| parched corn; they will greatly declare
| more Molly Stark will wait amid tears
| of pride the news from another Benning-
| ton: mothers VIII give their sons anew 10
| the war of liberty and union; another
| Grant at the head. OF another army OF boys
| in blue shall achieve peace; another Lin
| coin, dying a martyr, shall bequeath a
| resplendent memory To a redeemed and
| regenerated nation; another Gladstone
| shall derive encoura cement for the human
| race, beholding from afar the regulated
| liberty enjoyed by his kin beyond the
| sea
| The speaker was frequently applauded
| and as he closed was greeted with a round
/ which showed that he had delighted an ap
! preciative audience
| Governor Matthews was next introduced
He received a cordial greeting. and mad.
| an address which was credit to the Stat,
| he represented. He paid an eloquent tribute
| TO New England. and in vivid langIag,
| traced its influence for good i'm the al
an effort worthy OF the occasion and IN,
| official position OF the speaker.
MIR. MILLER SPEAKS.
Ex-Attorney-generalM Miller was the mex
speaker. He spoke OF the glory of earh
New York. of which he is a son, and :
grandson of New England. He told som,
, unpalatable truths about the pilgrim
! fathers. but made amends by generous
concentrations afterward. He showed tn
| revolution, and maintained that those wis
| came TO New York from the Netherland
| had not received the credit their due IL
! giving character to that civilization which
has signalized the history OF the Republic
| Mr.. Scot Butler called upon TO speal
OF the influence OF the higher education o.
New England upon the West He showed
that the germs of higher schools. plantet
I'm Harvard and Yale had been transplanteS
with the western movement OF immigra