The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-05
ENTHUSIASM IN LONDON.
AMERICANS IN THE BRITISH CAPT.
 TAI OBSERTE THE FOURTH.

Sixty Guests at n Dinner Given by Consul General Collins-Patriotlc Address Given
 by Ambassador Bayard- Engiand's Kind.
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 London, July 4.-The dinner given nt
 the Savoy by General P. A. Collins,
 United States consul general, in cclebrG-
 tion of the Fourth, was great success.
 Sixty guests were present, thirty of
 whom were consuls. There was m elaborate menu, and the dining rooms
 were beautifully decorated with pro- fusion of stars and stripes. An orches- tra gave q varied program, American airs, however forming the chief part. After coffee General Collins made q speech, in which he thanked the guests for helping to celebrate the suspicious day. He especially addressed the men of the consular service, whom he said were before anything gentlemen whose services were far beyond the compre- hension of the bureaucracy.
 ''On this day of the days" said he, Gall speak with fullness of heart and with an over6owing love for American independence in ono voice. One note olty can be struck
 Then he gracefully introduced Min- ister Bayard as ''our chief, who comes accredited to this country stainless among stainless politicians of the United States" The band then played the Star Spangled Banner" and MT. Bayard's health was drunk standing, with a rousing "three cheers"
 Upon rising to respond the American minister, after the applause which greeted him had ceased, said:
 'I wish sincerely that I could prop erly voice all that you feel on this occa- sion. I suspect the best way is the simplest-thnt endeavor to speak as republican citizen regarding the forces which have made our countrymen q nation made such. q feast as this at all possible in the realm of the Georges in 1894 and for the republi- can principle-which is the principle of misunderstanding nation to cele- brate the 18th birthday, and which, please God, will enable it to keep its one thousandth. I pray you to con- sider the underlying principle sustain ing what has made us the interiors of more than our forefathers dreamed. The self-responsibility of the individual freemen has done this. See the dignity with which it invests each of us as citizen with right to exercise his con- science, with right to voice and vote, and I would add with a right to work and enjoy the fruits of his labors, for the hearts of men to-day can retain the spirit of '7e. The heritage will not be lost. @,sF3s-%.. 2. 'ia - r. ...
 Americans abroad have not only in- dividual rights to sustain but the na- tion's interests. As fellow citizens of we may stand and notbe ashamed. We may be utterly de- prived of rank and fortune, but be as honest and courteous as any people. Nothing in the soil from which we drew our roots prevents an Ameri- can from being simple gentleman"
 Referring to General John Hewston, whom the grand jury refused to indict for causing the death of George Bur ton, an itinerant musician, and who sat on the right of the American minister, MT. Bayard said: What has excelled he kindness and hospitality of Eng and; where has greater justice been 'ound? We, although not asking favor, with the greatest grati- ;ude the comity and justice of this great nation. This 1t is that bears us lcross the ocean to each other. Let us become rivals with Great Britain in and justice. Let us be rivals l n what elevates our nations"
 After the band had played Hail Co., ] mbia," Consul General Collins respond d to MT. Bayard's speech, saying that le was sure it expressed the feelings # American "exiles' in London. The | emainder of the evening was spent in | ocial chatting.