New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-13
TO THE GREAT DISCOVERER
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behold this splendid work Of art. 1t is well tina,
| pathway. with the rolling centuries will come as
pilgrims to shrine the myrads OF all lands to be-
ment Of the gratitude Of great city OF great
Nation. Q-ong and continued applause)
Mayor Gilroy. after the unwilling of the
statue. advanced to the front OF the platform and
accepted the work Of art on behalf Of the city.
Cornelius Vanderbilt here read the following
letter from the Duke Of Veragua:
Madrid. April 6. 1884,
yelling OF the statue Of Columbus. | beg you to
TG2 so1 my cordial greeting TO- the city Of New
ciated In order to pay new tribute Of respect TO
not to be able to assist personally in that ceremo-
MAI but wish to state at this moment my grateful
ness to America which the distance that separates
me from your wonderful country cannot make mo
forget.
You have Just erected the work OF art of the
sculptor Sunol. who has better represented In
marble the inspired features OF the man whose
OF the then known world Spain prides herself upon
Allow Allow me 70 thank you both as descendant OF
Columbus h and as spanard Also dear s,o General raj
have taken Ii the matter, which has so greatly
contributed to It's success
The Duchess sends you her kndest regards. Be-
DUKE OF vERAGUA.
He also read letter from Governor Flower
expressing regret that he could not be present
at the unwilling of the statute; also letter
from the venerable Robert c. Winthrop. the an
niversary Of whose birth was yesterday.
Then Mrs. Julia Ward Howe read a poem en-
titled "A Mariners Dream"
MIR. DEPEw's GRAFTON.
After an address by sehor Don Muruaga.
Minister from Spain. Chauncey NJ. Depew was
introduced and delivered the Grafton follows:
New-York can add nothing to the glory OF CO.
umbus. but she may enforce the Lesson OF his life
and discovery. The fire klnded by him n little
island Of the Western Hemisphere amid the dark
ness OF the fifteenth century. has become the flame
which illumnes the nineteenth with Hight and lib
erty. Seed time and harvest have their soil and
seasons with humanity as with the earth. In all
ages and among all the winds and the
have borne the kernels OF TRUTH and they have been
lost on the rocks and In the waters. There
patriots before Runnymede. but their blood fer
tilted that fed for Magma Charta. Patriots had
labored and died In vain before the Declaration OF
independence in l716. German federation had been
a Tcutonic dream for 200 years before Bismarck.
Italian unity was the hope OF Italy for centuries
before Garibidi. Mazzinl and CavOur. The French
Republic was the effort and aspiration OF the best
thinkers and bodest actors OF France for hundred
years before Theirs and Gambetta. The viking
sailed along the Of North America and painted
But the time not ripe. and the people OF
Europe were not prepared for America and its op
portunities.
The brilliant and liberal reign OF Lorenzo the
Magnificent. at Florence. which closed Columbus
sailed from Paos had stimulated commerce. art
and learning II had both awakened and opened
the mind in every country the continent. The
literary treasures Of the great library Of the Nat-
can were placed the disposal OF scholars. AMI the
revival OF learning was marked feature OF
the period The expulsion Of the Mosems from
Spain had relieved Europe Of the strain OF war
ring creels Intense intellectual ACTIVITY was break
Ing the bonds oi The Middle Ages' ana preparing
the way for independent thought ani discovery;
The statcsmanship and the guile 81 Louis ~
~ france NM - 'oI',, ~. -, IS
feudasm and centralized authority. The road from
palace ani from the royal palace 10 the repre-
sentative assembly OF the pcope. became the
lutonlry events ~cre for a time me biesslns'
ony OF the favoFtl few. the great and the learned
GIFTS FROM LowLY PEOPLE.
II WAS reserved not for kings mobiles or the
mighty OF earth to utilize the past and prescnt for
the uplifting Of the masses OF mankind. We may
say revercntly. Christianity came for ms through
the Of a carpenter. 80 the Invention which
opened the way for Chris,ianz!ng the word was
The significance % types and The prophecy u their
as their first work The printing press OF Gu;ea-
berg and the invention % paper. which had pre-
within the reach Of all. they elevated the people
To the undermining and practice OF liberty. and
equal opportunity and rights battered down pri'i-
dcnces and 10 others trialng accidents. have often
altered the course Of history The marriage Of lsa-
bella with Ferdinand enabled liberal ana gen,t-
Gus mind 10 influence blgOted and mlsery one Tor
the venture certainly rash; perhaps hii9spnemous'
age Of Columbus. hungry boy stopped MS PROUD
and ndcant father AZ the door ~ the convent 81
4 tb. in he rg1u ~ no
tho enlightened. and learned Father Juan Pcrega.
the confessor Of the Queen. he only man living
understand and believe in the plans OF the great
navigator, and also the confidence OF Ter Majesty
the Santa Maria and her consorts and gave south
America to spain ana ronsa ana n, ss racc
Thus the United States. distinguished from the
snanlsh Republics and the Portuguese Empire and
Subsequent Republic OF Brazil. is apparently an
accident Of an accident II - really the result ~
rllmate and conditions suited the development ~
hat rcsstless strain In the blood which circles the
globe with IT'S conquests. and blended with Teuton
the power and the promise OF our country.
FERDINAND A TYPE OF HIs TINES
Ferdinand was a typical representative Of his
times We must Judge the men OF every period by
their standards. not ours. Only fools are onenied
At criticisms Of the State or Church OF the dark
ages and only the ignorant claim that either was
so abreast with the thought or education OF to-day
that their substitution for present conditions would
receive now either welcome hospitality. Gap
plause) The King believed the torture chamber
better than courts OF justice. He knew OF no law
which superior TO his autocratlc Will lie was
frugal 10 and devoid or generosity or In
tegrlty He laughed at Columbus when the great
navigator pleading for the ships to ind for him
an empire and he cheated the dying hero OF the re-
wards ne promised and the honors no had pledged
when the empire was won. To Isabella mad been
waited across space breath Of the purer air OF
the nineteenth century. When We consider what
.he was In spite OF the almost insuferabe bar
-ers Of her environment. sweet and mighty spirit
seems 10 escaped from the bondage OF the age.
and in the beautiful presence Of the Queen inspired
he soul OF a saint and prophecies. She gave her |
levels for the feet and with undlmmed faith waited
or the return which ended In trumphal PROFESSIONS
md royal greetings. She struck the shackes from |
the Indian slaves which were brought her as part |