Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-12-05


Dundee Advertiser November 18th.
Some time before the arrival of his
Excellency and party the Albert Hall, in
which the ceremony Of opening the ex-
hibition took place, was filled with
large and fashionable company Mr..
and Mrs Bayard arrived at the Insti-
tute about noon, and we're received by
the exhibition commmittee in one of
the small galleries. Thereafter the
party took their seats on the platform.
Provost Orchar, the chairman of the
fine arts committee, presided.
Provost Orchar, in introducing Mr..
4Bayard, eaid-My lords, ladies and
gentlemen, let me thank you and all
who take an interest in this Institute,
for the honor you have done me in ask
ing me to occupy the chair ON the pres
emit occasion. 1t is with peculiar pleas
ure that | have the honor Of introduce
ing to this audience His Excelency,
the Hon. Thomas f. Bayard. Though
he Is personally stranger to most of
us, his name and fame are well known
in this country as the accomplished and
most successful representative of great
national nation at one with us in
speech, and bound to us by ties which
wall never be severed. Hear, hear.
Hence, it is not only for our mutual
interests, but for the good Of the whole
world, that the friendly relations be-
tween ourselves and the United States
should be strengthened and confirmed
Those kindly feelings which, am sure
animate Mr.. Bayard towards the
mother country will, feel confident,
receive an additional stimulus through
the interesting ceremony which has
made him freeman of the City of
Dundee-a privilege which he has won
by his high character, and which, if
1t confers honor on him, also testifies
to the discrimination of those who have
bestowed it. To-day, as the youngest
burgess of Dundee, and also as a man
eminently fitted for the task, Mr..
Bayard is to deliver an address on the
occasion of the opening of another ex-
hibition OF pictures and other objects
OF art within this Institute And now,
my lords, ladies and gentlemen, as
chairman of this meeting, would not
be Justified in OBTAINING you by intro
ducing any historical or other remarks
respecting the success of previous ex-
hibitions in fostering a taste for art in
our midst because | know that our
presence here at this time is to listen
to Mr.. Bayard. Therefore, | will not
stand between ourselves and address
which, am sure, will be both interest
ing and instructive, and will now beg
leave to ask the Hon. Mr.. Bayard, our
youngest burgess, to declare this ex-
hibition open. Applause.
THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
Mr. Bayard was loudly applauded on
rising, to speak, He said-Mr. Orchar,
ladies and gentlemen, the very pleas
4 ing duty has been assigned to me to
= open this exhibition of the fine arts in
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proper for me to say that | have been
within the last few minutes the recipi-
emit of an honor which may bring me
closer into your counsels, and that as
part of the freedom of this beautiful
city | have the freedom of speech.
Laughter We stand now, ladies and
gentlemen, in the house of art But
there is something even more import
ant than this structure. There is
something more important than the
house, and that is ths home. You may
build houses and not have homes. Art
may have house. but the home OF art
should be in the hearts of the people.
Applause. The nature of man is
very composite, The imagination is
held by many to be avery unimportant
side. Indeed, by many il is held rather
10 high scorn. But, believe me, the men
or the people whose imagination has
not been cultivated are sadly imperfect.
They term tho useful arts, the me-
chanic arts the polite arts as though
they were distinct. In one sense they
have each their department-in another
and broader sense they are one. think
upon close examination it will be found
that you cannot instruct any one faculty
OF the human mind or of the human
body in healthful occupation without
fitNrR al ..,A Il
you cannot have dead sense or dead
power without its paralyzing influence
extending to those other parts, which
are only parts OF our common nature.
lApplause. Thus, let me say, must |
not the very facility of manipulation
the
MERE MECHANICAL FACILITY
that handles a chisel or hammer
or paint brush or pen-must it not
increase in its powers, and is it not |
necessary where art and tho pleasures
of the mind and the pleasures of the |
imagination are to grow and to blend |
their fragrance lin our lives? APP |
plause. | do not think that dexterity |
in any manual occupation can fail to be |
ael lsted by the education of the mans |
ip gination. Let me ask you to con-
81 lr for moment the effect of that |
n lie branch of art, which is at once |
VI hui and polite and fine-architec-
ture. What would architecture be |
without accuracy? How can accuracy |
be obtained without manual dexterty-
without physical education? There the |
composite nature of man shows itsalf, |
and the skill of the mechanic expands |
into the dream of the architect, and the |
architect becomes the daily food of de-
\ light to man, teaching them respect for
all the higher qualities Of our nature. |
Nothing has affected more since came |
into these islands than the abbeys, the |
cathedrals, either deserted or occupied, |
of Great Britain. Applause. And |
yet, il we were. asked what was the |
lesson that they teach, and what was
the highest lesson that they teach, it |
would be that there are times in life, |
there are parts of our nature, when |
utility is not to be- the governing |
thought. Hear, hear. have felt
that when in the presence of these
majestic buildings, consecrated by cen
turtles of history and of dedication TO |
the worship of Almighty God, have |
felt that the whole trend of utility was
one of the causes of their ennoblement. |
A countryman of mine, whose name |
may be known to you Emerson Ap- |
plause spoke OF the abbeys OF Eng |
land
Der England's abbeys bends the sky,
As OH its friends, with kindred eve;
For. out OF Thoughts interior sphere
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