The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-17
BROWN MEN.
They Had a Fine Meeting in
New York.
And Whooped 1t Up for the College
On the Hill.
Addresses by Colonel Charles Warren
Addresses by Colonel Charles Warren
Lippitt and Others.
Special TO The News

NEW YORK, April Thrown men sat
down TO dinner at Delmonico's last even
ing and allowed that they were fine lot
OF fellows and hailed from fine instfs
ton. 1T was the annual occasion OF the
Brown Alumni Association OF New York.
President Francis Lawton presided and
the guests included President Andrews
and Governor-elect Charles Warren Lip
pitt.
The opening address OF the president
A. Peabody OF Harvard, President An
drews, Dean J. o. Murray of Princeton
Drown '50) and Colonel Lippitt.
Tho speakers all had an enthusiastic
audience and Rhode Islands Governor
elect, who is a graduate Of '65, received .
tremendous ovation. Colonel Lippitt
spoke in substance as follows:
Observing that he had noticed partic-
ulary In the remarks Of the speaker who
had preceded illusions to the conditions
that years ago existed between the people
Oh Massachusetts, or perhaps Harvard
College aud Brown University, and the
little State OF Rhode Island, Col. Lippitt
referred TO the drifting apart OF
Roger Williams and the people Of Massa-
chusetts. AS to which OF them pursued
the right course, leave IL for you to say"
remarked the speaker, but whatever diff
ferences may have existed between the
people OF Massachusetts, and the people
back from the course that they pursued at
the time they drifted away from Roger
Williams, and had adopted tho principles
that that great man enunciated and sue
cessfully worked out, they have been
jolly good set OF fellows. believe, not with
standing the intellectual greatness of the
people of Massachusetts, that ii took them
something like 200 years to learn the les.
son.
"The reason that Brown came to Rhode
Island was because the charter that she
could obtain from the Legislature of that
State was more broad than any charter
that could be obtained from the Legisla-
ture of any other state at that time.
Those young men who desired to study
for the Baptist ministry found great diff
Guilty in obtaining such instruction under
such auspices in any of the institutions OF
learning that then existed In America.
The principles, however, that Roger
Williams enunciated led them. at once, to
Rhode Island. In those days, ~ some
of you remember, the name OF the
college was Rhode Island College.
1t Is, however, from the principle
OF soul liberty that came from the foun-
der TO which Brown University owes her
charter. That principle is one Of the
sefa' seid Ci1 P5n'pisl like OF soms the ssSins wSia
light in the view OF eli
men. 1t has led men to higher life, as,
ages before, the Star of Bethlehem led
wise men to the Saviour OF mankind.
"The principles that Roger Williams
founded in the world is an individuality
acteristic Of her citizens. 1t was
marked in the men Of Newport, who
dwell upon the shores of Brentons Reef
and Coggeshalls ledge, men who could
not stand oppression, as was evinced
in the burning OF tho longboat
of the Maidstone, the destruction
of the armed sloop Liberty in Newport
harbor, and which constituted the first
overt act OF violence offered to the Brit.
ish authorities in America.
"The men OF Providence were not behind
the citizens of Newport. Their ships had
traversed the ocean, and had brought
strange products OF foreign lands to the
Rhode Island shores, and il was on her
shores that the first organized force was
made against oppression.
"At the beginning OF the war, at she
height OF the conflict, at the end oil the
war, Rhode Island had exerted her in
fiuence, not only within the limits OF the
State, but at distant parts OF the country.
"The sea Is as much the element OF the
Rhode Islander as the land. Perry, who
stood upon the blood stained docks OF the
Lawrence. until of the 100 men who went
into the action SO were killed or wounded,
received the surrender OF the iirst squad
ron that was ever captured from England,
and not only gained control OF the great
lakes, but in addition he secured to
America what was known a. the great
northwest.
$50 again, has Rhode Island led In tho
dark days OF 81. The first regiment to
reach Washington armed, uniformed,
equipped, furnished with ample provisions
for two weeks ahead, carrying with
them ample ammunition, ready within an
hour after reaching the capital to have
been deployed in line OF battle to attack
the enemy, was the 1st Regiment OF
Rhode Island Detached Militia with
Burnside at its head. (Applause).
"But it is not only in the lines that
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