New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-23
PATRIOTIC MEMORIES REVIVED.



SOCIETY. 5. a. r.. IN WATERBURY,
Waterbury. Conn., Feb. 22.-The seventh annual
gathering of the Connecticut Society, Sons OF the
American Revolution, held in this city to-day was
The larges. meeting the Connecticut Society mas
over held The guests as they arrived were con-
Quoted to the Waterbury Club. which was useu as
headouarters There they were entertained until
they went TO the City Hall. at go o'clock p M LOT
dinner.
General s. W. kellogg, of Waterbury, was toast
master He delivered his own address at 2:5o o cloch
and shortly afterward began the Introduction OF
the speakers in a felicitous manner Jonathan rum
buu of Norwich president OF the State society
made an address THE Connecticut Society .. "A
r" H. Fenn of Winsted. Justice or the CON
nect.cut Supreme Court. spoke on 'Litchheid Couh-
~ in the American Revolution The address OF
Walter S Logan, of Newly orK, was On ii'e % "a
r. in New-York"
Professor Alorzo Williams, of Brown University,
spoke on Rhode Island in the American ReVoiu-
ton" He said there were eleven reasons why Rhooe
Island was pre-eminent. She was the hrst 10 ue-
clare against the Stamp act, the ilrst 10 support
the resolutions of the Virginia Burgesses' the nls'
10 brave royalty by sinking the ship Liberty the
first to spill blood Providence was the hrst town
meeting to recommend the establishment of Con-
tinental Congress; Admiral Whipple. OF Rhode 1871
and, fired the first gun in the heVoluuoh' Hhoue
Island the first TO recommend the CONTINENTAL
Navy: she was the 1nOtnel OF tlIe <fii4'H"i IO"''
system; she was the first to declare her ndepend-
ence: no colony furnished more men In proportion
TO its size: she furnished more money also On the
basis of her population a. nj
John Addison Porter. of Hartford, mace "A i1ea
for Old Put" lie said in part: putnam was III,
pioneer patriot of all NewEngland, the essence OF
Yankee shrewdness and inVincible pluck indeiau-
gable intense. sublime in his attn that freedom
would finally be and sure that the cause IN
which he enlisted was the best thing an amer
can of that day could live for. and, II nocd pe uIe
for And yet Israel Putnam has MS critc5 3 an; ano
sneerers and dcfamers just as washington had JUST
as Lincoln had, just as Grant had just as to-day
few silly snObs are vilfying the record or Dig-
hearted big-brained. useful Ben Franklin, because
forsoOth, as young man he worked at the
case. A snarling yeping pack of human hyenas'
iackals and wolves call them, ready under pre-
truth, to circulate caumny, and willing, II need
be- TO fay alive their own ancestors in order 10
demonstrate their alleged keenness. Putnam gave
all he had to humanity. to justice and 10 liberty
He lived not for himself. but for others. He fought
not for gain, but for glory
Senator O. II Platt. Of Merden delivered an adj
dress on THE Continental Congress" Congressman
n D. Spery. Of the Id District spoke on The
Congress Of the United States" Lynde Harrison.
OF New-Haven spoke on "Washngton's Farewell
Address" Colonel n. G. Osborn. Of New Haven,
took for his topic THE Women Of the American
Revolution and Their Daughters To-day"