The times., 1897-12-23
Congregational, Club Commeme'
rates Their Deeds.
s F3-1
DIR. DEPEW "A SPEAKER
He Says the Mission eOf the Cnited
States i'll the Twentfefh Century
Should Be Others Glorify
the New England SettIers-A Dis
tinguished Gathering.


ber of 200, attended.
Only one spirit inbued tie assemblage
and that was the dual spirit of thanks
giving and praise, which was chara cteristic
OF the ri, New England settlers
Chaunccy NJ. Depew, who came on from
New York for the occa sion. Hon. Webster
Davis, Assistant Secretary OF the Interior;
Rev. Isaak Clark, ID. D., president OF he
Congree3 tional Club, and Rev. Wallace
Wallace Radcliffe, ID. D., pastor of the
New York Venue Presbyterian Churcii,
sang the glory OF the Pilgrim.
The hour set for the dinner was
O'Clock, but it was before the guests
took their seats at the Ia bles in the large
Sunda y-school room on the second floor
of the edifice The tables were arranged
in gridircn, four OF, them being placed
parallel to the one occupied by the speak
ers on the platform, and two being placed
perpendic ular To these on the ends. The
rear OF the room was tastefully SET with
pntted palms and the front was eniiv'n ID
and given q holiday aspect by several
banknGs of holly.
The guests of the evening and the pre-
siding officer, DR.. CLARK, occupied seats
at the table ON the platform. Chauncey
Depew occupied the seat OF honor OH the
right, arriving at O'Clock. Mrs. WalIa e
Radcliffe and Secretary Davis sat On the
right OF br. repew and on the left end
were II Radcliffe and j. Z. Rankin,
d. D., LIZ D., president Of Howard Uni
versitv. ard MIS-. Rankin. I've hours Were
spent ia the enjoyment of the excellent
menu of New England delicacies.
oil I,ein ~ y tt,..
arrived and took his seat beside DR.. Clark
He was heartily applaUded.
DR.. Clark then briefly explained the
reason why DR.. Depew WIS present.
He said that Dr. Depew W ii MI Justices Brown
and Brewer, of the hefSupreme Court, were
graduates OF the same class at Yale, aud
and that Mr.. DeRew consented to be
present at the invitation OF himself.
DR.. Ci;.rk in relating several anecdotes
Of his college life and the famous class,
said: Il recall the fact that there was ono
among the number WHOSE especial pride
and boast was that he was Huguenot, ,l.id
that he was a Hunker Democrat. The old
line Democracy had disa ppeared, and
Richard Croker, the modern monar IL
If the party. holds the Seepter OF power
In New York, and ruy friend. the IIunker.
is Republican. and heid high in ,he
estimation OF his party
DR.. ClarE then introduced Dr.. Depew rs
that man who was once that youth.
DR.. Depew arose and retaliated upon DR..
Clark with bis customary flow OF wit. Il
recall the days very vfvIdly when DR..
Clark, or Ike as we called him, and my
self were at college, he said. When
ever Ike was called up for recit alton
he always gave just such an explanation
as he gave about me few uiomeuus
ago. He then Went on aud recite1 In much
the same way. That class Eas one of
which i an very proud, for In IL were
Ike and Justices Brown and Bre ver, both
Yankees. To have two OF our number
made II emhers OF the highest tribunal in
the land max es US just two-ninths of ali
there is Of this country"
Continuing. DR. Depew spoke as follows
That | should leave New York late this
afternoon ana travel OBS miles to dine
with You seems II intensity the charge SO
often made against me that [ will ira vel
any distance for n dinner. But the fact
that the dinner is the frugal fare Of the
Puritans also proves that l am not par
ticular about dinner.
Nothing better illustrates the policy
of our country and the difference between
forefdthers' day and our own than tns
trip. busy man OF affairs, l left New
York at tie close OF business hours, tim i'll
Washington in time for this celebra ion,
having prepared my speech on the .ouie,
and sleeping comfortably on the car, will
be at my office again before business hours
in the morning.
Ny ancestry having arrived in this
country among the early settlers, on the
one side in New York, the other side
in New England, and having fallen in love
and married in the oId-fashioned way,
without regard to race or creed. 1 can
claim q membership OF nearly every Jne
of the national societies.
For real, solid. unmistakable and hon
est claiming of fallthatthereisin thiscountry,
and much that there is in the world of which
the nine teen tn century can boast and the
twen tieth century hope for, the Yankee
takes the palm Yet no student of A meri
can history and no American can fail to ac-
cord t. the fOrefathers nearly everything
which their descendants claim for them.
The Homeric epic, the immortal poem of
Virgil and the Niebelung Lied have
interested and inspired all the ages, but
the pie story of the Pilgrim Fathers
lea wing theiI conifor IA bic homes and SETTLING
in an inhospita bic wilderness for the IriSi
lege of enjC wing the benefits of civ IL and
religious liberty. is n0bler, higher and more
impressive than all the. deeds of all the con
querors in the epics of%the rast.
''We draw the line between the Pilgrim
and the Puritan. The Pilgrims learned
valuable lessons during their eleven years
in Holland. Dutch hospitality, the open
doors of tie Dutch university, the benefi.
cence of universal education, nd the bene-
fits of religious tolerance, made upon them
an indeiible impression, The forty fami-
lies who, il the cabin of the Mayflower,
signed the ilnnortal charter, first IN the
history Of our race of the equality of all
men before the law, did more FOR liberty, |
for the upbuiiding of these United States, |
than the 10000 PFritals who came after |
them.
1.-The Puritan foFefathers, imbued with
the spirit Of the Old Testament, were very |
different persons. For venty years |
they would not permit lawyer in their |
colonies, which, perhaps, was not an |
evil: butt clergy wanted tomake |
and execute the laws They created |
a theOcratic government They believed I
In liberty but only for those who agreed |
with them. They believed in free speech, |
but only fer those wh) preached from their |
texts. They treated summarily the mug
wumps 3f their day. They flogged then /
and bored their cars. TIN mugwumps W ,re I
the Quake s, whom they punished, and the !
whcln they expelled. The |
leader of Independent thought and fnde-
pendent action in the church, which wds
then the political party, was Roger Viii
iams. He found that there was no place