The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-22
NEW FNGLANDSS SONS DINE.
COZ. BLACK IGNORES mrs TOAST AND
TALKS OF MAINE.

Weuer At the Banquet in the Pouch Raan-
sion in Br~ookiyn-Bsnaust In WILLIAMSBURG.
The New England Society Of Brooklyn dined
at the Pouch Mansion. in Clinton avenue, last
evening, in celebration Of tho 277th annivor-
sary Of tho landing Of the Pilgrims. 1t was the
eighteenth annual dinner of the society. Mem
bers were privileged TO invite women 10 this
banquet, and there was q very largo proportion
of the fair sex at the tables. Gov. Frank 8. Black
was in the scat Of honor. and he made the chief
speech Of tho evening. He went a considerable
distance from the subject OF his toast, frankly
ayowing that he declined on this occasion to
speak for New York, and barking back to the
New England State OF his birth. Maine. He was
received with applause when he arose to speak,
and there was moro handclapping when ho
finished. st. Clair McKelway. who followed
Gov. Black among the speakers and was intro
duced rs Brooklyn's Instructor in oil things.
drew attention TO the Governors studious
avoidance of his text as an excuse for doing
some wandering himself.
Tho banquetters began their repast after
grace had been said by tho Rev. l. Mason
Clarke. formerly of Syracuse, N. Y, the latest
acquisition to Brooklyn's ministerial company.
At the table Of tho President of the society,
Thomas S. Moore, were Gov. Black, M. +. Nc
Goldrlck, President of tho st. Patrick Society;
Tunis g. Bergen. President Of the St. Nicholas
SOC1eLy, austin -. It lttChCL, NlCOtI OoAuohb ok
tho New England Society of New York; George
w. smalley, Senator Joseph r. Hawley, st.
Clair McKolway. and Justice Willard Bartlett.
Rufus l.. Scott, Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Du Val, Prof.
and Mrs. ]. b. Clark, DIR. and Mrs. Truman j.
Backus. Mr.. and Mrs. John Ditmars, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ethan Allen Doty, Edward NJ. Shepard,
William n. Dykman, Gen. aud Mrs. A. G.
Barnes, Judge and Mrs. w. w. Goodrich, Judge
and Mrs. E. w. Hatch, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Berri. .....
The toasts, after I" The President Of the United
States,' were The State of New York" to
which Gov. Black responded. although no de-
clarcd that he was speaking this time for tho
State of Maine; The Day We Celebrate
Puritan and Dutchman,'" to which Mr.. Nc
Kelway responded; The Plain People" for
whom Senator HHwley,, spoke up loud. and
New and Old England" TO which Mr.. Smalley
answered.
President Moore of the society delivered an
address. Gov. Blacks speech was as follows:
MIR. CHAIRMAN. LADIES M GENTLEMEN:
The strongest influence in the world is recollec-
lives are shaped by ali those motives that enter
the complex product of existence: There Is moth
or the other, up or down. IL we pursue a course
Intended to be straight ahead it will move a little
S %hii e, t ins' e S%SsSp not sn de ieSiaf have s, stiii m MOI
the course of the dominating spirit that marked
It out; Everything in the universe. they say,
feels the existence OF every other, and to some
will continue. though its source may be. in.
visible. The rock may be far under ground. but
There h is no freedom which does not bow to its
finite power can say its dominion is complete.
The pnny circle Of our own affairs repeats the
s aiMa 70 y Tstih G eEseS B BSW smb IL Grs aiseoar %Ssi
by need. strengthened by affection. but always
c Slpaeh .nG men mar go stumbling amb5iiihsson from M t their last
achievement poorly done. to the next to be still
tho upit Ia nearly Inst Rut in all this confusion
there is with every man some influence which he
knows to be the strongest. and If you follow him
60 SO slowly that perhaps you may believe he
is reluctant. 1t is not reluctance. but only
which he never shares: And when he uncoyers
it in solitude, perhaps in tears, you will see it is
dust Of many years. Bat is is the rock to which
hc has chung in storms. 1t is the anchor which
which has steadied him in defeat and ennobled
him IN, the hour OF Triumph:
are themselves made stronger by it. By, SO
much rs their lives are governed by 1t. by that
because 1 1 think I see in the New England people
this emotion in its fullest strength, that I
shlways, pay Ns ANY E homase Is to q t the Se c=~u EnElani I'd
winters are too cold and its summers are too
warm; its grudging soil yields only to the
its splendid history those characters whose
whose .renown is the possession OF, mankind:
There is no place which has not felt the tread of
has not felt his hand. In conflict he has stood
always with the foremost and in peace with
s eaTea m2 has tSFsn ' him or whst ! news e,s alliances TilhiaSaRg
his fortune has joined him in. there has always
been with him the benign and sS3Pee Pei indu.
atty the world would fall apart. Whenever it
leaves the human character. that very instant.
loyalty is but affection. and affection feeds with
never-satis6ed desire upon the recollections of
You asked me to speak for the State of New
York. but l decline. l claim tho right, in def
SPEAK this once for the State Of Maine. Tides
will rise and fall by an influence whose source
Now England 1 make theGrateful acknowledge.
ment that my tides have ebbcd and flowed
through influences which though remote have
"In the few words | have spoken it may seem
as. though the thought of women did not enter;
but those women who are present i know will
understand that in some member OF their scx
has often conferred those recollections. which.
s sf 1Sa Morl Sy years. have been tho mainSpFinsS
'Mr. McKclway in making a local reference
lectures on Paul. confessed to tic thought, for
might we'll conduct tho Ereninp. Post and
somewhat improys the Meig York Times
no characteriHation cfthc DatehmSn as a being
who smoked himself into g condition q animal
which spread across. "our two inferior
boroughs" and extended up both sides OF
tho Hudson River and through the Mohawk
Valley. He figured the intimate Relationship
Of Dutch and uritans In a reference to
feet on Plymouth Rock The Dutch stood for
selldity. ne said. the Puritans for push. The
Dutch were conservative; tho Puritan. being a
man. thought the business of no other man In
different 70 himself. Adyerting to the European
Kelway said: The Puritan is the Dutchman
Of the isles; the Dutehmen, Is tho Puritan Of the
the Holy Church to the Holy Scriptures"
Puritans and Dutch stood for home, rnle
They established churches and schools and kept
tho two parallel yet apart, cotCmporaneou
but distinct. Tho Puritans Thought that they