The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-23


war cry. They crossed the Atlantic in
midwinter when
Winds blew and waters rolled
Strength to the brave, and power and
Diety.
They learned in that school little of
the grace or the luxury of life But
they learned how to build states and
how to fight tyrants.
I They would have found much, these
two sisters, to talk about of later
time. South Carolina would have talked
of her boy Christopher Gadsden, who
George Bancroft said, was like noun
i tain torrent dashing on an oyer-shot
wheel. And Massachusetts would try
to trump the trick with James Otis
that flame of fire, who said he seemed
to hear the prophetic song OF the Sybil
chanting the springtime of the new
empire
They might dispute a little as tc
which of these two sons of theirs was
the greater. / do not know how that
dispute could be settled. unless by
Otis own opinion. He said that Mas
Sachusetts sounded the trumpet. But
1t was owing to South Carolina that it
was assented to. Had it not been for
South Carolina, no congress would
have been appointed. She was all
alive, and felt at every pore" So per-
haps we will accept the verdict of the
Massachusetts historian, George Ban
croft. He said that, when we count
those who above all others contributed
to the great result of the union, we are
to name the inspired mailman James
Otis. and the unwavering lover of his
country Christopher Gadsden."
1t is the same Massachusetts histor-
ian, George Bancroft, who says that
''the public men of South Carolina were
ever ruled by their sense of honor, and
felt a stain upon it as a wound"
did you ever hear how those wick
ed boys Of mine threw the tea into the
harbor?" Massachusetts would say.
"Oh, yes South Carolina would an
swer but not one of mine was willing
to touch it. So we let it all perish in
cellar
Certainly these two states liked each
other pretty well. when Josiah Quincy
came down here in 1878 to see Rutledge
and Pinkney and Gadsden, to concert
plains for the coming rebellion. King
George never interfered very much
with YOU. But you could not stand the
Boston port bill any more than we
could.
There is one thing in which Massa-
chusetts must yield the palm, and that
is the courage to face an earthquake,
that terrible ordeal in the face of which
the bravest manhood goes to pieces,
and which your people met a few years
ago with a courage and steadfastness
which commanded the admiration OF
all mankind.
II this company had gathered on this
spot one hundred and twenty years ago
tonight the toast would have been that
which no gathering at Charleston in
those days failed to drink-"The unan-
iInous twenty-six who would not re-
scind the Massachusetts circular"
"The royal governor of South Caro-
lima had invited its assembly to treat
the letters of the Massachusetts with
the contempt they deserved commit
tee composed of Parsons, Gadsen,
Pinkney, Lloyd, Lynch, Laurens, Rut-
ledge, Elliot and Dart, reported them
to be founded upon undeniable consti-
tutional principles and the house, sit
ting with it's doors locked, unanimously
directed it's speaker to signify to that
province its entire appreciation. The
governor, that same evening, dissolved
the assembly by beat of drums"
Mr.. Winthrop compared the death of
Calhoun to the plotting out of the con-
stellation of the southern cross from
the sky.
Mr.. Calhoun was educated at Yale
College, in New England, where Presi-
dent Dwight predicted his future great
ness in his boyhood. 1t is one of the
pleasant traditions of my own family
that he was a constant and favorite
guest in the house of my grandmother,
in my mothers childhood, and fosmed
friendship with her family which he
never forgot. 1t is delightful also to
remember on this occasion that Mr..
Lamar, that most southern man of
southern men, whose tribute to Mr. Cal
in - q ms Ct or
pieces of historical literature, paid a
discriminating and most affectionate
tribute also to Charles Summer at the
time of his death.
In this matchless eulogy Mr.. Lamar
disclaims any purpose to honor Mr.
Sumner because of his high culture,
his eminent scholarship or varied
| learning, but he declares his admira-
ton for him because Of his high moral
qualities and his unquenchable love
Of liberty. Mr.. Lamar adds: MY re-
greet is that I did not obey the impulse
often found upon me to go to him and
offer him my hand and my heart with
| it."
Mr.. Lamar closes this masterpiece
of eulogistic oratory with this signifi-
cant sentence: Would that the spirit
of the illustrious dead whom we honor
today could speak to both parties in
throughout this broad territory-'My
countrymen, know one another and you
will love one another
There is another memorable declara-
ton of Mr.. Lamar, whom I am proud
to have counted among my friends. In
his GRAFTON at the unwilling of the
statue of Calhoun, at Charleston he
said that the appeal to arms had lied
to the indissolubility of the American
Union, and the universally of Ameri-
can freedom"
Now, can we not learn lesson also
from this most significant fact that
| this great southern statesman and ora
tor was alike the eulogist of Calhoun
and the eulogist of Sumner?
| For myself I believe that whatever
arrangements may have existed in the
past, or may linger among us now are
born of ignorance and will be dispelled
| by knowledge. / believe that of oul
IS states there are no two who, if they
could meet in the familiarity of per-
sonal intercourse, in the fullness OF
| personal knowledge, would not only
cease to entertain any bitterness OF
alienation, or distrust, but each would
| utter to the other the words of the
Jewish daughter in that most exquisite
Of idylls which has come down to us
almost from the beginning of time
Entreat me not to leave thee, or ic
return from following after thee; fol-
whittier thou goest I will go; ant
where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy
people shall be my people, and thy Goo
my God.
Where thou diest will I die, ant
there will be buried; the Lord do 81
to me, and more also, II aught but
death part me and thee
Mr.. President, I repeat tonight OF
southern soil what / said first in my
place in the Senate, and what I re.
| peated in Faneuil hall, with the full
depreciation of an enthusiastic anc
crowded audience, representing the cul
ture and the Puritanism of Massachu
sets.
| The American people have learned IL