The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-23
Bay State and
So. Carolina.
FORE FATHERS DAY
The Subject of Senator
Hears Great Speech.

Charleston, S. c., Dec. 22.-The 10Th
annual banquet of the New England
Society was given at the Charleston
hoTel here tonight.
The leading speakers of the evening
We're Senator George r. Hoar of Mas
sachusetts, who responded to Fore
fathers Day; Senator John L. Nc
Laurin Of South Carolina, who respond
to Our Country" and Joseph B.
Cumming of Georgia, who responded
to the "Mayflower.
The banquet was an elaborate and
brilliant function, and there were seated
at the tables 100 guests. Senator Hoar S
address was largely of an historical ma
ture, and touched but lightly upon the
issues Of the present day. The senator
said:
| need not assure this brilliant COM
pany how deeply l am impressed by the
significance of this occasion. am not
vain enough to find in it anything of
personal compliment. I like better to
believe that the ties of common his
tory, of common faith, of common
citizenship and inseparable destiny
are drawing our two sister states to-
gether again.
If cordial friendship, if warm affec-
ton (to use no stronger term) can new
er exist between two communities, they
should exist between Massachusetts
and South Carolina. They We're both
Of the 'Old Thirteen" They were
alike in the circumstances of their or
igin. Both were settled by those no.
Ii Of
liberty across the sea, when liberty was
without other refuge on the face of the
earth.
The English Pilgrims and Pu-itans
founded Massachusetts, to be followed
soon after by the Huguenot extles who
fed from the tyranny of King Louis
", after the revocation Of the edict OF
Nantes Scotch Presbyterianism
founded Carolina, to be followed soon
after by the French eXiles fleeing from
the same oppression. Everywhere in
New Bnglandnre traces Of the footsteps
OF this gentle, delightful and chivalrous
race
All over our six states, to-day, many
an honored grave, many aoslirrlng ira
dition bear witness to the kinship be-
tween our early settlers and the set
tiers of South Carolina. Faneuil Hall,
in Boston. which we love to call the
Cradle of Liberty, attests the munltl-
cence and bears the name of an illus
trious Huguenot.
These French exiles lent their grace
and romance to our history also. Their
settlements were like clusters of mag
nolias in some warm valleys in our
bleak New England.
We are, all Of us, in Massachusetts,
reading again the story of the voyage
of the Mayflower written by William
Bradford. AS you have heard, that pre-
cious manuscript has lately been re-
stored to us by the kindness OF his
grace, the lord bishop of London 1t is,
in the eyes of the children of the Pill
e.rins the most precious manuscript on
earth If there be anything to match
the pathos of that terrible voyage, II IS
found in the story of Judith Manigault,
the French Huguenot exile, of her nine
months voyage from England to South
Carolina. Her name, / am told, has been
hanored here in every generation since,
If there be a single lesson which the
neonle of this country have learned
from their wonderful and crowded his
tory. it is that the north and south are
INDISPENSABLE to each other They are
the blades Of mighty shears, worthless
apart but when bound by an indisolu-
HE Union. powerful, Irresistible, and
terrible as the shears of Fate; like the
shears of Atropos, severing every
thread and tangled web of evil, cutting
ont for humanity it's beautiful garment
of liberty and light from the cloth her
sisters spin and weave.
7 always delight to think, as l. know
the people of South Carolina delight to
think of these states of ours, not as
mere aggregations of individuals, but
as beautiful personalities, moral beings,
endowed with moral characters, capable
of faith, of hope, of memory, of pride,
or sorrow and of joy, of courage, OF
herojsm, of honor. and of shame. Ger
tainly this is true of them Their power
and glory, their rightful place in his
tory depends on these things, and not
en- the numbers or extent of territory.
d IL this that justilies the arrange
u1ent of the constitution of the United
States for equal representation of states
in the upper legislative chamber, and
explains its admirable success.
The separate entity and the absolute
freedom, except for the necessary re
straints of the Constitution, of our diff
ferent states is the cause alike of the
greatness and the security OF the eoun-
try. r,. 1,ra
land Rome, Athens, Massachusetts,
south Carolina, Virginia, America, con-
yev to your mind a distinct ard indi-
yidual meaning, and suggests an image
If distinct moral quality and moral
haIng
ington, wellington, or Napoleon.
believe it is, and l thank God
believe it is, something much higher
Than the average of the qualities of the
men who make it up. We think OF
Switzerland as something better thar
the Individual SWISS and OF France as
something better than the individual
Frenchman, and of America as some
thing better than the individual
American In great and heroic indiyid-
nal actions we often seem to feel thai
If is the country, Of which the man Is
buf the instrument, that gives express
sion to its quality in doing the deed.
It was Switzerland who gathered int
her breast at Sempach, the sheaf o.
fatal Austrian spears. 1t was the hered
itarv spirit of New England that gave
the word of command by the voice O
B1lttrick, at Concord, and was in the
bosom of Parker at Lexington. 1t was
south Carolina whose lightning stroke
snote the invader oy the arm of Mar
ion and whose wisdom guided the fra
mers of the constitution through thu
lips of Rutledge, and Gadsden, anS
Pinczney.
The citizen on great occasions knows
and obeys the voice Of his country a