Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-12-23
new ENGLANDEKS
Meet at Gath Annual Bar
quet at New York.
Ringing Rebukes Delivered to tie
So-CaIIed Anti-|mperiaIists.
message from the Dead Lawton Which Should
Everywhere Be Read.

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in the banquet hall of the Waldorf, to-
night, the occasion being the cath an
nual festival of the New England So
ciety of New York. The seats of the
New England states and the standards
We're placed behind the table of the
guests of honor. In the center was the
seal of the United States.
The toasts were: THE President of
the United States" "Forefather's Day. .
Prof. w. F. Terrett of Hamilton Col
,eSe; Our Reunited Country" Prof
w. G.. McCabe of Richmond. Va: THE
Army Col. c. II. Woodruff L. S. A.
THE New Englander and the Land, -
Augustus Thomas; The Old Common
wealth." Gov. Roger Wolcott of Mass
achusetts: The New Pacific" Hon.
John Barrett
Former Judge Rowland said in part:
The gallant officers who stood upon
the firing line in Cuba and the Philip
pines have shed new glory on the
, American army and none more illus
triously than that splendid soldier,
Maj. Gen. Henry w. Lawton, who after
80 years of service in two wars, re-
ceived the soldiers summons on the
field of battle.
| The record of the American navy
| from the days Of Paul Jones to those
of Dewey and Sampson is unsurpassed
in the history of the world. Remem-
! bcring this country's glorious past, its
| happy, peaceful present-for it is the
| happiest land the sun ever shone upon
and the suspicious omens for the
| bright opening future. | ask you to
pledge with me its representative head.
| the der-in-chef of its army
| and navy, the President of the United
States
| This was the occasion of n demon
stration on the part Of the banqueters
and the women in the balcony. Tho
toast to the President was drunk
standing. while the orchestra played
The Star Spangled Banner"
| Continuing. Judge Rowland said:
| I'm the past year, when the friendship
| between the mother country and this
/ has been SO strongly cemcnted, | wish
| to say that in her hour Of trouble it
would be we'll to drink to that emil
nent woman. the Queen of England
ana the Empress of India"
TO the air God Save the Queen" the
| toast was drunk.
Prof. VIM. r. Terrctt of Hamilton
| College, responded to the toast Fore
fathers day" Col. George w. Nc
| Cahc responded to the toast "Our Re
united Country" He spoke in part az
| follows: Il believe that this Spanish
| war has definitely brought about two
results: one. and the paramount one.
| the thorough confidence now repOsed
! by the West and North in the patriot
! ish of the South: the other. the tighten
ing of the blood tie between our young
Western giant and that grand old
mOtherland beyond the seas"
Col. McCabes address was re-deliv-
cred with the greatest enthusiasm.
Col. Chas. Woodruff, L. s. A.. re-
| srGnded to the toast: The Army"
| He paid Il high tribute to the men who
won the battle at Santiago. those who
| conducted the trumphal march
through Porto Rico and those who have
fought in the Philippines.
| Rear Admiral Sampson was then in
PRODUCED with warm words of tribute
! by Judge Rowland. The admiral mere
| ly thanked those present for the cor
| dial reception he had received as rep
| resenting the navy.
| Gov. Roger WolcOtt of Massachusetts,
| was then introduced. He said in part:
| The history of New England does not
| find its genesis in the age of fable or
| in the dark and bloody strife of remote
| antiquity. 1t begins when the first
| Pilgrim set foot on Plymouth Rock and
| from that day until now it has lain an
! open book to be read of all men. In
the centuries that have passed since
! then the nation has received access
| siOns to her population and to her COM
| postc character from Celt and Teuton
| and African and Latin and Slav but
not the least powerful not the least
noble of the influences that have dom
| mated that national character has been
the New England spirit which still
draws its inspiration from the migra-
| ton of 1902
At the close Of Gov. Wolcott's speech
| he received an ovation.
Hon. John Il. Barrett, former United
States minister to Siam. then delivered
his address. Mr. Barrett, in part, said:
| In responding to the timely senti-
ment of The New Pacific brought into
being by the intrepid exploit of a great
| New England captain of the seas and
| developed by the nation meeting its
would pause to perform a sad but
sacred duty while doing honor to the
| memory Of that great. generous. noble
| and fearless prince Of fighters ana men,
Gen. LawtOn. who has just fallen III
the struggle to maintain without faltc:-
ing Americas honor, prestige and in
| fluence"
1T is fitting, in this notable gathering
Of New Englanders. whose proud com
! monWellth of Massachusetts ana CLASH
cal capital of Boston are the homes of
| the Leading disscnters, that we should
| give heed ana approval to the warning
| voice Of this brave commander. barely
! SilenCcl. to a prophetic message from
| the uncovered grave. and to Il dying pro
! test from the nOblcst Roman Of them all
to those unhappy teachings which would
undo the work of that distinguished living
Vermont admiral. cast reflections on the
Vaiorous. unseitish service of the dead In
diana general, encourage our cneInicS 10
continue their insurTeCtlon to the bitter
end. ana disaVOW the achievements an
imperiJUS train of events that have made
lis the paramount power of the Pacific.
an my hand hold Il warning and mes
sage to The American people which came
to me curing the last month in the form
of a letter from this hero whom | NOT
seen on the firing line. From his lonely
rain-sodden, heat-steamed camp in the
Jungle like the voice Of one crying in TIE
l Wilderness yet ever cheerful ana persist
emit he wrote:
Nl H. -,