The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-24
THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
Rev. j. L. scuIIy's Response to the
Time HOnOred Toast.

Rev. j. L. ScuIIy's Response to the
Time HOnOred Toast.
President Sugden, in announcing the
speakers, said it was his pleasure to
welcome the members of the society
and their guests on the occasion of its
third anniversary, and he did so most
cordially, in spite of the recent asper-
sions cast upon immigrants from one
of Savannahs pulpits.
The president introduced Rev. ]. l..
Scul1y to respond to the toast, THE
British Empire" Rev. Mr.. Scully was
expected to respond to the same toast
at the second annual dinner of the So
ciety, but was unable to do so. Mr..
Sugden remarked in introducing him,
that during the year he had probably
had the time and opportunity to care
fully study the subject. AS Mr.. Soul
ly arose to speak, the president added
that the British Empire had also prob
ably kept pace with his study of it's
progress.
At the outset Rev. Mr.. Scully an
nounced that he had been assigned a
vast subject to discuss within the linn
it's of time afforded an dinner
speech. He spoke for fully an hour
dealing with the Saxon people from
their earliest history, dwelling upon
the varied influences that had left their
impress upon the character of a peo-
pie that is now almost the ruler of the
world. From their early existence with
the hardest surroundings, he traced
the history of the race through vicis-
situdes that would have eliminated any
other people, up to the struggle for
supremacy between the Saxon and
Norman at Hastings, when English
law, English pluck and bravery and
English freedom were established.
Mr.. Scully referred to the Irish peo-
pie, their love of learning, of litera-
ture and poetry, and regretfully to
their inclination, with it all, to over
throw wherever possible, the existing
order of things governmental. For
the people, however, he had the great
est regard. They fill their place in the
empire, he said, along with the Scot.
THE rose the shamrock and the this
tie! God forbid" said Mr.. Scully,
that they shall ever part"
The English p@5ple, said Mr.. Sully,
gave to the world the highest possible
conception of liberty and freedom.
They brought freedom and liberty to
this country. I'VE read" he said, ''of
British misrule, of British tyranny and
British oppression in the American
COiOIleS. Let US nave the truth IN MS
tory" he added. There never was op-
preston by the English people. 1t was
the tyranny of the King that brought
on the struggle which cost England
and America thousands of lives in the
war of the Revolution"
Rev. Mr.. Scully referred to the in
accuracy of written history both con-
corning the war between the states
and in the war between England and
America, and he appealed for such a
modification as shall place before the
present and coming generations the
examples and facts of history in their
true light.
Dwelling further upon the growth
and development of the British Empire
during the last century he referred to
the building of the Dominion of Can
ada and related his own part in the
movement of 1886 for annexation to
the United States. He referred to the
BOer war and the struggles of Great
Britain in Africa against the most
fearful odds. The British Empire is
in its infancy today" said Mr. Scully.
in conclusion. "Its development has
but just begun. Its great future is
yet to come"