The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-22
WIT AND WISDOM
FROM STRONG MEN
Annual Banquet Of New
York Chamber of
Commerce,
MONTAGUE AND
ALDERMAN SPEAK
Former Responds to the Toast,
Our United Country and
the Latter to "The Max
ing Of National
Spirit" in Elo-
quent Words.

CBy Associated Press.l

:
NEW YORK, Nov. 2l.-Thc Chamber
thirty-seventh annual banquet Tonight
in Delmoncos Morris x. Jessup. pres.
ident OF the chamber, presided, and with
him sat Joseph II. Choatc,. General Hoo
ace Porter, Brigadier- General Frederick
D. Grant, Rear Admiral Joseph B. Cogh-
Ian, Governor Andrew j. Montague, OF
Virginia: Dr.. Edwin A. Aldermen. pres
ident of the University of Virginia; WI
liam Ridgely, Comptroller Of the Cur.
renicy; Alfred A1osely, c. NJ. III g., and
Leutenant-G General Adner- r. Chafree.
The first toast OF the evening was to
the President OF the United States. and
this was followed by q toast to the King
OF England. Then followed tho toast
England and America, to which Mr.
Choate responded.
General Porter responded to the toast,
THE Diplomatic and Commercial Rela-
tions Between the Two Great Repub-
lies" Governor Montague, Of Virginia.
spoke to the toast. Our United Coun-
try" and President Alderman to the
toast, The Making Of a. National Spirit
Governor Montague's Speech.
& Governor Nronta~,,e said: 5i
The insistent hospitality of your Cham
ber finds me a reluctant but appre eciative
recipient OF the honor you do me. and
the theme assigned is at least, congenial
to my pat tism II en- barra ssing to my
.''oGrSU United country''is doubtless dear
have contributed SO much to Its growth
and power. The subject. too, Is happily
named, forsit is at once Its own state
1nent and the statement, its own de-
tnlonstration.
Never before. in the life Of our peo-.
plc has there been SO fraternal a union
of States or so unalloyed and .copious an
Tss
the disagreement about the meaning and
disposition OF the results Of that t+awar;
the Kentucky and Virginia res olutions
South. and the Hartford convention.
North; the sectional dLscOrds provoked
4 by the wars of 1872 and 1S45; the SIN ould-
sering antagonisms from 1850 to 1860: the
fire and sword OF our great fratricidnl
struggle; and the wrongs {, and follies e1 Of
into the alchemy Of time and progress,
I and out of the stransmutation survives the
chastened and more potent, entity-our
united country. "a n indissoluble union of
4 But what is strange In all this? Have
( not the, several social groups. from which
our American group, has come, been in-
ured to sdiscords and strifes? And have
not t%their& fierce Emergencies contributed,
In the main, either to their stability or.
reformation? |? The three hundred years
OF contest for the federation Of Ger
many; the sstrlvings of William the Silent
Z for the Dutch Republic: the revolution
and La Vende Of france: the religious
wars Eof Scotland; the struggle for the
unificatlon Of. Italy; the secession war Of
Swit1erland-have all made contributions
to the stru ctural unities Of these respec-i
tive groups.
And what Of the half-century conflict
between Lancaster and York, and who
now wears the rose Of either house?
What has become of foolish Charles and
grim Cromwell. with their cavaliers and
roundheads? What of the bitter words
of tongue and pen thrown back and forth
across tho Atlantic? What OF the Stamp
:TaxFand the resentful but inevitable Dec
laration of independence? What of the
agony OF Valley Forge and the triumph
of Yorktown?
There are for bears, all; men OF like
passions, acquainted with like divisions
and groping with similar problems, though
under different conditions. Their dissen.5
.sions have served to shake their several
people to a sturdlcr base; and have not
our many rude jostles brought us to a
flrmer ie not n new foundation?
Bonds of Fraternity.
The task Of our conscrpt fathers to
form and fashion federal government
was stupendous. What precedent. what
prototype could they lay hands upon?
The Achaean League was available more
in Imagination than in history, They
winds and charts Of the seas were beyond
their straining visions, They could make
a State nation. but how could they ad-
just ono to the other? The embryo of
adjustment was, however, In the womb
of our civilizations but the sorrowful trn-
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