Year: 1865

the showing OF the people themselves in their income
exceeded the total value Of our entire national
debt Let me adopt familiar explanaton:-suppose
day for year. your people would consume
as much as the entire national debt you have
surred mc,,n daughter Look At the railway 5 whose com
sixtieth Of your entre national debt and yet has been
subscribed mainly by foreign capitalists during the period
to be highly remuneratve investment Again,
let me refer to another fact: We pay In
single city, much the income and property tax Of
our entire kingdom; and when l look to the enormous
on ana
the Oil districts over which have passed to-day where


saw evidences Of unexamped wealth and prosperity on
every side and where saw In one place where on the
l or June last not single ehanty had been erected at
the present time on this 9th Of September, four han
six banks established two telegraph and the


tension Of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway began
only four months SINCE within month Of Its compile
tion-T say, sir, when / such facts these
there there Is nothing in your deb. which need
red responsibility which you cannot honorably meet.
J. say, sir, though we cannot too much deplore
all the blood shed and its lamentable conse


in your future. You have only 10 base your taxation
equitably, fairly and in such transparently honest
and unfairly treated Be true to yourselves,
and the world will not be slow to appreciate your posi-
ton and do you full justice. loud and prolonged
cheerng)


REMARKS OF Mr.. HANDEL cossHAM.


Mr. CossHAh, in responding to the compliment 70 his
name deprecated the nattcring praises which MI. Rey
nolds had bestowed upon him and his conduct regard
Cd the American question No praise was due TO him In
particular II was question IN which al were inter
world in the great cause. He believed that there was
no time when the meetings Of Engishmen were not in
favor OF the Union and the government Of the United
Staes If any hesitation was manifested in advocacy
of the cause 1t through doubt that the federal
walton of human liberty. few there who opposed
but the heart Of England with the government and
have been placed power before this time had it not
been through wish not to embarrass the government
by the changed relations ensuing and therefore njure
Sir Morton in thinking that the more they knew
the better they world like each other He was
made by this visit Of the Of the
country and in conclusion he hoped that the two flags
would ever blend together as gracefully as they do to-
two great branches OF the Anglo Saxon race


Three enthusiastic cheers greeted Mr.. Cossham a. the
termination of his remarks and the band Joined In thS
demonstration with a spirited rendition Of "Yankee
Doodle"


The chairman then proceeded TO announce the regular
toass of the evening" and first gave Qucen Victoria and
the royal family which drunk standing, the band
playing, the entire assemblage joining in the anthem,
"God save the Queen" with most impressive effect


REMARKS OF MR.. LEON sILLo.


The next toast "Her Majesty the Queen Of Spain,n
was responded to by Mr.. SuLo. He returned thanks
for her Majesty the Queen Mother of Spain, and her hus
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
pronounce without the greatest respect and emo
tion. In their name, and particularly for the Duke
Of Riansares, he expressed the most heart.
Western Railway He would also S their wishes
for the personally Of Mr.. James McHcnry whom
IL would always be their delight TO Of their sympa
thy and confidence Tho speaker expressed his individual
sympathy for this country to which he was now allied
by the ties Of marriage in his family and by friendship
with the principal promoter of the present great
prise, which had been SO successfully accomplished
through the honesty inteisence and r activity Of
energy" motto significant 10 every one In that
assembly-the motto OF James McHenry. The
the nattering nspaion made of name, and him and
TO Mr. Knnad presented the kind Of the
OF our Affairs the national debt was bagaiolle
nent Europeans at their inability 10 be present. parcu
lary Salamanca himself


The third toast lThc President of tho United stacsn
announced and received with three cheers and
extra onc-thc band playing the " Star Spanged Ban
ner."


Mr. HoxnsprEu at the conclusion Of the air. begged
leave to mention the coincidence that originated from
the seigc Of Fort Mcienry, name esteemed by them


REhARKs OF non. ). ROBERT WALKER.


Hon. RoBERr WALKER, the respondent regretted his
Magistrate OF the United States. He had been
so long confined to figures Of finance that =
rlc. sti such a toast could never fail 10
inspire the deepest enthusiasm in the heart OF every
loyal American. He was emphatically the President
He had been chosen by the votes of the people Sand
placed in the highest position in the civilized. world.
While enthusiasm would always bo excited BY such
ject which evoked the deepest emotion. That Prcs
dent was son OF toll child of labor,
% ous iUss Money 1iO rank NIX psso or patronage to the highest
ONCE in i6e United states His progress had
not bee. saSdSn but By s"ccsedps gradual steps
first entrance into public life. He was the son
Of the Sunny South, born in one of the seced-
ing States, raised and nurtnred in another lin
Tennessce, under Andrew Jackson, whose motto
preserved v Although elected by what was known as
the Union party he had been pre-, e,ously OF the demo-
cratic party but in the crisis Of his country he tore
sunder all party ties The speaker next recalled the
ton, sllusion 10 his amented predecessor calling
forth appropriate demonstration of respect for
his memory. The transition from the admins
tration OF one President TO that OF another with.
out confusion anarchy evidence OF the soundness
and excesnce Of the Federal Constitution In view OF
the two commingcd flags he would institute no compar-
son between hereditary and elective chief magis
tra.ss The blood shed IN the late dreadful
the altar OF liberty In conclusion, he
hoped for cordial OF the two great coun
tries, and that their flags be variance" Tho
above by Sir Morton Peo, read In the most enhu.
siastic manner the guests raising and giving three


The next toast, 'Our Quests from Europe-the promo
tcrs and supporters OF the Atlantic and Great Western
Railroad was appropriately responded to by the Hon


The toast 'The Atlantic and Great Western Railway
and It's ally The Erie Railway.In union there Is
strength, was responded to by Mr. Gayle and Judge
Church.


REMARKS OF JUDGE CHURCH.


The speaker paid glowing compliment to the
enterprise Of Salamanca, and the indomsbls
energy OF Knnard IN encouraging and under
taking the great work which they were assembled
TO celebrate. He considered IL the best guaran.
tee against a foreign war, that Europeans had
invested seventeen eighteen millions In this
terpsse The value TO the country proportionate
10 the investment From statistics within his reach
he ascersined that the land on either side OF the
road had appreciated amount four times that
Of the outlay in the construction Of tho
road. Hence they could not stgmatze the investment
Of these Europeans as mere matter OF profit to them
selves since rebounded greatly TO the benefit Of the
country He In favor Of throwing open the ports Of
each country 10 the productions Of the other Such a
procedure would create and extend traffic, and trac
made national wealth.


The next toast, 1T W. Knnaird and James McHenry
interrupted at this point Of reading with loud accla


nations and was only after It's announcement had been