Year: 1868

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giants who do work in caves, go forIh 70 an TUE
bearing their mingled messages of truth ana a ~
OF the probable and Improbable dt Inc aSorer
Is worthy OF his hire" Cheers appear 10 Ihet ,,
forth to see TO it that in season and out OF seasoh @
lose no occasion OF supporting that just anu
and reasonable cause Of an international
which distinguished guest has for years 6een
full defender Immense applausel and by the arresteu
will not say the defeated, progress OF WHICH, hoe m 1
alone has been sufferer but every man in England ana
in America, whom his example might else nave sIlliu
lated to authorship [cheers II the monthly magazines
did to plead for this cause much the worse
for them that am their spokesman II they did let he
be grateful And so cede my place, rot to worthier
sentiment. but to more eloquent men. lCheers.J


The PRESIDENT Gentlemen: There place on the
eastern border Of continent which high authority
among us would probably describe hanging on the
verge" Of the the Hub"
Laughter and cheersl That town is known to some Of
you by description, possibly by observation 1t is the
place where friend and guest had the bad taste to
land when he came here ILaughterl In Difference to
guest and his taste propose 1.-THE Boston Press
and require Mr. Charles Eliot Norton to respond to It,
Appausel


SPEECH OF CHARLES ELIOT NORTON


Mr. President and Gentlemen: | feel as embarrassed
the last speaker said he felt when he rose III
only indirectly connected with the Boston press anu
therefore speak for as one OF ts members VINO
day in the work OF preparing those
newspapers which send out the ideas which are generally
Tbeers know that MANY of our notions are dersively
called Boston notions - but find that aiter time
good of those notions become lmDeuucu III inc
civilization of the country through what may be called
the common Schools and also through the churches,
which everywhere mark the first springs OF Aercan an
civilization. Applause am not worthy 10 speak ior
tho Boston press except in one regard and that Is IN m
cordial unanmy with which that press would would lon @ you
personally guest but to the principles which ne
has and which in their T6srs &c c 0hs
notion wrought into the very nature OF every
true ,Ss 2Shis aoa o Bsnho sam


man upon man-the broad claim Of humanity; and l
know not any one either in America or England, who
has done respect for that notion than
the guest whom honor in our heart OF hearts tonight


Applause We claim h as by right Gt1e9 en- OF tL BosGd n
depends on hlm for inspiration. Tnere was nu-
mOrous friend Of mine who SAID the other day at II r
bridgepor-and Cambridgeport you know Is hardly al,
lowed to be hanging upon sne verge oi te
this friend of mine said MAT Mr. Dickens might start from
Cambridgeport with 10 cents in his pocket ana travel
when he started. Laughter But there Is something
would desire TO say for New-EDgland-n may cohsIder
Boston part OF New England, and so gain right 10
speak for It, And what desire TO say is THIS that we are
glad and proud TO bear the name OF the Ola land Tc
gave birth 10 Charles Dickens lkepeaed cheers IneIe
two Engands There Is theectual Engand theIe Is
the England OF The Times newspaper the Ehgiana M oi
Thackerays" Book OF snobs;" well the England when we
do not like. And there Is the real England the England
Of the Imagination and OF the heart the England 70 when
no American go without feeling arapture IN his heart


as thinks OF the old and glorious memories OF our race
And when he wakes in the morning and with Keen ears
takes walk in the fields, he sees the very haystack
under which Little Boy Blue" laid down to sleep and
the very meadows too where he ought TO have sounded
his horn but forgot sound it, He will see the England
which he has believed in and dreamed or ana VIII
seem 70 him that IL is old, old place where he has
beer In his boyhood IL IL familiar 10 hin as his grand


mothers garden There he will see the daisies and the
cowsips winch he has never seen since he grew up,
but which belonged to the dreams OF his youth. lie
Will the old the real the dear England great cheer
ing transmitted In THAT light which never was on
sea or land, the conservation and the poets dream


lie will sec the England Of Chaucer, OF shakes
pearc OF Milton Of Dickens Cheering BE Will recog
nzc that there Is responsive drop in his heart when
beats quicker and warmer because the life which Is IN
him springs from the dear old England, mother ofes ALL
lGreat applause. He will return home the better, the


more patriotic for having seen the home OF his ancestors
He will return home with more faith IN America because
he will have seen from where America started because
he will be able to appreciate the solid foundation OF right


rous il the real England OF the Imagination rests He
Will come here With fre,hcr convictions IN his own heart
prepared to do his best Tor his part and for those
who work with him in carrying QUt those e6fl6ns prn-
cpcs which England hides IN her heart, places nrst III
her faith first in her regon-the principles OF justice Of
sentiments which we heard from the eloquent lips
hSVG aoM Gopeay he feels that between England
aud America is a bond which earthly catastrophe can
sever applausel; but | will say that the idea of war
between tile old other and the young promising, ygoT
MauChild Of the uture-s an idea which enough
all the foundation OF reason from It's throne nd
we hope IL is that he will never permit himself, OF
permit others IN his presence TO speak OF Cheers Ana


this because OF his love not for England but for human
ity ICheers There is but word more TO say and
is this That representative OF one OF the Oldest
Journals OF country have the pleasure OF DeeVlng
thar il has bee during the whole Of its career sup
porter Of those ideas which are most essentially Amer-
cam aud that journal ve and twenty years ago. ap
peared one of the earliest criticisms upon that great
genius which to make our generation happy zap
plause And 10 was that account felt willing TO speak
a all tonight and that might be able to add the tribute
Of NewEngland, OF gratitude OF constant love 10 nun,
who while binding tins generation TO hm by affeconae
respect, has had beyond that which ordinarily
falls the literary man-a success whl: Is NOT Ilteu
cords that are stronger, and have subtler magnetism
than the electric cable by feelings as dehcate
and as powerful as those which belong to
the lnmost domestieity Of home. And when
he returns to ms own country ne may carry
upon this Yoyagethe faith that he should be aDe 70 lay
one chain more TO bind those two dear lahds ogetneE
has been thoroughly fulfilled. lCheersI


The band here played " We are IA band OF brothers"


The PRESIDENT Boston is conceded to be in New
England and yet there is considerable Of New-Engand
outside OF Boston. aughter In Difference therefore,
20 that portion am instructed by your Committee to
propose as a sentiment TIE NEW ENGLAND PPEss. ana
require Gen. JOSEPH r. HAwLEr OF The Connecticut
Couralt, TO respond. lCheers.l


REMARKS OF GEN. J. Il. HAwLEY


Mr. Chairman Ii is but few hours, comparatively,
since received warning that should be called upon aud
as was Obliged TO work diligently upon other matters in
be OF duty this evening feel somewhat might
order the pleasure Of being here at a


to very respectable very courteous old bachelor he
should kindly consent TO hold small bundle for few
minutes while the lady stepped round the corner, and
strange baby growing TO be very big elephant on his
hands. This chair, just vacated by my side belongs to
the gentleman who should have responded Tor the New
England press-our excellent friend, Sam Bowes,
OF The Springfield Republican, the model newspapers
OF the provincial press: But there Will be one merit
noon the city items man OF the Journal upon which
worked In despair Of matter for his column sat nedla
tlyely observing small boy climbing up to and upon the


figure of Madame Justice upon the State House cupola
he II that boy should fall he wond make about SO
a stickful" on his hnger lGreat
laugheI II were TO speak Of and not for the New.
England press, perhaps may claim that New'England
has spoken already and speaks for herself through her
newspaper men everywhere. The honOred chairman Mr..


Greeley one OF NewEngland boys. And also is
cha vrho
right OF our distinguished guest. Mr.. Raymond shook
his head Well certainly educated him, and thought
from his versatile and characteristic ability that he
must be one OF Yankees The venorated senior
The Post applause whose absence we all regret went
from u.s. and the able editors of The World and The
Journal Of Commerce, and the other eloquent gentleman
upon my left mr. Curs ours There Is then little