The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1860, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 8873. Revolutionary Banquet at the versury. Aw the kindred ties whieh das tlownbipcan aurea None fe "ele dat an icator hae nadve republic be as firm and lasting. Mr. Evarts—So much for our foreign fellow citizens (laughter). to whom we sent in your bebalf this re- sponse— e New dand Society of New York to the New Ei a Astor House aie Baan’ Society,of Mew York to, the, New Bagien ev eed ond to your patriotic sentiment. Let New ‘england Brotherly love prevail, andall is hope and peace, (Loud ap- plause.) ‘The fourth regular toast “The ayor of the elty of Now York,” wes duly honored. The reasun given in Scripture by one of those who w re invited to another ? excuse for Mayor Wood's absence—" He and could not come,”? ‘The tifth regular toast was:— The American Unlon-The great, trust which we, bald for lowe of itis still uppermost in the hearts the poopie. This love of the whole people for the whole untry wil overwhelm all discomtents and disatfections of all paris and of al! parite 4 declare with @ votes which all ‘must hear and ail oby—"The Uniou must and shall be preserved,” ‘this toast Was received with wild demonstrations of enthosiaam—tho guests standing, eheering voviferously and waying napxins and handke fs. The seenc was renewed when Charlie Stetzon—as mine hoet of the Astor House is familiarly vatled—eried, inactear, ringing voles, kngianders, up and give three more for the The Great Political Question of the Day. A Little Plain Speaking on Both Sides. * VIEWS OF THE VARIOUS NATIONALITIES, A Midnight Speech from Sena- ed The land of the braye and the tor Seward. are here was ro. his toast. Mr. Evans an- | * = nounes sure of Hatening, in resp Nguished states v Banks, and one abeence of those easod by men, one from from Virginia, John M. Rotts.” In gentlemen he wankd raad portions of Mr. Botts to the seelety. LYTYER PROM JOHN M. ROTTS, crouse, Dee. 17, 1900, * * CONCILIATION, NOT CONCESSION. SIGNIFICANT SQUINT AT CANADA AND MEXICO. ption and Speech of the Vice President Elect. * * * Dean Six—You meet to ato the landing of the Pil grim Fathers, and to keep alive a grateful recollection of the toils, tho hardships, the sulterings and sucritices they endured, in behalf of the great blessings of the freedom of conselence and freedom of speech, which, through the mighty decds of their descendants, your fathers, aided by the no less gallant aud holy works of our futhers, y . Speeches of Wm. M. Evarts, Rev. Dr. Hitchcock, D. D. Field, Richard H. Dana, Wm. C. Bry- ant, the Presidents of St. George's, St. Andrew's, St. Patrick’s and the Old Dominion Societies, Judge Pierre- pont and Judge Balcom, Rey ae, ‘The New England Sosiety of this city celebrated its fifty-fifth anniversary, and tbe two hundred and fortieth ef the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth Rock, by a grand dinner at the Astor House on Saturday even ing. The great event of the day—the secession of South Carolina—overshadowing 8 it does all other questions, gave to this reunion a political character, The virtues and peculiarities of “ the fathers” were forgotten for the occasion, and all thoughts were turned to the serious question of the hour. As the speeches all turned upon it, the affair may not inoppropriately be termed a Revolu- tionary Banquet. The attendance was not 0 large as usual. There are generally from two hundred and fifty to threo hundred tickets ssued for the New England dinner, but not more than one hundred and fifty were disposed of on this occasion, and not even that number of persons were pre- sent. Invitations had been extended to, and efforts mate to procure the attendance of, distinguished men in all parts | of the country; but for some cause or other—most proba bly the present wnpoputarity of New England—t efforts were unsuccessful. There were not huif a doz guests present, outside of the members of the society ‘and the presidents of sister societies, Letters of dectina- tion had been received from President Buchanan, Senator Seward, John Minor Botts and other distinguished mon, va ell me that by asthe sentiments which it breathed of devotion to the | Compton constivution, the south has doue <0 Union are not at present acceptadie in that latitude, the know it; and Tbave said it when ” dhe ves, de » light matter to say Committee of Arrangements, from prudential motives, dl ght matter 10 8ay Were secured to you and to Us 45 a common brotherhood, by the nicst perfect and unexceptionabic system of gov- ernment that the world has ever devised—a government tbat has alike excited the wonder, the admiration and the: hopes of the world. The more flook into that system, and the deeper I penetrate into all its profundity, the more Tam struck with its wonderful perfection, and with tho superior wisdom, sagaeity and foresight displayed in Nts formation in every part sy! of governinent under which we have lived and prospered as_no people have ever hye) and prospered before, and under which, with a proper spirit of philanthropy, tosy, forbear: ‘auce and tnutual explanation, we eould i the fu joyment of advantages and ble fore vouchsated to man on earth. ‘And yet, geutlemen, as a perfect aud harmonious whole, before you meet at the festive board, at the close of this week, this system will probably be mo more; it will be niiatered among tho things that were and tat have passed away, lo be secu apd felt, perhaps, never more. Betore the sun shall have passed again over our conti- nent, from the time at which I write, we shall probably be rent asunder : one State of the Union will have radely and vidlentiy robied our tag of one star. God in his merey grant that it may stop at that. Even now, while Iwrite,at the dead hour of night, mixchiefmakers and conspirators are at work to tear coyn the whole ediiice of (reedom—to trampie that (lag in fhe dust, and to make est and the scorn of civilization. ‘ted? Are there balance of the Union ean b m, gentlemen of the North, to for delay’. Thave given abundant proof thet Tdo not syr zi with South Carolina in her rash and impetnous aevon, It she is determined to go, let us do all that men cau do to oni any other State from following her pernicions ex- ae means by which jetermine the question, geck to ha’ honor to t su —when | stood as one singled out clined to make the letter public, or the name of the Rut | -wy alsy that the North, by the passaye of writer. Persona! Liberty bills, 80 fur as they designed to obetrict the exeeution of the Fagit) It was instructive to listen to the commentaries indulg- ed in while the gentlemen were waiting for dinner, The parlor was crowded, and the guests in small groupe dis cuseed the secession movement in its various phases although, sooth to say, there was but one feeling of en tire condempation of the whole proceeding. The matter ‘of the Charleston forts, whether they would be defended or surrendered, and if defended and taken, the terrible feeling which the fact would arouse throughout tne tree States, was the most prominent theme. Next to it was the barbarous treatment to which Northern men have been subjected in Southern States, ‘There was no measure of condemnation too strong to ap ply to those inbuman acts, As to the matter of the reve nue, the plan most fayored was the issuance of a proclama > tion suspending Charleston as a port of entry. There war not much talk of any other kind of coercion. This was deemed the most simple and feasible plan. As to any State establishing final independence of the general gov ernment, the thing was generally regarded as too Indic Tous for serious contemplation. But the announcement that dinner {s on the table is made * wy the popular host of the Astor House, Mr. Stetson, and the eueste file in and take their chairs at the beard, at which they stand till grace is said. The Rev. Mr. Frothingham officiutes, and also says grace after meat. It is super fiuous to say that the dinner was sumptuous, and the Wines delicate and in liberal profusion. Steteon always does those things so incomparably. SPEECH OF WM. M. RVARTS. The cloth having been removed, sogars lighte!, an: interference of their vory in the States, have Beth have done wrong, crrors of the past, ain that Mr. Linooin, and the represents, have no design to interfere with ‘of pwater and slave in the States whe law. Lenswer, I believe it—nay, 1 the foulest” misrepresentations industriously vireulated, by mischievous men, and inis chievous papers, to inflame the public mind; T know that Jing prevails between the two sections of the bot to whieh, f thank my Maker, | have weve ‘On the eoubeary, t bay party he exists by w it; Pkuow that re constantly mate, and picion at home, in © ‘fairer and better understanding between the > the South, beeanse [saw from the first that if th, . was fanned and not checked, it wonld ultimately lead to the present disaetrous condition of Uhings, But, gentlemen, permit me to say that this is no time to inquire who threw the firet stone, or which section is most to blame; this i* uo time to stand upon ceremony or etiquette; this ie no time for bravade and defiance—and whosoever indulges in it, either in Congress or out of it, will mect with a nation’s contetnpt and a nation’s curse. The existence of an empire is at etake. the happiness and the fortunes of millions at home, and of mankiad over 4 id, are in the balance, and the only h shail be the first vo come fo ‘and tender the olive branch of peaco, saying in earnest strains—Rroihers, let ug be friends again. party is the most forwafa and atonement for the past, whichever yields ¢ freedom and to the Union, will surely enjoy the larger share of reputation for mantiness, magnanumity aad love of country. Yours is the larger and more powerful «ee tion: yon exener be suspected os sacrifice for reconciliation. Yours ig the snee-sstnl par- ty now to cotne into power: you are in ne danger of hav- i gany of your rights disturh a labor mnder Bh ap ladies admitted in the space behind the table of honor, | prehension the lose or ys yon can the President of the Society, Wa. M. Evarns, introdaces J aiurd not an at, but heyy ra . eof ary Thee the intellectual portion of the banquet. He represented J yi 4, ay theee high and enuobling jee as far “the society as being in a flourishing condition, and pro J your own honor will permit you to ceeded :— Tet the North give assurance in rome a I believe that at no time did we feel more confidence a in the principles and spirit of oor ancestors than we nally done wilt net now. (Applause.) It is now two hundred and forty ) wthern States in t Years since the first footstep was planted on the Rock J ind fraverna Kindness for the settlement ot ‘of Plymouth of that majestic Power which, with J sent dif wl a et ee, elon ei pted careei marche: «| forgivenc s ¢ past and security for the tatu pean pomp — copes There is but une person alive whese position woali en the continent, till we, their descendants, look out seaward | yitie hin to speak for the whole, and Who8e ¥ . oa ‘on the setting cun, a8 the Pilgrims looked out seaward on | ciently potentiol to alley the impending str I coud sh tbat in this ext xig of the State, sur the rising sun, (Cheers.) It has widened from the nar row strip of the New England soil till it is now confined * on one side by the firm stracture of English power, and on the other by the crumbling anarchies of Moxie. The sterile soit and the ficlement climate of New Bngian nde ne we are with danger very side, that he atible with his ee . ha’ been replaced to their descendants bh a. country that includes ail the ferti.ity ss : : ies beauty, all the wealth and ail the magnificenc ‘There area cront many iutemperate and inreasonabl so wide & Zoue the’ earth's surface o men in ng he — an ane of om = tp a it " followers, but oil bf whom would be abandoned if each a ‘And whence has all this sprangr There was oA ot ft ‘at least, gentlemen, that our ancestors stood on this continent w the face of a desert and in the face of savage amen, with nothing literaly on the earth but their princ: Those principles were eure faith, the principles 0. Exgiten liberty, and that sentiment of persoaa! manhoo which teaches that man is greater than bis ei Lapere 4 and greater When bo is master of hiy own fortune. (\p How ean we account for this great inheritance t acquisitions, this material strength and powe: and glory, Wut by reverently acknowledging that ou recstors had chosen and brought here with that wiston = t which the promise is given: “lon of day: i« in her tight hand, and in ber left ba honor.’ While that wisdom lasts, be u not be shortened, nor the wealth of ter “the great Ainerican republic which has succes lesser Puritan Commonwealths. (Laud cheers.) Gentlemen, fil your glasses to the first regular towst:— 1. The day we celebrate, and the memory of the men wl omty in any eve of the States (South Cx we We muy count her out for the laim more tiem of rewent) that hesion to the Uniew mind to ot mid arive, how easy it w and carry it at once © the d for the purpose 1 ite decision be shasive with all parties, © F T will not ask you to vindfeate my ¢ Udelity to. the , the constit the my own sak OWN family What Beowmes of me t, and withont meaning to be pre nud it, for your own sakes, and for the country, Which now hangs suapended the decision of the sous of New Eng: fant Fatlors, whi of interpreta ) make a case, iieial tribunal estabheh final and oon. ener nd ni it ite renown. "5 . homght how clear a light, will look down Mpen Tlie yoors, ‘skould gather ond this day; afd their entre How love should Keep thelr met ortes bright, 6 Gunmen on How wide @ realm their sons should sway. you bold, coach « Mrs. Wemans’ beautiful hymn, the “ Pilgrim Father Justine ac was excellently rendered by Mesers, Seymour and Cam), | tinued, » and three lusty cheers were given for “the day we cole | upon ager yet toe drate.” Te 1 have wot deceived myself this will be done by the The second regular toast was, ‘The President of the | conservative men wie comstitate the majority ant the United states.” Me, Evarte asked that it rhoald be re worth of the North; and if Lam 4 ved U <lealt « to contees tbe ) steps, ant mak w i may have misled in my too carneet geal tu act the part of paace maker to the gerat national farnity of the United simu ) fag om hw ¥ tof the United States and hie lite Attorney General, now Soerttary of State, are concerned, the citadel has already been surrendered: the right to = | have « band cetved with the recustomed honore. In defereu od, LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT. . Mr, Brarts then read the letter from Mr. iy | in reply to the invitation sent him Ww honor | sicnoe tp. reamnpagee ~Warauseron, Deo. 11, 1800. | Prevent any ane State from breaks ‘entire oon. Dna SmI have received your favor of the. tth wit., | {weraey hie evn semied anil Tee a Ave Seth ‘on behali of the Committes of Arrangements of the New Wy sere ne ay sheen fy ae England of New York, inviting me to dine with he States oe Multi, the that society at the Astor House, om the 22 inst urpes hoon be most deterted and Ipless official dais will demand my constant presence in thie | Cotitwr. What ¢ # consequences may resalt ‘during the current session of Congress, aud from this wrakuews and cowardice on the part of the go- a oh the pliasure I would otherwis vernment, (ime alone eon determine: bat if civil war had in accepting the kind invitation of the shall be forced opm me, with all its attendant evils, let Please accept for yourself and the committes ypu repre esvented ths Union th ‘ re Cae pit apr ae thanks f ended to me and my | “ht, in every particular; lot no just ground of ¢ fret vibes me he members of the pratt and MY | oxist against them—io all they can to prevent strife, teely 4 individually. JAS. BUCHANAN, then act on thé defensive, but act with a ¥ igor that wal (The third regular tonst, ‘The Governor of the State of Spee jee oe New York,” was drunk with most enthusiastic demon N. Stmenew, Keq. Chairman ir, Lease announced that he fecoived from the | * he #ixth regular toage was: New Ungien’ -oo'ety of Newtreal the following telegraphic | The Sehoole and the Oharehos of Now Bngiacd ace oe FE Saecstarbe CT he stub Hornet Frame the Se of Montreal, greeting: —We ard atv mntatne et can gongrawiote cer eke --cle'y oh tbe cevwra of onc.wer ma Dud ok cer High, Une quod od eats Itrests with | repeal of the Missouri com. * keedam repre MORNING EDITION—MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1860. Nor heeds the skeptie-s pun, ants, While me « Lol the chureb: stands; Nor fears the blinded bigot’s rule, Winie near he church spire stands the sehool, KHOH OF REY. DR, HITCHOOCK. \ Tir. Hitchoock, of this olty', ne President and gentlemen of tbe gluing Soolety, this is the great t : om. 10 on? Faropean nkees, We know better. We are t We are the Hebrews of the Hebre: we meet under a slight mist of suspicion and reproach fust NOW, ay Our Reation is charged with boing the hive of al! the abetractions that are destroying the land, But tt will he remembered that we represent not merely that litth province of sixty tive thousand square miles, which is topographic Yankeodom, but that by theeharter of the Plymouth Company of 1620, of the fey between IDs hth pr sof Latitade, by the ‘This eerms t tothe Pacit . ludowing of Yankeedom, tr y © or tt ie prectsoly that is now Frem th» working for North Ai mt is Puritan, We will Whether New Fassgland bas wdhered w the ideas of the fathony as well as to thy * im history the tr It we have bad apy peri! on th continent it las been this material conditien of ony prosp y Mountain range should ido! yi that we ehovild miagnitionnt viv rs nt in tne tas: ont road a3; physical eon: cause? one jaa perity and strength, and again = by ht is King. (Applause. ) England idea. ‘The root of the Suite Is in ideas, and not in Material interests; and if our government commits it~ self to This material concept it will stagger into the very grave whore lic rotting the carcases of the old dead empires of the world. (Applanse.) Tt is the character of the old Asiatic civilizations that they smack too strongly of toil, They wore the passive patriarchs of nature ) shortlived, all of them, When civilization shifted its theatre Asia to shifted also its methed. On terner soil eivilt- zation was compelled to putriment from the air, from thoughts, f) interests, This was sigt Its career was short, aspect, without moral much longer, beeause the Romi take its nly au inteltectria! ‘Tho Roman empire hsted civilization was uorally more sound.” What was the reason of the fall of the oft Roman empire? There were three ea the in- herent defect in the It ‘onstitution, Caesar found only one million of © Me left four mullions; but more than a hundred millio people live under the eagles of the empire, and more than haifef then were slaves, whose track blistered the surfaeo ef thy empire. — (Applanse.) Another rand reason Was the want of ideality. ‘The Romau’s Gol was only a public fanetionary, avd had only a personal eviste ‘The Roman did not care for God as an idea. Thus re, verenee for law—a magnificent sentiment indlecd—was divoreed from reverence for right, and this brings down a nation at last most surely to ruin, Hence it was very easy, when the Orient “1 her Dettlah lap to Rome, a she had offered it to ee, that that empire sboult dissolve in luxury. And so these bloated carcases went into the grave—weut into the grave because of that inherent defect of their politica! constitution, and in their national character. Now, if New England means any- thing in history, it means this, that ideas are the te of states; not ‘the idea of the true only, not intelligence only, — but ith in its largest sense ; faith in trath, taith in right, faith in beauty, ond, above all, fuith in that infinite Providence that “gathers ail these yhimeeli—faith in God, ‘Therefore we reve- , not the white spired we amd the chureh. Let juany. Twill not say here whether there is or mot, just now, a little too mueh of the red schoolhouse in New Frgiand and rather too little of the white chareb. Bat the ‘ot ideas of the fathers.were the church end the sehyol- house, side by side, Wo balance each ober and to strength- on each other. tinent and throughout the’ Jand. States. ‘Tbe seventh 5 Let us carry these ideas across the con Ideas are the life ular toast Wass patancy of Our Forviahors—The best n LEY FIELD. Fixup responded, He said:— AND GAvTLEMEN—It would ill become a gland to hesitate in replying to this toast . and most of all in these days. We shontd » the memory ol OnE aneest 7 poor service to our country, it we failed now to holt up steadily and osu rag which iilustrate the pag nals. From the hour when the Pigeam Fathers, uriven away by por- sought a remuge in the wilderness of the Weet, ugh all the coonial period, through the storms Revolution, the spirit of the people never gay wisastrous battle, the atrociti hate of sects, the intrigues of princes. turned them not aside from their great parpose of eetablishin, Amnon Wealths upon the foundations of civil and rerigious freedow, And they did establish them, ‘There they stand, the six Conunonwesiths of New teeming with peuple, prosperous wud happy, calling no man master, wnaer lurtitutions whieb they will never surrender, for tbey have won them by blood and fire, We may feelan honest pride in them. We may bowst of them, though our lot has been cast in other Common- weaiths, Woe have, itis true, bigger duties elsewhere, but we are not aliens to them, for We are bound to them, pot only by the ties of kindred, but by a federal Union Which he man may break—« Caion stronger than banca compacts, for it wae created by the hand 0 } fashioning of the continent. (I they know of the Puritans whet Leir hearts. They were frugal, be hoe et chimate and a sterile soil; bat ime of trialcame they freely sseritioed every- thing, property and hfe, to their sepee of right and their cony etiens Auty. Let the story of the relation bear withers, Their foot, weary and often bare, trod the soil of every State, aud their Nleodhallowed Southern a= well as Northern i The States of New England fur- | nished more soldiers to the Continental army then all the y hase Umidity in a | | their virtues, and not ‘the le ed | fer | sthip’s hend strai Whole towne wer In one of them, in other States together. their able bodien men. Windhan t , the carpenter, Falsed 1 nd Lone it #tands there still ng monument, in my thinking, than any that stands on the borders of the Nilo or the Tiber. No, Mr. President, if there be auy people of ang race whe are ashamed of theif ancestors, count us not of the uumber glory in —we honor all ainong them their cou stancy and courage, To these gevereign virtues a chielly due their ratety, their prosperity and their fare. Men honor coustaney afd courage as they despise jueon stapey and cowardice. Ever smoe the diy when the pa. triarch, prophesy ing the future of bis sons, uttered the reproach of one of them, “unstable as water, thoa shalt * down to this honr, the same quality bas me condemnation ame misfortune he looking for themselves The inde fetare a fidence 4 ment and disaster Like this to diseourse of par sense, Nothing ean be sald her any where toany company e(genUemen, But Lam suge it bs not umbetiuting th and this occasion to dwell upon the {our ancestors, and to remember that these are times which, more than others, are proper for laying them to heart. (Applause.) In the troublous days upon which we have fallen, whatever may be the cause and Whoever may be responsible, there tx need of all the Ormoees aod courage which we can commant, and we better command them if we remember the virtues of ov forefathers. A vaciliating poliey, irresoiute eounsela, tn. stable will, Sule e future to the present xisting trouble withont ring Momentary than ever bere vents ina partiean at after. It was net so } the fut | Hiteheock) | Langhter)—and his worth might not be said | With those heroic men whe | virtues we are commemorating. They thanght that | there were things woree than defe and that ainong them was uncertain or inglorlous peace, They did not quail ber threats) or ran away from danger, Place them anywhere, and they stood | to the last. Imagine any ship's company of them on the open sea, inthe carkest might that not a star to be Seen through the blacks hanging clouds, and the storm howling its fiercest heimaman struck dumb with terror, and tfe ship surg ing im the trough of the sea, what think you that com pany would de? Wout they cower in the cabin? Ne: would spring to the deck, they would man the rig ging, they would put a seaman at the helm, and bring the against the wind, They would know , as t hearts they cau wen © longest ny thegh #, there wilt come (Load appmuse.) we over passed me of the over the we all may know, that with sto ther the storm, aid that after it be ever so dark and tempesta last a clear and tranquil morning. The next regular toast wae— ‘The Wandering Sons of New England—They fmt a home ext very ating xn thn ed fads of tbe soa May they evn be tre to the sturdy virtues of the original stork, and keep the memory of the ‘athers green, SPRRCH OF MR. RICHARD He DANA. To respond to this toast Mr. Everts intr Richard H. Pana, of Borton, at one who had found time, while yet engaged in his education, to spend two years before the mart, and amid the labors of his proesing and ardvous profersion hed alto taken the oppertonity of making & voyege round the world. Mr. Laws was greeted with enthuviaem as he rose to . He said—Mr. President and gentlemen of the nd Soeiety—T stand here for the first time in New y life to answer ton sentiment for being a wanderer from New Fngland. Well, cortainly, it is somewhat true that, for a clase of persons who praixe native land so hight (Langbter.) Your President has kindly insinuated my exenee already. A hard necessity, win youth, sent me abrowl for the reeovery of im ; and More recently the same hard necessity fe me abroad again. But yet T do not complain of it, be eave Lassure you 1 found it a moet mgracable exper ener, although ihere be 1 nil Alp anv ony yy home and thee, w Engiander finda a home eee, OF OR BOY OMntineNt ’ Arty without friewde Th nwt ry That Wurvever our lng goes a very inrge prim of we are marvellonsly given to wandering | | for that: he mer | in the history of New England when | wae very Ike \ and asl the wealth, the intelligence, the physieal power, power and moral power is to be traced to New Eoglaad, not merely to men who now have their hemes in New England, but to men who elsewhere, as in ww great ine tropolitan city, trace their origin from ‘New England. And yet, Mr. President, from that proverbial distrust of our Own qualifications and opini inarks the New Englander the world over, anf%rom a deferonge to thst spirit’ of nationality which we ali ought to display, now if ever, allow me two change the word’ New Englander, in my experi- ence of the globe, and substitute the word American, (Applause.) California is one of the most remarguble in. stanees of the power of the American element. T do not allow any mann yop tonal me old; but £ was almost full grown when I thet saw California, in the your 1836, A Horton treder, the ship Alert, drifted bet weon two. pillars, which marked the entrance to a perfectly sotit: bay, She lay there two months, No ship came or w apd no house bat an old mission smitten with age 4 presidio without soldiers. . more than a year aga T passed again between4bere two the “Golden Gate—gleaming with lighthons»s, th” and disclosing a ty thensand inhabitants, Was ative with sveame merce Of San co, outof all yp ubitants, showed it tae the centre already. ant to be more so hereafter, of the entire trade of Che 2 I iso tive now for qe to enlarge on California. You know its history. You kvow not only tho inteliestua power whieh has governed it, and the material powe whieh has strengthened it, but Lwonlt also. bear some testimony to What it las mot had satiicient eredit for—and’ that is the moral power which ha controliml that aura saera fumes that endangered the more? character of Califor Me. Dana gave a passing remark to the vegetable wonders of the lid of gold. complimented the Aimerican missionaries there, and pad @ brilliant tribute to the American Whaiomen of the Pacitic. He had seen in the bay of Honolata net less than 200 whale-hips, and of these all but three bore the stars and stripes. CApphuise.) He passed on to speak of the revelation in inaritime attains made by t a rines of England and Franee, and remarked at one sin- gle company—the Peninsular and Oriental—had more steam tonnaeationt than the whole American navy. The Policy of the British goverament Was to encourage steam. ship enterprise by postal contracts and other modes, and. Fngland had thus raged up a elase men such as the world had never ki as Ameriea could not for many years produce, poke of the inctficioncy of the ok sibling ships of the American navy ncimg the John Adams, a most respectable and Yeuerable but useless ship of eixty-tive years old, ‘That wae our sohtary national yessel in the Uninese waters when there were such vast interests at stake, and condemned the fatal policy which regulates Prometion in the American navy solely by age. As the inatter now stands, be said, aman who enters our navy at fifteen has a chance of boing a lieutenant wt twenty- six, wd it he lives long enough, and the fevers spare hin, and the sea spares him, he may get to his first com- inand of a sloop-of-war by the time he is fifty. If he ever survives to command a ship of the line, it is when bis capacity for command is more than doubtful, ‘There is nothing worse than the utter hopelessness whieh hangs over the life of an American naval officer in the wardroom of an American frigate, where hope never comes, that comes to all, Our pavy has been neglected. The feeling has been that the post of Secretary of the Navy is @ sort of political stepping ‘Yhe onty qnalitication for that office seems to be that the person shall have a mind not preoveupied by any previous knowledge of, or interest in, the navy.” (Ayplause.) 1 hope that I have not, by these remarie about the navy incurred the imputation of being a rhetorical wandering New Rnglinder as well as a geo- graphical” wandering New Ruglnder. Laughter.) But after all, the pleasantest part of wandering is the wandering home: and it gives me great pleasut the first public cecasion on which I have heen able to meet my friends on my return should have been owing to your po lite and kind invitation to meet you all here to-night, “In conchision , Mr. Dane gold handogeno compliments to Mr. Evarts ond Mr. Win, Cullen Bryant, Alter he s@t down @ letter was read fron Mi dated November 30, regretting bis inabilit and sending this sentiment:>— “May the se Jong a the intluetice of New England shall be by mankind. If it shall de so 1 will bo im The vext regular toast was— A Free. Prews—Like the morning sun. ft fils the world day anew with the gladsome light of irberty and know te LUEN BRYANT responded, mental solitary b ortion ty its jn: Our Sister Sovinties—Sharing with us through the year in charitaiie labors, and welcome, at its close, to our annuai Testivition, THE ST. GEORGE'S SOCIRTY. Dr. Brsre, the President of the St. George's Society, was Urst called on to respoud. He was not used, he said, to making public ) and claimed to be a very modest man, which could not be said of your New England lawyers. (Langhter.) He had listened with gra- tification to the prises paid to their ancestors, and he hat they were merited, Decause their ancestors » English It bad been said tha: the rece was degenerating, and he did not mean to con that. (henewed langhter.) It might possibly b+ true, Dut he hoped not. Lbeliewe, said he, that it 18 not nsnal to silude to political matters’ in these societies, an it 8 not my iptention to do more than express one senti ment. seen it asserted in newspypers, and Thay heard St cecisionally in privace goctety that there ar bo would reyowr ny trouble to thi Union. 1 it. anu rang continued nse. ‘Thero js not an Englishman worthy the name who woul not feel a much for the destruction of this great an glorious Union as any one of you. I offer this senti- tent New ‘nion—May the storms that now threaten serve bat to purify and Invigeraie, ST. ANDREW'S SOCTETY. Mr. Goxpow, the Vice President of the St. Andrew's seciety, responded on behalf of Feotland’s saint. He re colleeted that at the ae dinner of his owa #o- ciety Mr. Evarts had jnstituted comparisons between the Scotchman and the New Englanuer. There were some dissimilarities, however, which he had not noticed For instance, the Scotch, as @ nation, were net given to public speaking: but they did not dnd that that interfered materially with their progress in life. On the contrary it rather helped them. (Laughter, One striking proof of this was that in their society they always found the greatest possible tronble in extorting specches from any of it officers or members, ant thetr pthirn were always in the most flourishing condi tien, the fiscal year invariably ending with a large Yulanee in the treasury, That, perhaps, might be attr: Lutable to another national characteristic—closeness of another kind. (Roars of laughter.) As to inflict a, speech would be to destroy his own argument, he would conelude with a sentiment — New. Englaud and Old Seotland—May the virtues whic have characterized them in the past know be diminution ST. PATRICK'S ROCTRTY. Judge Dary, Presitent of the St, Patrick sponded on its bebalf, He could not at fret trac connection between St. Patrick and St. Jonathan, he was handed the tabi sed in the ’ Q held heound that it was matic of Irish linen. that that wae, at least, a reapectable thread of connec: tien. (Langhter.) The gentleman who be! responded to the tonst of the “Chureh and the Schoolhouse” (Dr hod suggested suother Irish amsociation. something abont too much devo prosperity. Now, it unfortunately people whom ‘he (Judge tmiy) had had five centuries it of material prosperity— y friend bir, Beale would beat him witness that it had not been very protital Ireland herself or for the country with whic! eomnveted. With jon, therefore, to the Ne had said to material 4 that the honor to repre of experience of the w | Fay ptian prosperity. the tebiccloth, he said that idea ot the present janeture of publ athing of separate and independent part put together a8 a whole, had been found to answer a com mon purpose and a veeful practical ohyect. (Applause. Tt bad Wweted now for at leat two hundred and forty years, and he thought it might be taken as @ pregnant and pertinent example of the durability of independent things and their utility when kept together, With rete. the subject of the dnty of New Pngiand at the iis, he thought that no gentleman of New Eng Hirth oF origin would question the fact that she had done a considerable share ih Bringing about the state of oxiate and the consequences, whatever dd not mean to hoid her accountable meant to refer to the duty of temper: ance and moderation in regard to the pr condition of the country, and the sentiments which agitate it, and alee to refer to the fact that there was a period © perition that of one of the p 1 States of the confederacy, that bad placed herself in a position whieh he did not approve, but whieh, in the fullest spirit of thia meeting, he was most willing to condemn, (Ap- planiae.) There was @ period in the history of New Rng. row, while this country was engaged ina war—to her a mont disstrous war, destroy er Osheries and nearly —when men of great ability, of racter and of mest eincere convictions, as her inn New Englond.town, and, after dac del heration, recommended resistance to certain laws of the Vrited States whieh they regarded unconstitutional and unfnet, It was even enggested. by the then secre: tary of State for the United States, Uhat there were cer ers of that convention whe had conecived the of creating the kingdom of New England and pat. ' Dead ae vere Abeard ae thia seemed now to than, it wae believed by the pope: jar party sustaining the war, and it had been very dif fools, throw h the slow process of balf a century, to eradicate itfrom the convictions of that portion of the Tle mentioned thie, not os a reflection on New ngiand, bot he addressed hie words to a very intelli. gent, theaght(al and sen ible partes of the eoustry, to show the necessity of deliberation, forbearance and mo- eration with respect to the views of another claee of the cominunity and another portion of the country, however misteken these views might be. (Applause) He was glad to hear thie response. for it shewed that he bad not trespassed beyond the bounds of hospitality. His only excuse for the suggestion was his deep love for the country of bis birth (for, though representing the st. Vatrick's Society, bo Wee «native of this conatry) ond for the institutions ander which he washorn, Returning to the old tablecloth he hoped that the separate aod in dependent parts of Uns repablic would outlive it in every sonar of perpetuity. Mr |. Bre vt rose at the lower end of the table ta be allowed to correet Jadee Daly in regard the Hat tford Convention: but there were low! ries of wo,” ond Mr. By. ete ald iat the gentiew.a wold which, when have an opportunity afforded him of 6a) acceptable to his hearers, laughter.) OLD VIRGINIA. Mr. Jas. W. Soutter, the President of the Old Dominio | Xo- ciety, and President of the Band of the Republic, was next called upon. As he roe to |, CHARLIE Sriemon ¢ out, “New Englanders, up, and nine cheers for Old V ginia!” The whole assemblage rose, and the hall re- sounded with their acclamations. ‘Mr. Sourrer said:—On taking mmy seat at your board to- day the first idea conveyed to mind was one which should fill the mind and the heart of every man within th sound of my yoice, and of every person wn this great country. Outhe napkin (holding it up) put upon my plate 1 find the word “Constitution.” (Cheers.) On that I plant myself; on that Virginia bas planted herself, and on that will stand to the end ‘of time, (Loud applause.) ‘The bext idea put into my mind after taking my goat wa one which should fll the mind and heart of all the peopl of the United States. I know what I am saying, when hold up to you (presenting a miniature tug that had bee sent in a bouquet) the stars and the stripes... Tumultuon cheering, which’ was repeated when Mr. Souter very ef fectively opened Nis vest and placed the little flag nex bis heart), Gentlemen, your worthy President most beautiful allusion te wisden, prove wpen it, and I know that t ree from whie quote will be acknowledged by all ef you to be an provement, ‘That wisdom which is from above is firs pure, then bo entreated, ful of ", without’ hy: poers ad applat ‘Vhat, gentlemen, is the wisdom which Lait upon w invoke, That is our only reson ce; and if will plant yourself with me upon that, we shall, at th or the Old Dominion Society in My, be enabled to con- gratulate cach other on having weathered Capo Horn, (Loud ey shall have ed sately between seylla on the on 1 and Chary Didi on the other, Much hes been said about New Kngiatd and New Englanders, and it would ceeupy toa much time now for me to say much here about it. But the halt hap not been saulabout New Eo, % vat ploasure, ani ver stands on the e stitution, and will ever stand en it J will eonelude by ollering & sentiment, one which 1 ly came mito the honse, mud it att dence with this little’ tag wi onto have ig my bosom, and which I intend to carry home and to press there closely. ‘The Stars and the Stripes—Tho Pride of every Patriotic Heart—May they ever be the emblea of true liberty, equality and fraternity t our whole c rye INTRODUCTION AND SPEECH OF HANNIBAL HAMLIN At this period of the evening Senator HLamuy, the Vico President elvet of the United States, who had arrived, on his way from Washington to Maine, was conducted into the ball and introduced to the assewbly, He was greeted with loud aud long continued applause. In acknowiedg- ing this greeting he said:— Mr. Presipent, Ax Sons or New Exorasp—I thank you cordially for this generous reception as a tribute to New England. Appreciating, as I trust Ide, and entertaining, a8 | hope Ido, that fraternal feeling which every citizen of all onr broad land should entertain for every other, 1 yet may say that Iam gratitied in meeting thefsons of New England here. (Applanse.) And I am proud to know that while you have wandered from your native hemes, you have, in art, in letters aud in com mereial enterprise, added to her renown. (Cheers.) Mr. President, while 1 am rejoiced to meet you here, and while | would under other circumstances be happy to mingle in your festivities, a loug and tiresome journey of to-day justities me, 1 t in asking, aud requires of you, that I should be excused from making any extended remarks. ‘Thereupon the Vice President elect resumed his seat, The next toast war— ‘The Judi the Union and of the States, more in bar- mony With each other and with the spirit of good gov Prineiples of jurisprudence matntain with em Ubority of the law and the tree here ik no justice there can be no Liberty, and ¢ there is no Hberty there can be no justice, Ex-Judge Prernxroyr, of this city, responded, He was to speak before popular assera- vst that this Was a popular for he had some reason to enepect that it was the most unpopular assembly that ever assembled in (lnistendom, He bad potived that U ms of Now England were very fond of toasting the judiciary. Thett i vetade a judieary. They hovered it. They up- held it. They stood by it. It stood by then, It pro- tected Chem in their rights, in their property, in ther libertics. Their sous made toasts to the judiciary, very good ones to be sure. ‘This one was amodel. Tt eontain- ed within itself, in a few briet words, @ noble polit) cal speech, a moral essay and a rehgious sentimelt. He coubted whether their fathers could have made so. geod a toast, but they had made a much better system of judiciary than their sons had ever made. They had made laws aud bad introduced @ great sysiem of eivil jew & out of which had sprang this mighty pation, more Weered any on which the sun had ever shoae, until now the nation, drunk wi he wine of its own prosperity, is staggering, It wa into sobriety. (Ap- plause and laughter.) , fnd he, is what our fatuers thought about, You, their rons, inake hter., Then you judiciary as the cause, Who will Jobe It sometimes, ¢ feeble and inefficient get up bere tonight ond tell me what he has ever to the judiciary of New York, what finger he has evr ra to support it, what he hos ever done to give the judges even @ shelter within which to administer justice? (Laught judges are well enough. them. 6. them piace wherein to admmmister justice. Pay them properly, ond my word for it, you Will have no reagon to compiain about the judiciary of the state. This toast aliudes to the judiciary of the United States. That has a little touch of a look toward the Dred Seott decision. I suppose that as Lom the only democrat in the pcm, it is intended to diaw me into fome discussion—trhaps to have me mobbed, or lynched, of somethir «of that sort. (Laugh ter.) Gentlemen, you ask me W bat Ihave to say about the Dred Scott decision, 1 answer, that if your fathers had placed # judicury in Washington, and if that judiciary had made a decision in a case, #0 long aa they” pronounced it to be the law of the land, your fathers: would have stood by it. eo ) Mr. President, the times ave ont of joint. We all admit that, What is the mat- ter? Something is. Sim Draven sotto rore—The democrats are ont of office, Judge PiexrEPovt—the sons of sires who endured such evil# and euch sufferings, ax exnnot be deseribed, to give us thir heritage whieh we enjoy, ehenld, if they honor their memories, try in some degree to practice their vir tues. Let os see whether they are practicing the virtues: of greet and heoneret men. let us be @ little honest with each other tonight. In t ung to avoid their faults we have ceased to pract acme of their virtues, Have we pot? They were anstere men, were sometimes harsh men, Ge some cocasions ahey’ were bi and at tines they were called fanati- eal, but they had at all times a high sense of justice, and a reverence for law, and what i more, they had an an- wavering trust and fi n Ged. Does the faith of the fathers romam stern firm in New. Engiand y Human intellect is now exalted above all fain, and land bes been run into many an error whieh har caneed much mischief to the country. Of these errors to-day reaping the fruits, De you wot all know th abiding faith which once exixted in New has depattea? ‘This comes from intense jove of money. the descendants of the pligrius now come here to this city of the Dut ow what? Tomake money. Allusion has been made to some difficulties that exiet at present. Well, who is responsible for them? It is not for as here toway. But in my yodement they are not very trifling © things which deserve sem: eration on our part ue light, and notte be ® ir brethren at inflaeneed by it all ure locked at in a ser Weare mirtak the Sowth ineiple. ‘They Make. Howey they are einer in it for whieh they or to die, Have wen Is there not seme tau iF part as Well a® on theirs ? Let Ls see whether we cannot contrive some mode by which these dificnities may be removed. Whenever the time shall come that the North is to be called upon toeay whether the government of the United States «hall he sustained in the proper exereise of ite functions, you will find every Northern man deelare himeelf ready to fountain the government which their futhers established. In this nation the time will probably come uipen ne diseover in what besome od and keop their and Mr. Blant war called Auntely started off on the 1 om to respond. But ax tly to at track of the Hartford Cony be called to order, and finally be ylelded the ye down, He was followed by Mr. Matthew Hate Sr the latter by Judge Kalcom, of the Supreme Cont of this } atand alone. State, whe declared 1 hold it to be the daty of all geod citizens to fight for the Union against traitors at the south and ther sympathizers in the North, as long ae two elas of two etriper shall remain on the fag of the nation.” ‘This centiment was hatied with tomaltucus: Re, inidnight, Tt wee now within a quarter of an hour and guests and reporters were preparing to leave the ball when Mr. Eyarts made the announcement thet he @ distinguished ptatesman who arrested the exodns. few When the latter was introduesd to the moltaneous onthoret of enthasiaem broke forth, and the loud ebeering lasted for several minutes. When i had subsided Mr. Seward proceeded to speak as follows = WM. H. BEWARD'S SPEECH, Friiow Cremese—My friend, Mr. Evarts, 1 believe, ts acting as Chairman of Comniltice here Pre «omething of that so Tdonet exactly understand what Coming a stranger a+ 1 do to the Astor Hense (la am put under dures ae voon ae I get here browght down (rom my own pry That te alt Tv ow shout myrett or be ghtor bot f find yo noMe. Beene ith t 4 iw behead 1 yD 10) te OY wu ewer ent. or | 2 Plevibur Cwm | | iter) T | tater and am | 1 will epenk PRICE’ TWO CENTS. ing whatever was | presiding officer or speaker, or something of ‘that per Mr. Draper has intimated to me that you're all Yankees (A voice—VYes, we are), acd thought it as likely as not that youwere, Therefore, 1 suppose that T migit as well all doubt about myself at rest at once, and anticipate all your inquiries, (All this Mr, Seward said in the drollest manner imaginable, with the thumb of each hand inone of his vest pockets, and with a comic cast of countenance.) I left Anbura this morning at vine o’eloek— (a pause)—after breakfast—-(another pause)—I got here at rathe lute hour, for rather @ late dinner. (A voice— “Did you come by the Express train?”’) Teame by the express train, interregatories.) Nothing particular happened me on the Way—(rears of laughter)—except that Tmight as well anticipate the Express on Monday morning, 18 1 did mot. anticipate the Eepress last Monday morning, by saying thay low Weed in the ears. (Langhter). What did he «ry? Yaukeo comes oat at onee, eid. Now, Tam not « and blood in me, and I de not answer impertinent tions. (Langhter.) (wilt hot tell what he said to me. Twill only tell what Isai? to haw, and that was that I repuciated—(an explosion of Ja gliter)—ll compromise whatsoover, whieh New York, Peunyslvania aud New Engiind coula not stand upon. 1 learned from him that he had been in spring field, in the State of Ulinois, 1 suppose you weuld all like to what he told wi he learned there. » and shouts of “ Yes." 1 will give you the b ion T can. He prints « newspaper called the Avening Journat. He is a man of trnth, | believe, and if he ie and wants to tell what he learned you can get it in his newspaper. (Laughter.) But I have somehow got off from the direct course of my ument. I began to tell you about myself, and somehow or other Ihave got to tetliag about Mr. Weed and his journey to Springiield. [may as well go in this indirect way tll I get back to my direct road. I met the Governor geing up to Albany. He did not toll me exactly, bat I bad a strong suspicion from bis appearance generally, and from some hints which he dropped, that Charles Stetson, of the Astor House, woukl probably be inspector General of the State of New York. (Laughter.) 1 jadgo so because the Governor asked me my opinion about Mr, Stetson, I told him that, at a tavern keeper, I did dot know a great deal in bis favor, but that as a mili- tary officer, [ thought be had no superior—(roars of laughter)—and that if it should turn ont that the State of Florida should invade the State of New York ja these troubles of ours, I did not know any mau bettor to send out to meet them than Charles Stetson—(uproarious lwuehter)—who would disarm them of all hostility by Dringing theta into a supper like this at the Astor House. Fellow citizen?—he continued, in a more serious tone— these are extraordinary things that are happening inour day. Tremember that it was the men of New England, who lived only twoor three times as long ago as I have lived, - and 4s my friend, Mr. Joseph Grinnell, has lived, whom I am gad to seo here, Lhope he is gounder in his polities then he was the last time I heard of him. (Laughter.) I hope be is as gound as his brether Moses. It is only twice as long ago as we have lived, I say, since these men of New England invented the greatest political discovery: in the world—the confederation of republican States. ‘The first confederation of repoblican States in America was the invention of New England. I have always admired and respected the people of New England for that great discovery which, after haying been put into successful ope- ration in the colonies of Mastachusetts Bay, and Plymouth | and Connecticut, and New Haven, came ultimately, after having been sanctioned by the wisdom and experience of Dr. Franklin, to be adopted by the people of the thirteen. Biitish colonies on this continent, south of the St, Law- rence. It has been reserved for our day, and for thit very hour, to see an inpoyation of another kind, of au opposite nature, by @ portion of our countrymen re- ‘siding south of the Potomac . The Yankees invented con- federation. Tb people of South Carolina have invented secension. The wisdem of the latter is now to be tried in comparison with the experience of the former. At the first’ felance it exhibits this #igular anomaly— that of @ Statg which has in the Senate of the United Statem two seats, and in the House of Representativer” sit members, cach of them paid *5,000 a year out of a treasury to which they contribate only 4 small part—a State consisting of 700,000 people of all conditions, and of whom 274,000 are white, going out of the Union, to stand by itself, and sending to the Con- gress of the United States three Commissioners to stand outside of the bar to negotiate for their interests, and to be paid by herself, instead of having two Senators and six Representatives in Congress on an equality with all the other States, This is the experiment that ie to be tried by States on this continent—whether they will find it wiser to occupy seats within the Congress of the United States, and to have their representatives paid by the United States for coming there, or in lien of that, to send Commissioners to present their claims and their rights at the bar of the United States, without the privilege of veting on their ‘own claims, and to be paid for by the States themselves. ‘This is the laet political invention of the times. J nook not say to you that I do nok think it is likely to be foll et by many viher States on this continent, or to be persereret in lomg, Lecause it ie manifestly very much inferior (0 the system that already exists. (Applause.) The state of South Carolina desires to go out, duet at this moment Tam going back to Waehington for the parpose of admitting the State of Kansas in; and J venture to say that for every State on this continent that will go out of the Union, there stank already wasting, at least too States that will be gai wo come wa amk take their place, (Land Cheers.) ‘They will do so for this > ople reason—that every State ‘om the continent of North American will be a demo cratic or republican State. You, gentlemen of New Hug. land, co pot like always to hear the word democratic. I will, therefore, use the word republican, No republican Stateon this continent or any other can mand alone, That is on imporsitility. And the reason is @ simple one, So much liberty, #0 much personal independence, euch seope emulation and ambition as a free republic giver, where universal suffrage existe, oo much for any one State standing alone to maintain, ‘Therefore it is,as you have seen, that the moment it was thenght that secession had commenced in thee great national confederw y of ours, you begun to hear At onee of #ecersion, not only in South Carolina, bat of se- om in Califor toa, secession in New Englattl, and lastly, you begin to hear of seerssion of New York city and Long Ieland from the State of New York. (lavghier) They are right In all thie, Dissolve this fy «» Cylon, and there © not one State that can stand without renewing perpetually the process of secession am til we are brooght to the condition of the states of Central Ainerica—pitiful States upable to stand alone, No, gen Hemen, republican States are lke the sheaves in the bar- vest field, Put them up singly. and every gust blows them down, *tack them together, and they defy all the winds of heaven. (Tumultnous applause.) And #0 you howe seen that these thirteen republican states all came to the convietion, cach of them, that tt could not «tand alone, and the thirteen came together, and you have seen other Stace added to them, The State of Michigan, the Stato of Ty ot Tilinot, the tate of Wisconsin, the and the State of [ocieiana—what under heaven Kept cach of these States from fretting ap for iteelf and Hid wat | ecoming independent? Nothing, but that It could not And they aro ready to be waited to other republionn States om this continent, 80 it owas with Texas, “he owes Indepanddont. Why did #he not remain so? You Know how meh it tried us to admit her Into the Union, but it tried ber mneh harder te ont oe long as ehe did. Why is not Kaneas content to remain out? Simply because of the sympathy and the interest which makes it needfat that all republican States on thie continent shall be united in one. Let South Carolina, tt Alabama, let Louiriana— Let ony other Slate go oul, and while they are ruthing out you wilt wee Canoda and af the Mencan States rushing in to fll op the vacuum. (Load applanse.) It is the wisdom diseovered by oor fathers which is all concen, trated in these three words of such pregnant meanings (Lond applowe.) ‘There ie no such rom the many, in repeblican And now, fellow eitizma, yore Une anoinaloos condition thing ae one, separate Tplea: cone Awerlean Sta tw pecete from the Union, thos tok, wet oeght ty Baws token, the Amorioan wt t ype vy be it tee (Another pause, as if waiting for farther «