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. 2 7 Orange, and see again, as they tear away his shirt to staunch the wound, the Beggar's Penny around his neck, stained with his patriot blood. 0 little land of the mighty few! Again we read the truce in those eighty years of war, and see, before the ink was dry upon that treaty of peace, the Hay Moon dash bravely across the unknown sea and cast its anchor off the island of the Mana- hattoes. ,VV e see the other ships that come with hardy men and women to settle these shores. In vision their lives of struggle and privation come before us, and we see those old homes of our great- grandsires, built of stone and heavy timbers, made not for time but for eternity. To-night we see again those strong-willed men, whose eyes looked you straight,-and whose hands gripped you true. And by the hearthstones we see again the broad, benignant brows of those grand dames of ours, where love and purity and tender mercy sat on their throne I Oh, you men from Jersey hills and meadows, and the Catskills, from the Hackensack, the Rondout, the Mohawk, from Long 'Island's baysand shores, from I-ludson's mighty river- will you forget? Nogiby the God of our fathers, and these colors that float above us, we shall re- member! A A .I ks f,-Q NJ sg gfei ':'QE:ff'g.1' Zji-1-11522',33:.5y:rQ?:f 2 -j Q ..-.
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S a y Agn, . S Q l i as tl , W D y S ADDRESS OF JUDGE GILDERSLEEVE. - N1EUw AMSTERDAM THE BUDg I! NEW YORK THE FULL-BLOWN FLOWER. And if on daily scandals fed, We seem at times to doubt thy worth, We know thee still, when all is said, The best and dearest spot. on earth. Mr. President and Gentlemen : - HERE is New York? It will be con- ceded that this is a proper inquiry at the outset of a response to the toast that has been assigned to me. Some years ago, a well-known New York gentleman, trav- elling in Egypt, wished to communicate with his Wall Street office by telegram. He wrote out his message and passed it in to the clerk, Who, upon reading it, much surprised my friend by asking, Where is New York? The shocked banker pulled himself together, and the best reply he could make was, It is opposite 'jersey City. ,It is not my purpose to introduce you to-night to New York, by way of Jersey City, and Spend the evening around the Battery. I ask your kind 28 A
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