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But, fellow citizens, I congratulate you upon this auspicious occasion, and in answer to my toast, and so far as I have the hon- or to represent Massachusetts as a Member of Congress from the Second District, I bring you salutations of the nation and the Commonwealth.
It seems almost impossible for us to roll back the tide of time for two hundred and fifty years and realize, in the language of an- other, that "where you now sit, surrounded by all that adorns and embellishes civilized life, the rank thistle nodded in the wind and the wild fox dug his hole unscared; beneath the same moon that now shines on you the Indian lover wooed his dusky mate, and here lived and loved another race of beings."
But why should you celebrate this day? Why should the sons and daughters of Taunton from every section, from every clime, from over the sea, return to their native town and city, to the home of their fathers? I remember to have read the reply of an Indian chief, a copper colored son of the forest, to the demand of a United States Commissioner that he and his people should leave their lands and remove to a distant reservation. The Red man pleaded, in pathetic tone, "that in this valley his tribe had lived for centuries ; here they had held communion with the Great Spirit; they heard his voice in the thunder and in the rushing water; they saw his tears in the rain drops, and in this valley the bones of their fathers were buried." You can at least plead that here the bones of your fathers were buried, men who knew no fear but the fear of God.
It is said, that the sailors of Columbus on approaching this shore across a trackless and unknown ocean, detected strange, spicy and sweet odors in the air. They were still prisoners in their little ships, nothing but the boundless ocean in sight, shore- less, trackless, but they knew the land was near.
The unknown ocean of the future and eternity stretches out before you to-day, but in the reminiscences of the past you to-day recall the forms and faces of loved ones gone on before, and joy- ous anticipations of a heavenly reunion are wafted to you from the better land. Unseen hands are beckoning you to a higher, nobler, grander manhood and womanhood. "What mean ye by these stones? " In answer, I repeat a remark I made over the graves of our fallen comrades on Memorial evening, in yonder hall. The father of Hannibal once brought his son into the presence of the Carthagenian army, and on his bended knee taught him to swear eternal hatred to the Romans. Let us bring our sons and daugh- ters to this Memorial occasion, and pledge them anew to everlast- ing love of liberty, of our free institutions, of our free schools, as
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our fathers made them, and everlasting hatred of tyrants and oligarchies.
The Apostle Paul on his journey to Rome came to the place of Appii Forum, and the Three Taverns, and it is recorded the brethren came out to meet him, and "he thanked God and took courage."
Citizens of Taunton, you have' struck the Three Taverns and Appii Forum to-day and on this Two Hundred and Fiftieth An- niversary, as you review the past and anticipate a glorious future, you may thank God and take courage.
George A. Shove, Esq., of Dighton, was prepared to respond to a call from the Toastmaster, for the "South Purchase, " as follows :-
Mr. Toastmaster :-
I should prefer that a person more accustomed to public speaking than myself had been chosen to respond to this toast.
One of my ancestors, the Rev. George Shove, third minister of Taunton, and one of the grantees in the deeds from the Sachem Philip of the land that is now the town of Dighton, had some reputation for eloquence in the good Old Colony days, when, as Wendell Phillips once said, the air was black with sermons, but his mantle as an orator has not fallen upon myself.
If it were bleak November instead of early June, this occasion would remind one strongly of Thanksgiving time, when the child- ren, after long absence, return to the old homestead to see the folks and enjoy a good dinner. Dighton, Berkley, Raynham, Nor- ton, Easton and Mansfield, worthy children of Taunton, not a black sheep among them,-though it might be supposed by one who took all this bountiful preparation of fatted calves and other delicacies to be solely on their account, that they were long lost prodigals, over whom there was great rejoicing,-are all here to- day and bring their congratulations at the evidences of prosperity they see around them.
Of the many things for which Taunton is to be congratulated it is hardly my province to speak, even if time permitted, but I may mention, from its connection with this celebration, the Old Colony Historical Society, whose headquarters are one of the at- tractive resorts of the city. If such societies had been common in past ages history would be a more satisfactory study than it is. Hardly a year passes in which some of our long fixed beliefs, dril- led into us at school, are not proved to be either false or apocry-
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phal, so that it would not be very surprising if there were a pre- vailing Pyrrhonism in regard to many of the unassailable facts of history. And the iconoclasts are still at work smashing our idols. One of the latest assaults of these gentry is upon what has been considered an undoubted historical fact for many generations. We had hardly got used to the deposal of Cristoval Colon as the first discoverer of America, and the installation of Leif Ericsson, the Norseman, in his place, when now comes a French investigator who proves, at least to his own satisfaction, that America was not named for Amerigo Vespucci, but for the Amerique mountains, and that Vespucci's prenomen was not Amerigo but Ameligo.
Will there be any such doubt in the distant future over the prominent events of to-day as there is now over those of the re- mote past. It seems impossible, yet it may be that in that far off day when Macaulay's New Zealander shall be seen sitting on a broken arch of London Bridge sketching the ruins of St. Paul's, there will be a warm controversy somewhere on this planet over the question whether it was Harrison and Morton, or some other persons who were President and Vice President of the United States in this year of grace, 1889.
The main points in the history of Dighton have been given in Judge Bennett's able address and, after the feast of good things of which we have partaken, you would hardly thank me if I brought on a dish of dry dates. One of the Schlegels, I do not now recall which of the two philosophic German brothers it was, advanced the dictum that a historian should be a prophet looking backward. We are all historians, in a certain sense, to-day, and it will not be out of place for one of us, instead of going over the past to use the other prerogative of the historian and take a brief look into what the future probably has in store.
It needs no special gift of prophecy to believe that there are persons in this hall who, if Taunton encourages her manufacturing industries as she ought, will see within her corporate limits a pop- ulation of a hundred thousand people. Her already magnificent fleet of coasters will have grown with her growth and will, perhaps, include vessels for foreign trade. The narrow, shallow, and tor- tuous channel up to the enterprising village at the Weir, which now lets out her larger craft-her inaccessibility to her own fleet reminding one of the jest about a shipwreck on the coast of Bohe- mia, an analogue to which would be a shipwreck on the coast of Oklahoma-will, long before the time we are considering, if it is not so already, be totally inadequate to the needs of her commer- cial marine; where, then, will be the headquarters of her maritime activity ? It will inevitably be at the nearest available point on
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the river, which is at Dighton, where it ought to be now. The channel, at that place, runs for nearly two miles close to the shore, forming admirable sites for spacious wharves. The river broadens into a lake-like expanse; there is a fair depth of water now and, with a little outlay for dredging at two or three points, not enough to reduce our uncle's surplus to any alarming extent, there would be depth sufficient for even a five master, like the Governor Ames.
It is understood by those in a position to know that it would not be very difficult to induce the Old Colony Railroad Company to remove its upper bridge and find a way to Fall River and New- port for its western branch by way of the Slade's Ferry bridge, which would leave the way fairly open to the sea. As the port of entry and maritime headquarters of Taunton for large craft, Weir Village still being the headquarters for smaller vessels, Dighton would become a thriving seaport and would be to your city what Leith is to Edinburgh or the Piræus to Athens. Taunton would ex- tend its avenues of residences and business blocks far down stream to meet more than half way its great need, an accessible seaport of its own close at hand. Then would be vindicated the judgment of Capt. Thomas Coram, founder of the city of Halifax and of the London Foundling Hospital, who, nearly two hundred years ago. came over from England and set up large shipyards in the Taunton South Purchase, now the town of Dighton.
Our town is now chiefly noted for two things-for the pro- duction of that luscious fruit, of which a quaint English writer made the oft quoted remark that "doubtless God could have made a better berry but doubtless God never did," and for having its name connected with that inscribed monolith, or bowlder, which lies, half buried in the mud on the eastern bank of the river, which has so long been a bone of contention to archaeologists, and the rudely drawn characters on the face of which are so obscure and indeter- minate that, with a little aid from the imagination, they may be made to support almost any theory as to their genesis.
When the changes that I have briefly touched upon-which is all that can be done in the few minutes allowed for this post-pran- dial talk-shall have been brought about by Father Time's whirli- gig, and that day may not be very distant, our town will be noted among other things, for the many gallant craft which will arrive at and clear from its wharves, for the manufacturing industries which will spring up in connection with its commerce, and for the hun- dreds of handsome villas which will adorn the slopes of its hills and the sides of its shaded avenues. It might, indeed, take on such a boom as to consider itself the city and look upon Taunton only as a suburb, (though I trust that none of the Tauntonians
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present will be unduly alarmed at the suggestion,) in that case it could say to its parent as the bumptious youth, who had taken his father into partnership, said, as they stood admiring their new sign with its legend of Timpkins and Father in large letters, "me and you, old boy, will do a staving business. "
I will close by offering this sentiment, may this occasion be the beginning of a closer union, socially and commercially, between Taunton and her river-child, her seaport that is to be, the pleasant, healthy and fertile township of Dighton.
Hon. John E. Sanford was invited to speak for the mother-town in Old England, which he had visited but de- clined. Also, Hon. Charles A. Reed, being called on to re- spond for the General Court, in both branches of which he had served, through lack of time, felt obliged to decline.
The decorations of the banqueting hall were all in good taste and under the direction of the chairman of the commit- tee on decorations, Alderman Edward H. Temple. The table arrangements were successfully carried out by the com- mittee on banquet, of which Alderman Charles S. Anthony was chairman. Reeves' American Band rendered choice se- lections during the progress of the feast. Too much cannot be said in praise of the Beethoven Society, which, under the leadership of Director Soule, both in the morning at Music Hall and in the afternoon at the banquet, rendered most ex- cellent service. This Society since 1847* has been identified with the best interests of music in Taunton and its vicinity, having on its roll of membership such names as Crandell, Sproat, Hodges, Tinkham, Perry, Dunbar, Jackson, Taylor,
*In an interesting article, supposed to be by Capt. J. W. D. Hall, in the Union Gazette and Democrat, of Taunton, Jan. 29, 1874, it is stated "the Beethoven Society was organized in 1821." Among its members were "Abieser Dean, Jotham Colburn, Benj. Seaver, James and Wm. A. F. Sproat, Thomas C. Brown. Dea. Jazaniah Sum- ner, Zephaniah L. Hodges, Elias and Nathan Fisher, Gen, Cromwell Washburn, John W. Seabury, Wm. B. Crandell, Richmond Dean, Col. Adoniram Crane, of Berkley, Ellis Hall, Otis and Caleb S. Washburn, of Raynham, Julia Dean, Nancy Sproat, Abby Ingell, Eliza Seabury, Eleanor Dean, Mary Shaw, Nancy Hall, Polly Hood. Col. S. Fobes, of Bridgewater, was Director, Jotham Colburn, instrumental leader, and James Sproat, Secretary."
Oliver Shaw, who was eminent as a musician, originated in Tannton. The First Beethoven, afterward taking the name of Mozart, ceased to exist and the Beethoven of 1847 was virtually a new organization.
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Dean, Soule, Winch, Bridgham, Abbott, Clemson, Goss, Woodward, Lovering, Rhodes, Paige, Cutler, Hayman, Mon- roe, Fuller, Lord, Totten, Richards, Reed, Wood, Fish, French, and hundreds of others which are now and for long years have been associated with song in this region. The rehearsals of this Society, under the direction of Mr. Zerrahn, largely contribute toward the success of the autumnal three days' festival of the South Eastern Massachusetts Musical Association ; of this as of the Beethoven Society, Mr. Lean- der Soule is an active member, having belonged to the latter since 1851, and been a large part of the time its director. Wm. B. Crandell will long be remembered as the first presi- dent of the Beethoven Society in its re-organized form and a great promoter of music, both vocal and instrumental.
Taunton has not been wanting in musical composers since Sumner wrote his remarkable Ode on Science and had it sung in the latter part of the last century at the opening of Bristol Academy. Our recent celebration suggested the compositions which are to be found on the following pages. They were sung, with excellent effect, at intervals during the progress of the after-dinner exercises.
The Anniversary Ode was sung by the following quar- tette :- Mrs. Cora Elizabeth Rhodes, first soprano; Miss Emily Hayman, second soprano; Mr. Thomas Lord, tenor ; Mr. Arthur Barton Totten, basso.
The Trio was rendered, under the direction of Mr. Soule, as follows :- First soprano, Mrs. Cora Elizabeth (Dyer) Rhodes, Mrs. Hannah Fifield Abbott, Miss Caroline Thomas Cutler ; first alto, Mrs. Abbie Grinnell (Barrell) Goss, Mrs. Helen Otis (Briggs) Monroe, Mrs. Mary Louise (Park) Paige ; second alto, Miss Elizabeth Speight Cutler, Miss Emily Hayman, Mrs. Martha (Allen) Hanson.
FESTIVAL ODE.
Words by Mrs. Eleanor S. Deane. Music by George W. Dean.
1. Ye cit - i-zens of Taun-ton, Who love her fair re -
2. They founded homes and churches, And schools; they tilled the
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nown, Give hon - or to the men of worth Who built this olden soil; They taught their sons the fear of God; They lived by honest
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Who braved the sav - age wil - der - ness,
for - get the few ers to our sires, Were of - ten lodged be - neath their roofs
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Whose hearts were strong and true, Who braved the sav - age And seat - ed by their fires,
Were of - ten lodged be -
dim.
wil - der - ness neath their roofs,
Whose hearts
And sea -
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strong by
and their
true. fires.
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They brought from " Merrie England" The love of liberty, Were loyal-but not England's self Might dare oppress the free. Among the sisterhood of towns First Freedom's flag to raise ; For honor, conscience, country, law, Alert in later days. 4.
Such were our city's founders ; Such have their children been ; And generous deeds and peaceful arts Still keep their memory green. We cannot name them in our song, But cherish in our heart, And in old Taunton's fair renown Would bear a filial part.
ANNIVERSARY HYMN.
Words by Mrs. Eleanor S. Deane. Music by Annie M. (Soule)-Lewis.
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faith - ful - ly wrought as
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men of worth who with heart and hand, For right and for truth they have
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ours and fame's; And for aye in our songs shall live.
After last verse only.
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spin - dles play, Taun - ton bids
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spin - dles play, Taun - ton bids good com - ers stay.
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ours and fame's; And their faith is our her - i - tage.
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INVITED GUESTS OF THE CITY.
Benjamin Harrison, President U. S. A., and wife; Levi Parsons Mor- ton, Vice President, U. S. A., and wife; Oliver Ames, Governor of Mas- sachusetts, and Staff; John Quincy Adams Brackett, Lieut .- Governor of Massachusetts; Herbert Warren Ladd, Governor of Rhode Island, and Staff; Henry Laurens Dawes, U. S. Senator front Massachusetts; George Frisbie Hoar, U. S. Senator from Massachusetts; Charles Sturtevant Randall, Representative in Congress from 1st Mass. Dist. ; Elijah Adams Morse, Representative in Congress from 2d Mass. Dist. ; Arthur Webster Tufts, member of the Governor's Council, Massachusetts; Henry Bailey Peirce, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Harris Cowdrey Hartwell, President of the Massachusetts Senate; William Emerson Barrett, Speaker of the Mass. House of Representatives; Mel- ville Weston Fuller, Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; Marcus Morton, and wife, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachu- setts; Lincoln Flagg Brigham, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Mass. ; Elliott Sandford, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah; Hiram Putnam Harriman, Judge of Probate, Barnstable County, Mass .; Benjamin Winslow Harris, Judge of Probate, Plymouth County Mass .; George White, Judge of Probate, Norfolk County, Mass .; Charles Gideon Davis, Judge 3d Dist. Court, Plymoutli Mass. ; Simeon Borden, Clerk of the Courts, Fall River, Mass. ; Caleb Benjamin Tillinghast, State Librarian, Boston, Mass. ; Justin Winsor, Librarian, Harvard Uni- versity, Cambridge, Mass .; John Davis Washburn, U. S. Minister to Switzerland; William Thomas Davis, Trustee, Pilgrim Society, Ply- mouth, Mass .; William Seaver Danforth, Register of Deeds and Sec. Pilg. Society, Plymouth, Mass. ; John Ward Dean, Sec. of the New Eng- land Hist. Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass .; Amos Perry, Sec. and Librarian, Rhode Island Hist. Society, Providence, R. I. ; Reuben Al- dridge Guild, Librarian, Brown University, Providence, R. I .; George Edward Ellis, Rev., President, Mass. Historical Society, Boston, Mass. ; Charles Henry Payne, Rev., Sec. Board of Education, M. E. church, New York city; Henry Martyn Dexter, Rev., New Bedford and Boston, Mass .; Phillips Brooks, Rev., Boston, Mass. ; George Edward Street, Rev., Exe- ter, New Hampshire; Richard Salter Storrs, Rev., Brooklyn, N. Y .; Rufus Emery, Rev., Newburgh, N. Y .; Thomas James Conaty, Rev., Worcester, Mass .; Benjamin Henry Paddock, Bishop, Boston, Mass .; Thomas Marsh Clark, Bishop, Providence, R. I. ; Martin Harkins, Bishop, Providence, R. I .; William Andrew Leonard, Bishop, Gambier, Ohio; Thomas Hubbard Vaill, Bishop, Topeka, Kansas; Darius Nash Couch, General, and wife, Norwalk, Conn. ; Ebenezer Weaver Peirce, General, Freetown, Mass. ; Charles Jackson Paine, General, Boston, Mass. ; James Burrill Angell, President, University, Ann Arbor, Michigan; John
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Ordronaux, Professor, Columbia College, New York city; Daniel Smith Talcott, Professor, Emeritus, Theological Seminary, Bangor, Maine; William Maxwell Evarts, U. S. Senator from New York; George Ban- eroft, Washington, D. C., and Newport, R. I .; John Greenleaf Whittier, Amesbury and Danvers, Mass .; Robert Charles Winthrop, Brookline and Boston, Mass .; John Davis Long, Hingham and Boston, Mass .; Robert Treat Paine, Waltham and Boston, Mass .; Charles Francis Adams, Quincy and Boston, Mass. ; Frederick Lothrop Ames, North Easton and Boston, Mass .; Samuel Crocker Cobb, Taunton and Boston, Mass .; Oliver Prescott, New Bedford, Mass .; Alexander Hamilton Rice, Boston, Mass .; George Dexter Robinson, Chicopee, Mass .; William Wallace Crapo, New Bedford, Mass .; Robert Thompson Davis, Fall River, Mass .; Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, Concord, Mass .; Moses Gage Leonard, Brook- lyn, N. Y .; William Henry Leonard, Newcastle, N. Y .; Joseph Hartwell Williams, Augusta, Maine; James Phinney Baxter, Portland, Maine; Josiah Hayden Drummond, Portland, Maine; Marquis Fayette King, Portland, Maine; John Wilson Smith, Providence, R. I .; Charles Wood- bury Thrasher, Springfield, Missouri; Llewellyn Deane, Washington, D. C .; Thomas Merriam Stetson, New Bedford, Mass .; John Summerfield Brayton, Fall River, Mass .; James Madison Morton, Fall River, Mass .; Enoch Pratt, Baltimore, Md .; Matthew Gault Emery, Washington, D. C .; Elisha Clark Leonard, New Bedford, Mass .; Alfred Mason Williams, Providence, R. I .; Charles Harrison Tweed, New York city; William Dexter Marvel, Brooklyn, N. Y .; Charles Deane, Cambridge, Mass .; George Augustus Crocker, New York city; Chester Allyne Reed, North Attleboro', Mass .; James Heron Crosman, New York city; William Thomas Crandell, Providence, R. I .; Niels Arnzen, Fall River, Mass .; Curtis Guild, and wife, Boston, Mass .; Stephen Holbrook Rhodes, Bos- ton, Mass .; Samuel Leonard Crocker, Naples, Italy; Arthur Kinglake, Justice of the Peace, County of Somerset, Taunton, England; Jolin Mar- shall, Taunton, Somersetshire, England; Wilfred George Marshall, Taunton, Somersetshire, England; Edwin Sloper, Taunton, Somerset- shire, England; Mayor and Corporation, Taunton Borough, Somerset- shire, England; Henry Rodney Barker, Mayor, Providence, R. I. ; Almon Kent Goodwin, Mayor, Pawtucket, R. I. ; Henry V. A. Joslin, City Clerk, Providence, R. I .; Cyrenius A. Newcomb, Detroit, Michigan.
Members of the Massachusetts Mayors' Club, Present or Past Mayors of Cities :-
Thomas N. Hart, Hugh O'Brien, Boston; Samuel Winslow, Worces- ter; Charles D. Palmer, James C. Abbott, Lowell; James F. Jackson, John W. Cummings, Fall River; Henry H. Gilmore, William E. Russell, Cambridge; Alvan E. Mack, Alexander B. Bruce, Lawrence; Asa T. Newhall, George D. Hart, Lynn; Edward S. Bradford, Elisha Burr May. nard, Springfield; John M. Raymond, Salem; Walter Clifford, Morgan
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