LORD COLERIDGE AT BOSTON.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1008, 24 November 1883, Page 4

LORD COLERIDGE AT BOSTON.

f The Boston correspondent of the Daily JVews. telegraphs a report of a speech delivered by .Lord Coleridge at r tne bariquet at Boston, and says that his Lordship won the heart of Boston thereby. Lord Coleridge said : ■“ You have a history of which any commonwealth may justly be proud. You bred, Franklin, Webster, Joseph Story,and Theodore Parker. Web'whose hand I Was privileged as a boy atr Eton to press when he was in England, arid whose eloquence, I have humbly studied since ; Story, a -household word with every English lawyer ; Theodore Parker, perhaps one ! pf ybur highest and greatest souls. Hawthorne, if you will forgive the expression of. a foreigner, is perhaps, taken altogether, almost your foremost man of letters; Longfellow, the delight arid' dkrling of two hemispheres; Dr. Holmes, the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table—the autocrat, if he chose, of every dinner table too, but there I am told he is content to play the part of a constitutional sovereign; Emerson, as broad and strong as one of your long rivers, and as pure; Mr Lowell, I am prOuji to say, my own honest friend and your representative at this moment in ray own country. Like Garrick in Reynold’s picture, he excels either in tragedyV on comedy, and delightful whetfigr . as., Hosea Bigelow or James-. Russell Lowell;. Skilled with equal - genius to move the hearts of his readers to smiles or tears. And Mf- Howells, the last of your American - invaders, vtho has taken England by storm. These are your glories —these theS tJqeiS who make your history, and of whom you ought to be proudi” In' his concluding remarks Lord -Coleridge says : “ England and , America are one in blood, in language, ’in law—one in hatred of oppression and love of liberty. We are bound together by God Himself in golden chains of mutual affection and mutual respect; and two nations so joined I am firmjy convinced man will never put asunder*".. It is stated thaLwhen Lord Coleridge resumed his seat “ the whole company rose to their feet and cheered ' id.'-/