AMERICAN SENTIMENT.

Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 11, 1 August 1884, Page 14

AMERICAN SENT IMENT.

Judge Lowell, who retired recently from the United States Circuit Court, was complimented one evening lasi week by a banquet at the Hotel Vendome. Among the speakers was Oliver Wendell Holmes, who, after referring to Judge Lowell’s learning, fairness, and devotion to duty, said: “T will not say more of the living : I wish to speak of the dead. In respectfully proposing the memory of his great-oreat-grandmother, I am speaking of one whom few, if any, of you can remember. Yet her face is as familiar to me as that of any member of my household. She looks upon me as I sit at my writing table ; she never smiles; she never speaks; even the parrot on her hand has never opened his beak ; but there she sits, calm, unchanging, as when the rude, untutored artist fixed her features on the canvas. To think that one little word from the lips of Dorothy Quincy jour great-great-grandmother, my great-grandmother, decided the question whether you and I should be here tonight, whether we should be anywhere or remain two bodiless dreams of Nature ! But it was Dorothy Quincy’s yes or no to Edward Jackson which was to settle that important matter, important to you and me, certainly; yes, your honor, and I can say truly, as I look at you and remember your career, important to this and the whole American community.” Dr. Holmes concluded by offering the following: “The memory of Dorothy Jackson, born Dorothy Quincy, to whose choice of the right monosyllabic we owe the presence of our honored guest and all that his life has achieved for the welfare of the community.”