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Banquet at the Metropolitan Opera House April 30th 1889, given in honor of the centennial of the inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States [program, seating plan, and ticket]. BANQUET At the Metropolitan Opera House APRIL 30TH 1889, Given in honor of the CENTENNIAL OF THE INAUGURATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. HAMILTON FISH, President. ELBRIDGE T. GERRY, Chairman. Ex. Com. HUGH J. GRANT, Chairman CLARENCE W. BOWEN, Secretary. Entertainment Committee. Stuyvesant Fish, CHAIRMAN. William Waldorf Astor, S.L.M. Barlow, Wm. B. Beekman, Robert Goelet, William Jay, Stephen H. Olin, Wm. E. D. Stokes, William K. Vanderbilt, Egerton L. Winthrop, Gouverneur Morris. SECRETARY. 1789 Banquet at the Metropolitan Opera House April 30th 1889, given in honor of the centennial of the inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States [program, seating plan, and ticket]. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.1290460b GRACE Henry C. Potter Bishop of New-York 1 ADDRESS OF WELCOME David B. Hill Governor of the State of New-York The State of New-York welcomes to-day the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the National Government, and the representatives of forty-two States; as a century ago she welcomed Washington, his Cabinet, and the Congress of the old Thirteen, which in this city added the bill of rights to the National Constitution. May our fidelity to that Constitution so guard the rights of both the States and the people to civil and religious freedom, and to republican government based on universal education, that the centuries as they pass may swell our acclaim, God Save the American Republic! John Jay. 2 GEORGE WASHINGTON 2 3 THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES Grover Cleveland Ex-President of the United States Not a mob, nor an oligarchy, nor a class; but the great force of American patriotism, conscience, intelligence, energy and industry, the only sure foundation of States, the sole hope of the Republic; of which George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the truest types in American history. George William Curtis. 4 THE STATES Fitzhugh Lee Governor of the State of Virginia Daughters of Liberty, born amid the throes of Revolution, thirteen clinging to the Atlantic have become forty-two reaching to the Pacific. The century leaves them as it found them, an indestructible Union of indestructible States. William Wirt Henry. 5 THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION Melville W. Fuller Chief-Justice of the United States The consummation of former political wisdom, the trust of the present age, the guide for all coming nations. George Bancroft. Banquet at the Metropolitan Opera House April 30th 1889, given in honor of the centennial of the inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States [program, seating plan, and ticket]. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.1290460b 3 6 THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES James G. Blain Secretary of State The first branch of Congress provided for in the Constitution, and the subject of the only speech in the Convention made by Washington. In the language of George Mason, “the grand depository of the Democratic principle of the Government,” to which has been assigned a full, co-equal share in the National Legislation, together with the sole power of Impeachment, the origination of all the Bills for raising Revenue, and, in the last resort, the choice of the President of the United States. The vital element of our Republican System, without which there can be, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, no “Government of the People, by the People, for the People.” May its rightful authority and dignity ever be maintained and upheld, both by its own officers and members, and by the millions of voters whom they are privileged to represent. Robert C. Winthrop, Senior Surviving Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. 7 THE SENATE John W. Daniel United States Senator from Virginia An elective body dependent upon no prerogatives of Royalty, Church or Descent. Able in its statesmanship, wise and practical in its Legislative and Executive functions, the most distinguished of all Legislative bodies, and a bulwark in defense of our free institutions. Hannibal Hamlin, Sole surviving Vice-President of the United States. 4 8 THE PRESIDENCY Rutherford B. Hayes Ex-President of the United States May the good people of these United States never weary of searching for a second Washington to fill the place. John Quincy Adams. 9 THE JUDICIARY William M. Evarts United States Senator from New-York A learned, upright and fearless Judiciary is the strong bulwark of Constitutional Government. Without such Judiciary no free institutions can exist; with it they will not perish. So long as the spirit and example of Marshall and Taney, Kent and Shaw, pervade and inspire our Courts, liberty in law shall abide with and bless the land of Washington. Banquet at the Metropolitan Opera House April 30th 1889, given in honor of the centennial of the inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States [program, seating plan, and ticket]. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.1290460b William Henry Harrison Miller, Attorney-General of the United States. 10 THE ARMY AND NAVY William Tecumseh Sherman General In four wars each has done its full duty in the creation, defense, enlargement, and preservation of our nation; but the dignity of our country requires renewed attention to the farewell counsel of Washington, so that international emergencies may be met without hasty and inadequate preparation. Robert T. Lincoln, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Great Britain. 5 11 OUR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES Charles W. Eliot President of Harvard University Established by the wisdom and foresight of the Founders of our Nation; the support and stay of civil and religious liberty; they should be jealously guarded and fostered as the dispensers of virtue and intelligence, on which depend the welfare and perpetuity of our Republican Institutions. Henry Drisler, Acting President of Columbia College. 12 OUR LITERATURE James Russell Lowell The welfare of a people, small or great Depends upon the State, Whose ample laws they justify, because They help to shape those laws. Their glory rests on letters, which create A more enduring State; For what is best remembered among men Is not the Sword, but Pen. Richard Henry Stoddard. 6 13 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Benjamin Harrison President of the United States Sceptres and thrones the morning realms have tried; Earth for the people kept her sunset side. Arts, manners, creeds the teeming Orient gave; Freedom, the gift that freights the refluent wave, Pays with one priceless pearl the guerdon due, And leaves the Old World debtor to the New. Long as the watch-towers of our crownless Queen Front the broad oceans that she sits between, May her proud sons their plighted faith maintain, And guard unbroken Union's lengthening chain,— Union, our peaceful sovereign, she alone Can make or keep the Western world our own! Banquet at the Metropolitan Opera House April 30th 1889, given in honor of the centennial of the inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States [program, seating plan, and ticket]. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.1290460b Oliver Wendell Holmes. GENERAL COMMITTEE. Charles H. Adams, Charles F. Allen, E. Ellery Anderson, Chester Alan Arthur, John Jacob Astor, Jr., Wm. Waldorf Astor, Richard T. Auchmuty, Samuel D. Babcock, John S. Barnes, S. L. M. Barlow, Warren C. Beach, Frederick A. Benjamin, J. W. Beekman, Wm. B. Beekman, Robert Lennox Belknap, George Bliss, Cornelius N. Bliss, John H. Bird, Banquet at the Metropolitan Opera House April 30th 1889, given in honor of the centennial of the inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States [program, seating plan, and ticket]. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.1290460b William H. Bissel, Edwin Booth, Samuel Borrowe, H. H. Boyesen, Clarence W. Bowen, James M. Brown, James J. Burnet, Allan Campbell, John L. Cadwalader, Jacob A. Cantor, James C. Carter, Henry Guy Carleton, Alfred C. Cheney, Alexander James Clinton, Floyd Clarkson, Frederick Clarkson, Banyer Clarkson, John Claflin, Charles A. Coe, Moncure D. Conway, Banquet at the Metropolitan Opera House April 30th 1889, given in honor of the centennial of the inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States [program, seating plan, and ticket]. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.1290460b Alfred R. Conkling, Washington E. Connor, James M. Constable, Edward Cooper, John Cochrane, Frederick R. Coudert, Edwin A. Cruikshank, S. Van Rensselaer Cruger, William Henry Crosby, W. Bayard Cutting, Chas. P. Daly, Charles W. Dayton, Richard T. Davies, Chauncey M. Depew, Frederick J. De Peyster, Edward F. De Lancey, George G. De Witt, Richard Varick De Witt, L. P. Di Cesnola, Harrison Clarke, Banquet at the Metropolitan Opera House April 30th 1889, given in honor of the centennial of the inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States [program, seating plan, and ticket]. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.1290460b John D. Crimmins, Morgan Dix, W. E. Dodge, A. W. Drake, Franklin Edson, Edw. M. L. Ehlers, Thomas Addis Emmet, Henry Erben, Wm. M. Evarts, Loyall Farragut, Stuyvesant Fish, Hamilton Fish, Louis Fitzgerald, Josiah M. Fisk, Gordon L. Ford, Frederick Gallatin, Asa Bird Gardiner, George Clinton Genet, William H. Gedney, Elbridge T. Gerry, Banquet at the Metropolitan Opera House April 30th 1889, given in honor of the centennial of the inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States [program, seating plan, and ticket]. http://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.1290460b Richard W. Gilder, Ogden Goelet, Robert Goelet, Hugh J. Grant, Wm. R. Grace, George G. Haven, Schuyler Hamilton, William G. Hamilton, Chas. Henry Hart, Chas.