ided her, she appeared in the beautiful and celestial form of
her true nature, followed them ever after with outstretched arms,
lavished upon them her gifts, and filled their homes with happiness and
wealth.

And so, when America lay prostrate upon the ground, after throwing off
the British yoke, yet not having established a government which the
nations of the earth were willing to recognize, then it was that France
sympathized with her, and comforted her, and aided her, and now that
America has arisen in her strength and stands erect before the nations
of the world, in the true majesty and glory of that form in which God
intended she should thenceforth tread the earth, she always stands with
arms outstretched towards France in token of the great gratitude she
bears her. [Applause and cheers.]

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THE CITIZEN SOLDIER

[Speech of Horace Porter at the eighth annual dinner of the New
England Society in the City of Brooklyn, December 21, 1887. The
President, John Winslow, proposed the toast, "The Citizen Soldier,"
saying: "The next regular toast is 'The Citizen Soldier.' I have
already referred to the embarrassment which a presiding officer
feels in introducing a well-known and distinguished man. If I refer
to the distinguished gentleman who is to respond to this toast as a
pathetic speaker, you will immediately recall some of his fine
humor; and if I should speak of him as a humorous speaker you will
recall some pathetic sentence; so it is better to let General
Horace Porter speak for himself."]

MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN:--After General Sherman the deluge.
I am the deluge. It is fortunate for me this evening that I come after
General Sherman only in the order of speech, and not in the order of
dinner, for a person once said in Georgia--and he was a man who knew
regarding the March to the Sea--that anyone who came after General
Sherman wouldn't find much to eat. Having been brought up in
Pennsylvania, I listened with great interest to General Sherman's
reference to the proposed names of the States in the country. He
mentioned one as "Sylvania." That was evidently a dead letter till we
put the Pen(n) to it. [Laughter.] I noticed that President Dwight
listened with equal interest to the statement of that expedition which
went West and carried such a large quantity of whiskey with it, in
consequence of which the first U