. History of the re-union of the sons and daughters of Newport, , July 4th, 1884. :)la\e(l their part in the diama of professionallife. and I acUl to it simply this: ^Vnd espccialK those of their each successive generation, at each lecurring gathering ofthese .Sons and Daughters from whom the\ ma\ ha\e a\ ertetl theapproach of death, ma\ it be said that thev weie more thouglilful f)i-the good iei)ule of tluir Cit\ than f )r themsehes—-that the\- had thecourage ot their convictions—that thev j^retcrred the temporary un-popularity that plain s]^eech is so sure to bring, to the pla
. History of the re-union of the sons and daughters of Newport, , July 4th, 1884. :)la\e(l their part in the diama of professionallife. and I acUl to it simply this: ^Vnd espccialK those of their each successive generation, at each lecurring gathering ofthese .Sons and Daughters from whom the\ ma\ ha\e a\ ertetl theapproach of death, ma\ it be said that thev weie more thouglilful f)i-the good iei)ule of tluir Cit\ than f )r themsehes—-that the\- had thecourage ot their convictions—that thev j^retcrred the temporary un-popularity that plain s]^eech is so sure to bring, to the plaudits of acareless multitude, and that in the consciousness that the descendantsof those f)r whom the\- labored would call them blessed, they foundtlieir 136 THE NEWPORT RE-UNION. EIGHTEENTH TOAST. Tlic Press—Its intlucnce is great ; may it always be exerted forgood. RESPONSE BY HON. JOHN P. SANBORN. You ask me to speak for the Press of Newport. It speaks for it-stlf. I\)r more than a century and a quarter of our existence as aprosperous and cultiyated town and Cit\, the Press has been an im-]:)ort;nit factor in that cuhiyation and has aided in no mean propor-tions to that growth. We are often tokl of friends in disguise andas such the citizens of tins fair Island of Rhode Island and the ad-joining Plantations ma\ \yell consider our neighbors ;icross ournorthern border in the good old Bay vStatc, where eyery faithful sonis tauglit to belie\e rests tlie iuib of tlie uniyerse. They seni outfrom their number Roger Williams, the (^lakcr, to discoyer RhodeIsland, and also established that hitherto unheard of doctrine of a])erfect religious freedom, (^ur good puritanic fi^iends, less than acentur\- later, found another independent
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