SPEECH OP MR. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW.
 

UST as he rose somebody facetiously
called out " Hewitt," and Mr. Depew,
glancing over the fumes of the two
or three hundred clay pipes, said:
"He will have his turn, and then
perhaps I shall wish I had never been
born."   Speaking to the toast, Mr. Depew said:

" I have already dehvered an address to-night to
the railroad men, and my only regret is that it was
so diametrically the opposite pole of the kind of ad¬
dress I have to deliver here, that I could not reflect
it here, or could not have spoken there the speech
that I intended to speak here.

" The cosmopolitan character of the Dutch and the
hospitality they dispensed on this island to all na¬
tionalities is exhibited here to-night. Among the
gentlemen who are to respond is my friend the
Mayor, of pure English descent; Judge Daly, of pure
Irish, and my friend George WiUiam Curtis, of pure
Puritan descent. We have got 'em aU, and we have
taken 'em all in.

" Now the Dutch actually furnish half the genius
that runs this city.   Only a week ago the ' business