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SPEECH  OF MAYOR  ABRAM  S. HEWITT.
 

THINK you wifl agree with me that
it is a fortunate thing for this city
that Mr. Depew did not carry out his
original intention of not being born.
I have never known him to change
in any purpose he has formed, how¬
ever, so I conclude that he could not help it. If this
misfortune had occurred to us, I am sure that you
would never realize what punishment after death
means,—which is, being compelled to listen to the
Mayor of New-York after the President of the New-
York Central Railroad.

He seems to have been somewhat disturbed by the
references made to his Presidential prospects, on a
recent occasion, by the Governor of the State, but he
did n't give a true explanation of it—he is so modest.
The truth is that the Govei-nor referred to Depew
because he is the only man of whom the Governor
is afraid. I have been hoping that in a moment of
weakness Mi-. Depew might utter some sentiments
which, after a Burchard fashion, might give the
Democrats a chance.   But he is on his guard.   All