SPEECH OP
J. WOODHULL BEEKMAN.
 

Mr. President and Gentlemen of The HoUand Society:

WING to the position I occupy upon
the addition to the bill of fare, it is
hardly necessary for me to state that
I hail from the neighboring State
of New Jersey, a State that in the
minds of some evil-disposed persons
occupies a very questionable position in the great
galaxy of our American Union. These evil-disposed
and slanderously inclined persons of whom I speak
have even gone so far as to assert that the State of
New Jersey was out of the Union.

Standing here to-night, a citizen of that State, a
descendant of a New Jersey HoUander, I refute that
assertion, and take the broad geographical ground
that as long as New Jersey is flanked by Staten
Island, so recently brought into public notice by
Buffalo Bill and the Wild West, there is no danger
of her drifting out of the American Union into the
broad expanse of the Atlantic Ocean ; and if, in the