“Hon. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Mayor, presided. On his right
were seated Hon. Anson Burlingame, Chief of the Embassy;
His Excellency Alexander H. Bullock, Governor of the
Commonwealth; Teh Lao-yeh, English Interpreter attached to
the Embassy; Hon. Charles Sumner, Chairman of the Committee
on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate; Hon.
Caleb Cushing; Major-General Irwin McDowell, U. S. A.;
Commodore John Rodgers, U. S. N.; Charles G. Nazro, Esq.,
President of the Board of Trade. On the left of the Mayor
were seated Chih Ta-jin, Associate Minister; Mr. McLeavy
Brown, Secretary to the Embassy; Sun Ta-jin, Associate
Minister; M. Émile Dechamps, Secretary to the Embassy; Fung
Lao-yeh, English Interpreter; Ralph Waldo Emerson, LL.D.;
Rev. George Putnam, D. D.; Mr. Edwin P. Whipple.
“Among the other distinguished guests present were: Dr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes; Hon. Nathaniel P. Banks, Hon.
George S. Boutwell, and Hon. Ginery Twichell, Members
of Congress; Rev. Thomas Hill, D. D., President of
Harvard College; Hon. George S. Hillard, United States
District Attorney; Hon. George O. Brastow, President of
the Senate; Hon. Harvey Jewell, Speaker of the House
of Representatives; Brevet Major-General H. W. Benham,
and Brevet Major-General J. G. Foster, U. S. Engineer
Corps; Major-General James H. Carleton, U. S. A.; Brevet
Brigadier-General Henry H. Prince, Paymaster U. S. A.;
Major-General James A. Cunningham, Adjutant-General;
Hon. Henry J. Gardner, Ex-Governor of the Commonwealth;
Hon. Josiah Quincy; Hon. Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr.; Dr.
Peter Parker, formerly Commissioner to China; Hon. Isaac
Livermore; Sr. Frederico Granados, Spanish Consul; Mr. G.
M. Finotti, Italian Consul; Mr. Joseph Iasigi, Turkish
Consul; Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, President of the Board
of Agriculture; Rev. N. G. Clark, D. D., Secretary of
the Board of Foreign Missions; and many of the leading
merchants and professional men of Boston.”
At the banquet speeches were made by the Mayor, Mr. Burlingame,
Governor Bullock, Mr. Sumner, Mr. Cushing, Mr. Emerson, General
Banks, Mr. Nazro, and Mr. Whipple.
The Mayor announced as the fifth regular toast, “The
Supplementary Treaty with China,” and called upon Mr. Sumner to
respond. Mr. Burlingame had already said in his speech, while
declining any elaborate exposition of the Treaty: “No, Sir,--I
leave the exposition of that treaty to the distinguished
Senator on my right, who was its champion in the Senate, and
who procured for it a unanimous vote.”