to do justice to the name that is honored and respected in every part of the civilized world. My speech is rude and uncultivated, but my feelings, I trust, are warm and true, and could I express those feelings, I would tell you how much I honor the memory of Abbott Lawrence. I know you all honor it, for you all knew him, and to know him was to love him. Love begets love. He loved our common country as a statesman of enlarged and liberal views, and our state and city as the scene of his personal labors. In Massachusetts he commenced his career; here he toiled and triumphed, here he has bequeathed the richest tokens of his love, and here all of him that can die mingles with the soil. He was not only a great man, but a good man. In every relation of life, he was a model for imitation. Ever be his memory green in the hearts of his countrymen. When the ship which bears his name shall have been worn out by the storms and the vicissitudes of the sea, may another, and another, and so on, till the end of time, perpetuate it upon the ocean, for he was the patron and friend of commerce as well as of the other great interests of the state. In conclusion, ladies and gentlemen, I again give you the memory of Abbott Lawrence. May his name and noble example never be forgotten.” This speech seems to me to be most interesting, as showing the natural refinement of a mind destitute of the culture of even a common-school education, or perhaps it would be nearer the truth to say, a mind that had escaped the restraining influence of the pedagogue. “Yet is remembrance sweet, Though well I know The days of childhood Are but days of woe; Some rude restraint, Some petty tyrant sours What else should be Our sweetest blithest hours.” These lugubrious lines found no echo in the early life of Donald McKay, for his boyhood was passed in earnest, healthy toil, and filled with a keen desire for knowledge, while his manhood had known the joy of well-earned success. After the _Abbott Lawrence_, Mr. McKay built the medium clippers _Minnehaha_, _Baltic_, _Adriatic_, _Mastiff_, and barque _Henry Hill_, all in 1856; the _Alhambra_, 1857; the _Helen Morris_, and second _Sovereign of the Seas_, 1868, and the _Glory of the Seas_, 1869. During the Civil War, he built for the United States Government, the iron gunboat _Ashuelot_, the ironclad monitor _Nausett_, the wooden gunboats _Trefoil_ and _Yucca_, and the sloop of war _Adams_. In 1877 he retired to his farm at Hamilton, Massachusetts, and there he died, September 20, 1880, in the seventy-first year of his age.