Hon. Thomas J. Gargan, Boston, Mass., president-general. Hon. John D. Crimmins, New York, vice-president-general. Thomas Hamilton Murray, Woonsocket, R. I., secretary-general. Hon. John C. Linehan, Concord, N. H., treasurer-general. Hon. Edwin D. McGuinness, Providence, R. I. Hon. Charles E. Gorman, Providence, R. I. Stephen J. Geoghegan, New York City. James Jeffrey Roche, Boston, Mass. Joseph Smith, Lowell, Mass. Rev. Frank L. Phalen (Unitarian), Concord, N. H. Col. John McManus, Providence, R. I. Capt. E. O’Meagher Condon, New York City. William H. Grimes, Pawtucket, R. I. Thomas F. O’Malley, Somerville, Mass. Stephen J. Richardson, New York City. Thomas O’Brien, Pawtucket, R. I. Michael Fitzgerald, Providence, R. I. M. E. Hennessy, Boston, Mass. Edmund Reardon, Cambridge, Mass. Capt. John F. Murray, Cambridge, Mass. William J. Feeley, Providence, R. I. Matthew J. Cummings, Providence, R. I. P. J. McCarthy, Providence, R. I. Edmund O’Keefe, New Bedford, Mass. Samuel C. Hunt, New Bedford, Mass. D. D. Donovan, Providence, R. I. T. St. John Gaffney, New York City. Thomas A. O’Gorman, Providence, R. I. Joseph Manning, Providence, R. I. Mr. Harson opened the post-prandial exercises with a spirited address, and concluded by introducing President-General Gargan, who spoke as follows: PRESIDENT-GENERAL GARGAN’S ADDRESS. FELLOW-MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: We meet to-day on the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord to attest anew our patriotism, our love, devotion and allegiance to the Republic of the United States of America,—to recall the lessons taught us by the yeomanry of those two little Massachusetts towns, which unknown in history on April 18, 1775, yet before the setting of the sun on the 19th had won for themselves renown, as imperishable as that won at Marathon or Thermopylæ. One hundred and twenty-four years ago, in the neighboring state of Massachusetts, the first battle was fought to establish the principle that there should be no taxation without representation; and that all government should rest on the consent of the governed. I will not trespass upon your time by recalling the events which led up to the American Revolution, nor those seven years of bloody and terrible war. We established a government and framed a Constitution founded on universal suffrage, giving a vote to the good and the vicious, the wise and the ignorant. Thus far we have been a prosperous people, because in our Democracy there have been no inequalities of wealth and condition that we believed would be permanent.