In recognition of his representative position and eminent public services.
"My Lord Provost, ladies and gentlemen, I am sorry I am not a Scotsman. I feel that to-day there is nothing I should love better than to be a Scotsman. But I am next door to it. I am an Irishman, and we Irish and Scots are so intimately connected together that I feel I love Scotsmen quite as well as I love my own people. In fact I do not know if I do not love them better, because I have seen some of them, and all that I have seen of Scotsmen - and I have seen a great deal of them in the colonies - redounds to their credit in every respect."