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President Eliot's Address.

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President Eliot delivered a short address last night at a meeting of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Boston, held in Music Hall.

He directed his remarks chiefly to the young men and the wavering members of the opposition, and urged them to testify their gratitude to President Cleveland for his firmness in the national calamity, the greatest which threatened the country since the civil war. He commenced his address by quoting a prophesy which James Russell Lowell delivered a few years ago in Sanders Theatre, in which he likened President Cleveland to Seneca's pilot; and called the attention of his audience to the fulfillment of this prophesy, as shown by the firmness with which President Cleveland has guided the rudder of national affairs.

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