Why, those Pilgrims had been at sea three or four months. If they hadn't landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact. It would have been a case of monumental leatherheadedness which the world would not willingly let die. If it had been you , gentlemen, you probably wouldn't have landed, but you have no shadow of right to be celebrating, in your ancestors, gifts which they did not exercise, but only transmitted. It is an inconsistency characteristic of your intractable and disputatious tribe, for you never agree about anything but Boston.
People always progress.
Well, I repeat, those Pilgrims were a hard lot. They took good care of themselves, but they abolished everybody else's ancestors. I am a border-rufl an from the State of Missouri. I am a Connecticut Yankee by adoption. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan.