Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-07-21
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The Seed Town OF the Republic.

Last Sunday | had the satisfaction Of
spending on the cool shores of the Pill.
grim Fathers. Plymouth, though not,
probably, a very inviting spot on the 22d
OF December, 1920, is a very attractive
one now, at any season OF the year,, and
especially in summer. | love q ramb-
ling old-fasioned town that looks as if il,
had grown up with the country, and mad
been built as people wanted houses, and
where they wanted them, instead of be-
ing laid out with line and compass, like
the rectangular denominations of newer
times. Then, the uneqal surface Of the
town honorably distinguishes it from
the pancake sites in which these level
ling days delight. 1t has the air, which
the seed town of a Republic should have,
OF abundance and comfort, not without
marks of wealth, but free from obtrusive
signs of poverty. The sea view from
the hill where the Fathers lie is singular.
ly fine. The Beach breaking the mid.
die distance, the Gurnet and Clarke's
Island, where the Pilgrims spent their
frs, Sunday, beyond, with the Ocean
stretching away from the eve, and on
the !ef. The shore of Duxbury, marked by
The picturesque promontory of Captains
Hill. where the stalwart Standish dwelt,
altogether make up a delicious prospect
upon a summers afternoon. Below YOU,
though now hidden by streets and wharfs,
lies the Rock or which the Pilgrims
landed, long since left behind by the re-
firing Of the sea, or by the encroach.
ments of men. And beyond by CIarke's
Island and the Gurnet the road where
the Mayhower lay at anchor when the
immortal boats company pushed off to
take possession of their heritage.
But Oh, sons and daughters of the Pill
grims !! could ye find no better name for
the spot
where the Maynower moored below"
than "he COo-yard :" Was the re.
semblanco of sparkling sea, locked in
with green islands and brown rock, &c
the stercorarious habitalion of milch kline
so inevitable that we were compelled tc
make them synonymous? OF a surety
we abuse the Providence that gave so pc.
elical a name to The Argosy that came
freighted with your destiny. The May
flower! 1t was just as likely 10 have
been the "Two Politics." or the "Lovely
keziah." Consider your escape! Think
how it would have sounded
"Th waves that brought them DER,
Still roll in the bay, as they rolled that day,
When che Ttoo Polies' noored below !"
Be more grateful for your mercies ant
amend your vocabulary ! That is t.
say, If this nomenclature he Of moderl
dale. Ii it runneih back 10 the Pilgrims
leave j, reverenily as il is. 1t may have
in such case, a mystic meaning that W,
wot not of. | am sometimes called b.
my maligners u Radical ; but God know
that an abuse must be a rery bad one, S,
il be old. before ! can find it in my hear
to liz a finger against ii.
There are traditions suggested by thi
prospect from The hill of Graves whicI
smack rather of the Merry Monarch an
the Cavaliers than Of Cromwell and III
grim Puriians who made him "Our frs
of Men" The Gurnet that you Sc
yonder with the lighthouse upon it cor
meets with the main land by a long beac
which makes il many miles around b.
land TO Plymouth. BY sea, as you ma
observe, the distance is much less
Well, somewhere about The middle 9th
last century, a party Of boon companion
were carousing at a tavern near the ligh
house, among whom was Colonel Wins
low (crying you mercy for speakin
tightly Of one Of your relalions) tn
prince of honest fellows al that lime.-
When their return home was spoke o
it was proposed that whoever arrive
last at the tavern at Plymouth should pa
for q supper for the others. This bein
settled. and The mirh having ''waxe
fast and furious" Colonel Winslow 70
asleep. The res, watching their oppo