New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-24
NEW. ENGLAND SOCIETY
AnnivorsS Address by Hon. Gecrgs =
Hiilard.

Society was celebrated on Mondsy night. a. ths
Broadway Tabernacle. by the delivery of the
following Grafton, by Hon. George s Hllard
OF Boston
Ma. PRESIDENT, AND LADIES AND GEy-
rLEssS Man Is being of large DISCOURSE linked
before and after. From this pc yer OF yelling IN the
past and the future HIS essential grandeur and dIgu-
ty are derived and the life of the individual Is out
momentaIy spark. while the life OF community Is
umIL Gus web, flowing from the oosom OF God into
which the hours Of every day are woven. Tnroush
memory and hope we are borne to a great inherit
ancc OF records ard promises, and poor indeed Is the
life hch feeds only on the meager harvest OF tae
sent It's proud privilege to be able TO break
from thus bank and shoal of time to seek what shall
be IN what has been, and 70 turn experience into
prophecy, and with retrospective glance discern IN
the mirror of the past the airy shapes of the inborn
future. The origin Of our country lies In the open
daylight OF history. We cannot go back TO that
morning twilight OF tradition, from which poetry
draws much of its inspiration and many of It's
themes. Such forms as Arthur and the Cid, In whom
the real and the fancifui met and blended, like
Jzure and the cloud upon the distant HORIZON have
place upon our soil The pie dignity Of such
men as Carver, and Brewster, and Winthrop, can
borrow attraction from the use of romance. II
we lose something so far as imagination Is con
cerned by the cleaness and dlstincness OF the de-
tails OF the settlement of our country, we gain much
upon the side Of truth in the exalted motives which
led to the enterprise In the noble qualities impressed
upon them. and those fine traits OF mind and chsrac.
ter by which its success was promoted II our early
history do present those picturesque traits those
wild struggles those lawess manners, and hoseruder
traits Of human nature, which, lying IN she deaiza-
ton, led The distant to become the source from
which poetry draws its ever new materials, 1t Is
sufficient compensation to manly spirit to be able
to say that the institutions of New Engl land were
founded in religious faith, that their progress was
secured by the enduring principle OF liberty, that
tsey were guarded by lips of sPo.ess purity, and
enforced By deep Gated respect for law other men
trace the beginnings of their social, civil state to
eaIiier periods, through long succession OF gener-
atoms But who can find them linked IN higher
source than intelligence, liberty and Ia" zap
!. plause
This day is the birthday OF great people, It IS
dedicated to the past and the future Our thoughts
are dlsengaged from the things that are ABOUT
US the impOrtuLate and ciamorous Is lad asleep,
and the door is opened for the serene contempt atoms
and finer emotions, and the irresistible power
with which the vast interests and VIVID excite
ments of great City seize upon and sub1ue tue
spirit OF man, Is for the moment pardlyzed. Your
crowded warehouses, your stately mansions, your
streets, through which such tides OF LIE roll ana
foam, your noble rivers, shaot Dy SO many sails,
and parted by many HEELS. are shut out from the
eye Of the mind, for other scenes unfold them
selves to its gaze. We see desert coast white
with SHOWS and swept with the storms OF
winter. We see solitary vessel weather
strained and tempesttOSsed, shattered with
the sea, and men, women and children shivering
with the cold, and suffering the effects OF long
and rough voyage and some already touched
with mortal sickness but all animated with
the same expression of fortltude and faith which
light to the eye Of woman, and produces thankful
ar over the face OF childhood itself Behind them Is
the before them is the forest, above them is the
sky Danger, and solitude, and famine, and WINTER
are the grim shapes that welcome them to our IN
known home. Applause There are neither friend
~ faces nor cordial greetings, nor warm embraces
nor food shelter, hehOwliDg wilteraessbefore
them. They are alone with their God. Applause
The experiences by which these men and women
have been iipeGed for the task which lies before
them, embrace large segment OF all that circle OF
.Ix.,g hxfu hum auffn
and tempered Few sorrOws that try the frmness OF
men or the love OF women, nave been wanting
IA their lives. They have known the GOODNESS
OF friends and the wrath OF enemies the sharp
ness of persecution and the dIearness OF exile
Poverty and the necessities OF their state brought
forth whatever there was III them OF vigilance forti-
tude, cifcumsyectlon and prudence. Difficulties
have obstTucted their path so numerous ana so grea!
that nothing but the constant exercise OF prudence,
sagacity and selfcontrol could ever have overcome
them Then life has been long warfare against
the pressure OF power from without, the promptins
of what seemed weakness from within, and as they
have had great sorrows. so they have has great sat,
isfactioGs. The pressure OF persecution has booad
their hearts together by depth and f1lines OF sym
patty such as lev er can grow IN tie heart OF happ-
ness and prosperity and dom loye-suIe.
chaste. waIm-has soothed and sustained them
and the strong man, when wesrled sGd falht, las
been upheld by the uLoonqueIaoio uuil, the
undy ing faith, that animated and hadsisnred
the feeble form OF woman lAppiauSel Aud,
above all they have been admitted 10 d closer
walk with God than has beer gcu: hsafet % cIaer
men OF sheT place aud more endowed VIA the
good things OF this world, aid more ticn III cafral
Gifts and high attractive gracsS tie has bowed bis
heavens and passing by the princes snd rulers OF
the cath mas spoken with them as 'reLd speaks
with friend ard With them lie has mace cove
I ant and they ale tie living ark to whose keeping
Ills law is entrusted In the va.chts OF tue Ii sh.,
IN the solitary wilderness. upon the level ocean,
have they heard His awiu.vOIce RapiureS, dreams,
responding visions celestial revelations have over
shODe their sou and so erected al1 eKalted t1cr
spirits that the strong OF the earth have been as
dead men beneath their feet; Applause me II
grim Fathers OF Plymouth. EngiIshmen oy oiIth De-
| Logged to that remarkable body OF men. the Pu-
ri,aIls, who in the period between the retorma.
| uUn AID the revolution OF 1855 wrought such
mighty works VI Church and State and had so large
hand in opening those channels IN which the mi nd
| OF ENGLAND WAS ever after TO Iun. In England vas
II that The name Of PuTtaH opened sowide heid OF
coutrOyersy-politicai and religious IN which every
! ran who sIeakS the speech OF England Is held 20
have taken one SIDE or the other, according 70 me
temperament Of his mind But though the great -
sues OF Tis coLtcSt are not aIG can ntN er De seeJ
ltt he verdict OF hlsicrs hos been passed an9 OILY
| obsiinGs prejudice or clam0rpus pettiLacity VIII
oitsent 1t IS enough for Us that the Pufuans, log
,~Sailtd with nc,scrGua ate and paril1an zeal nave
at leIptL reached pCint OF eLlgtteIed and canaic
uCgmeLt AS TO their energy IA action, IS 20 ne
ctIlh and ftNor OF thtlricigl0us affections AID .
procIeious power OF that speech anu cohutcl
inspired By them, ard especially as 20 we lnesi,
msble services they rendered tie cause ofci'i' aid
religious itert,. ueTe car he no cOAIest upon thi'
last rom. The oStnOny of Hume fcnsii oItAs Tvs
total wait OF sympathy with the Puritans III p)ilcs
and relation may te received as the yeIy oesI eVi-
! dence that c0uld be put into the case furltshism
as ali element struggling among tae institutions OF
HI GLAND. ard Purlisnlsm as constituting an eicmeM
In The formation and deS eopmen Of the institutions
of New-ELglaLd. present points OF great diversiy'
| The Puritans ia England were always Ia the att
tude Of protest and resistance They SET their races
AGAINST ecc sascsl tyranny, sinst the encroacs-
mtLts Of the crown, sganSt the star Chsm1ef'
snalDst stafford ard lsud. They commended ior no
eyty IN things sacred and LLeS secular ioI uOefIy
in prufessirg ana hberty IN debate iof liberty IN
HE coIIIe CATION bnd n the individual! They iornei
the patty Ct progress ard embodied the pm
| t,dn nj titm we've transpianied 10 \ rev WOLF
twas natural and probable 70 suppose that tue In.
| rnlses Of resistance communicated q, nome ~outi
have provto powerful IN tive, tnaI a., Isu' "ola
have -; ~ point tue most remote from "rcng
ard that their stnse of tie abuses of power would
have iakel the shape OF impa,ia.ce uudef anne e.,