Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-01-02

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| children there were an hundred and one-about
- families. The leading persons of this mea-
ger band of voyagers were PuritanS. This was
a name of derision given to party that sprung
up IN the Church of England during, or soon
after the reformation. These persons were not
satisfied with the moderate course and position OF
the national church. The English, beyond any
! other Protestant Church, retained the ancient
constitution; retained the liturgy and sacraments,
and some of the religious practices which had
been used from the earliest times. This church
also still retains respect for Ecclesiastical ira
dtion. But after the translation of the Bible in
to the English tongue, the traditions the church
were, perhaps, less regarded. The Puritans
held the Bible in the highest respect They re-
garded it as an inspired revelation, and as an in
dsputable authority in science, politics, morals
and life. They regarded the Church of Eng
land as still too Popish, and they desired re-
construction of institutions, both in church and
state, and dcsireda closer conformity in all things
with this divine model. They denounced, at
first, the ceremonies of the church. and as might
be expected, soon denounced the clergy and the
church itself In the year 1882, some of the
more ardent and courageous among them took
tho then bold step of renouncing the English
communion and setting up a church of their own,
which they conceived to be after the Bible mo-
del. They were known as BriUiniStS, from
the name Of their leader. They were not follow
ed, however, by the great body of the Puritans.
The principle of religious liberation was not
well understood nor much practised at that time,
and these people were regarded as holding ultra
and somewhat dangerous views. Their plans
were opposed, and as they could not well carry
them into execution in England, they sought
another country. BY degrees, and IN small par
ties, these scparatists escaped to Holland and
| established themselves in Amsterdam. A party
of them, however, under John Robinson, soon
left Amsterdam and removed to Leyden, where
Tor several years they remained in the peaceful
enjoyment of their separate church organization.
Bat these people, stern in their principles, and
UuStcre i'll their manner of life were not pleased
with the manners of the Dutch, and they saw
little nope of bringing them to coincide with their
own views OF religion or social lte-nclhcr did
they find il easy to obtain a livelihood in lIol-
land. Hence they conceived the idea of going
to foreign pans-us they could not reconstruct
existing society and institutions which were
long since organized, and as they were too IN
yielding to give up their own views. or to con-
form to the practices of others, the only altcrnn-
tive left was to 90 to a wilderness where civil
1ation and religion had not found their way and
Leyelope the principles FOR which they were con-
tending. ~IHiS IL lcQS that brought the May
Flower on the rock bound and dangerous coast
Of New England in the latter part of Dec, 4.
d., 1920 THIS n. f. Colony vas not the first,
indeed that had landed on the n. American
shores NJ the south, at Jamestown, settle
ueut had h,od commenced. end Sir Francis
Drake ha. already entered tie tay Of San Fran
cisco, Oh tie Pacific coast, where 30 many of tho
sons Of \. +. are now diligently searching ior
he precious metals.
But il the May Flower did not bring hithcr all
the pilgrim fathers the band that landed on Ply
mouth rock. and those who soon followed with
their direct descendants had largo and control
ing agency and influence in founding the irsji-
tu;ruris under which, rs people, we have been
nurturcd New England, sterile is is her soil,
rugged as is her surface, cold as is her climate,
i, 10 detached and uujiaCof;cat portion Of this
now great confedcracy Of States. The men
reared in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
and on the rocks Of New Hampshire and Yer
mont and in the forests OF Maine, are the men
to subdue the fertile West and luxuriant South.
At this moment You shnlI find the sons of New
England iii almost every city and village through
out our vast Union, and cXertng 10 little ntlu-
ence on tue sent and future destiny Of the
country.
Little did those advcnturcrs who embarked on
lr,oy, e ,ln ,,-Drl- tL.,,r
~ rt, i,tI, s,,,,rsa,I ,I,n,, nova ,o, n,
~ t,,,la,;a,. ~ n,;ntt, or,nro Thor i;,Ie
,honlrh, tIot tho nn,nnrons md powerful Indian
tribcs aInn,, tho Atlantic cou,t would SO soon be-
cn,,o ox,;,'Gt. tI,. tho viii forau, should Mos
som os tho rose; that the plourh should take
the nIaro Of the tomahaNk X. and that the sound of
the saw, the hammer and the axe, should in two
centuries be heurd throughout this great cOun-
Try.
These advcnturcrs, after the dangers Of the
the voyage, set apart a day Of thanksgiving TO
express, their thauktulucss 10 the Ruler OF all,
that he had brought them safely over the wide
waste Of wutcrs-aud after they had established
themselves in the country, and had begun to reap
the fruits OF their dihgent hushandry, they annu-
ally appointed day otthankSg!ying for the fruits
OF the ground lis original design was not that
. II should be & season Of fesuNity, but Of prayer
and religious services. It was Remarked how
ever By some writer OF the time, that the young
people OF the infant colony, who had been acCuS-
/ toned 10 the festival days o! their father land,
wanted something TO supply their place; and,
Is they would not tolerate the observation o!
Christmas, they compromised the matter by q
Thanksgiving day. But let this be as Il may,
nothing can be more suitable than the public &C
. Acknowledgements OF our dependence on God ; the
offering ct thanks ana praise to the rather OF
mgrcles tor the oounHos OF PROVIDENCE AND
tho fact That TINS dgN Is now observed IN all, or