New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-18
The SHORES OF NANTUCKET. NO. l.

Corespondence The ". Y. Tribune
NANTUCKET, Tuesday. August 1888.
After spending few weeks of the hot weather the
there deighttul sense vi the cool breezes
of the sea in returning TO our island home. Situated
about fifty miles from the main land and from twenty
thiru miles from Marthas Vineyard and Cape Cod, des-
ttute If forests and high bills the cool winds VI the
ocean sweep us in whatever direction they blow and
the changes of temperature between the night aud tue
day occasion and land breeze, 80 that VA never
perieDce that sutry stiffness 0f the air. which Il OPP
pressve in many places, during the heat OF summer.
The people OF Nantucket are 50 ar separated from the
Continent and have been rit entirely unprotected by
the United States Government IN times OF war, tina,
there il lees intense national feeling here than In other
parts Of the country do not mean that they not
roud of their and satisfied With its Institutions
always excepting the peculiar institution but they do
not possess that Native American feeling which would
exclude other nations from their benefit They have
however sire ~ attachment 10 the island OF their BIRTH
and with all its disadvantages az place oil commerce.
of they cling with the most alden, home
feeling In volume OF poetry from native authors Of
tbs island ntly published entitled Sea WeedsfrOm
the Shores of Nantucket this sentiment Is strongly
pressed By one who had spent part Of his lte dis
tsnt .eas the following sanzas. which are part Of
poem by Henry Glover, now deceased, and are fair
specin cd Of our nome literature:
Though long have rosm.d Ger the fthomle,s ocean,
tar from ,he lad q the brave sna 'ne free
Yei sill does M heart fee 10 fondss enJron,
When thinning OF in that isle OF the
There the sans all hardy, uodaantet and dar.nE
To nes, the blue wsisrs aud tsitie tie ~hLs
ITO Heaven will I breathe this ny sst aspiration,
Let nv altering IGb. End their last bah tsos,
Their long n.Ius-Osce "a that .s Of the sea-
The nhsbirant. of this island, from ts first settle
ueut have been remarkable for native energy OF char
ae,er s.lfreance industry courage AMI independence
The original settlers ef aD excellent sock, asd
we're driven here, from the town o S~soufy vr eAef-
csnQ be virtue of hospitality TO the Persccuted Quak
err Their descendants have engaged In the ghsetsb-
ms now for nearly hundred years, displaying their
courage in pursuing the whale into remote aad distant
scesnt rough unexporsd seas and returning with the
trophies vi their yaior
Until within twenty or twenty-five years their means
If communication with the Continent have been limited
TO sailing vessels ard many inhabtant has lived and
died here Who never vas 90 the main land There are
persons nsG living here ah0 have neser been on the
Island in their lives and will probably 60 doFu 70 their
graves on this barren spot IA the 0ceaS where scarcely
ire. oroWs add whose extent about thirteen miles
long aud four miles vide. Under these conditions The
r,ope have preserved many of their ancient character
is;ic. ,h-ir sedors Of social intercourse their plain
pess Of speech and their independence OF thought and
feeling.
and general cspab lily Of ts seanen, trained they
have been in the school Of hardship nberng high aud
Lobe qualities from their ancestry, and tlilOslng TIE
most peIsus aud daring enterprises OF the sea mere
Il urobahly Id other community Ia New England 30
srse portion OF which has emigrared 70 California,
where tbeJ have become equally distinguished ior Their
capsbiliiy am energy Of aracter.
.ror1 those xtO have risen stations Of wealth and
uportaIee q ere, are the wellsnosn firm OF Palmer
Copk a Co. George W Wright. Frederick Sanford aud
Ckarle. Wood There are also the Messf: Fishers aud
Josiah sturgi-, en,erpdsine and successful men; and
more rec.rtly Dr. Charles +. WInslow man of efnca
non ard Great ~ sdca SKILL who stands very high in his
profession BY which he BIAS already accumulated hand
soue fortune mas gone out to San Francisco 10 practice
biT proiession there Iheseare all natives OF this island
besides uhom there enough more from this place 10
form colony there IL IL uprising, of that
Nantucket should feel The oss Of enterprsng Per-
ton Of is poPa,ali,B
One reason of the large emigration Is that the whale
fsh 3 Of late years. has offered uncertain means 81
procuring vesththe voyages being oeeessafhy a'een
longer extending to fur and tive years, and requiring