New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-06

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diliceut lsbors faithful services and excellent eharsc
ten Of its clergy upbroken line Of pous, learuet
and devoted mer. The whole period from the emiyra-
ton TO Connecticut in 1886 to the resignation OF Mr.
Bowman in l773, Is covered by the hives OF Mather,
Flint Denforth and Bowman, who with Messrs. Burr
and Wilson, both colleagues of Maher, make mp the
list IL would not become me 10 speak OF Mr.. Bow
mans successor, a near relative OF my ova While
the memory Of DR. Harris, the last pastor of the hrst
and of DIR. CoGman the first pastor OF the second
Dorchester church. is too recent 10 require tribute.
ItwouId no, perhaps be easy 70 find town which has
been more highly favored in succession of ministers
modelled upon the true type Of New England pastor,
In whom a well digested store OF human and DIVINE
learning directed by sound practical Judgment,
united with an all-controlling of tile worth OF
spiritual things while the ausierity of manners re-
qured by the taste of the age was sustained by spot
less purity of lie anil hGbltuay soitened by offices OF
charity end words Of love. Notwithstanding the dis
sentons with which the chursbes OF New-England, In
tie you're two centuries, were two often ag1aied,
and the consequent frequent disturbance ofthe friendly
relations of minister and people, do not know that
there is Of the ministers of Dorchester who may
not be considered having adorned his office, and
having exercised kindly and healing influence on
the church aud the community. With respect to
the great reproach of our Puritan fathers, that
of iniOcTance,-tOo well founded as we must all
admit and lament cannot find that our an-
Gent town ives above or below the standard Of the
age II was an age which sincerely believed itself
in direct GlliGrce with the Supreme Being. The
Colonial Government for two generations had all the
essential features ola ihoocracy Every event, from
the Sickness or death Of minister IN village church.
TO that of a foreign potentaie-a Winters storm or
Summers drouth, cenker-worms IN the Spring and
frOeis In the Aufumn-a herosy invading the Church
quo trarraHta threatening the charter-an Indian or
EuroI can war, was the occasion of fast and I'M
proved in spiritual application We use the same
language IS our foIeaihers in this respect. The diff
ftleuce t1twCen and them, fear, Il, that they be-
h6ved what they saId-with more realizing convi'-
ton. But while their lofty faith gave high tone 10
Al =. - i,t Int IN n
favorable 10 the happiness of their lives, the wisdom OF
their couuses or the charity of their opinions. OurpoOr
natures are strong enough To bear direct personal
union with the Infinite. We are too prone to do wrong,
10 be- trusted with the consciousness OF lnidbty too
Ignorant IL be safely animated with the conviction that
We have grasp ed the whole truth. The annals OF Dor
chester however present few noble examples OF char
iiy and liberation beyond the age hen the statute
aoaiust the QuakeTs enacted In l6Jo-a statute
which produced tie worst features OF the cruel law
against couformsts oflJ93 Thomas Clark with one
other deputy voted against II. lie was Dorchester
man, though removed to Boston, which he represented
at that Time and Nicholas Upsall also OF Dorches
ter fined, imprisoned, and eventually ban-
ished for deeds of mercy tow ard that persecued sect
In all Il important political eNents OF the tunes the
town OF Dorchester bore its part often conspicuous
ole. The New-Epeland Colonies, though by no
means what be called military people, had been
lead by circumstances 10 large experience OF the
harlshps and peris of war. This grew at hrst OUT oil
the necessity OF protecting themselves against the ma
without and from the mother country. do not re'o-
ect that uIder the first charter dollar OF man was
SEM from England TO the Colonies to aid m their de-
lense against the Indians, the French or the Dutch
Under the new charter, and with the increase OF
pol ulatOn both in the French and British Colonies
American inieres's Acquired gresty-increased Ita-
porance; aud the Colonies, as matter OF course,
were involved in ell the wars OF Europe consider
able military and naval force was always kept up,
and the ROYAL nayts and armies were recruited Tor
foreign service in New England In this way the
flower OF Youth, for three successive generations
were eng a. ed In series OF sangulnary but nov al
most forge conflicts on the inland frontier, the
banks OF the 1t. LRwTence-in Cape Breton. IN Mar
tinico ard Cuba and on the Spanish main. Besides
what was done still eerier, the New England Colo
nies raised two thousand men IN 1870 Tor That fal
exI edilion az anst Canada of whom one thousand
persisted, mot vagrants, says Drummer, picked up
in the streets anu pressed into the war; but heads OF
families, artitceIs, robust young men, such as no
" country can spare and least OF all new settlements
EXPEDITIONS of this kind sometimes prosperous, more
fro dueny attended with the most distressing sacrifices
not merely OF property but of life too frequently
even To be enumerated here. L mention only those
which are alluded to in cur histories. In 17i0 five
COMPARES Of one hundred men each, as the excellent
Mr.. james Blake, for so many years the faithful
Town-Cleik of Dorchester, reates, " went from this
" Province to war with Spain. They went to Jamaica
" 10 Admiral Vernon and 20 to Carthagena aud
Cuba" Mr.. Blake adds 1--WE hear msly or most
50 of them are dead Let us hope that the Town
Clerk of Dorchester will again have to make
p,ciscly that record LApplausel. Three thousand
men were raised in New. England for the memorable
expedition against Louisburg in l7i5. Most that
went from hereabouis," says Father Blake, that
knew ehher died there, or III their passage home or
soon after they came home. lis said there died of
our New. Engla land forces about J0O' This expedi-
ton, you well aware, was Planned by Gov.
81 iley The Governors stately mansion still stands
wi bin our limits the iron brought from the
ket-pace at LOuisburg adOrus the Library OF Harvard
Coli ge. But no monument is reared 10 the brave
who fell in tkese distant expeditions no memo
rial remains Of those who came back to their native
villages with wounds and diseases brought from the
camp. On one moldering stone only in our ancient
graveyard we read that It covers one who "ded in
"his Mejesty's service"
The Indisn's shaf the Bhton's ball,
The lot shell ,hsttering in il. fall,
The bay orei's rending wedge,
There scattered death-ye seek the spot
Eosliai-snd they need it not,
Who cave their children free. lCheers.
The great expedition against the Havana, in 1862,
was on the point of sinking under the climate and the
protracted resistance of the Spaniards. thousand
"lapguishiDg and impatient looks says the historian,
"were cast on the requirement. from America.'
None, however, a. yet appeared and the exhausted
army was left TO us resources. Many fell into
despair and died, with fatigue, anguish, and
DISAPPOINTMENT These reeDforcements ct length ar
rived in two divisions. Some of the vessels compos
ing the first wrecked in the Bahama passage; of
the second, part were intercepted by the FRENCH
but those who escaped arrived seasonaby and
"rendered excellent service" On the 18th day OF
August 1862, after murderous siege OF two months
ana eight DAVIS under a burning tropical SUM- the
Royat forces OF England with her brave provincial
allies marched together through the battered walls of
the Havana the last time ! trust that that
viii ever take place lcheersl. This was the
last time in which England and her North American
colonies stood side by side the battle field. The next
meetings 10 years later at Lexington and Con.
cord at Bunker Hill and Dorchester Rights no. not
on Dorchester flights was not deemed expedient by
the ROYAL forces 10 meet them there Applausel. In