Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-05-30

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Anniversary Celebration Of the Landing OF
the Pilgrims of Maryland, at the site Of
st. Mary's City, May 18th, 1885,
Dear Sentinel :-On our arrival in good old
Baltimore " few days" ago, we were invited by
friend to attend the above captoned celebration.
And being descendant of the old Maryland Pill
grims, one of whom came over on the "Ark, y
'tother on the Dove," (for it took t,co SHIPS
to bring them over) we were much gratifed at the
opportunity afforded us, to not only see the place
where our ancestors had landed. (those who did
rot leave their country for their country's good,
but who came to establish and found Republic
where az could worship God as to them might
seem meet, but also to have the opportunity OF
hearing the Anniversary Grafton of Hon. Joseph
r. Chandler. His address speaks for itself. No
feeble eulogy of ours could add aught to its mer-
it,. We send it to you for publication, believing
that nothing could be laid before your readers.
more interesting to the liberal minded patrons of
your honest Democratic sheet.
"Truth is powerful, and will prevail" when
disseminated to the people through that powerful
pedium-the press. This speech of Mr.. Chan
dier's should be read, and that too carefully by
every one, in it he brings up facts in relation
70 tho early colonization of this Continent, which
are suppressed by Know-Nothings and their ad-
ncts, for the furtherance Of their sinister ends.
BOLIVAR.
Mr.. Chandler said:
The desire to make commemoration of dis
tinguisned favors, is among the best impulses
of the human heart. The justification of the
desire has marked domestic. social, and even
national movements in all ages. and has had
for its sanction not only the spirit of purest
gratitude for the benefits of the past, but a
hope of connecting the favors and the spirit
thsy suggest with the future.
Z" Gratitude" says French satirist, q is
strong sense of favors to come" and the apo
thsgm conveys more of truth than at first flush
it seems to imply and. correctly received, it
has less that is offensive than at first strikes
the ear, or perhaps was intended by the au-
thor.
Nothing merely present deeply concerns a
human being. His nature. his instincts, his
impulses, lead him to look away from the pre-
sent and connect himself with the realities of
the past, to strengthen his hopes and his en-
joyments Of the future. This is no accident
Of position, it is the gift of God. He made
us With such large discourse looking before
and after"
Scarcely festival, domestic or national,
among the Hebrews was unconnected with
the past. Gratitude for special providences,
q sorrows for peculiar offences, were the mo-
tives of the feasts and fasts of the chosen peo-
pie, and the sanctity of the weekly sabbath,
was commemorative of the rest of the Most
High. Their passovers preserved the recol-
lection Of the sparing mercies of God towards
the male born of their tribes in Egypt and
their Purim kept bright the remembrances of
salvation from the destructive edict of the As
syrian monarch
Year by year pagan nations, pagan muni-
eipalitles. and pagan individuals. made memo
rial OF important events. Marathon, Leuctra,
Ihermopelae, were remembered. and the obi
gauons 81 the present and hopes of the future
we're cemented with the illustrious past. It.
was the great work of the orator and the poet
70 leave the iustre OF eloquence and song upon
the loftiest deeds of the departed. and h was
the delight and honor of an admirinp peonle
tomark the names of the mighty dead, as thew
lsft the shadows of the past, to grow lustrous
IN the praise and gratitude of the present-as
the summit peaks of the mountains are kent
visible and beautiful by the posthunaous raw
Of that sun which has gone to enlighten other
Wos1ds- ssaaS exSsD
But have said that gratitude for the past
connects itself with the enjoyments of the pre-
ssnt and the hopes of the future. Noevent
deserves special commcmoratiou that does not
sppeai ts the present for evils avoided or ben
en. procured; and that anniversary which is
see sAncuned by commemoration of Whist be-
longs 20 the present and relates to the future
unworthy Of general or individual obser-,
we eommemorsto to-day the landing. in
1854, Of the emigrants from Gre,t RS, -,
tho very spot on which We stand. Their "a.
vent has been deemed Of consequence s,,ss.;.
for special memorial In these times e~srv
day brings to our coast more than a thoussnd
European emigranfs, who are crowding our
cities. peopling our plains, telling our forests.
swslling our commerce, and augmenting our
national resources and national Importance -
Let the faturs commemorate the benefits which
they shall have derived from these their ances-
tors But to-day the shadows Of the past are
eossred. and the arrival of only two boat loads
men. women, aud children, is selected for
eonmemoration in which science and the
patriotism aud religion, are deemed to
s-: 80 a interest. What clsim have the i'm
ss| -aon and colonization of Calvert and his
-nsn. women and childrsn-upon
sis1'ndo for connsmorations Is Il
sess vs oavs dsscccd>d from the stock >f shsee