The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1855-12-28
humanity, as never TO have seen the Rock
of Plymouth. ICheers.


NV mission now being accomplished,
having shed tears in the first church OF the
Puri,ans, when the heartfelt benediciion
was pronounced over my unworthy head by
that venerable pastor, ! have only 10 ask
that be dismissed from further service
with your kind wishes. will hold the oc-
casion ever dear 10 my remembrance, for II
is here | have found the solution Of The
great political problem. Like Archimedes,
have found the fulcrum by whose aid
may move the world-lhe moral woodland
that fulcrum is Plymouth Rock. Loud APP
plause.
wendall Phillips, Esq, was called upon
TO respond to toast 10 the Pilgrim Fathers,
and was received with cheers. He said the
line Of thought Of the oraiion-,he deep
resounding march with which the orator
passed in review the centuries, and pointed
GU, their signifcalion-had full possession
OF all their minds, and he could not deparI
from il. The claim Of the Pilgrims upon
their age, was tina, they had acted while
others specialized, and instead Of letting
dare not" wait upoh ~ would" launch
ed boldly upon the Atlantic and trusted God,
They can claim every free altar and fre,
home as their work, for they Taught men .,
be free. The Pilgrims, iiihey had lived ID
1855, would not be in Plymouth. but n
Kansas. II Elder Brewster were alive nov
he would add 10 his creed the Maine Law.
the Under Ground Railroad, and a thousand
Of Shapes rifles, addressed "Kanss,"
and labelled Books" Applause.
He would not acknowledge the right OF
Plymouth 10 the whole rock; it underlies
the whole country, and only crops GU, here.
II cropped out, too, when Putnam said
"Don't fire, boys, until you see tho whites
Of their eyes" [Cheers. II showed itself
when lngraham rescued Martin Koiza from
Austrian despotism. Jefferson used i, for
his writing. desk. and Lovejoy levelled his
muske, across il at Alton, Illinois. He
recognized the clink Of il to-day when the
grea, apostle Of the higher law laid his beau.
liful garlmd upon the sacred altar. MIR.
Seward remarked that he had no, descend
an, OF the Pilgrims Of the Mayflower.l He
says he is not descended from the Nav.
flower, said Mr.. Phillips; tits a mistake.
There is such thing as pedigree Of mind,
as well as OF body, and he knows so much
abou, The Mayhower, iha, am sure, as a
Western man would say, he was ",har."
Cheers and laughter.
II was proposed 10 raise q monumcr, to
the Pilgrims, and he would suggest that
one corner stone DO placed upon the Rock,
and the other upon tina, spot where lie the
fifty OF that noble band who persisted the
first winter. Every second man of them
went down 10 the grave, but they only clos.
ed up their ranks, shoulder 10 shoulder
They stood between the tempest AMI the
English sovereign, but they chose death
rather than compromise.
Who struck the strongest blows for .elig-
ious liberty! Was il those rsformers who
stood nearest the English throne, or was 1t
the uncompromising band whose strength
was developed In America! Carver and
Bradford did no, stop 10 criiicise like Mi
chael Angelo, they criticised by creaiion.-
The Edinburg Review calls them inioler-
ant, bu, 1t gets it's yard stick TO measure
their intolerance from the very institutions
these men have given them. He would
select as notices 10 be placed on the Pill
grim monument, over the rock, "The right
it is more than our country,n and over
the graves Of The fifty, "Deaih rather than
compromise"
lie dislrusted The word "Compromise, {"
and would kick il out OF doors. lie had no
doubt our fathers talked for Buneombe
sometimes, as, for instance, in their expires.
sions Of allegiance to Elizabeth, and to
King George; but underlying this Ian
guage OF courtesy, was deep earnestness
Of purpose. Governor Boutwell, talked
abou, taste, but he remembered iha, the
Pilgrims voted tina, each man build his own
house, and he hoped that each one OF their
descendants would continue to bnild his
own mental house The Pilgrims built in
situations for men, not men for institutions.
They planted wisely, and though wo may
have men SO dreadfully conservative that
they dread 10 sweep down the cobwebs lest
the roof should fall, and oppose the new
moon out OF respect for that venerable in
s,tution Of the old moon, ye, The seed will
never be so deeply covered up but that i,
will bear The glorious fruit Of liberty. He
was sometimes called fanatic, and would
acknowledge that he trained in iha, compa-
ny; yet he was sure that this generation
was Ear behind 1920. He ye, saw before
him the venerable forms Of the Pilgrims OF
the Mayhower. Loud cheers