New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-01

InGirs. We remember that ZONE years ago he
otssssa at ai tie sborsnes of this country, under
coTtT Of Phi Beta Kappa orasion. Again 10 B''-
tn On lie eveLirg Of the 18th inst, 10 inaugural
irg TIE course Of tie Mercantile Library A'socia-
iiop in lecture On which a cores ponden1
Of ours makes some gentle ard genial CON-
ueLts il smother part Of this paper, nr.
Cushing pursued tie Indian with moss
acute stick He vas euogizDg the Puritan
Fathers. lie said the hAudsomsss things IN the
word concerning those round-headed worthless
lie observed that he 90 doated upon them that me
contemplation Of their virtues kept him awake,
and that he sat up o nights thinking
about them. He al.o stated the remarkable
fact that be hsd seen their shsdoWy
"forms floating 40 translucent cloud-wreata by
"ihe hiehts Ct Boston, Dorchester and Charie'-
"towp, tbs blue hills Of Milton celebrated for
mathematics; we hope they did not DIE
any of tie trsnsucen: cloud wreaths] the
"pisins Of Cambridge and Salem" Dir. Cushing
also saw the translucent cloud wIeaths unier
squeCus circumstances. Whether with or without
cork boots and gutts perchs oyercoats be had oo-
ssr7ed the Trsnslucents (sre they related in any
way to the TIanseerdentals y BY the Merrimac,
Connecticut AID Charles rivers, and also upon the
shores Of Massachusetts Bay After watching them
By these plainly Drinks and narees Of wide rivers,
Mr.. Cu.hing AYERS distinctly that he saw them
depart for "the IemOtest limits Of America" Bat
he does not inform US whether they have or have
not come back sgain-sn interesting question,
which We hope that lie will settle in TIE print Of
bis performance.
BIZ. Cu.hipg admits that the Puritans, albeit
translucent, were intolerant. They were, it sp-
pesrr, rather faulty cloud wreaths, ard, in some
respects, damp ard nebulous sinners. The orator
admits tat they were "intolersnt." "Be it so"
however, he aays, with great cOmposure. To!era'
ton, he affrns, is modern invention, like the
steem.engire the railway, the pstent-sa.e, the
photograph ard chlOroform. We can no more
blame these venerable men for hanging the Q1skers
than for lot beirg vaccinased.
But there sre limits, and Mr.. Gushing cannot
stsnd by the Translucents through thick and thin.
They have been accused of cruelty to the Indians.
And here Caleb thinks they did rather err. Butt
will make the reader sfghtly relax the muscles Of
bis countersrce to hear in what respect Mr. Cush-
n thinks that tie TraDslucents erred. 1t was in
not Immediately sukj.csins all the red skins to
Slavery, or what he il pleased to call "the double
"ytke.lsvs of the soldier and the priest" IT, in
bargaining for lands, they had given blank checks
instead Of blankets, ard red deg money instead Of
led rum; if they had stolen instead Of pretending
to purchase, and if they had not only stolen the
denesnes but the persons Of the Indian men, women
ard children and established nice and comfortable
relation Of raees, like that in South Carolina, oil
would have been well-the Aborigines Is contented
as the clans Of their own digging, and the settlers
a. ssfe and srug as . bug in rug. The only
choice, according to MG Gushing, was between
,ervitude ard shooting, and the Puritans unfortu-
natsly adopted the latter fashion.
Now we do not intend to have the Pilgrim
Fathers, who, when the breaking waves dashed
high upon stern and bourd coast, landed un-
der the most distressing and surfy circumstances,
thus slandered. They diI their best to enslave the
Indians They cent them off to foreign chimes,
hey tried to get up domestic inst tu'ions" for
them. TIE only difficulty tquite serious one in
an instution) was that the Indians would not stay
put They could no more be enslavsd than quails
douesticated There is an old Rhode Island
rhyme:
"Jchn Brown had two little Indian boys
One ran away, the ether would lot stay
Two little Indian boysl"
We do not know. We suppose th.t according
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