New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-22

/ sud of selfstnfg alton which dist;nsui.h" sucs
/ b<hs, for instance, a. ON ,rton's Memorial y
seu'd rot give to Us pictures a. tcuchias Of per
.cnA .ufeIing and Of daring annals iust a. full IS
sbose Of Sslem or Of Plymouth Of eodursncs ADD
| sscrisce- crusades Of civilization If not Ct Chn'-
tisbity, in which honor took the place of religious
faith, and TIE ls.t lingering remnants Of the chival
~ Of tie Middle Ages upon these Western shoes
conterdsd, perhaps without preliminary prayer,
ssairst tie barbarian and the irfdeL TIE little ne
Of The Massachusetts, coat With the shores skirtng
tie Interior .ees of Rhode Issrd and Connsc.c IL
did not coDfne within their boundaries the fast
sursrg and swelling influx Of the Old World civ
ilizstion. The Dutch good sense and power OF
adaptation under Few forms did its work in New
Netherlands. Soon, in Pennsylvania Quaker,
second only in reputation in bis religious organize
ton. established large and hourishiDg colony.
Lors before, in yirguis !odguent had been
effected and maintained. OF other colonies We
need not speak But il must be seen BY the
philosophic observer that in the original attack
upon the barbarsm Of the new. found continent
the PaIitans, and certainly the Puritans of Ply.
nth, bore, ply sically-aud BY that we mean nu
merical,-but very small part. Nor caa much
more be claimed for them by their most ardent sd
miIers. There propose higher and hoer claim.
In behalf OF the noble voysgers for noble they wsre
they claim q moral Influence which, once eStab-
H.hed, would, in the estimation of all good men,
shed more glory upon those old Pilgrim graves taan
If their molderiDg occupants were forever cele-
brated in the psses Of Froissart or of Napier.
Oftbi. influence We cannot say that, during the
cary history tf civilization upon this continent it
appears to have been widespread or potent. There
is We think, no evidence that the Cavinism of
New. England, with its f'e bfistlng and yet subtle
points, powerful as it was at home and influencing,
as it undoubtedly did at that time the whole human
character within its limits, exerted much infu.
ence beyond those Imite-th,t it modified even
the modified Lutheranism Of New YOrk-that it in
sIy way reached the Quskersm Of Pennsylvania,
the Roman Catholicism Of maryland, the Episco.
pslAnism Of Virginia, the MethOdisu of Georgia
But at home, no pen however gifted, no tongue
however eloquent, nomind however subtle, would be
competent to demon srate its wonderful results. It
nerved The arm, whether that arm was warning
against the stony sterility Of Nature or against
treacherous and remorseless foe. II made toll
sweet 1t made deprivation pleasant. 1t made
the Io,s of this worlds goods, Of this worlds beat
beloved ard most kindly nurtured, duty cheersuly
to be encountered 1t made sorrow holy and &C.
ceptsble sacrifice and personal suffering the per-
sonal duty of all flesh. At the same time, while
continually provoking in each succeeding genera
ton bold inquiry into its dogmas, through the
very ptrtinaci,y with which they were insisted
upon, and against which the muscularity Of youth
fnl thOuaht would be sure in time to revolt it an
coursged, in its defiance Of the Church system
against which it had revolted, and which was part
and parcel of the political despotsm of Euglaud,
general spirit of inquiry. Its prosecutions had
taught the Church of the Pils rims if not to be tOl
Grant at least to b. courageous Its children and
its chidren's children have Inherited the daunt-
les.ness which asks not If systems, whether
religious or POLITICAL are strong, but whether they
are just, humane and logical. And 50 the Puritan
influence from the beginning even until this mo-
ment, in spite of counter influences Of debsuch.
ing and dangerous character, has been felt in New.
England These States have made great mistakes-
they have been too fond of money, they have oc.
casionally run mad upon polemics, they have some
times had cotton thrust into their eyes, their ears,
their noses and their mouths, until all sense, save
the sense of feeling dollar, was gone; but the
original grit has shown wonderful power Of self
recuperaton, and the original conscience has proved
very trenchant and indomitable New. England has
no cities to boast Of, and it may thank Providence
for that same, and ak kindly continuance Of the
blessed deprivation. But it has what is better
than any brick Babel, with swarming, fostering,
tumultuous, many -tOngued population-ith has a ru.
raj claas second in ,ense kindness conscience and
thrift to none other in the world. -
The intellectual energy, however, which belongs
to New. Epglsnd, and which il congenta and tradl-
tonAl there does not find adequate employment
within her borders. The opportunities Ct the agri-
culturst are Limited BY sterile soil and narrow ter.
ritory. All the other profsniOns are crowded. The
pursuits Of commerce are soon monopolizsd, since
there is OILY single seaport Of Importance. The
children Of the Pilgrims must themselves become
Pilgrims and siDg the songs, and think the thought
and le true, if they can be, to their fathers in
strange lands. To-day how many, gathered round
the festal board in the far West and the distant
South, will remember with infinite yearnings, and,
perhaps, with no uDmanly txars, the brown hamlet
in which their childhood was spent, the old church,
the little school house, the wood the hill the river,
the sRanp, the cliff or the white shore The in
nocent SPORTS of childhood-the merrier diversions
If xouth-the VILLAGE buskinp the sleiqhng the