New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-28
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Fact ana Fancy.
The pride Of ancestry is so inherent vanity q hu
man nature that we believe there are few men wh'
would not rather be able to prove descentfrom rea
rascal who lived long ago. than to be unable e PROV
that their blood ooursed in the veins Of anybody i
particular ia Tie age that such rascal lived, deteset
by contemporary relatives to be proudly acknowledge
BIZ pedigree-adoring posteriiy. This Introduction!
remark ii general, and intended to have 40 pertnen
application to those forefathers and descendants U
which u are about % make direct reference, for WI
are niudFuo Of tie adage that it is afoul bird tina
denies its own nest, and the patronymic ancestor
this paragFaphist was cropeared Puritan, who's
homes were laid at rest in a new world grave bu
twenty Years after the MayAower grounded her kedg
ID Plymouth Bay.
The Puritan fathers then were not rascals any NOR
Than they were extraordinarily good and great men
Tbey we're religious aotionsts jealous to fanatcism
xboss eountrp became too hot to hold "round-heads
comfortably and who, with fair degree Of enter
mise. started OF to find more agreeable quarter:
IInortunately for the success of this object thei
almost ainless cruise brought them to the wronl
plaee. and they found themselves caught in the in
bosnitsbe wilderness of Massachusetts instead of tn
batter land and more genial cline which they nigh
have found further South. But finding themselves i
SHAT predicament they made the worst Of a BAD
bargain BY stirring up the savages with indiscreet
pro4ocation by prosecuting whites who differed with
them, and rendering themselves socially miserable
by the internal tyranny which their arbitrary ana
preposteroas enaenents enabled their petty author-
fes u infiict under tie name Of law aud justice upon
their own fellows
such we're The Puritan forefathers, as their own
chronicles attest those, the wrongheaded zealots,
with Nc particular ability to make them adventi-
tio1sIy respectable IN their eEdong whom the song
apd Prose OF New-England writers has endeavored
during the last ten or fifteen years to galvanize into
heroes ana with fair success by the process of
this sort Of literary eleetrometallurgy they have
managed to deposit upon them so thick plate Of
heroic gliding that the real groundwork material can
now scarcely be seen thronghit and generation or
So hence II will be altogether invisible, and the proud
lev Highlander viii point his ancestry as an unadul-
terated race Of heroes and their times as the grand
heroic age Of Yankeedom. Miles Standish will be,
e CON- the soldier saint the warrior apostle to the
wilderness tribes, instead Of what he really was,
very rough fighter, mercess and bloody, who would
anuse himself by hutchering Indian men and burning
lip women and children in their own wigwams, and
who died with the blood Of hundreds on his soul
Who with his squad Of christian euthroas surpassed
The ignorant deeds Of rapine and slaughter
These doings with the burning OF witches, the execu
lion Of persons larceny the whipping of white
men FOR doing what is now not even considered mis-
demeauor, all these things will not be lightly passed
over as merely little harmless eccentrciies of here
character but sung, with no word Of censure as the,
already have been in fact as most notable aud com
mendahIe manifestations Of stern sense of religion
duty 81 social virtue AS they ravaged and destroyed
nthe name Of religion shifting the Phistiues' wa
the ant-they were praiseworthy but the froatie
desperadoes Of our day, whose bloody INSCRIPTIONS
ness is not to be compared with theirs, by the lkt
course earn deesation and death if the law can cacl
them while they are yet innocent of the same hypC
critical pretense.
We are exceeding our limits, bnt our indignation
sCorns their crcumserbing when it is spurred by con
templatng peryeTsion Of facts of history by fancy
ana BY the instances Of that nsuferable selEconse
unence with which the New Highlander Of the Ok
stock points to his pedigree. For example, here ",
have fellow BY tha name Of BradstFeet, who com
mences il the New York Ledger loudly advertised
True History Of the Colony Of Nelo Plymouth, By /
following ovation Of Incense 10 his own vanity and
that Of his fellows of the New England aristocracy
The ancient race Of Greek gods, whose celestial
iehor impregnated the blood Of heroes ne longer live
iii the faith ofreason else to them would &c atri-
buted the parentage Of those iustrious men who
founded, upon Plymouth Rock d new 0lympus.n
This choice extract is followed by couple of co.
umns Of STUFF principally devoted to the laudaton OF
his stock and the illustration of his ancestral tree,
modestlg rematkug that each separate Bradstreet
is whole BradstFeet and that anu one let this
history testify Doubtless it will so testify Weare
completely wearied Of New England histories, New
England orations, New England virtue, New England
perseverance, and all its absardties and isms,
Piecotomini
4 Has entirely eaptisatedth the Bostonians. Her every
appearance is ovation on their part The critics
have exhausted the vocabulary of Mandatory adeetves
in the praise Of the primn donna and her associates
and are mpressing for the service all sorts of odd
Expressions one Of them, for instance speaks Of
BrignoIi's delicious Lavender voice.