The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1858-12-25

brethren, At home or abroad, BY a contribu-
ton Of means, they held fAsts and offered
prayers in their behalf. TAsis synpatby with
tho weak, the suffering and the errinE vas
kssn aud lively. But il Was not morbid
sympathy, 80 the sy0pathy Of weaklinks and
sentimentslists. Il was an intelligent and
manlv sympathy ,--as robust ~ it Was hearty
and human. Ia all the softer graces and
amenities Of life, they were no more deficient
than in the homely and rigorous virtues.
They we're the friends Of universal educa-
ton. To their minds, eduoation VS. the
handmaid of religion, and the sursst support
Of the statc. They did not expect to main
tain the religion that they loved and the
state they established, without enlightsning
the understandings OF those to whom they
we're to be entrusted. With supreme power,
both in secular aud sacred aEairs, residing
in the hands Of the people, they appreciated
Al intellectual beings, also, they SGT true
the development and discipline Of the mind.
vided that "none Of the brethren shall ssFsr
20 much barbarian in their families ~ not
to teach their children and apprentices 10
much learning a. may enable them 80
perfectly to read the English tongue"
And II was ordered in all the Puritan colo
MES ''that every township, after the Lord
hath increased them to the number Of hfty
householders, shall appoint one to teach oil
children to read and write and where any
town shall increase to the number Of one
hundred families, they shall set up gram
mar school the masters thereof bdink abs
to instruct youth 40 far rs they may be fitted
for the univereisy." This was the founda-
ton OF the free school system, which has
spread over the land which has attracted the
attention Of the civilised world, and extended
itself to others lands. Purtanism raised the
ONCE Of the People, and their notions OF the
necessity Of popular education we're cores.
pondingly elevated.
In feW words We may sum up their char
acter, MS friends Of free government, free
schools, free church; lovers Of virtue and
coed order, Of industry and frugality be-
Levers in the inviolability OF reason and CON-
science equabls, serene and resolutc men,
who dealt justly, loved mercy, and walked
humbly with their God. They rest fron
their labors. The soil Of Nav England ssv-
ers them. But their example and their spirit
survive. The Il 200 persons conprissd in
the Puritan emigration now number a. their
descendants one fourth Of the white populs-
ton OF this country. In six millivns OF
American people they live again. IL might
be at once our merit and our pride to initiate
their virtues and share their fame.
S. Then followed .
POEM.
M ALBERT surLIvvx, ESQ.
| The strsams which lowed from pilgrim founts,
| DO they s'iil make our berders green
! The old war beacons on her mounts,
/ And can they yet be scenf
| The nerve that steelsd those Mayaower men,
The courage of old Quaker Hill.
/ Say. are they with US now = then,
eull moving, living stilif
| Still handed down from sire 10 son,
To hearth hres blazing far away.
How does their iuhuence mold and form
The Yankee Of today
lhc Yankee what strange visions riss
What mighty thoughts my soul engage!
j Before me stalks ia comic guise,
/ Tho Yankee OF the stage.
With figure lean, aud nasal speech, :
Aud breeches brief ~ brief can DO
NJ BRIEF their striped beauties reseh
Scarce past his Pilgrim knee;
| With face Of awful longitude,
The features soied, and pinched, and thin,
/ let 10 some strange expression screwed
Twixt idiot smile and grin.
| lie asks you, rherff and lcheni and Aowf
| AMI ohssf' and rsieAt and whyf and wAafi
And dont you fa,nk you d better noWf
Aud don't you iaiak you'd batter noi
He makes HIS wares and vruds them web;
Nice hams his native forests grew;
Pur9 spicery, only made to sell,
And always fresh and new.
Ho buys, he sells, be makes, he mars;
Il priest, or laymsn, ~ you will
Makes pills, or speeches; pcttifogs
DJes nothing well nsr Ill.
He travels secs st. james, St. Paal's;
.auessss' what some old master means;
In Paris cafes gawks, and calls
Aloud for pork and beans.
He chambers up yesuyiu.,
The lava biiows fall and rise;
With legs hung Ger the abyss he dreams
Of home add pumpkin PIES.
He seeks tho Miles, far distant springs;
Hs roams the dsssrt blown;
He haiL across the Russian steppes
The Gar upon his throne.
He roams the eastern hemisphere
From far uathay to suany spain;
He grasps, without = thought of fear,
Tbs british lions name.
lie questions every one he meets,
French Swans none can understand,
lie asks its riddle Of the Sphinx
Among its wastes OF sand.
He beats you down a sou 10 price;
dives bogus coin In charities;
He Offers on the Paris bnursc
Western securities.
Does all things stupid, all things meau;
says every III ng NAL a-p,opos;
IL sometimes sharp, Is Always green
Is all the worlds toa Msf.
The footlights vanish From my sight;
The Yankee OF the stage ia gone;
Around me falls the pleasant light
or the fair midday sun.
see instead before me rise
Now England homes, New England hills;
Above, her blue Italian skies,
Below, her silver rilis,
The snow-white church among the trees,
The school house By the village green,
Tn clover field hummed o Ter by bees,
The mountains dimiy seen.
hear her many sounds Of toll
TAo mufhed axe In valleys deep;
The dissAnt city's wild turmoil
That breaks the forests slesp.
Her water courses fierce and strong
Her million spindss whi1sing free,
And, minging ever with their song,
The grand soicc OF the ses.
| That sea which bears with waye and wind
Her handiwork to distand lands
| Which links her 10 tho fArthsst ind
| A. II with iron band.
The toilsomc sea vhieh pervas 18th .t>.i