Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-08-06
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present at the laying Of the corner stones OF the
Pilgrim Monuments at Plymouth on the ID
Among the many invited guests At the festival,
were the venerable DR.. Beecher, Rev. DR.. Wad- |
ington Of London Gov. Banks Gov Bucking- |
ham, Of Connecticut, Gov. Turner, Of R l., |
Gov. Chase, Senators Hale and Wilson, Ex-
Governor Kent, Of Maine, Rev. Drs. stons and
Ospood, and Hon. F P. Blair, of st. Louis.
Gov Banks responded for Massachusetts,, Gov
Buckingham for Connecticut, Gov. Turner for
Rhode leland, and Senator Hale for New Hamp-
shire. To the sentiment
Tur Stars oF Omo-Distinguished for the fertility
Of her soil the wealth Of her population and the soi
intelligence the people still follow the Chase
the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio, responded
as follows:
Mn. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN or
lMAssAoHusErrs When came here TO day, l
came for no other purpose than to manifest my
| disposition to cooperate with you in rearing
monument to the memory Of our Pilgrim faith
ers. came with no prepared speech, with no
set phrase but with heart brim full of love
| for New England and her institutions--not for
New England alone, but for New England as a
part of our common country, embamed IN all
our hearts. [Applause.l /, Sir, desired to
take my humble part in testifying through this
enterprise in which you are engaged to-day to
the worth of those who have gone before us -
| feel as every true Massachusetts man cannot
! help feeling, the worth of their great example,
/ for come from State which was peoped by
the descendants Of the Pilgrims-the corner
stones of whose prosperity were laid by men
who were nurtured in New England, and who
partook largely of the spirit of New England
| You have laid here to-day the corner stone of
a mOnumvuu uirfvtI 10 - .a----ea-~tn tho
landing of the Pilgrims and the institutions of
which they laid the foundations. But while
the Mayhower came from the Old World freight.
ID with empire, with institutions, with laws,
with ardor, and last and bes-with freedom
| [appause there was, in 1888, TO be seen,
vending its way from among the hills Of Berk.
shire towards the setting sun, train of red
wagons, in which, as 10 the MayAower of 1920
wereH garnered the deainies Of the mighty
West 1t was a son of Massachusetts, patri-
| OF Of the Revolution, a soldier enjoying the
confidence of Washington, who gathered about
him few Massachusetts and Connecticut men,
and emigrated in 1888 to the shores of the
beautiful Ohio and there la the foundations
of New Plymouth; and in Marietta, on the
banks of the Ohio, Rufus Putnam and his as
socates commenced their great work of West
ern civilization And allow me TO say, they
laid the foundation of a Monument greater than
any of you can rear here if you pile stone upon
stone until it reaches the sky
In laying the foundations of new State, in
laying those foundations upon the immutabIe
principles of civil and religious liberty, under
an Ordinance which made these principles the
heritage of that mighty region forever and for
ever-in laying, say, the foundations of such
State, they performed q work greater than any
which has been performed to-day, OF which
can be performed by laying the material monu-
ments of the world. [Applause.l Ohio her
self, deriving her institutions from the sagacity
of New England men, but not from them alone,
but also from the concurrent wisdom Of all
statesmen North and South-Ohio receiving
the first impress OF civilization from the united
wisdom of the whole country, stands to day as
a type of the Union, such as our forefathers
made it, and such as l hope in God it may be
in all coming time. We are, Mr. President, a
people gathered from many lands, and we have
no narrow, no sectional no proscriptive spirit.
| We welcome, then, the American, from what
| ever country he may come, and meet together
as brethren. Virginia contributed her share
| Massachusetts, contributed her share Connec
ticut has furnished part of her population, and
South Carolina has furnished another part
from the Green Isle of the Ocean, from the
banks of the Rhine, from every quarter of the
world we welcome those whose love of liberty
and free institutions directed them to our shores
and in doing so we build a monument worthy
of the descendants of the Pilgrims. [Appause.]
But Ohio is only the corner 81 one new States
are to he added one by one the stones are to
be laid in their place until at last gOriods
monument shall rise and where the end will
be no man can foresee. We in Ohio are accus-
toned to look forward to the time when stone
after stone will be laid upon that foundation,
until State after State shall form part of this
monument, and the whole Ocean bound limits
of the North shall be portions of the structure.
We are indebted, let me say here-we are in
debted to New England, not merely for much
in the original foundation of our Institutions,
but we are indebted in some part also to New
England for the care with which these insttu-
tions have been reared. We aye indebted to
New England for our Common Schools, and
for much of our religious culture, and l should
be doing injustice TO our venerable friend, CDR.
| Beecher,) who contributed so much to the
| foundations of the Western world, if did not
express our obligations to him, who as has
been quantity said, is the father of more brains
than any other man in America and l take
this opportunity to tender him, a son, believe,
Of Connecticut, aud an honOred citizen of Mas.
| sachusetts, my cordial thanks for the part which
he has played in the formation of Western
morals and Western manliness. Applause
At the conclusion of Mr.. hase's remarks,
the following sentiment was read from the Rev.
Dr. Beeeher
Glory to God for tho preservation OF forefahers
in their native land, and Tor the memorial
day commemorate their fidelity to the cause Of reli-
gious freedom We doubt the past but the begin
ming Of glorie early protected and deyouty to be
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