Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-08-26
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unto Her Majesty and our great good service,
and IN time also greatly annoy that bloody and
Persec'ding Spaniard about he Gmfof Menico."
I I(Laughtor.)
Here then, we have the pre-pilgrim Pu-
ritan planning crusade against the Gulf Of
Mexico, and its outlying possessions-a
The "bloody and prosecuting spaniard"
was reminded Of this as passed in the pro-
cession to-day, for saw among the trophies
extended by the side Of an old New England
house, Mexican flag taken at the battle Of
Chepultepec. (Applause.) And SO there is
no new thing in the invention Of man; and
the most ingenious and fertile politician, who
looks with eye unholy upon the island of
Cuba, "about the Gulf Of Mexico" will find
the "bloody and prosecuting Spaniard" had
been marked for annoyance by some of those
Puritans before they came to this country.
| leave it to you. sir, and to our assembled
friends, who is "bloody" and who is "per-
scouting in the further prosecution ofthe idea.
Mr.. President, very soon after the Puritans
planted their feet upon this soil. a missionary
from the Governor of New Amsterdam, at
the mouth Of the Hudson, visited them and
among the many things which he saw and
made note of was an interesting exhibition
Of which ! have seen something to-day of
in the fine Indian characteristcs which were
presented TO my eye to. day / thought saw
little Of what might be called superficial ac-
complishments (laughter) while he saw the
genuine sons of the forests, and with phil
osophical eye he marked and reproduced this
trait OF the stern simplicity Of their nature.
In speaking OF the preparation oftheir youths
for the hardy labors aud trials Of their scanty
life, he says:
"Whon there is a youth who begins 20 ap-
proach manhood, he is taken BY his father,
uncle or nearest friend. and is conducted blind
folded into the Wilderness, in order that he
may not know the way. and is left there by
night or otherwise, with bow and arrows,
and a hatchet and a knife, He must support
himself there whole winter, with what the
scanty earth furnishes at this season. and by
hunting. Towards the spring, they come
again and fetch him out oft"
Now, sir, who led the Puritans "blindfold-
ed into the Wilderness but their Father and
their nearest friend ?" who left them in
the night time here, and withdrew not only
the sunshine Of his favor but the paler moon
and the cheering stars Who bade them
through the long winter gain their sterling
virtue by such scanty food as the earth pro-
duced and by hunting and who when tho
long winter had passed, who but He, to whom
a thousand years are but as one day,-He who
is king of nations no less than the God of the
pilgrim and the saint-who when the spring
approached came and brought this band of
exiles out ofthe long winter of oppression, and
brought them up again into the light Of the
world to stand among the nations fthe earth.
but this same, their Father and their nearest
/ friend :"
hn holo tIo - ~
might be thrown out over the whole country
in the form of emigration distribution Of
their power of their virtue, of their courage
Who led them away from what they would
have choson--the fairer scenes off more south
ern cline This is the method by which our
ancestors Father and nearest friend" pre-
pared those virtues which have gieven us this
vast country and peopled it with uncounted
population (Applause.)
! But, Mr. President, let us as the children
of those fathers feel and know that the true
heritage which they transmitted to us, and
which we are solemnly bound to transmit to
our descendants unimpaired, is not material
aggrandisement.
Their fame is founded upon the real great
ness Of their souls and is imperishable no
praise can brighten it and no censure dim
and we must perpetuate their dominion and
amplify their inheritance by the same means,
upon the same principles. And now that we
have brought hither TO the altar Of our flial
devotion, this our monumental gift, let us
remember the solemn admonition to him who
brought gifts to the altar of Hebrew devotion
III thou bring thy gift to the altar and there
rememberest that thy brother hath aught
against thee, leave there thy gift before the
altar and go thy way first be reconciled 20
thy brother and then come and offer thy gift"
If we, the descendants of the Pilgrims, have
been wanting in their stern energy, in their
unfinching intrepidity against power, against
wrong--if we have been proud and cruel-if
against later exies we have had inhospitable
hearts-if against the poor and oppressed of
our country we have closed our affections.
these our brethren have much against us, and
as we lay this monumental gift upon the altar
Of patriotism, let us 90 to our brother, poor,
oppressed. despised, wherever and whoever
he may be, and be reconciled with our brother,
for there is no conservation here for this monu-
ment, unless the spirit of the Pilgrims is re-
viyed their energies renewed, and we fight
against wrong and oppression in our day until
we conquer. as they fought and conquered in
life. Loud applauso.)
Let US remember that. with them, equality
ofright was nothing without community of
sympathy, and that equality of right and com
munity of sympathy we're nothing without re-
ciprocity Of duty, and let me give you, sir, these
three great principles upon which the Puritan
Commonwealth was reared and upon which
our wider Republic must stand or il viii iall
Let me give you
Equality Of Right Community ofIateresi,
Reciprocity Of Duty-The triple arch upon
which must rest the greatest monument 10