New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-27
PLYMOUTH ROCK.

Massachusetts has, if We TecOllect arght, only
three public monuments of note. The 6rst is that
plain granite shaft on Bunker Hill, completed,
iew years since, by the generosity of foreign dan
sevse and which the traveller who approaches Boston
bv the Worcester Railroad unconsciou-ly COM
pares with fine glass-house chimney on
Lechmere Point; the second, bronze statue
of Franklin, which an irreyerent dog was
lately caught barking at; the third, another
bronze statue Of great man OF modern times,
which is about to be set up in the State-liou'e
ward in Boston but which it is fesred, will share
the fate of the fgure.h of Andrew jackson on
the frisate Constitution, at the Cbarlestown Navy
ward some years since, aod be found some morning
ear, ing It's bead in that incOnyenent way first III
tfoduced by 81 Denis 1t is now proposed to erect
fourth commemorative of the lancing Of the
Pilgrim Fathers on, or, rather, near that rock
which an enyious foreigner who had no Pilgrims
among his ancestors once called the II srncy-
stone Of New England.
10 this case il is TO be hoped, there viii be no
failure either morally, materially, or eSthetlcslly
The event is one not likely TO be forgotten at
least until the Union lie dissolved and New England
oyeryuu by an incursiOn q barbarians from the
Sou.h-in which case the landing of the Pilgrims
viii be transferred by cotemporaneOus history to
James Riyer and the event is one deserving OF
CONNIE morston N perennial brsss, or IN equally
perennial Quincy granite, if the march OF time
should ever be marked by such mile stones TO
note lis progress II is not, or should not be-, amat-
ter of locs nteres, merely. From that little, half
starved, hslfirozen colony, has gone out much of
the energy, the enterprise, the intelligence and the
virtue, which in less than two hundred years hsye
done so much 10 make i great nation. Probably DO
where within her borders widespread from ocean
10 ocean, from the wilderness where the snow never
lrclts on the hitops, 10 the wilderness where the
sayaubahs never lse their yeriure, are the Pilgrim
names unknown. In the most unexpected rela-
tons, in the most surprising concentrations, in the
most out.of-the- way and unhcsrd-of places, these
Puritan patronymcs start mp occasion Ia surprise
ne Should each ofthe scattered households, all over
the land, Of Pilgrim descent, send single repre-.
sentative 10 the Monumental Festival, aud should
the shades OF the grim old Fathers lOoa down, as
no doubt they viii upon their children, they might
We'll exclAim: This ruck We should call Cad, for
"a troop cometh.'
We, in New-York especially are interested II
this celebration, not only because so msny OF US
have come Of Puritan stock, bu. because if the
fsthers had been as lucky as they we're piogs and
plucky, Plymouth Rock would have been on the
Battery, and We should al have been sons VI Pill
gums However as We are not so unwisc is tie
man who wept because he was changed il the
/ cradle il would be foolish to grieye for the IN
toward events which led the Mayhower to toe
stern and rocA bound coast OF Massachusetts,
the descendants of her brsye company hsye done
They siLce could TO correc. that unfortunate and
uuintsntional landing at Plymouth by coming
I themselves 10 Manhattan Island Let Us help
/ therefore, 70 raise the monument
The people of Plymouth, we hear, are m,kin
/ great Preparations. Already the triumphal arches
are spanning her principal streets in anticipation of
the great dsy. All the musical bands of Boston
and It's vicinity are eDgs ged; the military are to
turn out; Masonic lodges and encAmpments are 10
colduci .hc ceremonies OF the laying Of tie corner