Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-23

ehnll lead us ON 10 do and dere such worthy /
deeds as best becomtth sons spnnging from !
such worthy sires,
whore on ufes battlefield vo fall ve may not know,
Bot ever let ne see thn AZ We 60 we know our patsr-
Let no iqnoble deeds Of ours
Our mothers bright efcutcheon soil
But ding your banner TO The breeze,
There let IL psoudly Goat, and on is i0lis
luscribe In words Of livint light
For God and for the right
REGULAR ToAsTs.
lst The Day wo Celebrate
Responded to by Judge TnDRS.
Ma. PRksIDRNT lin responding to this
sentiment l shall not refer TO any Of the his
torical incidents which have made this day
memorable in our annals. So much has been
said and sung upon this subject, that no COM
mon talker upon it should be tolerated. If
should attempt this, could say nothing which
I could claim Rs my own, and could but re-
peat what others have said an hundred times
over My own sense Of propriety, as well as
my knowledge of the good taste OF those pres
sent, deter me from saying anything with
reference to these matters.
| What, then, shall say2--always a serious
question with me on these oonvivial oeca-
sions. Well, will say as my warrant for
being here at all, and to crafty little per-
sonal vanity have in the matter, that am
pilgrim Of pure descent. Many Of you,
Judging from my inner man, may doubt this.
Yet | am able TO show from unmistakable
recorded testimony, that | am regularly de-
scended from Elder NATHANIEL TLDrS, of
Tenderton, in the county OF Kent, in England,
who landed upon these shores and settled in
Soituate Mass. in 1927, some six years after
the founding Of the Plymouth Colony.
Who then, has better right to talk here
than myself, and who is there here who can
boast Of purer and nobler descent? Some
Of you may have descended from Governor
of some New England colony or from some
member of the counsel, or from some colonial
Justice of the peace, or from some captain or
major or colonel of the train band oil these,
in that day, men Of great renown, but who
among you all can boast of descent from q
Puritan Elder of q primative Puritan New
England Congregational Church? / urge
this as question of precedence here tonight.
Am ! only to take rank with common pill
grims on this occasion is the question | sub
mit2 Let no man interpret the social posi-
tion Of my ancestor from the forlorn estate Of
an Elder of the church in these degenerate
days. There is no boy in the land who, when
he passes an Elder of our time, lifts his hat
from his head but the insolent cub walks on
without even so much as respectful nod Of
the head. 1t was not 80 in the days of my
| HfunuIatneI. NO DQY OF man ENbI pdbStu
Elder Nathaniel Tilden without uncovering,
and paying Difference to that dignity and
high social position which the Tildeus took
upon themselves when they first landed upon
this continent But alas like all great
Houses, this House of Tlden has sadly fallen
off, and now among the whole family Of Til
den's l am able to ind but single Elder, and
he rather common and scrRwny specimen of
that order. We have deprecated, Mr.. Presi-
dent and this, fear is true TO greater or less
extent of all my pilgrim cousins here to might
In all the elements Of true manhood we are far
below our stern old Puritan fathers. Not that
we know less, for we have vastly more
worldly wisdom than they had but we are less
honest less earnest, less valiant for the truth.
: l have taken some pains, in connection
with others bearing my name, to learn some
thing of this common ancestor OF ours, and we
! think we have succeeded in establishing by
! reliable testimony some of his leading chaTRc-
: teristics, and as he was fair specimen Of the
4 men of his time and true representative o
r Pilgrim character, shall be Justified here in
referring to these Characteristics as being those
b OF most New England men of that dsy.
& We find that he had bigotry and superstition
d which no ray OF light could penetrate. Having
10 fled from religious intolerance he wonld tolerate
no faith but his own Whoever differed from
y him in this was a hereto and worthy OF stripes
- Were he alive now, with his old ideas, AM
" a. should this night make him visit, beior
Ne morning he would have both Of my legs in the
N stocks. as being the legs of an ncorrigible sin
ner At present am disposed to take groun
IN against this mode of treating sinner
Theirs was a discipline in regard to religion
y and morals which our age will not tolerate
a. and vet it is nevertheless true that under
fourished class Of men which has done NOR
in for the permanent glory of our country than th
lit gene atoms which have succeeded II
In the light of our times we look back upoI
re the bigotry the superstition and intolerance O
lg our puritan ancestors, and count it 10 then
81 sometimes a iault, and sometimes as crime
My belief is that it was neither. 1t was th
IL natural out come of u stern, earnest God fearin
e, spirit intensely exercised upon the subject q
IS morality and religion. How could they, wit
&c their ideas of duty and the faith that their doc
triues were essential TO the worlds salvation
s compromise with Quakers or BSptists or tole
IN ate their religion The same spirit that led the
" to peTsecute a Quaker would have led Them
or the stake or scallOld in defence Of ther principle
OF At the Same time they exercised this intule
unce in regard to religion, lhev were the yea
hi Gus, earnest and heroic defenders OF uniVers
ln liberty, and were as intoleIant oi tyrants as {
IN heretics.
ds Il 1t is dangerous thing to be in earnest
up the affections are enlisted. 1t costs such
ey mind an tff,rt almost superhuman to avo
n fanatioism, perhAps bigotry, superstition al
cit intolerance, but these all spring in such cas
from an excess of virtue And il was on
nv earnest Puritan fOreiathers, laborng for gre
, n principles with all the sc inhrmties upon then
10 who have laid broad and deep and Gas trust
Id enduring foundations Of civil and religlous Ii
all erty in this land. They laid the foundations
those municipal institutions which have mark
ID out ,hc rational liberty of twenty Inillio
not ~ Si srLn., aa,ohj;shod that prntesia
t,a faith and reared those institutions OF leaTnlI
TO which we are indebted for self-governmet
,y- free speech, free thought and freedom to We
ce, ship God according to the dictates Of our CO
md science
ieel it duty to be present here to night
~, aid in commemoratlng the memory OF our q
~ rious New England ancestry, There Is, hoy
m. ever one sad reflection that minges with q
of festivities OF this occasion 1t Is that th
rail- strong impression which these Puritan Fathe
lad have made upon our national character 10 ta
eld succeeding wear peTceptibly fading away.
st. Would to God that these old Puritan spir
'hs might once more visit US, for never since th
e% 'ad departure from Earth did oar country ne
tile their presence more than at this hour.
i.IIE Music-By lhe Band.
sek 2d. The Sons Of New Eugland. The BEN
lrts the Bar, the Pulpit, the Press and Senate Ha
have felt their poWeFj their Rail Roads arc ev'
ess where, aud the snort Of their Locomotives 81
thy coon be heard on the Pacific coast.
@. W. PALMER, Eco, responded. lie r0marl
that We we're all included In the term "SOnS of
pom England" IL Is noticeable fact that the gre
est influences In the world have sprung from sH