Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-12-25
ADDRESS
RCV. GEORGE =. MAG DUN
DELIVERED BEroRs THE
NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY.
ADDRESS


Sons AND DAUGHTERS OF New Esq
LAxp.-AIi hail and hail, ali Drawn
together at this time, not by the ties OF
a common nativity alone, but by the no
bier att actions OF ancestral virtue, and
nv the great memories Of History. All
hail. Coming from either, from all OF
the six sister States, whose goodly con-
federscy has made that rugged pcninsu-
Ia of the distant Northeast 80 beautiful
and so dear, and fills it with good
things from the Berkshire hills to Cape
COD, and from Long Island Sound to
the Canada line hail, all whether
YOU call her smother" who "leads the
way'-the "Dlrigo" State-whose long
rough line of granite coast sprinkles the
foam Of the irettel Atlantic, over her
woods Of pune or her, who holds fast
in the heart Of her mountain crests, the
highest name of our American patriot
ism--as imperishabic as they or her,
who keeps the Northwestern border,
aud the vcrdurc Of whose valleys
sof,cned with summer, color all her hills;
or the great central commonwealth,
mo. t fruitful OF all in arts and men or
the little radical republic on the South,
where "unsnrinking liberty of thought"
was first carried to its last result or
her, who sheltered the regcide judges
in hcr caves hail, all. Those count
less homes Of .turcd worth and happl
ness, We honor tonight as one, and call
them all "NEw ESGLA>D." The cir
cumstances of our first festival, Ma.
PREsIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, led
rs to speak much Of New England as
she is May open the second by say
ing something Of New England as she
was The season Of the year suggest
It, The tttlng time for this commemor-
alton has come. \ stern December,
with rs seasonable rigors is the time.
Snow on the hills-frost in the air, t.
see and feel something of these is ndis-
pcusablc. Wintry weather could hard Y
b. too Indictment aud sour for Pilgrim
Festival nor the AR, under our sottc,
sky at least, too keen and biting. The
duY carries us back TO the Puritan past
THIS is Forciathers' Day, gentlemen o.
the Committees o. ATrangements-th,
2lst-the very day. quarrel not with
the 22d FIR the place 1t has in mems
heart ), aud the associations it has Dor
rowed. LIT 1t keep them. But II may
revive tor a moment our youthful stud
ic~ IA chronology to winch those 'ew
dull pages used t. be gwen IN the histoi
les o our vchoolhoy Ilte-I will explain.
The Pilgrim Fathers Ian led at Plymouth
nec mbcr It'll, 1920, old style. When
the Landing BEGAN TO be celebrated near
ly century and a half afterwards, the
new styl Was Just a .opted, the GREGG
nan, VIII h adds ten aays TO dstes re
corded IN the old Eleven DAYS were
however, tor Il long time, crroreously
aided, making the DAY celebrated til,
22d. his Is the true day, however
when they touched store on the new
world two hundred aud forty veirs a,o
Lrt II, - back AID Jok at them awh,I,
this evening. ! only hesitate whether
We AN appropriately do it with our
pr sau, surroundings. No monarch
even uu Ter whom the Puritan Pilgrim.
lived and suffered whether Tudor ol
StUart-evcr met with such luxurIou.
entertainment as 9rects this company o
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