Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-04-07

Ol lnt success, bUl bI lNt IdlluIN 90
the celebrated plantingon Plymouth
Rock. There is no more sense in
the political gcnoalogy which runs
from Charles Sumner back, to John
Winthrop. or in the theological gen.
calogy which brings Henry Ward
Bcechcr up ont Of the loins Of Nor
ton Of Boston, and Philips Of Essex,
than there IS IN that celebrated
chronological deduction Of picked
cucumbers from King jeremiah. !
know no more provoking 0bsnrdity
in history than the perpetual rccur-
renee Of the New England writers
and speakers, who have manuihc-
turcd so much public opinion for 50
many years in America, to the Pill
grims Of 1920, rs the founders of
American liberty, morals and pros
perity. The matterhas been so but
tered over with bIarncy and rigma-
role that ifa man simply locks into
the realities Of that memorable cXo-
dus and honestly tells what he sees
he Is sure to be assaiied Rash man
he is lampooning the fathers Of our
race or. rs the Orientals would
put it, dancing Il jackass dance on
the graves Of our ancestors!
One might LAUGH at this, just as
he does at the vanity Of the Chinese,
who really think their emperor de-
scended from the sun or the moon,
or of the Biscayans, who are sure
that Adam spoke the most elegant
Basque, were it not for the evil ct-
fects it has wrought in the past and
still daily works upon our morals,
our manners, and our politics.
/ do not propose to weary you to,
night with historical sketch Of the
rise and progress OF the American
race, as we may now fairly enough
begin to call it. But while | main
tain that the people who really re-
vile the Puritans Of 1920 are they
who protest that those iron-clad ad-
vcnturers meant to breed genera
ton Of transcendcntists, freelovcrs,
abolitionists, rationalists and social
lists, / maintain also that the New
England element in our national
story, but that almost all our troub-
les and difficulties have arisen out
of it. Cheers
Four New England takers and
orators are forever claiming that
Whatever is best in America is of
New England origin, | desire to
record my faith on the contrary,
that whatever is best in New Eng
land is of American origin. lmean,
that is, to assert that New England
owes, on the whole, even more to
her sister colonies who had become
her sister States than they owe to
her. Anti slavery, now her special
boast, she steals from the Quaker,
and religious liberty from the Cath
Ollie and Baptist, all of which sccts
were prosecuted by her. 1 do not
now estimate as part Of our debt
to her the moral discipline we owe
to her vcXatious and repellant quail
tiles. In the middle ages pious par
sons used to put peas into their
shoes when they went on n pilgrim
age. They hoped thereby to insure
their safe arrival in Heaven through
the modification Of their soIes.
New England has been the pea in
the national sole! [ Laughter. !
This | am willing to admit, but no
more.
As matter of Revolutionary his
tory. We all know that the New
England colonies would never have
ventured upon the assertion of their
rights against Parliamentary usur.
patton, had they not been held up
to the world by the magnanimous
and high.souled people Of their sis
ter colonies. Is it not ofrecord that,
when the Massachusetts Great and
General Court met at Salem, in
June. l774, and the delegates were
elected who were to meet the COM
mittces of the other colonies and lay
the Foundation, with them, of Amer
lean independence and nationality,
Sam Adams, the "noblcst Yankee of
them all, was absolutely compelled
to lock the door, put the key in his
pocket, and paralyze the doorkeeper,
as the only way of preventing
"skedaddle" Of his irros0lute and
timid fellow member? TO this
course he was urged by Warren,
who wrote to him at this time, the
party who are paying for the tea,
and by that making way for every
compliance. are too formidable ID
Warren agreed with him in thinking
that New England neither could nor
would do anything serious if left to
herself. Indeed, when his own poo-
pie sought for fit praises to bostow
upon this brave, firm spirited and
original Democrat, Sam Adams,
thev were forced to describe him.
not as a Puritan, nor model Pill
grim. but as zone OF Plutarch 5
men"
Referring to facts of history to
susta n this view, MIR. Cox went
further back to the coming Of the
Mayhower to show that the great
Puritans, Cromwell, Pym, Hampden
and Eliot were left alone to fight
the great against prelacy and
kingcraft. Luther did not run away
from Worms, nor to 90 to Holland,
or to a wilderness. Trae heroism
stands up to its work. But waiv-
ing the question, "Why did not the
Puritans stay in England and fight
it Out?7 we ought TO remember that