New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-12
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other day to keep the old Mothers one humid
red and fiftieth birthday, shaking hands heart
iIy under the hospitable sky, remembering
proudly that Mothers past and prophesyDg
proudly her future, were as cheerful sight to
see as the sun looked upon: Derry, sitting
among the gray rocks. in wise sim
plicity, and calling back to her
her thronging descendants, found among
them citizens of half the States of the Union,
Senators, Judges, men of science, divines, col
Iege professors, editors poets, travellers,
women of fashion and fame. Together
they recalled the days when handful of the
sturdy Scotch-Irish, sixteen families in all,
penetrated unknown woods, raised their for
lorn cabins, defed frost and starvation, estab-
lshed school and church, and by -and-by named
the hamlet in memory of the heroism Of their
fathers in Ireland forty years before.
Together they revived with exultation
the exploits of Derry men in King Williams
war, in the Colonial war; and, not without
tears, remembered their part in the war for
Union. Together they celebrated the peaceful
avocatons of their generation, and proved
that thrift, and skill, and ingenuity, and wit
have been the constant inheritance of the
blood. And, parting these eight thousand
people went away with kinder hearts toward
the old home and each other, and deeper re-
spect for the impelling convictions that founded
that home.
Such festivals have a fine significance. New
England is bounded now by the Pacific on the
West as by the Atlantic on the East. Wherever o
New England man carries New-England ideas,
she plants a colony. Her sterile hill lots have
broadened into fertile prairies her narrow
rivers stream TO the Gulf and the Western
Ocean, her slow increasing villages turn cities in
night. In the whirl and rush of affairs, in the
heaping up of wealth, and the absorption of
immense and complex interests, in migratory
| life, changing from city to city, and from house
| to house, and in the contact with all rationale
| ties, the sentiment of hOme-lOving and home
keeping gets somewhat dulled, the distinctive
characteristics of American civilization are some
what worn away, and the old years and the old
friends and the old influences arc somewhat
! forgotten. New-York is hattered at being
called the New Paris Chicago is
pleased with being lkened to New-York )
Omaha and Denver emulate Chicago. And this
is not through feeling of knship, but of
rivalry 1t is a mad race fCr wealth and the
| things of wealth. Now New York ought not to
be second Paris, or n second anything. None
but herself should be her parallel. She should
develop n new and larger civilization, because
her conditions are new and large. The artifi-
cial fineness of the Old World does not belong
| to her. Nor should Chicago repeat New-York
The life that is in her should express her.
| And Omaha and Denver doubtless have
an individuality of their own which is better
than anything they can borrow. The cities
will come TO this direct and honest expression
as their citizens come TO live their own lives
! And no help to this good end is more potent
than standing within the influence of lives that
were direct and honest
Frenchmen and Englshmen, heirs of ages OF
magnificent National existence and enormous
| National wealth, kndle their patriotism and
cement their brotherhood with the contemplation
| Of their wonderful riches, and the remembrance
| of their wonderful conquests The heirs OF
two centuries of struggling for civil and re-
| ligous liberty heirs of hardship overcome and
poverty cheerfully borne heirs of grand politi-
cal ideas nursed by that very hardship and
| poverty, must kindle our patriotism and
cement our brotherhood by the contem-
| plation and remembrance of these inherit
ances. When the homely old New-En-
gland places call us back TO the fourth and fifth
generation, it will be well TO go with eager
ness. Perhaps the very name Of the messy
town has hint of heroism, like this London
derry. At least the tie of close kinship OF
common blood will warm our hearts, and make
US sensitive to the influences of the time
| And these influences will be n generous friend
ship, which will forget all boundaries of States
| a fresh remembrance of valor, and unselishness
and simplicity; fresh desire to live our broader
lives as nohly rs they whose names we bear lived
| their narrow ones so many years ago; an i'm
pulse to carry back into the daily existence
| from which we came commences that II bad
somewhat lacked; IA conviction that we too, have
received the high commission to leave the world
better than we found it. Every mothers birth.
day feast that is made is a wise festival, be-
cause it draws children's hearts nearer together
in rejoicing and the birthday of venerable
! village whose children are so many that they dC
| not know each others faces, must be best Of all
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