The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-12-24
DAILY PRESS,
Saturday Morning, Detembe, "a, 1870.
Mr.. Win'hrop's Grafton a, p,ynou,b
CORTLAND

Saturday Morning, Detembs, "a. 1870.
Mr.. win'hrop's Grafton a, P.ymou,b.
we transfer to cur columns as much of tbi
splendid address, delivered at the pi.ori,n col
eoraticn at Plymouth on "Wednesday 90 W,
can find room for 1t is so full of eloquea
and ima aressive passages that it Is difficult +,
cut 1t at all:
THE PILGRIMS AT LEYDEN.
Leyden must indeed have been dear 10 th
Pllgrlms, as the place where so many of tbes,
leading spirits fist ente,ed into their asso.ia
uon, aud first pledged their lives and fortune,
TO Their sacred enterprise.
But Leyden, aud the whole marvellous lane
OF which it was at that day one Of the mos
interesting and enlightened cities, had 3
charm Tor our Foreialhers lar above all mere
personal considerations. 1t was a land tc
which the great German poet, dramatist and
historian, Schiller IN his "ReVoll OF the Meth
eriands, gave the no5est testimony, in say.
Ing that "every injury Inflicted by tyranl
gave right OF eillzenship iu Holland" 1t was
land TO which that quar old Suffolk coup
ty essayist, Owen Felllham, paid still hi he,
tribute when he described it as "a pace OF re-
iuge for sectaries of all denonina IONS" Lei
but some OF our Separatists be asked" saio
be with evident reference to our EuplisL
exlies OF whom he was contemporary. .lei
put some OF our Separltists be asked. and
they shall swear that the Elsysian Fields ar
there" III you are unsettled" says he in an
another place, "it you are unsettled in youl
religion. sou may try here all, and take al las
what you Ike bes.. 1t you fancy none, you
have pattern TO follow of two that would be
a chulch by themselves"
A. Yes, that was exactly it-"a church by
themselves and there, in that chulch b,
themselves, our Pilgrim Fathers first tasted
the sweets oil civil and religious freedom, and
enjoyed that liberty to worship God, accord
lDg to the dictates of their own coDsc;ences
which to them was worth every sacrifice and
ABOVE all price. There, too, just as they re
moved from Amsterdam to Leyder, the ex-
traordlnary sound was heard-from the lips
OF Roman Catholic, and in behalf of his
Roman Catholic bretbren-of an appeal for
liberty of conscience which was never sur
passed by the founders of Rhode Island,
Maryland, or Pennsylvania. "Those," sai1
PRESIDENT Jeannin, most forcibly and elo-
quently, on taking leave of the States Gener-
al, those cannot be said 10 share any enjoy
menl from whom has been taken the power
OF serving God according to the religion in
trary, no slavery is more intOlerabls nor no ore
exasperates the mind than such restraint.
You know this well, my Lolds States; you
Know, too, that it was the principal, the mos
pulssant cause that made You fly 10 arms anu
scorn all dangers, in order to effect your de-
1verance from this servitude. You know
that it has excited similar movements in yari
GUS parts OF Cbristeadom and even in The
Kingdom OF France, with such fortunate sue
cess everywhere as to make 1t appear thai
God had so wiled it, In order to prove thai
religion ought to be taught and Inspired b,
the movements which come from the Holy
Ghost, and not by the force OF man."
BRADFoRD's JOURNAL.
The suburban residence OF the Bishop OF
London at Fulaam has many charms. Its vel
vet lawn, its walks upon The Thames, it,
grand old oaks and cedars OF Lebanon, its fine
historical portraits, its rare library, its beautl
ful modern chapel, and, above all, its anti
quate ball recently restored-in which The
cruel Bonner and the noble Ridley and have
sucessively held their councils during the
struggles Of reformation, and where Bancroft
and LauJ may have concerted their schemes
oil piSOtry and persecutiOn-rendpr it alto
gether one OF the most attractive places neaI
London, and hardly less attractive than Lam
beth itself. have been privileged to visit on
mole than one of those delicious afternoons
OF an English june, when the apartments and
the grounds were thu Oneed by all that was
most distinguished in the society OF the me
tropolis, assembled to pay their respects to
one whose exalted character, and earnest
piety, and liberal churchmanship, and un-
sparlDg devotion to the humblest as well a.
the highest duties OF his station, have won toi
him universal esteem, respect and affection
ana who has recently been called by tn,
queen to the Primacy of all England. But /
need hardly say, that to an American, or cei-
tainly TO New England eye,' here was moth
ing IN all the treasures Of art, or Of antiquity
or OF literature which that palace contained.
nothing in all the loveliness of its natural
scenery and surroundings, nothing in all the
HISTORICAL associations OF the spot, nothing in
all the beauty and accomplishments and titled
or untitled celebrity OF The company gathered
oenealh the rooi or scattered npon the lawJ
which could compare TOR a moment with
the interest of al old manuscript volyme,
which strangely enough lad found its wa,
there, OF all places in the worlG, and which
had rested tor three quarters OF a century al
most unidentified and uniecoenized on lis Ii
brary shelves. You will all have anticipated
me when say that it is the long lost manu-
script volume, of which but a small poltlop
had ever been printed or copied, written by
the hand OF William Bradford bimself, and
giving tae detailed story OF the Pilgrim Fa.
theirs tfom their first. gathering at Scrooby
down to the year 1647.
SEPARATION AND LIBERALlTY.
How it would have gratlfed tae honest
heart ,o Bradford himself, could he have
known where his precious volume should al
length be found, aud IN What estimation II
should be held after it was found! How
~ Lau baI;r al l.; L.
stead OF being set iown in some "Index Ex
purgatorus," or burned at ST. PauI's Gross.
as compounded Of heresy and blasphemy-as
1t would have been by those who dwelt or
congre gated at Fulham at the Time 1t was
written it should be sacredly guarded among
tue heirlocms OF the palace and its successive
occupants! How much more it would have
delighted him 10 know that so much Of the
simplicity and lIberality OF form and iatth
which 1t portrayed and inculcated. would be
cherished an exemplitied by more than one OF
those under whose official custody it was in
these latter days to fall! 80
Few persons, presume, will doubt that
bad the Church OF England, between 1908
and 1920, been what it is to-day, and its Bish-
ops aud A,chbishops, such in lie and in spirit
as those who have recent, presided at Lon
don and Canterbury, Brewster and Bradford
y
flower might long have been employed in less
interesting ways than in bringing Separatists
to Plymouth Rock. AS that Church aud its
prelates then were, let us thank God that
such Separatists were found! An Episc opa-
lian myself, by election as well as by educa
tion, and warmly attached to the forms and
the Iaith in which 1 was brought up; belev-
ing that the Church OF England has rendered
fnestimable service to the cause oil religion in
furnishing safe and sure anchorage in so
many stormy times, when the minds of men
were tossed to and fro, and carried about
with every wind of doctrines" and prizng
that very prayer-book (which was isowned
and discarded by Bradford and Brewster, and
BY Winthrop, too-as second only TO the
Bible in the richness of its treasures of pray
er and praise; yet rejoice, as heartily as any
Cougregationalist who listens to me, that our
Pilgrim Fathers were Separatists.
l rejoice, too, that the Puritan Fathers of
Massachusetts, who followed them to these
shores ten years afterwards-though, to the
last, "they esteemed it their honor to call the
church of England their dear mother, and
could not part from their native country
where she specially resideth, without much
sadness of heart and many tears"-were, 1t
hot technically and professedly, yet in all in
tents and purposes, Separatisls, also Semi
Separatists at least, as Robinson himself was
called when he wrote and published that book
which so offended the BroMnists. l rejoice
that the preatical assumptions OF that day
were resisted. The Church of England would
never have been the noble church it has since
become, had there been no seasouabe protest
against lis corruptions, its extravagant
ma'ism, and its over.bearing Intolerance
The earliest Separatists were those who sep.
arated from Rome; and when something
more than disposition was manifested TO
return to Rome, in almost everything except
the acknowledgment of its TEMPORAL suprem-