New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-29
"oN THE SABBATH WE RESTED" !"

not quite DIOWn up Dy inc r;tSnnesS Oh Il
mischievous boy, and still riding at anchor
in Cape Cod harbor, on the sixteenth OF De
cember; and for whose wanderings in search
of % final place of settlement our friend DR..
Dexter has supplied SO precise chronology
cal table. turn to those "ten of our Iuen'
with ''two Of our seamen." and with six Of
the ships company, eighteen in all, in an
open shallOp, who. after spending large
part of two days ''in getting clear of q sandy
point, which lay within less than y furlong
of the ship" 1.-The weather being very cold
| and hard,' two OF their number '.very sick =
and one OF them almost ''sw0Oning with the
cold" and the gunner for day and 9 night
seemingly ''sick unto DEATH found
"SmOother water and better sailing on the
seventeenth but $50 cold that the water
trozc on their clothes, and made them
many times like the coats of iron; who
were startled at midnight by "a great and
hideous cry" and. after a fearful bat tri
nmpllant "tirst encounter" early the next
morning. with band of Indians. who
assailcd them with savage yells and show
ers of arrows, and. after "a hardly less fear
ful encounter with a furious storm, which
"split their masts in three pieces" and
swept them so far upon the breakers that
the cry WAS suddenly heard from the helms
man, About with her, or else we are all
cast away" found themselves at last, when
taken them, under the lee Of q small
island, and remained all that night in
safety keeping their watch i'll the rain"
There they passed. the nineteenth, eNpior-
ing the island, and perhaps repairing their
shattered mast. The record is brief but
suggestive. "Here we made our rendezvous
all that day. being Saturday" But. bg1efer
still. and how much more suggestive and
significant, is the entry the following day:
nf Ionc,asnbap
day, wee rested"
That was the day, my friends, which We
are here 10 commemorate. On that Mon
day, the twenty-first of December, 1920.
from a single shalloP, those "ten of our
men." with - two of our seamen." and with
six of the ships company, landed upon this
shore. The names of almost all of them
are given, and should not fail Of audible
mention on an occasion like this Miles
Standish heads the roll. John Carver
comes second. Then follow William Brad
ford. Edward Winslow. John Tilley, Edward
Tilley, John Rowland, Richard Warren.
Steven Hopkins and Edward Dotey. The
1.-TWO OF our seamen were John Alderton
and Thomas English, and the two OF the
ships company whose names are recorded
were Master Copin and Master Clarke, from
the latter of whom the Sabbath Island was
called
AS we look back ever so clrsorily OIL the
great procession of American history as it
starts from y0nder rock, and winds on and
on and on to the present hour, We may des-
cry many other scenes many other actors
remote. and recent. in other parts of the
Union, as well as in our own, of the highest
interest and Importance. There are COnant
and Endicott, with their little rudimental
plantations at Cape Ann and at Salem.
fCbora 10 tho olIar Wipthrh,, with the Mas
sachusetts charter. at Boston. There is the
younger Winthrop, not far behind with
the charter of Connecticut, Of whose sepa-
rate colonies Hooker and Haynes and Hop
kins and Eaton and Davenport and Lud-
low had laid the foundations There is
Roger Williams, 1.-The apostle Of soul Tree
DOM us he has been called, with
the charter OF Rhode Island. There .is
the brave and generous Stuyvesant CT the
Catholic Calverts. and the noble Quaker
Penn, Building up Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania alike, upon principles OF liberation
and philanthropy. There is the benevolent
and chivalrous Ogletiirope. assisted by
Whitcfeld and TIE sai1ted Weslcvs, plant
ing his MoIayian ColoDv in Georgia. There
is Franklin. With his first proposal of 4
CoItineltal Union. ane with nis countless
inventions in political as well as physical
great argument against writs CT assistance,
and Samuel Adams. with his ineXCrahle de-
nand for the removal Of British regiments
from Boston. There are Quincy with his
grand remOnstrance against the port bill,
and Warren, offering himself as the proto
martyr or Bunker Hill. There is Jefferson
with the Declaration of Independence,
fresh from his own pen, with John Adams
close at his side, as its Colossus on the
floor of Congress"
There are Hamilton, and Madison and
jay bringing forward the constitution in
their united arms; and there. leaning on
their shoulders, ard on that constitution,
but towering above them all, is Washing
ton, the consummate commander, the in
comparable President, the wOrld-honOred
patriot There are Marshall and. Story as
the expounders of the constitution, and
Webster as its defender. There is John
Quincy Adams with his powerful and per-
sistent plea for the sacred right of petition.
There is jackson with his proclamation
against 1ullifcation. There Is Lincoln with
his evermemorable proclamation of cmanci-
nation. And there, closing for the moment
that procession of the dead-for presume
rot to marshal the living-is George Pea
body. with his worldwide muniticencc and
his countless bCHeiactiOns. Other figures
may present themselves to other eyes as
that grand panorama is unrOlled.
Other figures will come into view as that
great procession advances. Blt be it pro-
longed, as we pray God it may be. even ito
the crack ofdoom," first and foremost, as it
moves on aud On lin radiant files, "searing
the cyeballs' of oppressors and tyrants,
bat rejoicing the hearts of the lovers OF free
dom throughout the world will ever be seen
and recognized the men whom we commem-
crate today-the Pilgrim Fathers of New
England. No herald announces their APP
proach. Nopomp or parade attends their
advent. Shielded and helmed and
weaponed with the truth" no yisi-
BILE guards are around them, either
for honor or defense. Bravely but hum
bly,, and almost unconsciously, they assume
their perAous posts, as pioneers of an ad-
vance which is to know no backward steps,
until. throughout this Western hemisphere,
it shall have prepared the way of the Lord
and of liberty. They come with no charter
of human inspiration. They come with
nothing butthe open Bible in their hands,
leading a march Of civilization and human
freedom, which shall go on until time
shall be no more-if only that Bible shall
remain open, and shall be accepted and
reverenced by their descendants as it was
by themselves, as the word Of God.
Yes the open Bible was the one and all
sufficient support and reliance OF the Pill
grim Fathers. They looked, indeed, for
other and greater reiormations in religion
than any which Luther or Calvin had ;tc-
complished or advocated; but they looked
for them to come from better understand
ing and % more careful study of the Holy
Scriptures, and not from any vainglorious
human wisdom and scientific Investigations.
WHAT THE PILGRIMS WOULD SAY TO U.s.
Oh, my friends, have you forgotten, or
can You mag inc that they would forget for
an instant the cause in which they came
SO dazZled and blinded by the glare of mere