Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-15

| py wealthy descendants, IL seems, In honor
ing the virtues Of fhe elder, TO bear witness
that substantial blessing has followed hl
chIldren beyond the third and fourth gen
trations. Fifty Of Che Mayfiower band
vino died In the s'frst Sickness" were
buried as obscurely as possible, and theii
graves sowed with grain, that knowledge
OF Inc colony's weakness might be hid from
the indiana. As it Is written Of Moses, the
places OF their burial no man knoweth to
TINS day. Many were inferred upon Coles
nili, portion Of which has been inciosed
Dy the Pilgrim Society as hallowed ground.
WHAT WOULD THE OLD FELLOWS SAY?
Is was upon Burying hill that the settlers
0nlt that wooden fort, mounting six pate
rtIros on the Roof, that their prayers for
protection from ye salvaees might be more
etiectual withal. The lower portion of this
eoince was their meeting house, whittier
they marched on Sundays, as Boughton has
painted them, in armed procession. Close
uncer the hill now stands the first Congre-
gstlonal church In America. But the Pr
grims laid the foundations Of o true
religious liberty, In spite OF themselves.
For directly across the little square Is
. Unitarian church, and wandering
down old Leyden street, on the very site Of
the nrst stockade, It seems queer enough to
pass Baptis. Westinghouse, and then
into the Universalist temple just around
TIE corner. Shades Of Brewster and Brad
ford, could ye not prevail against this
heresy! Or have ye learned, In some high
Illuminated sphere, that &lI differences Of
worship are In the worshiper and not inthe
creed or fern? s.l Z. -.
-. nv PLYMOUTH ROCK.
Having proceeded thus far, 1t Is certainly
In order to take stroll down to the rock
that memorable boulder Of greenish gran
lite, 50 distinct from any stone along the
coast dropped here BY some southwark
treading glacier, and ponderous with the
destinies OF half q world. One Is glad 10
see 1t encased and protected with 9 noble
granite canopy, under which 1t looks as
small and precious Is blood-stone in the
setting Of massive ring. The lower half,
only, Is here, and has sunken TO the floor
Ito save 1t from thu rapaclty Of reIic-hunt-
ers. The upper portion lies in front of
"Pilgrim Hail." on Main street, inclosed
with an iron railing, which bears the names
ofall the signers Of the Msyfower "com.
pact" When the feet Of Carver and
Bradford touched first It's surface,
they transmitted It, unwittingly, toI
precious metal; for within the hall
are treasured broken fragments, for sale
at almost their weight in gold. You can
buy for dollar . piece large enough to set
in pin or ring, and have the knowledge,
at the same time, that you are doing some
thing toward the completion Of the national
to the fore-fathers- which the
colosssl base already Is laid upon lofty hin
Just west of the May-fower's anchorage.
The Pilgrim Society, Of Plymouth, has a.
ready purchased the estates In the vicinity
OF the rock, and upon Coles hill and the
monument ground, and has commenced
the monument. Up to date about $4,000
has been expended. To complete the work
will cost some $50, 700 more, and the trus-
tees have decided not to go on with the
work until the necessary funds have been
raised.
PILGRIM HALL AND ITS RELICS.
No one should leave Plymouth without
spending spare hour or two at Pilgrim
hall, where there Is q small but excellent
library, and where are treasured ND many
curious and, what is just As well, genuine
relics Of the forefathers. Pictures hang
upon the walls; foremost, copy Of Henry
5argeant's large, ideal painting OF the land
ng ofthe pilgrims, very melodramatic, and
'cornful Of fidelity to history, landscape,
)r costume. Among a number of liyid,
angular portraits (copies) of the Winslows,
John Trumbull, and others, hangs one re-
lily fine old painting-supposed to be a
portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh-which form
,rly belonged to Thomas Jefferson. or
more specific interest are the relics
4 the colonists, veritable portions
# the MayfOwer'S cargo, though
ew in number, and mostly pertaining to the
ettler's household life. Here you can sit
q the stately wooden chairs of Gov. Car
'er and Elder Brewster, or upon the more
modern sofa of John Hancock, and study
ne elaborate visage Of the latter's stairway
lock, which somehow has found its way
lither. CromwelPs parchment commission
# arbitration to Gov. Winslow Is here on
Exhibition, but some autographic outlaw has
ut from the bottom the lord protectors
ignature. To common articles here pre-
eryed was attached value now unknown,
or they date from period when Shaks- !
care willed bis 'second-best bed" as a spe- |
ial beeuest; when household shattels, In |
tead of being, as now, an membranes |
Then unaccompanied with money to sup
ort them, were an estate In themselves,
ifficult of manufacture and handed from |
ire to son. So we are not surprised to SET,
be little chest Of drawers which be-
onged to Peregrine White; the kettle and
latter of Myles StAndish; or mugs and
aucers, Of choice old deli, which the hands
( Priscilla Mullins, In old times, lifted to
er rosy lips. No wonder that Mlstris
lice Bradford laced her corsets so careful
: around her slender waist, that they are
ere In f1t condition for any modern lady's
Sc; since such vanities, then, must all be
rought from foreign lands, and made to
Ist a lifetime. Capt. Standish's sword Is
n archaeological wonder. At first sight,
ne pronounces It q Damascene blade, for
bears the crescent, and appears TO be
Oyered with Arabic inscriptions. The
tiers are not Arabic however, though
hat they are Is decidedly uncertain, as no
.holar has yet been found who can read
le writing or furnish the interpretion
hereof.
BANKING,