New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-16


go years, also, were yitaly connected with
the 40 or 80. which lad gone before. them
and women who subsequently came hither. out of
those had come the governing forces which the settlers
this continent We shall not have reached the tap roots
OF ou history On We have got back to their begnnng
I1H BIRTH OF FREEDOM IN EUROPE.
The invention OF the movable type, hundred years
earlier at Iaarem at Nlutz had made books the pos
session of many where manuscripts before had the
exclusive privilege OF the few. knowledge was dis
tributed. and thought was intcrchanged on this
new vehicle, with freedom, to breadth before
unknown The founding OF libraries the enlargement OF
universities had given opportunity for liberal studies,
and the ancient world drew to the modern the
elegant letters Of Greece made the genius and
the action again familiar with which their times had been
nlustrous At the same tme the discovery OF this
tnet had separated the globe 10 the minds Europeans
and had opened the exciting, because undo
alton W in the eary an" part Of hat age Tas
sred by tales Of sesfaring adventure II had
and wonder. forests dusEy figures featheTed
cress ornaments of harbaIic gold. strange hsbtaOns
unheard OF populations. were lifted before the
glze o. Europe Almost nothing appeared ncTed-
ibe. Groths himself scholar. iurist, statesman,
rs be was cautious by nature and trained in courts was
inclined to believe IN an Arctic whose heads grew
beneath their shoulders III Dorado to Raleigh as
real locality as the Duchy OF Devon Even Caihan and
Puck seemed almost possible persons in an age SO full OF
But neither the magical art of printing the dis
coysry OF the Transatlantic continent had stirred With
the sudden reformation of Religion, starting in Germany
aud swiftly extending through Northern Europe.
yival Of Divine. revelation: It brought the
Most High to immediate personal operation upon them
eehOing forth from the amber brightness which was as
privilege the constant obligation of any man to come
to God by faith in His Son; the dignity OF that
God had died; the vastness Of the promises whose i'm.
mortal spendOrs interpreted the Cross the legal right OF
every soul to communion by the Word with the Spirit by
whom that word was given; these broke like q fash
from S nights celestial not cny On the dsyout
nations; and before her force 80 supremely
inspired whatever resisted forced to give way 1t
not only released great mutudes OF men into instants
independence Of the ancient, dominant, spiritual
thority, it loOsened the ligatures, shattered the
wildly chan It's doctrines In Italy and Spain, well
as in England IN the parts Of German which retained plain
ancient allegiance to tho POntih as well as in those
which had thrown this off, there unwonted stmu-
of arms which fought against the Reformation, were
themselves eager and more effective because OF the
aud liberties were thus advancing Inventions followed
each other IA simple, with almost "a much OF startling
consciousness of right of opportunity and OF power the
sense Of liberation, the expectation of MAGNIFICENT
futures These extended among the peoples WITH a
rapidly, in q measure, before unknown
AN ENERGETIC AND SOVEREIGN CENTURY.
Another century, enerSzed by great emergent
opinions, suddenly full OF a vehement and conQucrng
public life, prolific in enterprise, so swarming with
productive force one must look long TO find. When
stepped out of tho past into the mod
ern life OF Christendon. The patience, sk inventive
and daring of civilization vitality part of
than its longest and ercest conflicts 1t fought TO
get for labor Elemental RACES darkened the
heavens The conclusion Of ethereal forces constant
Yet the work of construction went always forward,
and on the brOadest national scale, her liberties
are reached and organized; her states
Of the Batavians made scanty lands which they had
rescued from the marsh OF the sea- the seat OF history
triumph than the continent had and the center Of
a commerce which flung its teptaces round the globe
fought together, scattered the armada under
skies that seemed TO conspire for their help, and hit
of spain while all the tine went widely on. with only
indeed augmented impulse, the abors Of inventors the
9slsas S''0 pan % R u
40 mighty in mpuss that the earth seemed freshly alive
beneath IT, the skies to glow with prophetic CLEANS The
sOeeS and e Whole d Of Northern EHre Sa full
of an intense Stimulation Education was wide; Plain
university, were easy masters of i've or six languages
Farmers sons. like Francis Drake became great admi-
vague the expression of this Astounding exubcr-
ant life, instructed by rssssr.h and guide, by
fictitious in the force a. q he he. century
s there TS n s SsGpEs IL Av%
Europe sent forth its freshly awakened world
motion when the Easter sun unlocks tho ice.
This was the century out OF the midst OF which the
early settlers OF this continent They not its
splendid representatives feet of galeOns brought
them They came in coarse clothing not IN velvet
ut the time They seemed TO themselves only doing
a work which somehow had fallen TO them, and which
scented would be Industrious by reason OF their ac
ton was certainly thought which never occurred to
TSSm Bf they yney brS SsSa it's Vor if not It's
wealth Their small stoeksdes rs Jsmestosm ana
points coast where that energetic and sovereign
century then passing over Europe, set mp It's banners
shalt understand them or their work. except
this be before US,
ENGLAND RARIY IN THE sEvENTEENTH CENTURY.
Recall then, the England which the colonists left and
represented Elizabeth herself had been dead four years
when they landed at jamestown, and II years when
they settled at Plymouth. But the Image Of her i'm
perious face was on most OF the coins which they
brougt and the memories OF her reign bad force
vital than the actual power of her successor The middle
aged could well remember the camp the watchhres, The
universal eIcemcnts Of the years OF the Armada The
young might have had read upon broad sheets her golden
speech" to her last Parliament The older might have
aacd with Frobshrr or Drake or themselves have borne
arms under the famous admiras and captains who, at
her inspiration had fought win triumphant energy on
and land The very temper that now sToye TO DIS
leigh was beheaded Oct. 10, lois II years
s seore '1 tbs Nav Flowers Voyage T6at was
the last passionate blow Of the yanqnshed
S whose cbvay he Tepresened It showed the Gnsep
ing amnesty of tho spaniar but IL aso brought into
sudden exhibition the weakness and the wickedness
which were now on the throne from which the great
daughter of Anne BolCyn had lately passed; and the
sight of the blood smOte every heart which was loyal to
the past with pain aud rage. Carlyle has suggested
flat Oliver Cromwell perhaps at that time
living In London. q student OF law, and may have
bccn spectator the scene. Many others who were
att rEid this country must have the gallant
and cultivated whose youthful grace had attracted
Elizabeth, aud whose life had shadowed tie spendor Of
the age. And sharp OF the Nemesis in history
may Se have startled them when the and successor
OF royal bowed his reluctant ana naughty
head beneath the In front OF Whitehall.
Thp'Snirif which had marked TIE preceding hall cen