New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09

mander of the American army-George
Washington.
The impending conflict and the colonial
anxiety to secure by renewed treaty the
amity Of the indian six Nations upon whose
empire under British protection) the
before this early Manassas, and at Albany,
New York, in 1854, Q convention of com.
mittees from tho Northern Colonial Assem-
blies. The draft by Franklin of project
of uniting the colonies for mutual defense
under . grand council was adopted; the
apportionment and control Of the colonial
forces and moneys and the enactment Of
ordinances to devolve upon the council. a
president general to have veto and the
choice Of military officers. "This," said
Hildreth, twas the first official suggestion
federal constitution" Nothing could more
fully vindicate the pIovincials from the
charge of contemplating at this period a
separation from Great Britain than the
fact that while she was keenly suspicious
Of any concert of action among the colonies,
the Assemblies viewed the Franklin pro-
ject with equal disfsvOr. During the six
years. contest. indeed, that ended the
French and English war, the Northern
oOlonies-snd later the Southern-rallied
their militia at the summons of the royal
OUNCIuOlcs c10uAAu ICIdtCo lu6G tuO cOU.
missi01ers, considering the encr0ach-
ments Of the French, unanimously re.
solved that Q union of the colonies
is absolutely necessary for their pres
ervati0n," and lest any colony might
withdraw and the union crumble, "that
it was nece ssary the union should be estab-
lished by act of Parliament, SO as to make
it irreversible." Propositions to constitute
two or three unions out OF the colonies were
discountensnced by the convention for the
special reason "that a single union was
desirable since from this the colonies would
learn to consider themselves, not rs 80 many
Independent States, but az members Of the
same nation"
1t 10 but just to remember here that New
England fret illustrated lin l643) one hun
dred and eleven years earlier, the need of
Q union Of Massachusetts, New Plymouth,
Connecticut and New Haven, against the
Dutch and 1ndians-a unitn that subeisted
till James II. annulled their charter. She
was the pioneer OF . greater Union Of thir-
teen colonies one hundred and thirty-two
crown, and rescued still greater Union OF
thirty-seven common wealths ninety years
later in our civil war. The Obdurate John
Ruthledge, Of South Carolina, declared ''it
the impudence of Q New Eng.
lander. to press resolutions of independ-
ence. Every Western State proved in the
last of theee conflicts vast New England
fort formidably manned; every Western
the Mississippi to its mouth-a
New England pathway; aud when at
last Sherman's army Of ironsides marched
the Potomac army, it was the young
and the old New Englands in approach, be-
tween which mighty treason was ground
to dust. The Western Yankees have ma
tured and been attempered by immigration
to franker. broader Roger Williams to
multiply Western Rhode Islands. and to
feel all his uncomfortable impotence for
''sOul liberty" We ct the South husband
the very vice which the Puritan has dis
Darded, yet for which we tsunt him-iatol-
GRANGE. We may laugh at the ways Of the
Of the republic whose granite foundations
be laid. The lOyalist Peters, writing prior
TO the revolution history OF the province
Of Connecticut for the British market, sage
Ip. 290) the New Englsnders never "merited
The character of being dutiful and loyal,
and had too much honesty and religion to
,laim it, have uniformly declared in church
md state that America is a new world,
subject to the people residing in it, and
hold Jesus as their only king" The CON-
passion historian also remarks Up. 1861 '.the
ICOpAC NATURALLY lWUlOCU tuC IuC6 Iu6L lucy
we're superior to kings and lords because
;heE controlled their representatives, gov
,rnors and their councils. This is the in
alllble consequence Of popular govern
nents."
Men who desperately believe in their mis-
ion are apt to be bigOts. Men who march |
o meeting house with guns a-shoulder ard
it with one ear pricked to hear the sermon |
md with the other the sentry's alarm, are
Ipt to be grave men. Men long buffeted by |
Controversial storm, are very apt to be as |
,narl and to enforce their vie VS. when op. |
permits. Men who in solemn 1
Ovenant cross an ocean and at last kneel |
lone with their little families upon de-
olate soil, which they must quicken to har-
ests in order to subsist, arc apt to feel that
be canopy of bleak sky under which they
ave brought their stern conviction domes
hem as their own church and their own
tate.
The rugged Puritan arm often dealt too
Witt and hard q blow when they out
oped the Pope, out-knighted the King and
ut bishoped the Bishops" but it was
evertheless the arm to build continent.
While Roger Williams, among his numerous
lerits and vagaries, inveighed against the
ID cross in the English 'cOlors as relic of
opery and against royal patents to land,
10 grave neighb0rs were udely but surely
eginning . people that should both own
ie soil By their own patent aud rear their
wn invincible standard above it.
Parson Caldwell, whose wife British
,ldier wantonly killed at Connecticut
arms, New Jersey, in 1880, became at once
more than . parson. The Jer-
ymen, mustered to repel Knyphausen,
ere out Of wadding. The psrson broke
zen the Springfield church door, dissp-
,peared and soon returned with his arms ]
led with hymn books, dashed them down
I'd cried, "Put Watts into em, boys"-
ey, did, and the British retreat began.
b, sir. we may not in reason laugh at the
alm- singing Puritan; it was his old hymns
at sung themselves IN every bullet and
IL which sped Southwark from 1861 to
nd Union of 1913! Back behind the
injury we close to day stands it's
rent century, which these observances
lees commemorate. To return.
But the provinces az q whole had not as |
It touched elbows with q sense of common
rong; each had not looked, az rule, over ,
ID beyond its own frontier; and to trust {
g proposed council, in which each colony's {
opOrtion of representation we're SO mea-
Q, seemed to leopard ite own interests in !
nds like the GOvernors'-not responsible !
rectly to itself. Franklin's convention, it I
" be said, morally adjourned until l775,
1en his pregnant suggestion matured to
Q first experimental draft of that consti :
ton, which is our most precious posses. {
N to-day. France fought long enough to
lister the colonies and quicken them with I
rational instinct; in abandoning her in
sion, she left mad Britain to continue the
tai labor. She left them in line and in j
scipline, and then succored them in the
,Is,AS l. y TT L
ls but the kernel Of our oaken germ of t
umph. $
But while the colonies had contributed q
:ge measure of succor to the mother q
untry In her wrestle with France, they
d done much more. They had uncon- c