New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-07
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS.


10 THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES AT THE HOME OF
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OF FUNDY-A SOUTHWARK FIIGHT--T1IE DELLA
WARY SHIP CANAL--DALTIMoRE AND NEw-Y0R
TO RE NEXT NEIGHBORS-sfuP- BUILDING
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF TRANsPORTA
TIoN IN THE COUNTRY ROUND ABOUT Thu
CHESAPEAKE.
Maryantha and | went over to Boston last week
70 see if there might be opening in the posy line
i asked that sagacious woman what she thought of
the place after she had ridden and sailed all over it
and around it.
"Nery brieky," said Maryantha; "very same
like The old city seems 20 have been conceived by
a philosopher walking out dilemma. The new
city is attempt to raise the West End of London
upon the street plan of Philadelphia and amidst the
waters of Amsterdam. But the way Boston has
rushed into the decoration style delights my soul
Tiles succeed aud pasted in aud everything that
will stand 'em! limitations of Spanish cathedrals
and Italian Companies and Florentine loggas It's
stately and preposterous. But where has the
Puritan got to w
"Oh" said L. " the last Puritan that was in Bos-
ton, James Fisk, jr., sent as u missionary to
New York"
STRANGE" SAID Maryantha shat James Fisk
and Wilbur Fisk should have cooperated so little
MIR Fisk took many basket of flowers from
me. He would have his Joke with it, but he was
after all, the victim of my sex. And now he has
got a monument in Brattleboro. 1t would have
broke his heart to find his monument confined to
Brattleboro"
The late Dean Stanley Maryantha." said
"medItated eIec.tng in the chapel of Henry the
Seventh in Westminster Abbey a memorial to
Cromwell, Bradshaw, Ireton, ana several other men
of the Commonwealth whose bodies dragged
out by the scavengers of Charles III. never heard
of a scheme to set up statue of Cromwell in New
England, and yet he was all of New-E England and
more. The ecclesiastcism of New England in both
schools Unitarian and Congregational, is what
Cromwell fought for independent republican
churches. He sheltered the Qgakers, too, perse-
cuted here. He is reputed to have been proposed
emigrant to New-England long before his fugitive
friends Whalley and COTE came. The intolerance
of Salem was as repulsive to his stouo heart as
would be this modern nicely about persons which
has partially replaced it. The passion for whatever
is English has been imputed to Boston, but if it is
Cromwelps kind we stand it. think Crom-
well set up here would mean all anu more than are
expressed by this merely archaic statue of John
Winthrop, who looks if he could not now con-
ceive himself The Brownists who went to Hol-
land and thence to Plymouth Rock were prede-
cessOrs of CromwelPs own sect Those later Puri-
tans who in good rich condition and large numbers
settled on Massachusetts Bay had less than the
heroism of their English brethren who stayed at
home and faced the King. 1t is lean and barren
history in Massachusetts, contemporary with the
Commonwealth of England. They ignore that
Commonwealth here. Their historian Bancroft
draws Cromwell as the self-seeker not the states
man he Now which of all these statues of
Massachusetts, native men standing in the streets
touches the heart nearestf There they are-take
your pick: John Winthrop Samuel Adams, Benja-
min Franklin, Daniel Webster, Edward Everett
Charles Sumner"
:" / think l like Franklin the best" said Mary
Ann, because he eat roll before the Quaker girl
There's human natur in that Mr., Everett seems to
be playing piano in the air with his fingers"
Now observe the three statues in Boston Of men
not native nor in any way conceived of this type
Washington, Hamilton and Lincoln"
"What do you make of it, JOHNNY"
That the Middle State races though less perfectly
organized, have the larger brain and Individuality
Yet it is to the great credit of Massachusetts, that
all these received their warmest support from her.
She threw away John Adams for Hamilton when
they were Presidential rivals"
There is a statue of John Adams at the cerne-
terry" added Maryantha, and of Otis too Pres
colt is on Bunker Hill, Horace Mann is on the State
House steps I've spelled 'em out but they're not
very familiar people TO me, john
Any community outside of the broad zone of move
ment, Maryantha, must needs make the most of its
provincial leaders Such has Boston been since the
opening of the ways of travel across the Middle
States The selfthinking. detached men of indie
pendent sense fell into the great hghroads of
travel and have been absorbed into the general
nation west OF the Hudson River. There Won see
the greater sans of Massachusetts,, the Marcys
Wadsworths, Grants, Garfelds Behind them has
grown highly organized yet sensitive society,
with very tmid leaders, and, on the whole the
sehooimaster the baron. Independence has become
unfashiona5le, and where persisted in as with
Wendell Phillips. seems to have lost its balance
wheel. The selectmen,' so-called in their towns
are not only the lawful commissioners thereof but
they are other selectmen conceded to in social
things There is consequently too much cool prig-
gishness 10 SUIT what may call the Middle State
element OF Massachusetts, which consists of the
Scotch, Welsh, Irish and continental races as dis
tinguished from the Norman Saxon. And that is
the meaning of existing Massachusetts, politics and
its very depressed vitality the new clements are
not sufficiently represented cannot well assim- |
late with the traditional Massachusetts,. What is |
needed in Boston is Western men TO return and |
meet In her marts emigrant forces from Europe !
That ought to ensue from her Western railroad
connections, which will make Boston a city on the
axis. She is hub, it is true, but of the fifth |
wheel
Yet" protested my belle sea,' ait is much |
better finished city than New York. and the |
ceanest large city in the world and it has superior
suburbs and better city Government. Why cannot
New York keep mp college like Harvard? Why is |
every duty of the police and the public contrac-
tors made scandal or neglect about Manhattan |
tslapdf Boston is now Democratic city alson
YEARNISG FOR FLIGHT.
"Methinks," said Maryantha, L" that we might |
take foreign tour or as l have heard the billiard
players say, we might English it,"
Expensive, Mary Ann" | remarked "Be not |
like the oi9ale hopping about respendcnt all sum
mer, frozen to a naked stick all winter"
Tho sea gull" exclaimed that remarkable |