New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-05

enough Of sailing; while others sailed Oh u long way
Iurther westward still Now, about the secnhd Voyfls
no man doubts for moment; every man in Britain anu
America keeps II in . his memory IL IN
about the first voyage that some OF us less clear
Indeed In sense all OF be less clear about ~
None OF us have that minute knowledge ABOUT Ihe
first voyage which some of US have of the second But
mean that some of US are clear about II IN another
sense, that some hardly take II in as fact anu
w. do not carry it about in their memories
as they do the fact Of the second voyage 1t
II neither wonderful blamane that IL IL SO
are but few of those who are likely 10 dwell with the
same kind Of momory-I might say the same kind OF
ahection-on distant fact TO be made out MANY ",
c,lous research as on Gompara pr notice every
moment. NY own thoughts and my own studies nav
made the earlier fact seem rs natural as laliilnr
this to be so with every one or,
fact is none the less fact and we ought to keep that
fact clearly and constantly in memories as It's ma
turc will allow us
FACTS ABOUT THE FIRST VOYAGE
wish now, especially bring out the fact az fact
not merely a curious fact pass by in moment but
fact to be constantly borne in mind living part OF
the history of our people, that there was such
first voyage, and that there is snch an
older home Of people, that there IL ahd
which once stood the British home Of our people IN le
same relation IN which the British home OF our people
stands to their American home As your history lhc
history that part OF the English people which mas
settled American SOIL does not begin on American
so as YOU have nm equal right with in the history OF
our common fOretatbcfs' on British SOL, so tial
common history. i'm which we have common rl@lt,
dId not begin on British soil Az the fathers and found
crs this English nation in America brought with them
older home so our common forcathcrs and founders,
the fathers and founders OF me E th ,, ia.
tongue their laws. their National beng from an earlier
home still If y9u are colony me Word II li.n,S WHIT
stood is not dsparaging one We are 60 ohy as4' -
the English settlements In America were IN tlucS when
seem almost recent colonies 81 the odrr EIgIahl anu
Britain, those settlements m BHaln' wien nlu MUG
that older nEllnd, were themselves colonies OF inc su
older England Of the Continent OF Europe rr T., tr,o
meaning, shall hud that when the thirteen Stiies
declared themselves 10 BE- free and indcpcndcnt they
did not thereby cease 10 be EDShSh colonies Du nc
came English colonies IN 4 uucr sense lHcy
they became more than ever coi'mtS Oh '4 ne
English people. because they ro>G nj once /"
tuc rank Of the English people IN It's older nome.
may illustrate this seeming paradox by the colonies
of ola Greece What the Greek ~ old WIS ip The shores
and islands and pcnnsnaS OF the Mediterranean, the
Engshnau Of the last three centuries has been Ia ur
and islands a"d prmiusula- OF the ocean al '"
sea m shlls 10 Wtn Tor hHt-c" % new 'l' ,ni VII.
ever he has for himself new aUl. hc made that
language Of thoSr days, Greece was not
single land With boundary to he tlpn,
Greeks, Greeks 10y uinc' Grrrhs hE IrchI' WhrI'FrI
they DIV clt they TOOK Greece aud the ntu' 81 Cree"
on the furihett shores o the fnNhr Msh up among l'
slca OF Da.uJ,I. were - iuur pir' al Greece IAeI
Argos Men forth 10 sumr distant and aud there
they enlarged Hclts by a new ely, new Nom
common or Hellenic body. The Younger city was a.
much Il district ami free political community ~ Tue
to It's metropolis love and reverence tut 1t owed noth
ing morc From tnc child Syracuse the mother Corluth
cuce received in full measure From her other rlnld
Kor,yrc she Ask al Tor something moro thih love ana
fruits.
WHAT NIGHT HAVE BEEN.
So might il have been with uS % we hId had tho
wis ION OF the mcn OF those old cities. If we
had not So Tong carried about with MS
that strange superstition thar Eugsnncn who
a. F..
ties from the beginning must needs anywhere remain
subjects Of the ,os ercn Of that part Of the ENGLISH
people which M, far a. he Isle OF Britain and
10 further The thirteen. AT least the twelve homes Of
Eu2lIsWneu along thiH Ea7t''n rhOic 90 l"ui great
Continent uigHi nave hcth Tree an lHit 'eiuehl 0LrS
in the seventeenth Century instead Of the Eighteenth
Nou mSht have been to your C"rnth an
driven to he for unhappy moments trust too un
happy n0mclI7 H1 anoiarl nose no",no,
will pass by WIZ deem my SCI slah'ln@ mere ~ lhln
of toruih speaking % ~ racuse: Will deem
sell as speaking Of the stock. OF the same
Speech IN vide seuse' "i me SANE nAnou shLtlhG III
thc history the same memories, pariej indeed mt" sep
arate political bodies for The physical cause that
parted by the great ana wide ocean bnt none me eS1
united every TIE that can make us IN TIE Lghcsi sense
one aud The same people.
50 m the tecjn OF distance OF eaou,cs. often cruel
war. each branch OF the scattered tOlk OF Greece
of the set tered l0lk OIL i Ictl so"rd cN'iS othcr
branch They. scattered and divided as tuey were, were
80 should We scattered indeed. more widely than they
were world is greater world tian ther-l but
found together ny The common Ne "a LnSiSA b0Od ana
NV ,I,r.iE If he fr,t England on the Euro
peap mainland. must ask. or the purposes 20 east
ths first lecture To be allowed rue same ii nj ~
Geographical license lcI took in speaking Oi the third
Eucldud on the American mainland As there II
Il cera,n part oi the american cohiiheht 20 Nhrh
most familiar there il certain part Of the
Tnfonrau continent TO wAlcn the name ol OLD England
what less familiarity. mean the land OF Au-tlh, on
the borders OF germany and Denmark. Augcln and
ENGLAND
stIlI there is just that difference between
the two names which mari; England ~
i. strictly the Land OF Enslc Ausies Enelish. As |
mus ask leave to carry Inc name OF Withstand
beyond tue Alcghanie beyond the Mississippi beyond
the Rocky Mountains, and give II no boundary short OF
the E,sicrn oceaq 50 must ASK leaye TO carry the
Ebc beyond the WCscr, 70 the shores o the Lake which
burst it, bonds and became the Zuytler lee
Now. | shall not quarrel with Anyone who will
allow me 10 carry the name further stl, beyond
mouth ot the Sommc / do not mean that there ever
VAS IA time that the of England or even tao name
Of Angel was applied to those lands any more than
mean that the name OF New England is commonly APP
piled to the whole extent OF your North American
give the name Of NcN-EGe gland the wider it
needs very slight historical license to do the Ike
by The name of od England. Ihe wider
and unfamiliar sense hest suits my immediate purpose
II forth crciby The historical truih which 1t
i my prcscut object 10 set ioth nave a. sdh 10
point out. what the Isle o Britain Vas 10 Tie continent
OF North America certain part part 81 the continent
OF Europe was ages before to the Sic OF Brlin mat
part Of the continent ol Eurple ~,
perhaps, easier To point out tban 10 uenuc.
Among the Teutonic settlers OF Britain some tnbcs
out cOnspicu0usly-the Angles SaXOns and Jutes
above all But there Is to cOnlne the
from which fOreathers came. 10 the space which
should mark the map as the land Of the Continental
Angles, SaXOns and JuteS.
Venture 10 look To our Low Dutch kinsfolk OF the
continent Of Europe, AZ those who staid behind at
the time OF the hrSt great migration OF our people
THE FIRST MIGRATION.
Our special hearth and cradle will doubtless be
found in the Immediate March-lani o. Germany and
Denmark but the great home Of our people il
be looked asstechng along the whole of tna long
coast where various dialects of the Low Dutch tongue
are spoken n Angles AMI SaXOns came, we know the
Frisans came ALSO and, with the Frsians
AS An element among us, IL is hardly too bold to
Tie whole Netherlands, as, in the widest
sense old England-as the land OF one
mart NJ the kinsf0ll who stayed at home.