The Republican journal., 1882-06-08
Memorial Day Address.
BY REV. :. GOODENOUGH. DELIVERED A.
BELFAST MAY 80 1882.

After some preliminary remarks Mr.. Good
enough said
In studying the trend of civilization and the
history OF political movement i'll our country we
are impressed with the fact that the causes
which eliminated, first in the war of the Revo-
luton and the declaration of independence and
second IN the war for the preservation OF the
mon and the emancipation of the slaves, had
their inception at periods far anterior to the
great crises which chiefly arrest attention.
The two principal of these causes propose
briefly to trace and sketch at this time. There
Is a sense in which it may justly be said that the
Revolution and the struggle for the >ubiugation
Of the Rebellion which broke out in 1861, began
in an obscure Lincolnshire village in England.
They were a peculiar people who landed at
Plymouth, Dec. 22d, 1920. a dozen wears be-
fore. these plain English farmers and working
men, who had separated from the church of
England. and paid for their conscience in reli-
gion by bitter and increasing persecution. found
life intolerable in their native Lincolnshire. and
resolved TO escape it even al the cost of eNpatri-
alton They We're not permitted to flag in their
purpose, for they We're hunted by a yenomous
hatred to the last moment. Their misguided
counIrymen little thought that they were thus
preparing for England's future humiliation, and
planting the seeds of an empire that should more
than rival the greatness of their own. But in
the wise providence of God such was destined
to be the fact. That little band of harasscd but
uns i''uliiS uIl.'ils escaLtu nrSt 10 -NHls'er
f th' a., ,irtn +haoI,l ,,a oIio H., r't
labor of their own hands and enioved their
religious freedom. But they could not work
out the mission to which they were called of
tnti tLn WIN W-Ii +n f;5ti ~
but % full Of possibilities to these true hearted
and aspiring sons of Briton. After many dis
appointments. arrangements Were finally COM
pleted in 1920. and chosen band set sail in the
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foresccn the result. Those poor and friendIess
exile, and >eparatists from The church were de-
spi~cd IN thpircountrymcn. and their ,lrpart,lre
Ma, esteemed Il fortunate riidanre; but, never
thec,s they bore with them the seeds of !, grcat
nation ana a great system of Government Van
remember that their first landing was on Cape
tod where they founded democratic govern
ment by the famous compact of the Mayt1oWer:
and When few weeks later they landed at
IIymoulh ana began permanent colony, they
began Al>o the work they laid the foundations
ol th' polltlcal system, winch eliminated IN the
drelAralon of lndependenc" and the wan which
established the same. the federal compact and
constitution of the states, and which finally. al
m"Si century later. throttled and destroyed the
antagonist system which was founded almost at
The same tmr far to the Southwark, along the
rivers Of Virginia. Thus within two centuries
and hat. the germ of empire which the May
flower brought to these shores. spread il aegiS
ot liberty over wide domain, extending from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the great
lakes to the gulf after having trodden into the
dust forever the hostile system which it had so
long confronted.
nave thus limited at the other cause 10 which
! alluded moment ago. as one of the two prn-
cipa! causes Of the great historic struggles upon