New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-12
THE THIRD ENGLAND.

Another small audience greeted Dr Eu"aiu ~.
r,oo,nan. the English historian at ChickcrinS nan
last night TO listen to his third ami last III INC
ooprse he has been delivering there on inc Ene-
rsb pcople in Their Three Homes" under the aus
- of IN, New-York Free Circulating Library.
The subi,ct of the lecture last night was I1e
eaoord VOYAGE and the Third ENGLAND" DR.. Free
oo,o unon the stage az half-past o'clock, and
,~.t,out being introduced to his hearers, most of
whom had attended hi other two lee ures, took his
s.omarv drink of water and began reading his lee
,pre which was in great part as follows:
There ia a picture well known my side OF the Allan
,,c aud Doubtless better known stu on yours, Wnch
.,rescnts tho Pilgrim Fathcrs-to give them thelr re-
LIVED name-giving thanks for their safe landing on
American soil There s another ar pis,nyy y" the
English people this side OF the ocean; II SHOWS we
founder Of ems ,Se Ind occupants Here we
have speaking memorials of what te secpbu
voyage the settlement In the tirG Ggs 90 tho
1rs, yovnge. cf the settl II the sec9nd gnsh
nome and Rowc"a Bu surely The actual beginning Of
or second history better worth sGch display lhan
% ,Sn The middle stage of his DRY not forgotten
on these shores give worthy picture OF the landing
Of Hencist in Elves fleet The moment when the iirst
T,ih tno, was pressed on British soil m ght serve
wen deserve exercise Of the ranters skill as even
scond VOYAGE The landing Of HcnGist, AT least has
This claim of precedence over the landing or the Pilgrim
Fathers that The grim Fathers could not have made
their VOYAGE. at Least in he sort in which hey did
make IT, Iengist had not made his voyage before them
Otherwise, it misn, en- "a II conid hardly compare
The two evrnt landing Of Christian men of the sew
eueenth century IN eathen nd ana me LANDING na 81
Yet making allowances for this grea difference 0lng
also anything like persona compars "a between the
shadOwy outlines of the fifth century and the Wen ue
fined forms OF the seventeenth we shall see that III many
things the settlements SO far renoVe eery IN ts
the same way. IN each Gaze he native 1nhabtlnts DIS
PPiS had once been theirs. And in both those
new ENGLISH communities reproduced, Wild such cha Ses
as changed circu Instances needed the life OF the land
Here ia New-Eng4nd, indeed, one might almost say
ma The settlers OF the seventeen ury foIsook IN
SINE things the English life of their own age to +
back on the life OF the Garner u"es F me
snd constitutions. the townships. the free general
asscmblics the public land the whole sinple Old p1m
stages Of Tcutonic poll icll history than The DAYS OF
James and Charles the First 1t is the old life without
war The constant shift Jugs, the unions, the divisions
rmnd as again of the ike shfngs, the like unions the
nv wIteh out ~ a crowd of settlements, were formed
few great king OInS WHO'S ns uoh prouSh' INTO
being the single Kingdom OF England
TIE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION.
nv the end of The thirteenth century the English Con
stitutlon its essential features had come into
being The system which other European Nations have
been content copy and to borrow stood forth at once
voune and old On this side of the may not speak
Of eopyng or OF borrowing Men do not copy themselves
they do not borrow their birthrght All that our fathers
won in tie struggle of those great ages was
won for all branches Of the English folk
Whatever the Norman did. whatever came Of the great
and many consequences Of his coming he did no, wipe
ON he did not change he did not even undermine the
Ma ona life Of the English PEG lie. He modified our
law he modified our Ia guage he did no DIES roy cther
In tho rngge ag ns the foreign taVol of foreign
hear ed kings, all earlier grievances, al 'rer diner
ences were forgotten. We could even choose as a Ma
had a lin 10 English hOhOrS, but VINO by br,h was
nei her English nor Norman, but sire ~ French the
champion Of rights, TIE martyr OF our t1eedOm the
man lived and Iii for El gland, whom VIII u aliyr
the faith of the Church of Rome th'y WCrhpled is Il
saui, whose praise was sung on English lips IN I+iuh
bnf our own in the irues s.nse. Two men Of the if,
teentd century gave law and Constitute n Of England
hot sids been not To pull wn not 10
build hfresh, but simply TO ref rln It's Ge'allr
rircums ance. Of { is age or the "tier. Wherever,
in Ae ola lad or the new we see free assembly cor
mo =, senate anu Repres ntdtfve; whenever we SEE
chi rul is he King President or Governor bound by
of the of EA gland il III threenih century Nbat
Earl ii non begal and sealed VITA the martyrs death,
King Edward ough, full growth In the life wnicn
he lived for England her people
am NV fast ne, rng tue end of my course have
reached the evening of my appearance among YOU
and ia our historic survey We nave reached our last
AID Eur art Of ne Ensi sh people making ready
second voyage Metaphor apart, have now to enter
upon the hardest pat of my tdsk-to say TO you what
e'er may venture TO say directly y9n ABOUT You
/ must, more than in earlier parts OF my subject
stick thos aspects OF the ana and people a.nol
j
that land aud It's people with the other branches
Of the English folk md the lnds in which they dwell
And let me tell you at the beginning thatn he few days
which have as yet spent in the third England ~ tne
likeness, not TIE unlikeness, to the second Emgand
process thou hi to remind myself Tat am Ill New
Erglaud, and rot in Middle England still. know not
end aud had seen is Western its newer porto hTst
do doubt tina, should there ind points OF dlfeI-
Cnce whicA do md acre in these Eastern states
FEW DIFFERENCES FOUND.
But in truth, if thoroughly grasp my own leading
doctrine ought to wonder, Why should it differ
Differ OF course it does in smaller points which depend
ON climate and local circumstances but such differences
are in different parts Of Bron, OF England itself
and differences must be found in different
parts Of the United States. do not yet
notice more difference; III points. l no.
tee less than If 1 go into Northern Eng
land. especially TO tIat part OF Northern
England TO viii an innovation OF few centuries past
inss on extending the name Of Scotland hear some
words used in ways that 10 me hear no words
that are absolutely new. hear no words so SOUNDED
that cannot catch their meaning II has not happened
bshOpTc of Durham, to lis Cn-for pathological purpo es
onlyO conversation Of some sentences between the
NATIVES and 10 carry on only single word.
am, Of course struck with the necessary lack
OF aDului! III ihe way 0i Gnnau for
which did not look hut OF what might have expected
20 ind Characteristic work of the seventeenth century
TIA the il 10 he found In the habit natural
ina newly settled land, of chiefly building in wood
We may st up standard Of comparative antiquity,
however. even mere In America You have here things
a, distuc Is ancient anything in Europe. if by ancient
We mean belonging a STATE of Things which has
passed away II The student Of early Institutions
goes to Switzerland and Northern Germany, he comes
fo New England also. To nothing yet, Of smaller
local institutions the state of Rhode Island he 81 ate Of
Delaware things incty old as the cant0ns OF
Uni md II erwhdcn. Thai is to say, nothing of The kind
could being for the hrs LIne. Even III the
matter of buildings my mind Las not often been more
FERROUS lower mill, whatever 1t II, which stands ON the
green Newport one puin, however, must mention IN
watch would America does very distinctly diner
not only BrItou, bit rom Europe whole. had
the auis hty dollar amazed at It's lack OF
might. mud that IL has no more strength than such
much small er cOns-as IL shilling, mark, a franc-hlNo
IN the old World Yet even this head, had under
gone kind OF apprenticeship In certain familiarity with
49, tlrn 81 Innrc serions maitera The reyontinn OF