New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-23


cyplancd a month atorWdrl 49, Scotch joke i"ilSH
teri Upon he ear. OF ihG dcsccnd ,S OF lo rHid't ,
wear the a-cription o all the freedom ana progress OF the
lie ublic TO New-Enghnd OF Inc ictvcl,hk influence
.rnic ars rcgencrstiug the race everywhere Ia her
Teachings. falls mild statement OF nnVerrhly al
merit they HIlrIrs all people IN friendly admission anu
rejection OF criticism, in the oudc7l laugh al clever
ar praise in the that II Is the tribute when nodi
ocrity pays ~ genius. lAppla use A., A., ,,,,,.,...,
our fcid Is Old ~ the landing Of the May Flower ana
the Half Moon. When the Rev. Francis Doughty was
driven irom Massachusetts for asserting hai hbrtnns
children should have been baptized rather IMAM c cum
c"eJ he WA welcomed here By the Dutch with the
declaration he might baptze all the descendants OF
Abraham whom he could convert bat |heh Ios'dnoI
Nicl0ls captuIcl New York shortly after the Ma.scn,
srtts Colony offered hin some INDIAN tlAafieS w. cur
the Ducmnan' air lhpphtn-c, "nen nay i n"niy
ran the Connecticut witch, found areiuge ana lfieuy
greeting III Hmn oIy al Somc are wiicnes and man
only haupy when bcwched. the Connecticut Council
pettoncd Cromwell to cxtei1linato INC Du'oh Sctuc-
When the first English Governor, Nichols, capiiyacd
nv New York, wrote In 1866 to the King that tAe
i,rn 9TH and fnurlslng condition OF TINS pace WIZ
hrtlI Tue ambitious saints of Boston, he little dIoa
that two hundred and seventeen years aitcrwaid te.e
v'.nld c no saints lett In Boston nughlerl, tial the
Yankees by superior s1gary anu energy Woulu nh'e
most the buoneSA OF tbls CITY, ny marrying
mitch bcirosses have become the owners OF us best
corner Ints. and ono OF their number ht mere ~ our
Mayor.
PROOF or TIE DOCTRINE or EVOLUTION.
M mare startling proof OF the doctrine OF evolution
was ever offered than the programme mere tonight
Tho most graceful and brilliant of the apostles oil peace
and civil service speaks for Puritan PUch ana MICS
staudiSh A Pcnnsylv Dutcilman eulogizes :" Our
Yankee Mothers" and the New England Clergy, Cot
,nn Natcr and Jonathan Edwards ana their pfcthen'
,h fnthors of or hodoNy with whom the vengeance
of the Almighty potent than Ills mercy are
hy the most liberal catholic ana nnclcc OF
,mn1iIeIT ncarhcrs Henry Ward Beccher: iAppnnse
AID the euedction IL pronounced by kniok' rDOcker
law But this statement only marks thc chalRes ny
when the Puritan has been merged win the modern
Yankee With all his faults bis bSotry MS M H.
ne marrow line OF conduct for himself and Ohers nc ~
,o ~ the graDdest hgures In history. Applause ne
Ha.yhed the atmosphere OF the Old TcstaileIt the
,1n,rs of Sinai the promises or the propnecies' tne
ansenco az God were always with him. MS religion
hard a. I, was maize martyrs and patriots created no
nrdy An the state purity in tine home, III .o
in4y1dnai lAppaIse] Upon II he buied MS scno9,,
10 college and Ills Commonwealth: But ne Wou "h
q stranger to-day uifouRh "oss vi "' ' ~
ohurcnes ne founded -, ~. ,.ion ouav from
To- d.sccndant of the Puritan the c0ns0allohs Oh nc
r. las made a large part Of the Old Testament N.Y. ~
dani1s te Trinity and substitutes CRITICISM Ior lhl
When Mnttlcw Arnold, the Sigb priest 0i cuItuo an
or ticism refines away the accepted truths oi Ie III
PuItian oresss Boston appa0ds, nut wheh III la iv
lens march of tnis faculty ne dethfOnes
the syery tones OF Wendell Philips can sun te a.
fine sans of Oston all reside I'm New ork lnP,
plausel Here tempered somewhat by tine s" IN
81. the Iuoh they lind IN the same old eluIenes aJ ~
its branches of the Puritan period the sA'Ao o' wv