New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-07
THE STATUE OF THE PILGRIM
UNVEILED IN CENTRAL PARK.
INTERESTING cEREMoNrEs-AN GRAFTON By NJ

and delivered over to the City of NewYork yesterday
afternoon. 1t is placed In Central Park upon little
eminence at the junction Of the Fifth-ave drive and
Seventy It faces the and 10 nine feet
high upon pedestal of Quincy granite, three high
designed by Hunt. The figure represents q Puritan
of the early part Of the Seventeenth Century
dressed in the garb Of his sect, standing erect
and looking In the distance with sweeping and search
ing glance IL in half expectancy Of his restless Indian
foe. One falls at his side and rests on the
muzzle Of his old fntlock musket lie wears the tall
broad trimmed Puritan hat which lends additional aus
terty to his stern but handsome features The statue
completed cost about $4,000. 1t cast by the
Henry Bonnard Company, of this city.
At O'Clock the members of the society met in the
Columbia Skating Rink at Madison-ave. and Fyninth-
st. They numbered several hundred and
by Colonel Locke w. Winchester, who served az
grand marshal Of the parade. Their numbers were
augmented by strong body Of the veterans Of
the 7th Regiment with the regiments band. Tho pro-
eession formed at half past O'Clock and marched up
Ffthave. SiItysixth-st. 1t marched through this
street to Madsonave IN order to salute General Grant,
who watched it from his window. They returned to
Fifth-ave through Sixty-seventh-st. and proceeded
through the into the Park and onward through
drive the spot where the statue stands Around
this platform had been erected for the accommodation
the society and its guests upon which they took
seats.
Among those present on the speakers stand were
william NJ Evarts Cornelius n Bliss Assistant Bishop
Potter Mayor Low. William Dowd, Chief Justice Noah
Davis exJudge Horace RUSSELL David Dudley Field,
Daniel I. Appleton, Joseph H. Brown, Stewart L. Wood
ford, Isaac II. Bailey, Jacob Wendell, Frederick W.
Goddard, President Sanger L. p. Hubbard, Salem II,
Wales Josiah NJ. Fiske, Surrogate Roll ms, Locke W
Winchester William A. Wheelock Myes standishiCom
missioner Beekman, A. G. Paine, 6. G. woodhouse,
Marvelle W. Cooper and 8. W. Fay. Just before the
exercises began, exPresidcnt Arthur entered tho
pavilion He had a warm reception. All the ladfes
uttered their handkerchiefs and the housekeeping
nued long that he rose, flushing slightly, and bent
his head In graceful acknowledgment
President Stewart l. Woodford desired Assistant
Bishop Potter to offer prayer. When his solemn
words said, Park Commissioner Henry r. Beekman
made a few graceful remarks expressing his gratifca
ton the ceremony about to take place. lending an
other enduring mark beauty the models Of sages
poets and patriots that already adorn the Park Tue
New-York Chorus Society and the Amphion Society OF
Brooklyn under the direction OF Mortimer Wske sang
Mrs. Hemans's hymn beginning:
The breaking waves dashed high
On a stern and rockb0und coast
The sculptor, J. @ A. Ward, was then presented BY
General Woodord, and amid prolonged applause he I'M
yelled the statue. His work was received with every
expression OF appreciation The chairman or the
Pilgrim Monument Committee, Daniel 4. Appleton,
who six years ago. first suggested the project, made
short report the committees work and delivered the
monument society II was received by President
woodford and in presented by him to the City OF
NewYork in a short and felicitous address. PresI-
dent Sanger OF the Board OF Aldermen, acknowledged
the gift in behalf OF the city.
Then after the Pilgrim Chorus from Verirs " Lon-
bard" was rendered, George William Curtis delivered
the commemorative address In part ne said
In orr second historical epoch that Of the Unon tho
essential eentoVersy nnep pe co s ,rn
meRt with social political and industrial system 70
han NSpal
sovereignty the limitations OF national authOsi
these the counters with which the tremendous
cauH was played speak to those in whose memories
still echo the hunders and nash the ghthlngs OF lhas
section the country. arraign no party deLounce
| no man speak OF forces greater than men, forces
nations threw Hampton with the Parliament and
Falkland with the King Il was controversy whose whose
sweed constantly louer and more threatening to the
end house divided against itself cannot stand said
beloved patriot who was 10 be the National martyr
the strife. The conflict Is irrepressble answered inc
the country through the storm Who could doubt that
| il was rrepressibe who knew the American heart but
appalling, unyIeld ding, who knew the resources OF tho
| Zoe American slavery strong In tradition In
sentiment commercial interest, in political power in
constitutional theory, In the tmidity OF trade In the
passion for UnOn in dOgged and unreasOning sectional
hatred II pleaded religious sanction, the Eatrarchal
relation, certain OF ehidlike dependence
and extension OF Christian grace to the heahen that
ike an unassaable fortress upon heights inaccessible,
il frowned in gloomy sovereignty subject land
There but one force which could oppose the vast
and accumulated power Of slavery In this country. and
that force which in other years aud lands mad
withstOod the consuming terrOrs OF the iefrchy anu
crushing desposm Of the Crown, the conscience OF
| the people; moral conviction so undannted ana
uncompIOmisng That endurance could not EXHAUST u
nos suffering. wounds, nor death, appa Inc great
service OF the Pun itan in tue second epoch was the
appeal TO TINS conscience when prepared III of the
conflict There we're other voices indeed, yoiceeyery-
chorus; but chiefly from England the moral
appeal penetrating and persistent, disdaning political
be apsen AZ" error o. the PGan fs6 sparnng every
friendly rrmonstrance. every plea of prudence every
malignant enmisy urged upon every citizen the personal
guilt of completely with national wrong, and by IT'S
moulding BUR politics anew; and when debate ended
the same spirit fada erds ne Of me honor " the aS
with the resstless glory OF the Ola ana etehai
| our shame and our sorrow and our long sectional
| alienation utterly CONSUMED -, - ....
tnrtye part of New England In the sci arate colonies
and m the later Union. Under another sky ~ dler-
~ tb spirit that challenged the Vatican, shook tho
crowned ma6sy OF the Tudor and the stuart and made
straight IN the desert highway Tor kepupncan nDery
he sprit OF Lincolnshire fugitive, of the exile IN
Holland Of the Ps@ Of t the Msy2~f Puritan ana MS
banded developed maturea into the American pa'fot
peTpetuaed II 1t may be- IN adequate ana hopo nuaS
form and made permanently visible TO men: We
measure hemselves that they raise In enduring marble
aud i'm bronze mpershabe, relentless censors OF the
stand unrebuked in the scupnred presence OK departed
greatness. But the power that rebukes. inspres aud
for the fathers but the pledge OF the chdrens
fidelity TO the sublimy OF their fathers principles ana
| the grandeur OF their fathers aim.
Here In sylvan secluslon, amid the sunsh,ne anu
the gingo birds the statue OF the Puftah
that I'M this chan geess form the long procession OF s
generations which shall follow us may see MAI manner
OF man he was TO the outward eye, whom history aud
tradition has 80 often houted and tradueed. but VINO
walked nnaismayed the solitary heights OF dny ana OF
everlasting service To mankind. Here let MIN stau,t
the sodier of free church calmly defylng inc
Hierarchy the builder OF free state sereney eoniro
ing the continent which ho shall settle ana supdue INC
mien exat our tteaess the unblenching eye nylgor-
ote Four weakness; and the whole poised ana nriny
nionts nr,nl ryeal the uncomfortable moral energy