New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-23

%,snsth and bravery q these early English pioneers
II America.
MEN STRONG In MIND AND BODY.
| mo remarkable thing about these men was that
they full grown RngIishmen Of English birth ana
English lineage and English in bought and feeling
They wore ably equipped, physically as well as men
tally. Some Of them, indeed, were scholars and their
age was tho palmcst age of English literature
wss ea Sd II In yisls 0'Sss the D
tOus Of those men had been taken upon "a an Ms
sSen boy By tho s S HS:S h sh boy %
Ss e.. sjs ny K, ss q as: Ss1s
where there Vas room enough buila up never And
better EnsaD AND wse ws nd that
have not got back far enough. The real naIe
not the 2d Of q b Is s s SS Of into the
world Of liberty and truth Of that great free born
spirit OF manhood that exists in such striking forcc
to-day. - 49,,
got fairly settled they began esaolishing Inc Scnoo
government! The colony spread In time, and ~ tm I'M,
that true Christmas spr, was dnsea aU%s un
the various new settlements were hsrmonionsy com
Sned ornd sTcsr Nd aSer Iong AMI dire struggle
slavery, the Purfanic thing upon these coasts
had disappeared forever
NO NEED OF BoAsT1NG NOW.
II Is said by our critics that very much
given to Boosting But have no need to boast
tonight, To quote the words of the last OF the
great English historians the English people are TO
rule the world. and the seat of the English-speaing
people is to be not the banks OF the Thames or
the Mersey but on the banks OF the Hudson end Tho
Mississippi loud applause. We are in the haot
were fortunate in this that they bulided
better than they knew. 1t Is very pretty saying
MaughierJ Never did men inow 50 wen what they
meant to do and how they meant to DO IT. They set
prophets They knew what thoy were dong, ana
their work remains. and We arr here tonight 10 re
toce in their success. There are three things which
prevent any one from breathing syllable OF dsresI
against these men First. the nobility OF their TEN
thirdly the fact that living upon that which
they have beQueathcd to us CAqpiausel -.
Arc 10 cliticisc them! DIG they not maze
mistakes I hope 50 man who doesn't make
mistakes doesn't make anything qaughterl It
grown the customs OF the Puntans for they did not
keep Christmas II is a great historical blunder:
severe men Yon look into their faces in rcpose
you look at them when they arc coming down The
to smile Gaurftcrj They did smile. They
did their share OF calm, quiet living john Nn,hIop
letters to his wife read like the song of solomon.
WHY THE PILGRIMS CAME HERE
We say too, that they were not liberal, that they
came upon these shores for the sake of liberty and
then punished other people who came for the same
cause Certainly they did. Gaughter) Cent ,mcn
of New-YorS If you don't do the thing, YOU are
not the men took you for. Gsuehter) 1t is blum
der that ought not TO be committed, 10 say that
the Pilgrims came here for The sake of religious
liberty. They did such thing, they came here
to worship Cod and TO perpe uaie certain iehgous
II anybody differed from them the world was wide
and there pleasanter places than the bleak
when there was possibility that anybody
might come in among them 70 destroy , what
It had cost them everything to build
up, they naturally protested, and took decisye
measures to guard against he risk, and for tie
most part they were right in defending their AZ.
ars and their fires The who stands out
most %1o ns. se hero OF T o as s aas
a reason man was made a hero that was
d Ma@s Of aue af ever mean RS %a
at Aimed the pinnacle of fame easily, 1T was Roger
Sr SSen a"asg H hs %sS 1 WSo
comes into neiglhorhood and DOESN'T agree
with It's methods would bette, better NOV, move acr9ss
widest dreams of the imagination must always have
its supplemental Narfagansctt. lRenewed laughter
EXPERIMENTS UNSAFE AND UNNECESSARY.
Now. look this sixty millions of happy
people and consider extent Of our territory.
there anything that out with force than
thisthst it is neither safe necessary to expert
ment with nations life: that the means which have
brought way thus far so we'll may well be
asserted LOYALTY W to what we have proved can We
have anything thai shall be better than 'thasohoois
and churches churches and schools binding together
this heterogeneous of people in one history one
national genius one spirit of patriotism: welding
been true, pluribus unum7-the Puritan school.
with its common country and It's common language
and the Puritans common church Can We do better
than rest squarely on this and 60 our way!
These truths about We have our days Of
apprehension We have grown So last, aud there re-
main about us SO many thing to be accomplished
faith az and hope You cannot rear to hight that story
TO which the president has alluded, q the Periops
Mayhower without tears-Out there in md-Gcean,
halfway between the two lands, the sailors pumbling,
as English sailors always DO igghtening the pas
tain calling OIL The mate then that consultation Of
5e do Res''ns snd then that report 'H S"
the upper, works leaking - think said the
sail shall get across" And then their discovery
of what nobody had supposed TO be on board the
bealils up houses, which somebody had put on board
and which, when the ship was creaklng and the
main beam breaking, they all took hold Of and
turned around and around against the main beam
until it went up to its place and The Mayiower was
able to make her way all right TO the waters Of
"a II the sane way when the Upper work; Of the
feel needlessy alarmed The ship perfectly sound
and II the worst comes TO the worst, II under the
weight of our greatly increased anxletIes If under
the burden of our multitudinous response
blltles the ship seems 10 DO settling
old voyage remember the Old spirit Give up moth
ing of heart hope, for heart and hope do not fail
hope Keep the PROV turned toward the shore; and
underneath the bending cracking beam. buckle 70
loud and prolonged applapseJ
The second toast The PrcsiGcn cy. of the United
States of America. The President was drunk
without response. The quotations accompanying
it were:
The dignity and height Of honor
The high imperial type of this earis glory.
King Richard H. Act ~, Scene A.
For every honor sitting on his helm,
Would they mufitudes
King Henry ~, Part I, Act III, Scene ..
GENERAL IOWARDS LETTER OF REGRET.
The Army and the Navy was the third
toast This also had no one to respond 10 it,
but General o. O. Towards letter Of regret was