Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-07-04

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SD AnEsasft Sseissy ssnee 70 srsanifa-
ton. took pi3 81 No BAH On ihafsasy
s,e,ics : ysksusiaerahie saaienee bang
prese ii. and 4 yi5s 70 the full The exercises
Of the evsnint The librarian. NJ. e T.
Wulouxhsy ior.ej . nznssr Of dcsa-
tiors 10 TIE h.y sni eaileesisEs Of the
Society ama3 them piece Of he
wood Of 4 orisiaal Charter OAK
Of Hartford Coma. very sfsississi,s
ssraassd byH Mi. ]. H. CoehFanei
minsrnls byMr. W. Il Hsl@ss'
instantaneous lo.ogtsrh Of lsgataicg Al
Keuneeurk, n April Is. 1891. saksa Al
$50 o'clock. Heniea By NJ, z r. Wn
rea. Ksnnabad snd model Of ~ ladian
oven or hrerl suenthsd At Fo't Pep
haa BY M. C willeushhY. the model
being aceu,aset ssnsrsl outline, and mos'
neatly srvsnsd in q glass case. MI
WillougaoJs tofs va me'ei u ~
way, and il j, lpet that be viii have
Les zshy Snss ,obake 81 future meetings
Of the society. lfser the routine business
had bean dispfd Of the paper OF shs
evening VA IA By Hon. Charles Z
Mash, his subjsbsinz;
The PIymsuta Piony ON the ksnnssec
Mr.. Nash bed hi, papsr with refer
srsrce 70 the vo}ge Of Edward Winsiow,
Who Wa sent b& ,vernor William Brad
ford to Morhegsknd DAmsriscove in 1929
for foed for thaufsrisg coioay at Ply
mouth, which vAye suggested TO Wins
low the project 1 trade with the Indian:
on the Kennebe} This voyage vas foi-
lowed hy anosh in 1895. ~hieh led tc
,epsxted iutsf cod with the Eastern indians
From this the hole course Of ssttlemsn
and trading withte Indians on The Ken
psbsc was cipse.bescfibed BY Mr.. Nash
a full account odhe lsoors of thS Jssuii'
Missionary, Fal3 DruiIlettes among Tbs
Iudians at Auk.s- Kouissnok. The
trading house Augusts, built II
1925 was f1y described. from
the lsngusge II Father Dsuilleaes
Who fret say il IL 1916 The history o.
the Ksnnebec Hent vas considered .
lsu 9Th, and in q 3st entertaining manner
and the whole pSer evinced . thorough
and masterly knotedse Of the entire sub
isct. 10 eonclush Mr.. Nash sid
We have folloSh dimly in the twilight
of the earliest ed Of New England, tn
history Of the Bmoush Colony on tn
Kennebee The 1tient listener who say
the rade shAllep Bill ventarously up til
river in 1925. now}ees from its cargo o
corn a wonderfulharvest-a harvest o
cities ard towns otthe tract that WAS the
covered with fo&t and popuicus Wit
Indians. The Pilrim Fathers were lie
by their ideals to exve their native Ian
for a home Oh he solitary shore @
$40 her continent, yet they were me
OF the earth, who gssped eagerly and yer
human-like after nAteial things. The
we're spacious. shnvd, intensely devote
to their own world, int1ests. They wer
sxayed often,imss by he same spirit O
sreed that seemed u p,sess all traders
their day, and they made many bargain
xiih the natives which emily the god {
Mammon could spproys. Their gereri
policy toward the lgdisui was gentle al
humane, but they fen shirt In the perform
snce Of their higher dIties toward the
aud humanity when called upon to help saw
the Inhabitants Of heir rsn domain frol
the Mohawk. SUP action would hay
been the highest wildly wisdom, aud save
the traffic on the Kauebsc from utter rui
and succeeding Snerstions Of colonis
from the legacy /. Indian hate al
| retribulion that listed ss ioug
the tribe Itself. We see 1he ms
OF Plymouth here on the KeInebec,
peaked bats aad vark day attire, wi
bronzsd and bearded fsess and buskin'
feet Winsiow. Brslfor3, Stsndish, Aide
Horlsnd, Prince and dhers-befOre Il
halo of INN Itility had iestled upon theI
unconsciousiy working cut with resolu
hearts and cailogsei haid, mighty de
tiny; governors and Magistrates are her
receiving in communal quality with the
feIlow-freemen wiihuus ,csDdsl or impr
prie,y the profits Of their Co tracts with Il
| little state which ihry govern; ard so pu
and lofty are their mdtives that their eve
acs seems invested with Il almost Arcade
innocency, The filg-im search for rich
was 10 free themes elves frDm their psrtre
| ship. They wsTe sscesful The ira
| purchased their emancipation. The ke
nebec was the s,sp ufthe eolony. Witho
its timely mupiiicepce New Plymouth wou
have sunk in It's poverty aud sertdom, a
| been lost 10 tba memafy of the centuries.