New-York tribune., 1891-12-23
William Schaus.

and had @ being On the s q %
sTfsS sGr so lie was Under in body much
of the time; In mind all the time. Nothing can be
sn to ;sS sae that a him AS for yet
and deficient in the softer graces OF j
1t mis- beauty that he was So for It grew out OF
and was betting his circumstances And i, for one,
love 10 see that ausere deneanor so fnr rs 1t Is yet
hereditary the old SOIL and some of II is leit-think
mo more e. than Of an ascec Of new
Of Ihermopylas held by the latest race Of spartan
y" It NAV be doubted If ever in tke history Of man.
kind was displayed quality Of public courage: Soo oi
England plantations in thcr infant day. No condinon @
Of It's EXTREMIST proof was ncklng While tae "a may
wreste with nature for a living, much as ever able 70
furnish its table with piece OF bread, win the @
that wolf the Narragansett and the Peqnot at what
moment to hurst into savagery none could teliin te
physical toll, universal and intense, and Of watch
ing night and day. there came from the old country,
mandate: Send us back that charter! Under the
clause Of Il granting you the rule Of your own aalrs
allowed. Send it back And what was tue answer /?
Mind there were Jess than 1000 Souls Si mem m ,ad a
the power OF England ON the other that scrap Of
newborn State; pressed with difficulties already:
tsy %sy e hed and mounted tHe and moHed
stock OF bullets, and distributed powder and TOOK OF
sne segance ' to then set te teeth
and waited TO see what would happen And a1 S Tss
L
miher, is our lawful possession, fair title to tho
Soexer we %an fpq has se got 5s' to and take
surrender 1t we never will (Applause0
THEIR GRIT AND GALLANTRY.
Nor was that the only time. Again and again dur
Ing the co'onys initial stage when it was exceeding
little OF stature and had enough TO do to keep the breath
of life it, that demand renewed with rising anger
and with menaces: vet never could those Purtans Of
the Bay be scared into making solitary move OF any
kind toward compliance with it. David with his
sling daring Goliath in armor Is an insufficient figure
of that nerve that trsnscendent grit, that superb
gsllantry. Where will you look for its parallels
certainly do not know. Applause)
They used TO tell during the war OF colonel who
was ordered to assault position which his regiment
when they had advanced far enough to get good look
at it, to be so impossible that they fell back ana
became immovable. Whereup0n $50 the story RAM
the colonel who took the same sense of the situation
that his command did, yet must do his duty, called
don't give II up so Forward again! Forward !!
Charge! Great heavens, men, do you want to i've
How those first New England Puritans speak
ing of were to come off from their defiance OF me
ally they had was distance. The thing they ventuTed
on was the chance that the ROYAL government. which
full to execute its orders 3,ooo miles away across the
by force But they accepted all haaaTds dSs hsS
held on their charter IKE grim death and ,ta they
kept i in their time More than ns once tSs or wiGs rn
Of events helped them Gods providence delivered
them they thought anyhow tey Gspt sd that @6br M
because in lay not In tho power Of mortal man 10 IN
them And sGn.Rf a Of M the ess ESSENTIAL
stuff Of manhood stands on human record. They were
hotheads All that while rash as they Appeared ds e
course were ever plain before their eyes They were
Of the kind Of men who understood their objects.
The representative Of an English newspaper, sent
some time since to Ireland to move about and learn
by personal observation the real political mind Of the
everywhere and talked with oil sorts and that as
nearly as he could make ont The ads sOt Of a thS hs s
they want-and they are bound to have IT," Laugh
'e' But those unbendng Forefathers well knew what
they wanted that charter for Il was tcr legal ;l
ant of the Py1Ts M Ss e tnsv @ and Fed for M
sake is witness of the price at which they held that
privilege i was not that they had any pecalt d Oh
domestic administration Of the king as hing: for
yOn find them presently CRYING Hands of.s TO The the
il TO the agents Of Charles ]. 1t was simply and
positively the value they set Snod on r te 3 te hs
And who that has mans heart in him but must mus,
own that their inspiration 10 such degree, with snch
an idea and sentiment in the time, place and c!rcn-
stances in which they stood was magnificent cent, SIS Was
s nSgt sss at wrought u into 70 s Very prob
hn IL tSsy SSss@se we're stern I vsagsd E that
day which n vision A n they bdSr REASON g9S or Q,
a
cheerful countenance. (ApplauseJ
THE RESULTS OF THOSE HEROIC YEARS.
They achieved immense great things for us, those
Puritan men who not smiling enough to suit the
critics The real foundation on which the structure
of American national liberty subsequently rose was hd
bv them in those first heroic years.
And what a marvel IL was when you stop 10 thlhK'
that in conditions so hard utterly prosaic. calcu-
lated to clip the wings of generous Thought they nam
tanned themselves in that elevation OF sentiment tst
supreme estimate Of the uDmateria the IDEAL fscrs Oh
life that distinguished themn such largeness OF NINA
and Of spirit altogether While confronting at oesoS
close quarters their necessities and perls their
svmpathies were wide the world TO ehelr prethien
IN eid England contending with tyranny, every snip
that crossed the Atlantic carried their beneolcIloh
LOOK al the days of thanksgvng and Of fast with which
they followed the shifting fortunes Of the wars ts os
continents Look at the vital consequence tnsy . dI IL
their penury, and while for the most part they sun
lived In huS they imposed themselves 10 1Ound ana
to sustain the institution Of the school Appm99seI
10 her young If God make thee eood Chr~uan
good scholar thou hast all that ever ny ny nohes
asked for thee And so saying she spoke nhc IA uuo
o'fT9' TGey were poets~hosc brave stanch, aspiring
sons, whose will was adamant and who fearsd none none
but God. Only, AS Charles Kingsley has said, thy
did not sing their poetry like birds but acted it like
NIT II was heir high calling to stand by the divine
Of human progress at m0mentSus 4 esS m nEi Ui s nS
duty at that post. evolution l hardly dare SPEAK @
the word knowing little about tle uDlng IL rep
rcsents a very great matter. which am hnmbly con-
cions of being about far from surrounding as was
simple minded Irish priest have been iod OF, VINO.
having heard that were descended from monkeys.
vet not quite graspng the chronology OF the business
The next time he visited a menagere, gave particular
and patcnt attention TO large cage OF our alegei
| poor relations exhibition there. he stool for a
long time intenty scrutinizlng Their human-llke mo,
ons gestures and expressions by and by he fsncied
! that the largest OF them, an individual Of
| Of the cage, gave him a glnnce Of inteli-
| gence. The glsnce was returned pa piDie
wink followed which also returned as were other
like signals and II went until his reverence. hav-
ing cast an around TO that nobody was observ
ing him. leaned forward and said in low. confidential
tone: I" Av yen spa6e one w-ur-r-d III baptze yc,
| begorral" Uaughter)
But deficient ones knowledge OF evolution, sci,
entlRealy and In detail, may be- he have attained
TO a not uninteligcnt perception OF the allembradns
creative process called by that namc as that in which