New-York tribune., 1891-12-23

uon aS wor tS " nned 10 f6e General Court for liberty
to remove 1t took the General Couis yes' s desire Of
that body to strengthen and enforce upon the %nas
the new coonlsts the principle 0d o Sjndcious
Christians from the Bay country began wniGn len a nss
been IN progress in yarylns volume ever % c"ber Of The
present year The Yewown people TO TIE nne hnDer WeTe U
hundred under the lead OF Hooker ara se hars Of
he Connectcu whittier they were soon fo9%ed @ ,p Ss
the coonIss OF Dorchester and waer2wn 80 sS Sras se
HFsGs esy panPered to o. Windsor Hartford and wstsTs
field BY the spring Of % $i te TeeS Sn 0h being Conveyed
to them that they were tribe too early they retired G
in god order leaving only a. oSob oi profanity anu
f Mss SSs Rst'a tRs Hdeons pHa of three
nHtSos ThS erected o the w nSf' Ss Of Rp"s
was built Not In the cabin Of tho Mayh2weT' wnG W,ng
the subjects Of 9nr deaa snd compact not
in the Massachusetts Bay Colony whose head ana Gei
had said he did net e. cOnces 5 Ga nan for or
Commonwealth but in Pastor Hooker,s study IN lo:io
IL nts the Il TRe PseacSsG e S ss
1890. formed-was government OF the peopie, Iu
the people and by the people born on this continent
Here was the beginning Of che first democratic
s1t to the rife t te rt blow
class privilege Here the Asseversnce OF Church
the uns bssnnna mere Of ie federated system e aunrao
Of the plan and moeI upon which d he ~ ts ned
States formed. (Applause)
ONE PHASE OF HISTORY.
Tie first proceeding OF the General Court organized
by these "judlcIous Christians was TO take decisive
action In tho matter of the Indian disturbances which
the parent colony had been putterng With and only
aggravating for year two previous. The Con-
necticut General Court formally declared war against
tho Pequots on May on May 1o Captain John Mason @
was on the march with his small ioree anu III maSe
end Of the Pequot tribe and given to New.EngaMna M
forty years of peace. This would seem to be an IN I'M
MT fpaD affOp Rutp
the story himself In modest and unheroc way some
years It almost % ,6s hero Thc TSo soTe
Thomas Morton out of the country for disturbing the
Puritan and killed Mes o or snTs nTes Opa ea e
people who wrote history John Mason among those
v" From that time the little state organized by the
"judcious Christians has gone on dong solid pSeii
without ,asling earnest without fanatcisn positive
without dogmatsm her wcllde.cended sons trace back
their lineage with pride to the lnde9as , CTs'a@s IRIS ,Srso
Bay towns in 1886. The word which Napoleon could
not do without hut which Wellington never yer needed;
No goI les naunt themselves along
ard progress OF a commonwealth Of common men. The
narrative OF that earlier migration when In obedience
to the command Get thee ont Of thy country and
land land that viii show thee The Father of the Faithful
went out Of Ur of the Chadees, ts not more simply
company through the wilderness TO the river. They
dgnS MTnS WorRday fashion to days works in the
woiM So went John MaScn TO the PeQuot War; so
hurried Israel putnam to Bunker Hill 50 that wise.
panstaking Lebanon merchant Jonathan Tumbull by
his unSeish devotion and tireless activity gathered
for Washil gton the snews of war when the struggle
point history for than go years the steady 60
ing everyday workngmen OF tn erst democratic com
m0nwealth on the continent unknlshted and un-
unpumed unmoved by aught but sense Of duty, have
stood in the ranks and done days works In The world.
Pardon me If in the glow of conscious pride which
such retrospect awakens seem to take hut local.
narrow view. am not inse nsibe TO the de0t when
and the cSmnry owe to the Ray go0S SSpns y
whole but there Of Us who think IT may not
be ani.s upon an occasion like this to recall the clr %
"jndIcious Christians is the mother of democracy;
mother TOO OF states and statesmen. of scholars and
Sturdy race OF woriingnen. And there are some OF
who cross her borderne with9us&a A. q thrill @ OF
lHal tenderness as say "Thank God, TINS Is our
MOTHER Q,ong-continued appauscD
MR. DEPEW ON CRANKS.
"The Crankiness of the Puritan " was the next
toast. and Chauncey NJ. Depew having arrived, ne
arose to respond thereto and spoke as follows:
Tho most eminent authority in Europe on diseases
Of the mind declares in article in our newspapers
Of Yesterday that every one who displays unusual
Intellectual activity and superiority is undoubtedly IN
tinguished French alienist am now addressing an
exceptional crowd of selected lunacs: Iauig.ter2
our civilization. The newspapers are Incomplete
without daily chronicles of hi, achievements, lie
possesses an advantage over ordinary morals IN thht
he has never been interviewed The editor of the
Century Dictionary, n Yankee OF the Yankees, Is
compelled to admit that the word crank Is not to
ike most OF the good things which the Puritan pos
sesses. ii came from the Dutch. Laughter While
insane we with true American pTosr, have haze aS
evouted the theory 1t tbreatens to empty our prisoIs
The old fashioned way was TO lock up people VINO
endangered life property or did deeds of violence on
either for statutory period, but rhc new idea sends
them to an asylum to come out ~ rev
boVa a
community who the victims OF these experiments.
Lansherl The man Usm,te VINO as SI,lo1are or who @
makes ducks and brakes" OF other peoples money
,ta9 qt go WsS not % that Kind Of crank The most i'm
portant article OF his faith was individual rposoiEV
iorv course for matrcnation in that lud university
below where according TO his view no superiority IN
athletic; would have secured graduation GUsSSS To SS1
possessed Of idea failed to keep it before the
world ana II meGe s cSrtopose tSS pe and xbo never
doubted himself The Dutchmen invented the word
after Puritan settlement In Holland uaughterD
MIsCOMPREHENsIoN OF WORDS.
Nothing has contributed so much TO false history as
the misuse of words The Stuart kings persecutcd the
purltans because they would not accept the religion
OF the throne. But these royal perSonages had no
religion the devOut Puritan understood the word
They were dlssolute in morals and depiayed in con-
side OF FORMS whose substance that the king ruled
the Church. but the Puritan placed against tci.
the King. The established order of things was Loyalty
accepted by the classes and the masses and for the
arstocacy and the gentry, for the men in the profes
and In business for all which with us stands TO,
capital and vested rights IL seemed both hercsy and
treason preach reform. The prayers OF the Church
AZ that time were like the afdavlts OF candidates
as TO election expenses the margins were la than
the texts. Qaughter.)
The Puritan who was ready TO fight and willing TO
the privilege Of worshippng God as he thought
right was the phenomenal crank OF the pertod lie
was perambulatng can of moral dynamite, whose eX-
poslon might beIate the souls and minds of men, lilo
was beyond dispute the most disagrecabe Of human
beings to all that constituted the social and political
power his day In the unequal contest Of the hour
lie and his coreigonists were prosecuted imprisoned.
executed or exlled. But his fight not for time but
for eternity Stuart kings dead their thrones have
been taken from their and their power transferred
TO house alien In blood and faith but the sons OF the