The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-23
ASHINGTON'S DAY.
w. G.. A. Tewksbury Makes !
Historical Contrast.
NE TWO AMERICAN TYPES.
Ne Diaerens Characteristiss Of sAo
New England Puritan and the
vlrginis Cavalier.

Last evening. at the Plymouth Congre-
national church, Rev. George Tewksbury.
before . large audience, paid tribute to
George Washington in q scholarly dis
course, whose title was Washington: or
the Puritan and the Cavalier" The full
MT Of what he said Is a. follows:
Il seems fitting, since the l5eth auniversasy Of
- birth Of Washington occurs today, that cne
q our services should b new enshrinement OF
ois memory. Not the less, ~ having this refer.
encs. may Il Be service appropriate to the day:
1et the less service OF grateful tribute to our
Heavenly. Father, who has made our history
ond has given as the mon OF moldin9 iiiSu.
onoe and ection whom Il has included.
George warrington was born February q,
Va on the western bank Of the Potomac. Tie
bOuse stood on small tributary OF that liver
neout halt : mile from IT. junction with Il, COM
nS n, sn . offended vie. q the river end Of
p, says Washington Irving, land sloped
III into low, projecting caves. Il had four
uns on the ground door, and others IN the
vessee 81 81 Il Pemsin CHIMNEY eaen . emo
4 Zerks the site Of the house, ana an inscription
1enotee IT. being the birthplace Of Washing
IN" Soon after his birth his father moved TO
@ estate on the Rappehannock, opposite Fred
eeicksburg, where his boyhood was spent, but
J this home has likewise disappeared.
actual public work Of Wsshinst S may
easily be traced In the histoxies--but rather to
view the work in it, historical perspective. or In
70 s TIE sc
vas Of English descent ~ all our fathers were.
e. the year l657-thirty years after the
pilgrim, landed A. P1ymcu.a,wo Drotfh hers
England to Virginia and bought lands In West
mofeland county; one Of them, John, the estate
On which Washington. seventy 1--we years later,
Washington. 1t II interesting to note the lo-
calities In England from which these brothers
e n e e.1y
home Of the Pilgrims One Of these was In
Northamptonshire, separated from Nottingham
snIss q Dsesath = Of q mot more than
Lincoln, and tn. center OF which was not more
than eighty miles In direct line south from
ecroohy; the town, until 1890, being sulgrave.
1857, the brother named Lawrence. In the
church yards connected with both OF these par
lshes the name OF Washington may still be read
more interest, an that from which in the
one Of the direct ancestors of our
near the river Humber, in a section OF Yorkshire
called the "East Riding" The county Joins
that OF nottingham on the north, and the home
nies nom scrooby In the vicinity.a az.
Lewis, "is Cave castle, an cmbattled edifce. It
has noble collection OF paintings, including
Possessed potion q the entires
reasonable to suppose that some of these ances-
ton must have been cognizant of the separatist
movement, which u the BEGINNING Of the seven
Of them. and eliminated in the Withdrawal to
Plymouth, New England, In 1920. such are the
geographical relations Of the history with which
scissors and place one point on Sulgrave, or
BinetOn, N Northemptonshire, and the other
On south Cave, In Yorkshire, and between the
ous Pilgrim fathers of the Mayhower emigrated
0iyf 70 Holland. then to America.
But the religious and political relations repre-
oeuteo BY the Washingtons and the Pilgrims
ssem mot to have been 90 much those OF sym.
PATTY and resemblance AZ of decided difference,
even OF mutual repulsion. The time at which
period Of English history known a. the pro
tectorate. Charles L had been beheaded in i64a,
and his son, the legitimate successor TO the
snd il msny Y res usct. msie.tic inneOce 81
Oliver Cromwell, the English monarchy had
gwen place to the commonwealth Of England.
N 1858 Cromwell was formally installed a. .lord
ecotland and Ireland" in which ONCE he con.
nnued until his desth, i've years later. During
@ sh nss b.ss swo ESat
this in English history These were called Cav
aliers and Roundheads; subsequently they came
. BE- called Tories and WhigA The Round
ridicule, because they chose to wear their hair
cut short around their heads They were nearly
~ Puritans. While believers in the state
multiplied rules and rites OF worship estab-
lished by Archbishop IAud. They were known
tor their strict morality and for the degree to
ns warmly allied e to the
cause of Cromwell; he was their acknowledged
bead and leader The Cavaliers, on the other
hand word meaning strictly military horse
nd faE {rU tha ID Saf fv nd
geuantry-were still aud strongly the advocates
81 royalty. They adhered to Charlee l. until his
death, and not less warmly to the idea Of king
after his death. They were the court party OF
the period They adhered also with equal zeal
g the Anglican ritual,the bishop and the prayer
BOOK In spirit. in manner OF life and IN gen.
description Of them Is: aThe Puritan
austerity drove to the kings faction all who
hntry, splendor of dress, or taste in the lighter
orn Another writer truly says: s'Some OF
sne Cavaliers were very good men indeed, and
leo holy and Christian lives, like their master,
the king, but there were others who were only
and Of mischief"
Now, the Washingtons in England, the Law
renee and John who came to Virginia in 1857,
belonged 10 the party OF Cavaliers, rather than
Of Puritans. We may readily see that England,
curing the proteetorate OF Cromwell. could not
nave been very comfortable residence TO those
VINO asserted their adherence TO the house of
Stuart: and many were led to seek refuge and
quiet in other lands This would seem to have
Everett says: "There il no doubt that the poll
ucs OF the family determined the two brothers,
ion. John and lawrence, to emigrate to Virginia,
Cavaliers, during the government of Cromwell,
Is New England was the retreat OF the Puritans
u v.. Inc period which preceded the common
Among these the traditions and predictions
1.-The family were contained in the generations
which succeeded; and were naturally inherited
~ ~ Masnington The whole historic outline OF
sne man Is that Of the Cavalier. II II that OF
s vsu,eriy dignity, OF courtly bearing. he
lev up into Virginia gentleman. In his
SsroauSoaling instincts and habits of thought,
~ n.e the contrast Of the Puritan was
~ ~ most quiet, subdued aspects, still manifest
sS,s I'M. ~, ies We are to see how the Cavalier,
~ our own Plymouth Pilgrims; how the
shsetgent lines of historical movement, which
i.~S usmes nrst represented at length In this
.anos became parallel, and then began to con-
verge till they finally became one We are not
~ snink that the colony of Virginia was really
W Nov loyal to the English crown than those OF
nnicn, In the accession of Charles H., the
ASpunucan movement under Cromwell re-
solvse Itself back shortly after his death, was
Se.cKiy and clearly reflected in the sentiments
- Nj the American colonies, and the reflection
1 sLs.eu many years. Yet when on board the May
Liver the3 memorable compact was signed by
ss nlsn the Pilgrims formed themselves into
- vouy poiitic,' there was entered the thin edge
~ we wedge whereby, under the strokeA of sub
quent and yet remote events, those colonies
s saS become separated from Great Britain,
M IN their separation should become o free,
smsamgoverning people, the republic, the COM
sIonweslth OF the United States. In l7s2 Wash
t shhsson was born. Rev. Nathaniel Leonard was
Men The pastor of the church at Plymouth,
s Ssss. The birth was quiet occurrence, trans
fsung amid the SHOWS and in the remoteness of
~. s ma II was not proclaimed abroad there
ssha nothing to elevate ii in significance above