New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-23

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prison for matter of seventeen weeks
and the King declared his INTENTION
Of Amounting Sir Ferdnando Gorges Governor
| General for the Primate and Chief OF the LORDS
| Commissioners for Plantations. speaking py the
mouth Of the King. did not propose to suiier SUCH
numbers OF people to rum 10 RUNE ana 10 re-
ligious intents 10 languish for want OF tihieV
rcmedye and sOveragnc assistance linus VIC
man whom the authorities at Boston used as
| terrible example had brought things to the very
pass which they dreaded Their strength was no'
equal 10 rebellion though their spirit was dehah'
! enough TO cut the cross out Of the royal banner
Their charter was worse than blank, II the hlhg'
during the state of quiescence then shown IN Eng
| land, chose TO send ship for their supJuga'oh'
Now entered the special providence. Laud and
| the King, gratifeI with their success in England,
decided to suppress the Scottish Kirk Mr.. Adams
| has quotation in anather part of his work when
| illustrates in humorous way the result Of this
| ignorant attack on Prcsby terianism. John JOSS
| yn a Kentish gentleman who had never seen
hornets nest, visited New En- land in 1858, and
was ente rtainel at the house Of Samuel MaveI-
| ck on Noodles Island. Let him relate his own
| experience In the afternoon walked into the
Woods OIL the backside Of the house and happen
ing into fine broad walk (which was a sedge-
way | wandered till / chanc't to spye a fruit,
as | thought like pine Apple plated with scales,
1t was as big as the crown Of womans hat
made bold 10 step onto it, with an intent to have
| gathered II, no sooner had | toucht it, but hun
dreds of Waspe were about me: at last | cleared
myself from them being stung only by upon the
upper lip; glad was that | scapcd so well But
| by that time | into the house my lip
| was swelld so eXtreamly that they hardly knew
me by my Garments
| The Scotch holnptst with holm Of Crom-
well and his Ironsides. stung the King and Laud
TO death Meanwhile they had no time TO
spare for regulating the affairs OF Massachusetts,
! In the picturesque phraseoogy of the Rev. John
Cotton, God then rocqued three nations that
he might procure some rest unto his people in
this Wilderness Cotton was speaking in accord
ance with both the theology and the science Of
his time. and il is not for those who insist on
the doctrine OF the survival of the fttest TO
| talk of the cruel spirit that might be inferred
from his remark, or that was exhibited OCCASION
ally by the founders OF Massachusetts,. Mr.. Adams
endeavors To discuss all these matters from the
modern point of view. IT is doubtless the only
correct method In history, for the man who
thinks he has shifted his position to the age
from which he draws his narrative is more than
likely deceiving both himself and his readers
But the ages change, willie human nature remains
| Inc hard for any one to tell the difference be
! tween n Calvinist of the seventeenth century
and an cvolutionist of tie nineteenth. If one
is doomed to go down before a
stronger powe., what is the difference
| whether the destructive pnlssance belongs
TO one of Gods elect or to one of Natures h'''et
Morton certainly would have perceived none. bu'
though defeated in the parlancc of that day ov
providence and, in tie favortc phrase OF 'hiS
age by his failure 10 fit into his environment he
was by no means weary OF Ncw-EnglaiM' IL WAS
his Land of Cocksyne. where the icids ana forests
| furnished food for the asking. lie rcturncu' ~"
| old WORKOUT man. more Ike n modern "aihP "'''
any other creature. The treatment lie received
| marked the contrast between the Separats'S anu
the Puritans Though his book The New En- lls'
Canaan humorous TO readers now, was infamous
and scurrilous to the people of Plymouth who we're
vuloorlv lampooned in it, yet Governor Bradford
| was too kind-hearted TO allow the poor wietch 70
| be turned ont in winter In spring Morton wan
dered first 20 Maine, but soon found his way 10
BOSTON. and was seized forthwith, tried. sentenccH
and imprisoned apparently by way OF lustliSih2
the previous action of the magistrates III ms case
According &c the statements of his friends the term
in prison shortened his life but 1t could have done
no more than hasten the work which drink had
begun and carried on.
Both in his case and in that OF Anne lutchin-
son. the practical effect of Mr.. Adamss discussion
is to hei2hten respect, after all, for fufltah
| authority The result OF judicial action was the
STRENGTHENING Of the infant Commonwealth. Al
| every STEP particularly in the trial ana eNcoH-
munication of Mrs. Hutchinson and the Rev. MT.
| WheelwriQht, there is occasion for the pltfr's'
| criticism II was cruel to treat woman III the
condition Of Mrs. Hutchinson as che was treated
If she had been wild animal, she could not nave
been baited more Ielentlessly. On the othcr manu.
| TO have Welded TO her would have been to accept
| q form of woman's rights which the cOarS.r Sex
would not suffer even now, and to endure the
lasbine Of a tongue which was dangerous TO all
and fatal To it's owner. Her ease stands out among
all the incidents Of early American hist ry IA a
warning against clerical rulership in the State
To Governor Winthrop it was perhaps cause OF
melancholy self-accusatiOn: for when, twelve
wears later the Father of Massachusetts, lay dying
in his house in Boston an order for the expulsion
of some religious dissenticnt brought 70 him
Turning from Dudley, ever prone to severity who
pressed him 10 sign it, the dying magistrate re-
fused SAYING: or that work. have done too
much Already" If it be asked how the trial OF
Anne Hutchinson gets into a history Of the town
OF Quincy ii is 10 be answered that her most
faithful defender among the clergy, the Rev Mr.
Wheelwright the friend Of Cromwell, was In his
time and hers the minister OF chapel at Mount
Wollaston Quincy was yet to come, but the
place was there Just as it is now
In developing the history OF the government OF
Quincy. called at first Brantre.. Mr.. Adams seems
adverse to those who look for the beginning Of
the New-Eng land town meeting in German antiq-
uity and in favor of those vino look upon it as
Of independent origin. or at least growth from a
very tiny germ of English custom Says he:
So far as Braintrec is concerned. its records by
themselves throw little light on this mOoted qucs-
ton for Braintree not an original town, and
for reasons which have already been set forth, lis
history through six years. from September. 1854
TO May 1910, must be sought for in that OF BOs
ton, of which, during that time, IT was part
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