San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-07

to repeat:
Westward no! A new home across the seas.
This was its stern command to the Purl-
tan colonel, saddened by the harm and
cruelty of war.
Yes, my old oracle" he replied; ''if
we fail. if we lose liberty here, will
obey and seek it in the New World"
For a time it seemed that they had
not failed. England became a common
wealth. Brothertoft returned in peace
to his dislnantled home. Its ancient
splendors could never be restored.
Three-fOCrths of the patriots estate
were gone. He was too generous to re-
quire back from his party in its success
what he had frankly given for the ma
tons veal. He lived quietly and spar
ingly. His sole extravaganza was that,
as monument of bygone grandeur, he
commissioned Sir Anthony Vandyck to
paint him his wife, his boy and the
white charger, as they stood grouped
for the parting the morning Of the fire.
50 green ivy covered the ruins and
for years Great Tom of Lincoln never
renewed its sentence Of exile.
Time passed. Kingly Oliver died.
There was no protector blood in gentle
Richard Cromwell. He could not WELD
the land. "HO for cavaliers. hey for
cavaliers" In came the merrie mon
arch. Out Puritans and in Nell Gwynn!
Out crop-ears and in love-locks! Away
sad colors, only frippery is the mode!
To prison stout John Bunyan; to, office
slight Sam Pepys! To your blind study,
John Milton. and indite paradise
LOST" to Whitehall, John Wilmot,
Earl of Rochester, and scribble your
poem, Nothing" Yes; go Bigotry,
your iaclLoots smell nsayory; enter
PrcIacy in fine linen and perfume.
Procul, O procul, Libertas! for, alas.
English knees bend to the kings mis-
trcss and English voices swear, The
king can DO no wrong" Boom sullenly,
Great Tom of Lincoln, the dirge Of free
dom,
Ring solemnly, Great Tom of Lincoln,
to Colonel Brothertoft the stern com
mand revived. Syllable again along the
west wind the sentence Of exile:
Westward no! \ new home across the seas!
Every day the nation cringed baser
and baser. Every day the great bell,
from its station high above all the land,
shouted more vehemently to the lord of
BrOthertOft manor to shake the dust
from his feet and withdraw himself
from among people grown utterly daS-
tard. His young hopes We're persisted.
His old associates We're slain or silenCed.
He would 60
And just at this moment, when in
sixteen hundred and siXty-five all free
dom was dead in England, Winthrop,
of Connecticut, wrote to his friend
at BrOthertOft manor: 1--WE have con-
Quered the province Of New Neither
lands. The land is goodlie, and there is
a great brave river running through the
midst of it. Sell thy manor, bring thy
people and come to us. We need thee
and the like of thee in our new cOmmu-
mites. We have Drawn enOw and much
godlinesse and singing Of psalms; but
gentlemen and gentlewomen be few
among u.s."
SO farewell to England.
Colonel BrOthertoft was received with
due distinction by Governor Nicolls and
Mayor Willet. Old Peter Stuyvesant
was almost cOnsoled that Hollanders
were sent to their BOuwcries to smoke
and grow stolid, if such men as this
newcomer were to succeed them in
power.
The colonel explored that great brave
river" which Connecticut Winthrop had
celebrated in his letter. Its beautiful
valley was "all before him, where to
choose" Dutch land patents were plen-
teOus in market as villa sites after a
modern panic. Crown grants were to
be had from the new proprietary almost
for the asking.
The lord of old BrothertOft manor Sc.
lected his square leagues for the new
manor of BrOthertOft at the upper end OF
Westminster county, bordering upon the
Highlands of the Hudson. A few pic.
neer Dutchmen-De Wits, Van Warts
and CanadyS-were already COlOnized
there. His Lincolnshire followers soOr
found their places, but they came from
the fens, and did not love the hills, anC
most of them in time dispersed to tn,
flatter country.
The new proprietor's wealth was con
siderable for America. He somewhat
diminished it by reproducing, as we'll a
colonial workmen could do, that corne
of the old manor house untouched b!
the fire. 1t grew up a strange exotic
this fine mansion, in the beautiful will
derness. The curious fabrick' of Iittl
imported bricks, with its peaked turret
its quaint gables, its square bay win
dow and grand porch, showed incon
gruously at first among the stumps Of