The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-29
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Thanksgiving as q national holiday is an
svolusion. Ii il true that the first New
England Thanksgiving day. as celebrated
By the founders Of the Plymouth colony.
Was a day Of feast and hilarity. Gov.
Bradford records that the young men shot
alta mark: that Massasoit and bis Indi-
ans brought in plenty Of Wild fowl and
the whites and the reds drank ''strong
waters" together and had generous feast.
bu. this was no. the typical Thanksgiving
dav Of Puritan New England.
After the fearful fight Of the colony with
king Philip" for existence days of
Thanksgiving were days Of fasting and
prayer; days Of snsterity and gloom with
no smack of conviviaiity in them. Puri-
tan New England. outside Of the Plymouth
colony. was not q cheerful community; 1t
had the saving warliks virtues Of courage,
resolution aud eonstsncy. but il had little
OF the eonvivial spirss Of ths Plymouth
colony which Holmes delightfully."- de-
llnsates In his Puneh Bowl" when
he describes grim Miles standish
tie night before he went forth 10
battle with the Indians. mixing q
stlff drink for all his men endowing them
with that Dutch courage which Holmes
humoronsly sets forth in the lines which
describe the Indian ~ learning TO run
from the white man when he smells of
Holland GIN"
The rulers Of the colony ofMassachusetts
Bay. In distinction from the founders of
the Plymouth colony. were so aussers and
grim people that they were laughed at
by the Engllsh settlers OF New York.
The original Dutch settlers of Manhattan
we're lineal descendants of
.aold King Cole, the Jolly old soul.
Who called for his rire and called for his bowl.
Aud called for his hddlers fhree.'
The Englishmen. who succeeded the
Dutch in the government of the New
York colony, were not Puritans AZ all. but
men of cavalier stock and sympathies.
aud they eelsbtssod the English Christ
mas, which the Purltans abhorred be-
cause Of its gross feeding and incorporate
drinking. What the old English Christ
mas Was we can gather from the deep
swinklng and alcoholic antics or SIR Toby
Beloh aad Sir Andrew Ague Cheek
In shskspeare's Twelfth Night" and
from Walter SCOTS novel. "The Monas.
terry" in which is dslineated the Gle
swlllsng aud rude horss-play of Christmas
In the time Of Queen Elisabeth.
The New Engiand Puritan abhorred the
English Christmas IS synonymous with
sin. while the Englishman Of the New
York colony. of Virginia. and Of Mary
land, observed the Christmas with riotons
delight and scoised az the Pantan as
water drsaksr. who thought 10 man loved
God unless 80 sang his praises through
his nose. Ths eansempG felt by the non
Puritan Englishmaa Tor the New England
ssestlcs vas expressed by Lord Rochester,
brilliant Wit Of the court Of Charles the
/. Second, who. going into Puritan church
and hearing the clerk s,ng through bis
nose the magnificent psalms Of David re-
ducea 20 the verse Of stsrnholG and Hop
kans wrote the following In the fsy leaf Of
the hymn book.
.sSsarnAosa and HOPKINS hae srest ssalra.
whsa sA<s translated p4ssd's REALMS.
Rut bad Is bear poos nsssa's fate
To hs2F tree sfns ana tSsm translsts-
ny 0--dt 's~eela msae him mss."
TAgs satire Of Rochester illustrates the
bitter contempt ssls hy tho free aaa easy
raslishmen ~ho eolenixed New York.
Virginia and MARYLAND fer the sasssrs
sulsr. Of the colony Il Massachusetts hay;
he Fad colts. the w!nthrops. the Ma,AeEs
sid others Of that Tx.
IA the New York eoleny At 81 early Gav
thors vas horse Faelns. there was In
Virginia. Maryland snt TIE CArolinas, hrs
nos In Nsw England, and JET Nsw En-
gland. With singular moral Inconsistency,
sexalKsd lotteries and hsinAn slavery, and
under the Ssw England legal code negroes
we're earas 81 sas stake ia Colonial time.
as tate a. tTsS sai the iRiss Who ssa-
fenced the nsSyces 20 the stake vas hi-z-
self slave
Jonathan EawartN the x-es. New Eng-
land th>elegsa5. was . siaveholaer and
saessnasA slavery trOm the Bible. As =
matter o. fact Nsv Ensland, in It's early
DAYS. vas an susisrs, gieony sAa sarhar-
ons eammnnifys II Vas &C. eanvsv.Al.
heraass IL ~as 5yspsPtie. eas Is vas Qss,s
a. lahumaa as the colonies shAs we're more
frss ard sssy Is their raiaor rsosa1A
We have sd shs aattcasi Thanksgsvgnx
asy = ga vvsssssan. inss as hsnass Nsw
Eaxssaa e today 10 "a evolution from the
ksasai Ass Eagiana sass hung witches
sna Q~aksFa. sxlisd RegsF Williams asa