Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-25

ton of MI. Lyman z. Powell, n of the
historical lecturers of the extension socie-
ty, who inaugurated the historical pilgrim.
ages of the society's summer meeting Of
last year to the battlefelds of the Brandy
wine, Germantown and Valley Forge, the
success of which admirably demonstrated
the educational possibilities of such tours.
Mr.. Powell has high hopes of bene1cent
results from these historical p~ilgrimages.
"Who can doubt" he says, "that a renais-
sance Of patriotism will follow lard upon
a renaissance Of the medieval pilgrimage
r%ationalized to suit American conditions?
The soil of the Atlantic seaboard has been
sanctitied by the deeds Of brave men. Here
are the historic sources of greatness,
and hither will the modern pilgrim first
resort. The old Birmingham meeting
house on the field Of the Brandywine and
the redoubts and intrenchments of Valley
Forge are still eloquent sermons in stone
and in earth Of the great struggle which
marked a transition period in our public
life.
1.-THE historical pilgrimage will stir the
imagination of the average American,
vivify for him a too monotonous existence,
quicken his interest in a heroic past and
give him an appreciation of a fruitful
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at issue between Jefferson Ind Hamilton.
It may tell him nothing concerning the
relative merits of recommendation and BIZ
metallism. it will at least manifest the
conditions under which our great heroes
won or lost their laurels.
"a visit to Saratoga may show more
clearly than our books that Benedict Ar
mold was a disappointed and ill used sol
der before ever he was a traitor to his
country. A pilgrimage to Valley Forge is
needed to prove that Gettysburg would
not today use up six pages of Baedeker's
United States had not Baron Steuben in
that bitter winter of Tits transformed
an unframed. hungry, frozen, naked yeo-
many into an effective army, while Wash
ington in his stone cottage burnt the mid
night oil in planning, counseling and CO.
o%rdinating the contrary and rebellious ele-
ments in the army and in congress
"Why, then, may not the historical pill
grimage become a permanent educational
factor? Our land is a great historical la
boratory in which our historic wealth has
been too long neglected. The magnificent
distances of the American continent will
deter more than one from going to Phila-
delphia to join the pilgrimage of 1894.
But nothing need deter the patriotic stu
dent of American history from exploiting
the wasted wealth which lies all about
him. There is scarcely a spot, east or west,
which is not within easy access Of some
historic survival which has in it a lesson
for the child and for the adult"
! The New England pilgrimage will be
! inaugurated on July 20 by public meet
ings in the afternoon and evening in indie
pendence hall, at which Hon. II. L. Car
, son will deliver an address in celebration
of the appointment Of Washington as COM
mander in chief of the American army,
and Mr.. Talcott Williams will speak on
the place of Philadelphia in American his
tory. July 80 will be Sunday, and the pill
grims will attend services at the historic
Christ church, where Washington wor-
SHIPPED. On July 80 the pilgrimage starts
! for Boston, the only stop on the way be-
will be the guests for q few hours Of the
Connecticut Historical society.
The next four days will be devoted to
! visiting places of historic interest in and
around Boston, Cambridge, lexington,
Concord, Salem, Plymouth and Nahant,
at each Of which such notable men as Ed
ward Everett Hale, Edwin ID. Mead,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Professor
John Fiske, Hezekiah B~utterworth, Rob
ert S. Rantoul and others will talk to the
pilgrims upon some phase of history con-
nected with the spot. At Cambridge Long
fellows daughter will receive the pilgrims
in her fathers old home, and at Salem
United States Senator Lodge will give a
4 reception in their honor.
At the end Of the week the travellers will
turn their faces toward the Hudson, stop
ping by the way at Pomfret, the home of
Israel Putnam, and then going on to Fish
kill, Newburg, West Point, Tarryt6wn
and New York city, the series Of addresses
by famous men well acquainted with the
localities visited being kept up all the
way. Mr.. Richard Watson Glider and
Professor H. P. johnson will act as cice-
rones for the visitors in New York city.
A day or two spent in New Jersey will
complete the pilgrimage, and there the ad-
dresses will be delivered by Adjutant Gen
eral William S. Stryker at Trenton and
Professor William M. Sloane at Princeton.
The return to Philadelphia will be made
about Aug. 9.