The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-12-31

operative for i've centuries. rms
- - lhese widely different soru,a.s.a
....-saers were working during sse Sar.e
srr.h VI Years. fye centuries ara aas,.
aan seis distinctive. fsseradss.s.s. 80.
1lr0a English manners. lass aos .h.~.
aetsI forming the inagyk1,,af;sv .xr.,ln,.
Ms recognizes in Tire Enefsxs s-,ss,-.sx, -
toe seventeenth eeasGsy and thf A,vs~s-
san essazen ~ the nIG.eteersss e.-,.,.rv
There Was. however. .,n.. .hs,.s- go.
ass snsnishes the Pilgrims fra7a al &C.,
s'otofaasss, ard has MAKE ss.ev. s.s,,,..t -.
least numerous. the rnxsf s,.,,.9a.,, -
sia'idiiaS tbs typical American s.,,.ra~,ar
40 sns spirit OK liberation. not thar
psfAises disorder. but liberation
s.anss the right Of private judy
iaent Ia both religion and politics.
i'a.s sfAit OF The Pilgrirns VAS not ss.-
Asoiu E1sisiisfi birth or assScsas ions.
49, "as snsraftes upon their CHARACTER
a.'sif residence in Holland Hol-
$50 was tnen Offering the hitherto un-
- spectacle cf legal liberation of
seis iosHs or Christian helssf-~a rs,.,rv
uraie< by William TIE sltant-au4
maintained In spite OF the assos,lst,ra,s
as'a oppositson 81 ether nations 1s,,ss
.i1ef AMY. 80 different from tbs, nerxec..-
non winch had driven them from ,h.sr
'soshss' enabled tile Pilgrims 10 iva
pEassiuiy and In hsrmony with thasr
800 convictions. though surrounded bv
issa OF hostile ereeds and constantly
..,sAssa % the intolerance os ss.ai,,
'sat u left profound Impression ,,,,or
1he tllgrin character Is shown hv ~.
p'salsterce siah which they held IN The
spirit OF liberation I'm their new baus. /,
america, In marked contrast with the d.
soiefaiice OF the Puritans of Naxs,eh,,-
sets colony, who came directly yr,,,,
F-hgiand and were generally man os
higher cultivation.
10 the residence in Holland we NAV
therefore attribute the toleran, en,r,,
WHICH nas illustrated the record of f,i,,n-
oulh colony. and has caused The p;t-
sraHis 10 be recognized as the bss. NV
pohenss In their time of those lihar,r
principles which are the distinctive fe.,-
uFes OF American character. gut IN -.
coFding the achievements or the forefa.h-
iion England who cannot stvorloolx
aias part taken In the development of the
scdh character by immigrants from
oe1set iaAas- IL was an age of religious
eass' IN which political interests wera
oisea controlling factors. Charles I. of
LAsiaho. though prosecutor of English
pof-conformists. WAS the ally OF the CAL
FfIlst Huguenots of France IN resistance
20 Carunal RichegIeu on the other hans
the astute cardinal encouraged and sun.
ported the ProteStants OF f:s7.nan,, A..
Ing the Thirty Years war. The Ty,,s,,.-
nots who first joined the colonist. in
y
eutior. They fed To England and aeeom-
fan'ci 'he Pufltans to Massachusetts bay
prior TO 1917. a half century later the
iensious persecution which followed the
iesocauoh or The ediet of Nantes drove
thousands of Huguenots to England, Ger
many and Switzerland whence many
Oh them came TO our shores. We find
their descendants among the most emil
nent citizens Of South Carolina New
Jersey New York and New England.
Inc Dutch came to Ameries. for tra,ie
but We're speedily overrun by the more
aggressive English and have left traces
mainly in the names of a few families
IN New York and of some of the to,,o-
graphical features of the region where
they lived.
The thirty years religious war In Ger
many, from 1sis to 1sas. drove muItjtudes
or Germans 10 America They settled
chiefly in the Middle states and have
lett marked traces In local and family
names in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
The Quaker coion'stss led by William Penn
came to this. country about sixty wears
after the arrival OF the Pilgrims. Their
peaceful relations with the Indians and
their llberaiity in politics and religion Sc
cured rapid advance in numbers and
wealth
The history OF the American colonies
shows that their origin and growth were
mainly due 10 political and religious per-
secutioa IN Europe, and that when peace
prevailed in Europe and prosecutions
ceased they ceased to receive important
aecessions, and thenceforth derived their
increase and strength chiefly from inter-
nal prosperity.
These were our farefathers and this
their history and character up to the
time when they had wrestetl from the
aborigincs of North America a foofhold
upon It's eastern shores. For more than
in years after the landing at Plymouth
they were contessing inch by inch every
successive step in their progress west
ward. Al the time OF Washington's expe-
dition in West Virginia but few OF the
cclonfsts Rad penetrated beyond the Hud-
son or crossed The AileshanIes. The Ca
nadlan-Freneh bad pushed forward TO the
Great Lakes. and a few hoider spirits
had found their way down TO the head
waters of the Ohio. During this first
hundred years OF American colonization
our foretatherS had been fused by the
constant presence OF danger by unity cs
purpose and similarity but not uniform
lily of methods. into something like a
homogeneous people, Time and the press
ure of events we're stiIi wanting 10 weld
them into one nationality. From founders
Of isolated colonies along the Atlantic
coast, extending from the Bay Of Fundy
to the St. Johns river. our farefathers
were becoming the founders OF a nation.
They built with no plan, but were ever
working toward liberation and union The
streams OF population conserging al va
rious sources were at last merged into
I one broad river. majestic and r.
| resstlbie in it's flow: constantly receiving
| in its course smaller acceSsionS, bat alb
sorbing all into enc. Piurihas Unam-
s,,,, out of many.-ss no less trt2 Of the
! American people than of the union OF the
states.
Towards the end OF the eighteenth cen
/ farv. one hundred and fifty years from
/ the close OF the great Puritan exodus IN
1sta the eslouiStS had become = compact
..a.E,, .,s,sss had been built colleges had