Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-10-10
BUILT BEFORE 1884

alone Of all the host of thrifty trees,
the pride Of the colonial governors
heart, whose number gave to the orig
inal manor of 300 acres its patronymic
orchard farm. How lovely the site is!
Upland and meadow, it stretches away
between two silvery rivers, fair and
fertile farm, once included within Sa-
lem limits, now set off with old witch
craft Salem village, into the town Of
Danvers. The shrewd old governor was
q good Judge of land. 1t was in 1923
when he with his wife, Anne Cover,
and that determined company Of hun
bred or so followed the Plymouth Pill
grlms and founded Salem, in the New
World, the famous Massachusetts Bay
colony. According to the quaint chron-
icler, in Wonder Working Providence
of Sion's Saviour in New England"
"The much honored Mr.. John Indicat
came over with them to governe, a fit
instrument to begin this wildernesse
worke, of courage bold undaunted, yet
sociable, and Of cheerful spirit, low
ing and austere, applying himself to
either, as occasion served" Occasion
quickly served in the case Of the roll
licking scoffers at Merrymount, and,
while Miles Standish, from the Plym-
outh colony, captured the reprobate
Morton-"the devil in the Massachu-
sets paradise "-preparatory to ship
ping him back to England, Endicott,
the head of the Massachusetts Bay
colony, and sturdy fighter Of Apol-
lyons, solemnly chopped down the May
pole "idol," and ordained that the place
should be no longer be called Merry
mount, but Mount Dagon, in memory
Of the Philistine image that fell down
before the ark
Thus, promptly on his arrival, de-
spite the threatened onslaught of the
Saugus Indians, did he march his SOL
diers on to "rebuke profaneness and
to admonish them to look to 1t that
they walk better" There were no
such May dances in righteous Salem.
There the house lots were being APP
portioned by the loving and austere"
governor, the first streets laid out, the
first Puritan Church in America organ
lied, and, according to Wonder Work
ing Providence" again, "this church Of
Christ being thus begun, the Lord, with
the water spouts Of His tender mercy,
caused to increase and fructify."
Who paints the first governors pic
ture so wildly as Hawthorne in his
"Twice Told Tales: Endicott and the
Red CROSSE" The famous Puritan, in
his armor, the colonists assembled in
Salem Townhou0e Square; Roger Will
liams, the minister of the adjoining
meeting house (whose timbers are so
cherished in Salem today: the train
band Of the church militant, the red
cross flag with symbol rent away by
Endicott's sword, and his resolute
voice ringing out, BEAT flourish,
drummer, in honor Of the ensign Of
New England. Neither pope nor tyrant
hath part in it now! with a cry of
triumph" says Hawthorne, "the people
gave their sanction to one Of the bold
est exploits which our history records,
and forever honored be the name Of
Endlcott! We look back through the
mist of ages and recognize in the rend-
ing Of the red cross from New Eng
lands banner the first omen of that
deliverance which our fathers consum-
mated after the bones of the stern Puri-
IAN had lain more than a century in the
dust" OF such uncompromising stuff
was this doughty leader made! Small
wonder, then, thar he was soon super