The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-23
THE NEW HAYEN PrLGR1Ms.

The Subject of Judge Baldwin's Address at
 united Church Last Evening-America
 Adealism as Illustrated in the Attitude of
 the People oh the Venezuelan Affair.
 At United church last evening Judge Simeon F. Baldwin delivered. an ad7 dress on "The New Haven Pilgrims" the occasion being the commenaoration of Forefathers' day under the auspices
 of the Mems club of United church. After describing preliminary steps in
 England, Judge Baldwin said that in June, 1630, Davenport, with Theophilus and Samuel Eaton, sailed for Boston on
 the ship Hector. Soon after landing they negotiated for the land between
 the lower part Of the Connecticut and
 Hudson rivers and acquired part of it. The land near the mouth of the Quinnipiac river was reported to Dayen- port and the Eatons to be in a favora- ble location for settlement, as the
 mouth of the river afforded anchorage for ships and the surrounding meadows
 were quite extensive. A party of seven
 soon after arrived in New Haven and
 settled near where Commerce street now is, the reason of their choice of this location being a fine spring of wa ter which bubbled forth at that place.
 One of the party died before spring and when the foundations were dug for the
 building at the corner of Meadow
 street and Congress avenue the bones of the man were found Davenport preached the first sermon in New Haven
 under a large oak tree which stood near where the corner of College and George streets now is. Tn a house occupying the same site years after was born | Lyman Beecher, the father of Henry
 Ward Beecher. In 163S the planters of l Quinnipiac, as the settlement was then called, met and agreed that all public
 officers concerned with the civil order should be governed by rules of Scrip ture. In June, 1889, the planters reas- sembled in a barn near where, the New
 Haven Colony Historical society build l ing now stands, and agreed upon a definite scheme of government for both the church and the colony on the same
 basis, Davenport believed in restrict ing the right of franchise to church
 members only, while Samuel Eaton ob- jected to this. plan Davenport's. idea, however, prevailed Tn November five hundred pounds was raised to erect a
 meeting house, which was built on the lower part of the present green, then known as the Market Place. Tn the New Haven colony affairs of the colony
 and the church were discussed at the
 same meeting and the expenses of each
 were paid from the same taxes. No
 other settlement. in America excelled as regards the means and intelligence of
 it's founders, the New Haven colony. In speaking of the excitement produc- i ed throughout the country the past week by the phase of the Venezuelan
 affair, Judge Baldwin said: This sweep of national feeling, of national passion, shall I say, that thrills our people to- day throughout the land, called forth
 by a. few emphatic words from the pres ident of the United States and inspired 1 by a tradition of the past-what is it but American idealism stronger, bold CT, but not higher, for itcould not be, than that which animated the founders of New England?"
 Just previous. to saying this MT. Bald
 win had asserted that Americans put
 their ideals into their lives, while peo-
 pie of other nations put their ideas into l literature
 The address touched on a subject ever
 interesting to New FIaveners and the speakers words were closely listened to l by the audience.