The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-06-17

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motives. Some of them were in their
inception penal colonies. There are
great states south Of us, which have
been always handicapped by the spirit
of intolerance and greed and selfish
ambition. 1t was Of Gods good ProVi-
dence that Columbus ship never touch
ed and that he never saw the main
land of North America, so making a
claim upon it for a Latin race and re-
ligion and intolerance, and that the
English ship of the Cabots out of Bris-
toll upon st, John Baptist's day. 149f,
did come in sight of this continent, and
make the discoveries claim which saw
ed it to be the home of civil and re-
ligious liberty, and Of one Of the DOM
inant nations of the world, We have
had very serious differences with the
mother country and thcre is not over
much love between us even yet, but
we will never forget that England is
the old home, and that the old stock
which has determined our law and our
institutions is English. 1t is but ner-
Vousness to be unmindful of the part
which German and French and Irish
and Dutch and Swedish additions have
had in the development Of our national
life. The day may come when we shall
think more complacently than we now
do of the italian immigration. We
are lax and careless in receiving the
multitudes of immigrants and giving
them at once the privileges of citizen
ship. Cowardly politicians determine
the policy of the country-men who
care more for votes than for the best
interests of the state. The almshouses,
the prisons, the asylums, the hospitals
of the old world are relieved by
sending their inmates to our shores,
and political motives prevent the eff
cient correction of the abuse.
1t was not possible that the English
stock should keep possession of this
pleasant land. There may come from
the mingling of peoples here a stronger
race with larger destiny and a greater
office for good in the world than we
have thought. We know that there is
great reason for anxiety and foreboding
as to the result of the process now
going on. But the honored names
among our worthless, and the great
company of useful citizens are not all
of English origin Many a man whom
we delight to honor finds the old home
of his family in some French or Ger
man or Irish village and we could i'll
afford to have spared his ancestor. But
we are glad that the beginning was
made in the Anglo-Saxon race with the
old English ideas of liberty and home
and law and truth and conscience and
justice. Alfred F. Harold and Wyck-
lift, Chaucer and Spenser and Shakes
peare are ours as truly as if our fathers
had never come out Of Britain. There
was no nobler national inheritance than
that which our fathers brought into
this pleasant land. We do right to
maintain those traditions of liberty UNI
der law and, to insist that the funda-
mental ideas of the state shall be re-
garded by those who came here to
make their homes. The great state
which has been founded here rests
upon religion and law and justice and
we must not part company with them
Neither religion nor its form is to be
prescribed for any man. We are com
mitted to freedom and equality in the |
or disuse of religion, But the |
conditions for the exercise of religion |
ought to be kept favorable and Sunday |
ought to be kept as far as can be as |
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Is fair thing to fight for the old |
ideas of respect for religion, the remedy |
Of wrong under the law, the equality |
Of men before the law, self-restraint |
rather than revolution or private re- |
dress Of grievances. We must recog- |
nize the changes which have come and |
not spend our strength in the fruitless |
effort to order the fife Of sixty-five
millions Of people as the life of three
millions was ordered, But we must
light hard to maintain the worthy con-
'epttons of national life, and the worthy
traditions out of the days of the faith
srs.
our thoughts just now go back not so
ar as the beginnings of our life as
people, but to the beginning of our ma
.ional life. We are thinking not so
much of the fathers who made their
ZONES here in the wilderness and laid
he foundations of a great state nearly
hree hundred years ago, as of the faith
RS who won our independence some
what more than century ago. The
ime had then come when the colonies
With greater sense of unity and indie
must enter upon a larger life,
t would be easy to show that there
vas provocation on both sides, Much
hat we learned in the histories of our
'outh needs modification Not all who
ought and legislated and labored for
Independence were patriots of the pur-
st motives. Not all loyarists were bad
mem unworthy of respect. But British
craftsmanship was short-sighted |
here was nothing generous about it.
here was no appreciation of the new
opes and new life of the English colo
lists across the sea. The wisest coun-
ellors of the king were silenced There
ras no recognition of the manifest des-
my of the colonies, and so through war
galnst the mother country, by rebel
on, the colonies had to take the step
y which they could fulfill their des-
my. IT, might have been possible by
lore generous and wiser craftsmanship :
} have postponed the separa ton. 1t
robably could mot then have been
rought about peacefully. 1t was for
he worlds good that it should come
bout when it did, even through war.
he commercial motive, the interests of
'ade, had more to do with the action :
our fathers than we have been dis
osed to acknowledge. The opening
.atements of the Declaration of indie
Evidence need some modifcat tom Rut |