The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-11
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CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.
SEATTLE. TUESDAY. JAN. II.
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TIRE BIRTHPLACE or THE AsERi-
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The Boston papers are az battle with
the New York newspapers over the tx
tent To which New England may be
considered the foundation of The United
Statee. The controversy has become
very interesting. but We do not Sec why
the Bostonese should not prevail
against the knickerbockers
The champion Of the country against
New England makes pretty strong
arraignmens of the pnsitans and thsir
! descendants and winds up with de-
NAL Of their right TO be regarded as the
type of Anaericanism. HE challenges
the claim of Forefather's day orators
that the Pilgrims came to this country
30 establish religious liberty; and he
then declares that the Intolerance they
brought with them was more rigorous
than that from which they fled.
Their descendants acknowledge with
shame that their extreme piety assumed
= form very similar to that of the i'm
] tense nlgotry from which they He'd. The
Intensity nf their doctrine which in
dueed them To hazard the chances If
the new world prompted them to uaa
the Jail. the piilory, the seourge. mutila-
tt6n. and even the gallows. as weapons
Of warfare IN what they believed To he
the right. and they were applied with
6uuai impartiallsy to every sect which
differed from them. Other settlements
hnd been made In the Americas SOME of
them by war upon the natives. and some
were wiped ont by Indian reprisai. but
neither Virginia nor the carolinas nor
Florida nor Pennsylvania nor the set
Elements on the hudson present sach
seenes nj Intolerance and liberalism "a
!. tbs colonies established b. our purs-
tanicai ancestors. They were not guilt.
less OF cheating the Indian, and had
( much to do with exterminatlng the
aboriginal owner Of the land. They be-
teved In witchcraft. they pronted by
the slave trade. they manufactured rum
to sell 10 the Indians.
But all that was nearly 200 years ago.
The coionists OF New England may not
have been as gentle as the Quakers. as
tolerant az the Huguenots or as be-
! nign as the Catholics. who made their
homes In Florida and the canadas. but
they ontstrpped them ail In the prog
ress they made toward better conditions
and IN the rapldity with which thelr
stanted aud oppressed souls byanehsd
! oas. tossred up and tooa deep root in
the naw sell.
ne New England slsirl;. diveaeea bv
y osiftr air NJ thar narrow bigo.ry to
sslsiea their ancestors had been accus.
teseea and condemaed for generations.
naasse mnnlier and rare self-rs!!ant s,v
the opportunity ard tho Need az indie
pendent acttos, and becoming peeeticas-
" new race developed b. the rev
world. has spread all over the Unite
States. The great statas Of the Mlddt /,
West were opened up b. TIA. pioneers
ef New England: the greater Nofthwes;
has Its praiIies populated ehieay rrasa
New England; even tie pae4te csa-.
Il closely bound 10 aua inspired hv the
progressive spirit Of New England.
wesFv else. eeuli have originated The
distinctive charaeter5atits. ,he sturay
Individuality. the Inventive senlcg
which IS rs marked in oses.aa today as
In the rural life Of New Curlsnds NJ
from the people who followed u Soto.
net the people who laid the foundations
Of New Orleans not the descendants If
the early settl,fs in Virginia -admlauie
as each of these IS in it's place. Thsx
have all contributed e. make a great
aatien 81 the United States, bat the
American Vas horn cu Plymouth Reek
New England ,oak the jivst act which
VAS TO make the greatest repab.i, the
world has ever seen. New England haa
the greatest sacrifice 90 make in case
OF war. because il was ia Nre. E,.<lsna
where business Was most closely con-
centratei II may be true fhat tne
campaigns OF the revolution reaches3f es4
New England humss. and thas the elase
Of the war found New England vastly
richer than at the beginning That was
not due TO any lack q patriotism and
some Of she best iateliigenoe ard ccur~
age Of the country gave ssrvtce at great
sacrifice and even life for the coautryss
snesa.
Kew Engla.d became mars c5aserra-
tive as Il Increased 10 respanstaslltr.
and II has nas always agreed a
ether parts Of the eoansty IS 10 ta4