The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-01
COLONIAL DANES
CONVENE.
Large Attendance at the
First Social Of the Year
in Trenton Yesterday.
MISS BEASTOA'S ADDRESS
Brings Audience in Touch
With Colonial Days, Co.
lonial DANES and States
men of the Period.
MISS BEASTON'S ADDRESS
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Especial to THE Jersey City News"
TRENTON, Feb. /, 4 S99.-While many of
the Jersey City Colonial Danes had in
tended being present at the 1899 social
meeting of that society in Trenton yester-
day, they backed out when they saw the
weather. and Jersey City was represent
ed by Mrs. Joseph D.. Bedle alone. The
meeting, however, had a large number of
representatives from Newark, Elizabeth.
Trenton, Salem, Belvidere and other parts
of the State. A reception was held in the
forenoon at the rooms of the society, No.
Z State street, and a delightful luncheon
served at one o'clock.
In the afternoon the DANES adjourned
to the Y. M. C. A.. rooms, which were
tastefully drapped with flags and bunt-
ing, and where Miss Anna Beaston, who as
one of the Danes, remarked, Has no su-
perior in bring her audience in touch with
Colonial days, Colonial DANES and the
statesmen of that period" delivered an
address on THE Story of Aaron Burr"
While Miss Beaston spoke principally of
Aaron Burr, the general trend of aer
thought suggested his utter inferiority
when compared to the other men of his
period, not even excepting the honest
toilers in the field. Beginning with the
patriotic, honest and religious ~parentage
OF the man. the principal points of his 96
years existence were traced and placed
beside the renowned heroes and gentlefolk
who from 1880 to 1856 dwelt in and around
the historic State of New Jersey. The
Rev. Aaron Burr, father of 1.-The man
without a country" n the great jon
athan Edwards, of Northampton, the
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the first presidents of Princeton Univer-
sity, and it was with this distinction and
the additional honor of having graduated
from the same institution that the young
Aaron finally came to mans estate.
The Colonial Danes were reminded of
the fact that upon one occasion during a
revival that was going on at Princeton
the youth became somewhat interested in
the truths of the Bible and once went 50
far as to approach the subject while in
conversation with President Witherspoon
then the head of the college. The latter
characterized the meetings as emotional,
and in a manner not altogether what he
thought they should be, and this speech
on the part of the professor turned the
youthful mind to other things, and SO far
as is known, forever from Christianity.
Following him through the war of the
rebellion. after his. enlistment at Licking
ton. which occurred in the same month as
the great battle at that place, down to
the days when he was without either a
home or country, the lecturer contrasted
his character with that of Washington,
Alexander Hamilton, who was not only
a classmate of Burr, at Princeton, but
associated with him during the greater
part of his early life. and other prominent
figures in the wal and the political per-
iod which came directly afterWard, snow
ing that his nature was ayerse TO otner
mems and that he seemed to possess only
the quality of thinking himself the model
of gentility and uprighteousness.
Miss Beaston gave a graphic picture OF
the scene of the killing of Hamilton on
the little rocky road, a short distance out
of Weehawken,s and in doing 50, showed
the superiority in the sacrificing disposi-
ton of the unfortunate victim over his
calm and coo1-blooded slayer. The incl
dents of the legislative campaigns. IN
which Hamilton and Burr pelonged 10 OPP
also gone over, and the latter's scheming
and underhand practices We're SNOWY 10
have always remained with him. only
by trickery did he ever secure the votes
necessary to become Vice President, and
similar jobhery alone preserved the
power he had in the Legislature.
AS to the morality of the man very lit
tie was said by the speaker, with the ex-
ception of a reference to the distribution
of his earthly possessions, after death. to
the illegitimate children. Miss Beaston
partially accounted for Aaron Burr's
profligacy through his long line of brainy
ancestors, who had usurped the qualities
of strength and stability that had for so
many years existed in the family. His
trip through the West where he hoped to
establish a kind of kingdom of his own
was told of. and his subsequent attempts
to carry out his ends in that direction
were characterized as good examples of
his selfish and unprincipled scheming. In
concluding, the lecturer said that the han
DIV farmers. merchants and the like, who
lived and thrived in the lays of Aaron
Burr. many of whom are the ancestors of
Colonial Danes, were above that cele-
brated parsonage known and studied as
the man without a country.
Among those present were:-Mrs.
Joseph D. Bedle, president; Mrs. A F.
Jameson. vice president; Mrs. John
Mrs. Albert H. Atterbury, Of Plainfield;
of Newark; Mrs. P. Howell Campbell, of
Elizabeth; Miss Nixon, Mrs. Dahlgren,
Mrs. Charles e. Green. Miss Green. Miss
Green, Miss Marv Dickinson, Miss Eliza
beth A. Smith. Miss Mary A, Bell, Mrs.
Henry p. Perrine, Mrs. Weatherby, Mrs.
James r.. Rushing. Mrs. Hughes Oliphant,
Mrs. Robert Oliphant, Mrs. Janeway,
Miss Biackfan. Miss Moore, Miss Ellen
p. Wood. of Trenton, and Mrs. Daniel
r. Foster and Mrs. Ashbel Welsh, OF
Germantown.
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