The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-04-19
CONCORD GRAPE H0NORED
And IT'S INVENTOR. MR.. BUZZ, RE-
Called TO MIND
In His Ola Home, Mrs. LOthrop's econ
cord Grape Cottage"

| III SpiiSolu, NiClt lOHS tNS'S '~i--- $500
Wales Bull, the inventor Of the world
renowned Concord grape, was celebrat-
ed on Monday the origin of that pleas
ing fruit. Frank B. Sanborn presided,
and spoke as follows:
Assembled as we are on this estate of
old John Hoar, the ancestor of our dis
tinguished townsman and senator, who
was fined $500 in 1865 by the ruling
magistrates under Charles II. for COM
planning of his wrongs and Injuries and
the denial of justice to him and his ell
ents in the Massachusetts court 1t be-
hooves us to be very careful how we re-
peat his wickedness. He spoke evil OF
dignities, and his offense was declared
by the predecessors of Senator Lodge
to be of a very high nature, tending
not only to the dishonor of God, but to
the scandal and reproach of several or
our courts, honored magistrates and Of
| ficers. Three years later this trouble
some old Puritan was fined 500 more
for saying that the blessing pronounc-
ed by Master Buckley in dismiss1ng the
public assembly in the meeting house
was no better than vain babbing'-that
edifice which, no doubt, the wrath OF
the imperial powers gave to the flames
the other night, for its having sheltered
the rebellious colonists Of It's in their
wicked legislation against the benevo-
lent assimilations of George the Third.
Warned by these examples and losses
| hasten to anticipate the utterances of
that scion of the imperial Bonaparte
family next Thursday, by declaring that
the invention of Mr.. Bull, which has
initiated the morning drumbeat of King
George and his imperial grandchild, In
it's circling march around the world,
following the sun and keeping company
with the hours in one continuous and
unbroken strain of the martial airs OF
England'-this invention, I say, exceeds
in benefit to the human race that affair
at the North bridge, when the 'embat-
tied farmers following the bad exam
pie of John Hoar, scandalized the Off
GERS of his sacred majesty of England
by firing their wretched musket balls in
their faces. Instead of bullets, discharg-
ed in favor of a hurtful and fallacious
liberty Gn which I once believed, and
which Mr. Bull encouraged me to main
tain), our friend the renowned occupant
of this cottage, sent his volley of grape
among mankind soothing their palate,
mitigating their ailments and cheering
their depression, in the form of what
Milton (another rebel, regret to say),
called
Wine that maketh glad the heart of
Man.
Instead OF covering these hillsides with
minute-men, resisting the heaven or
dained government of the better ele-
ment' (meaning the mlllionaires and
their sons-in-law, the princes and
dukes), Mr.. Bull covered them with
rows of the well-ordered Concord vine.
Instead of invading monarchical Europe
with the incendiary notions of Jefferson,
and the outgrown ,admonitions of the
misguided Washington, our neighbor
sent his vine stocks to replace the vine
yards of Switzerland, France and Aus
tria (where | have seen them), from
which those democratic pests, the an
archical phyloxera and the -petinospora.
bighting the hopes of capitalists, had
banished legitimate grapevines.
Alas! / fear Mr.. Bull died in his po-
litical sins-for which we can but hope
that his economical contribution to the
SuCCeSS VI the sugar IuSl anu the OlHSI
trustworthy improvements on the gro
Gerry store of our fathers, may be accept
ed as atonement. I remember that when
those luckless champions of the right
and duty of every Anglo-Saxon to CIV
ilize--and wallop-every 'nigger'--Jeffe
son Davis and Mason of Virginia-sent
by night band of modest philanthro-
pists to handcuff and carry off a pesky
Concord abolitionist-Mr. Bull, then our
chief magistrate chairman of the Sc
lectmen), handed me his siX-shooter for
use upon such benefactors And in the
days of his prosperity he had given
freely to sustain John Brown and other
fanatics in their evil purpose (Which
succeeded only too welD of keeping the
civilizing influence of slavery out of
Kansas. We are partially atonng for
that crime by subsidizing slavery in
Sulu. and doing, as a government, what
we can to put down the rec state men
of South Africa; but even in those late
repentances, l fear that our friend Gun
less he had completely eschewed the
human reason and Joined the
new church of the Lydite apostles)
would have failed to unite. He was an
obstinate ola democrat, ike our mlStak-
en- friend, Governor Boutwell, whom we
hoped to see here to-day-but without |
any sanguine expectation that he would |
henounce his ancient heresies, and join |
US in hailing the blessed reign of benef- |
cent martial law and taxation without |
"Mr. Boutwel's old friend and politi- |
cal associates, Francis r. Gourgas, long |
since dead, but while he lived an active |
democrat. could have told us
much about Mr.. Bulls early days here. |
His son, John Gourgas, has sent us an |
account of a mountain cpl |
sode in Mr.. Bulls life, which / will read |
before introducing Ben Tolman, who
lsed to print Mr.. Gourgas' newspaper |
he Concord Freeman:
'Waterville is one of those mountain
townships in the New Hampshire forest |
where settlements are made and pleas
INT names conferred, but where Nature
S too much for the white man, who
gradually fades out of the wild land
icapes Opened to colonization by
Squire Moses Foss in 1920, it had six