New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-27

up; no. though the w-Englander has come to
town, New-York is not pulled up
In fact the spirit is one that perhaps
with the land. for New-York has never been
puffed up. OLD Stuyvesant to be sure, would
blow out his cheeks with rage. and to take him
at his word the State was Stuyvesant. But
when it is said that the Dutch took Holland, it
is not always gracious to recall that they lost
New-Amsterdam. And when it is said that
New-Amsterdam was lost, ii is too often for
gotten that the city took its captors captive
and grew by what they fed on. Again the Eng
fish, who aImos, formed habit Of capturing
New-York could not pre> Mt it, in a crucial in
stance, from passing the Continental army
to safety across the Hudson. Compare the mo-
mentous Battle of Long Island and the mastery
retreat into Jersey with Bunker Hill. In the
schoolhoys mind one is part of the lrksome
haze OF military facts and dates and the other
has all the authentic sense that envelops the
Cherry Tree Why should one patriot reverse so
differ from another in glory?
An even more illuminating comparison is the
one that involves the Boston Tea Party What
schoolboy ever had impressed upon him the ac-
ton OF New-York under the same circum-
stances? Even the historians, who follow with
the correction of a tardy and gradual revision
the popular estimate, have all but let it
escape them. To be sure, the men who boarded
Captain Haviland's ship were merely armed
not painted and feathered. They stepped down
to Crugers dock in orderly posse the first
night the ship spent in port and went quietly
to work. New-York had not waited for a pict-
uIesque cargo of Bohea, nor worked itself up
to pitch Of Faneuil Hall frenzy; it acted at
once when a prOsaic consignment of stamps was
brought unheraded to its wharves. The stamps
were burned without a war dance, and the
party marched back, babe one another good
night, and, modest, practical that they
were, thinking more about a task well done
stepped into Oblivion. This quiet little incident
occurred on the night of January 49, 176S The
fancy dress ball tOmahawk festival in Boston
was the talk of December IT, 17I3 1t has been
the talk ever since Observe that both the orig
inal and the second performance. however justi-
fed, were acts Of Illegal seizure carried out
under the cover Of night. There is 4 charming
fitness. then In the Manhattan sequel; silence
along the street and the river front on the night
of the bonfire Of stamps; silence ever after
The eXpatriated American millionaire who
asked the gardener OF the old English estate not
without a patronizing compliment how he
might duplicate the lawns spreading before him
heard that the requisites were merely the SOW
ing Of seed and five six hundred years of
rolling. The seed is good in New England. but
the lawns Of its cosmopolitan sense can be rolled
yet little longer. The unappeased critic has
risen from his seat before the play began and
voted the performance a bore because he thought
1t consisted of the musical vagaries of a Door
orchestra and the painted seven days wonder
on the drop curtain. Nor does the Statue of
Liberty cry after him with questionable sin
certify Must you go?" Her guests depart
when they SO desire, freely. You must come
again!" is the gracious. honest farewell of the
Mother Of Exiles. with no apology for her pre-
occupation in her lofty torch of general well
ccme.