The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-17
OM|TS
TO NAME CAVALIER.
provincetown Speech Pays High
Tribute to the &
Puritan.
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IGNORES OTHER ELEMENTS WIS
Letter to Ti,nes-Dispatch Calls
Attention to inaccuracies in
Address.
IGNORES OTHER ELEMENTS

Mr.. E. H. Lively, OF Aberdeen. Wash
ington. in an open letter to The Tines
DisDat ch, takes the President to task
for his speech at Provincetown, Mass,
lin which he paid high tribute to the
Puritan stock of the country. but en-
tire1y omitted to mention the Cavalier
and other elements that went to MAKE
I'M the people of the new world. The
letter is as follows:
President Roosevelt, in his recent
speech at Provincetown. Mass, pays
high tribute to the Puritan In the
enrly history of this country. A few
extracts will suffice:
"The Puritan's task was to conquer s.
but TO settle it. to till it. to build upon
1t high Industrial and social life
"The Puritan owed his eXtraordl1nary
success in subdning this continent and
ffe nr o f the f9 iIberty iof
The Puritan tanned the wilderness
and built up a free government on
the stump-dotted clearings amid the
primeval forest.''
srhe Puritan was no Laodicean, no
laissez- faire theorist When he saw
conduct which was in violation Of his
rishts-of the rights OF man. the rights
Of God. as he understood them-he at
tempted to regulate such conduct with
and effectiveness. II there was no
other way to secure conformity with
the rule of right. then he smote down
the transgressor with the iron of his
wrath
sit seems to me that such questions
as national sovereignty and States
rights need to be treated not empiri-
standpoint Of the interests of the'
people as a whole. National sovereigr-
1 y is to besupheld in so far as It means
the sovereignty of the people used
people, and States rights are to be
upheld in so far as they mean the peo-
pies rights
1.-THE coming hitler of the Puritan
three centuries ago SHAPED the des-5
tinies of this continent. and therefore
prqfoundly affected the destiny of the
whole world. Men OF other races, the
Frenchman and the spaniard, the
and the swede, made settlements
within what is now the United States
during tho Colonial period of our
history and before the Declaration of
Independ ence; and since then there
has been an ever-swellfng immigra-
ton from ireland and from the main
Hand OF Europe; but 1T was the Eng
lIshman who settled II yirEinlal and
chlgsetts who did mott in shaping;
the lines Of our national Developments.
PURPOSE Of Exposition
~ II IN. Virginia at the JanleStOWn5 81 CX-
position the people are accentuating
the prorites of this country, which.
| In part occurred many Years before
the period which the Massachusetts
lpeople are now celebrating.
Our children's first lisplngs OF
American literature We're not at Roam
oke (North Caroina), nor Plymouth
Rock. hit along the sands Of the
lChesapeake ,l neal, the gurgling tides OF
l!theelanes River at JAMESTOWN, WHARF
1.-The first permanent English settlement
was made on this, continent, 18Th May.
This country viii be politically 1870
years old since Virginia. through&.her
! immortal son, gave to- the country
1.-THE Declaration OF Independence.
Matchless epochs have occurred fl on
her soil !, since tbs early times;
R n vas Y fought by, yrglnians
Ohio. 10Th October, l77a. This sweep
lang victory was far, reaching The
I'nprthwest territory she Won VI ct arn1is
Ion this occasi or, was cetlea TO the
Federal government. 1851. and was
EsubseQuentls. carved intos hNeHo T. nnr
prosperous States, Wis Illinois, NIichi-
/ gan. Indiana. Ohio and Wisconsin,, The
battles Of Lexington and Bunker Hill
don't aspire y to anysss results,
| Virginia VAS not only the battle
| field or the first contest at arms finl-
Ettatory to sthe Revolution but the,
Elocality Jamestown of the hrstsselec-
1tive Leg islature G619l bS$tha people
Ton this henltsphere, and as we'll the
other Of the first ne yNsna per- The
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