The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-09-09


and hence the name Hub as ap-
piled to Boston Indeed Boston is
| q Hub. as Rusticus concluded
Let one take Boston as ,entr. and
with radius of 100 miles .irscrit,t.
a semicircle and within that space
he will discover the intellectua al
forces which have given us our
American letters, science, art, phil
osophy. theology and chief among
all our inheritances, our American
Republic. Rusticus reminded the
writer that in August. 1115, Thomas
Jefferson said: Il would rather see
independence on Great Britain
properly limited than on any nation
on earth, and also that Washing
ton said in May 1776: When |
took command Of this army July
1715 | ahhored the idea of indie
pendence. The founding of the
Western Republic was Puritan
movement. The first voice raised
in America, says Bancroft To destroy
all connection with Great Britain
came from the Calvinists This Re
public was begotten by the creative
spirit of John Calvin. spirit that
thirsted for liberty. The fires of
strife for freedom would never have
burned on Bunker Hill but for the
| dominant influence and genius of
those cOloinists Of Boston which
pervaded and tempered the colonial
mind.
New England seems To he the
hospitable home of the elm and
when our gang of rustics came to
Washington Elm' which has
weathered the storms of more than
one hundred and fifty winters and
under who's. historic shade Gon.
| Washington took command of the
Colonial army July 3, 1715. Rusti-
Gus became unmanageable. He
wanted To jump from the car and
sit right down under the withered
limits of that empress of the city
and attend while lis broken branches
would tell the story of the mould
ing of new crown Of gold and of
the reign of truth for more than
century. When the question was
stuck into the noddle of Rusticus
why Gen. Washington had to go to
that elm in Boston 20 take COM
mand of the American forces, he
shook his head at this singular cir
cumstance in the providence of his
tory and was mute.
The Old South Meeting House
was built in 1929 to replace a
wooden church which had stood on
this site and was John Wipthrop's
home since 1869 In the massacre
and tea tax times many town meet
ings were held in this Old South
Meeting House, and was used by
the British i'm 1875 as a riding
school. Benjaman Franklin was
baptized in this old church on the
day of his birth. Rusticus who was
continuously striking in at the
wrong time. inquired why the par
ents were i'm such haste to have the
youngster baptized?
When our car reached the venera-
BILE old State House, Rusticus be-
thought himself for moment and
then remembered how the building
had gone through a flood of flames.
1t was the scene Of colonial courts
and legislatures and the town and
city governments and the general
court of the commonwealth. John
Hancock was inaugurated here in
f17SO the first governor of Massa-
chusetts. The burning of the stamp
clearances and the Boston Massacre
occurred in front of this archi.ec-
tural landmark. The whipping post
and the stocks were here. Rusticus
turned pale at the mention Of the
whipping post.
Washington and Lafayette were
sheltered in the Wayside Inn which
became the scene of Longfellow s
Tales Of Wayside In and Rus
ticus assured the writer that as soon
as he reached home he would form
the acquaintance Of Longfellow in
the Tales -
II Rusticus felt the movement OF
the melody in his mind OF The
Star Spangled Banner as he gazed
on Prospect Hill Monument where
the thirteen-stripsd flag Of the
American colonies was first dis
! played, though the stars had not
replaced the crosses Of st. George
and st. Andrew in the Union.
i Rusticus' feelings subdued him
and be wept tenderly oyer the grave