Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-16
Memorial Is Unveiled al
Southampton, England.
Tercentenary Of Their Departure
To Land Of Christian Freedom.
Walter Hines Page, American An.
bassador, Performs Honor.

Southampton. Eng, Aug. IA me-
tary of the departure of the Pilgrims
from Southampton for America was
unveiled here, today, by Walter Hines
Page. the American ambassador to
Great Britain 1t is in the form of a
column erected on the site of the pier
from which the Pilgrims embarked.
The ceremonies opened with a
luncheon in the pier pavilion, presid
ed over by the mayor of Southamp-
ton. Speeches were made by Sir
William w. Portal DIR. Alexander
Hill, president of Hartley University
College, Southampton, John Morgan
! Richards and Percy Alden, NJ p.
Members of the Alden, Winslow and
Brewster families also spoke briefly.
| After the luncheon a procession ac
companied by bands of numerous
societies interested in the monument
formed and proceeded 10 the memorial
| by way of the west gate, through
which the ships company passed to
the Mayhower, on Aug. IS, 1920.
A brief religious service opened the
lunveiling ceremonies and as an in
dication of the undenominationa
tI the otfdStpll. II WIS Cpi-
Quoted by the bishep of Winchester.
and Rev. G. S. Saunders. minister of
the Above Bar Congregational chapel.
Southampton. The singing was led by
the Free Church Choral Union.
Ambassador Page dedicated the
monument with an Grafton in which
he quoted James Russell Lowell say
ing that the Pilgrims were only
colenists who went in search of God
| instead of gold. He continued:
They had not been kindly enough
treated in England to make life toler-
able to them but still they wished to
ne English subjects The blood, the
institutions of the family, the loyalty
and the trick of supremacy in the
breed were theirs and should always
| be theirs. In all the combinations of
the races of men and in all the work
| ings of circumstance, no other fusion
of great forces was eyer so nearly in
vincible''
The ambassador went on to say
that freedom To worship had led
straight to the Republican form of
government and the democratic strue-
lture of the society on the MaytfoWer
|carried the seeds of all republican in
lstitutions, including even the seeds of
recurring intolerance. The same, link
ling with destiny took the form of
freedom of opinion on all subjects. Mr..
Page contended that the American of
to-day, was as strong believer in his
Iereat deStnxs as were the Pilgrims
lof old Puritan and cavalier, he said,
lstll preserve something of their diff
lferences in the new world. thus Civ
ing "a good balance and variety t.
life there. He concluded:
This monument is one of the pill
liars of hope of mankind. The sons
lof those men whose immortal achieve
ment it commentaries are drawn
nearer to you by this tribute to then
fathers. And they give YOU theit
reverent thanks, today and this is
their message. The old impulse OF
our destiny which led the race te
whatever new form it may have TAX
en- with the changing years is not YET
spent. The high, grim, spirit of the
Pilgrim still lives
After the memorial proper had beer
unveiled by the ambassador, the rep
+, lresentatives of the donors unveiled
1.-THE various panels which surround ths
base of the monument.
The cost of the monument was de
frayed by public subscriptions in thu
United States and England and thu
: bronze panels We're donated by vari
. Gus Pilgrim societies and the descend
ants of Pilgrim families 1t is locat
ed on the pier beyond the West Gate
: through which the Pilgrims passed oil
ssltheir way to the Maytlower.
This spot was famous long befor
: the time of the Pilgrim fathers, 70
tradition asserts that King Canut
sat there when he ordered the sea L
Il retreat and from this pier Shake
: speare who knew Southampton wei
through his visits to the Earl o
|. Southampton. made the armies o
i Henry V embark for their triumphan
: invasion of France.
t George K. Singleton, one of kno
nj bac tx rel i ~