The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-11
"Pilgrims" and "Pilgrim Fathers"

new corn. In DIS speech IN 1!W1 at
the laying Of the cornerstone Of the
monument to the landing Of the
Mayfower people land the bright be-
ginning Of heaven knows how many
millions Of American eenealogies)
at Provincetown. Mr.. ROOSEVELT, ms
he said in the extemporaneous intro
ductIon to his speech, mixed up
the Pilgrim and the Puritan" It APP
pears from Mr.. ALBERT MArrHEws's
pamphlet, THE Term Pilgrim Faith
ers.'" Just printed or reprinted at
Cambridge. that tho mixing up Is
ancient. mot only does writer after
writer" says Mr.. MATTHEWS. from
1869 TO about 1860, assert that the
early Plymouth settlers we're Purltans,
hut during that period apparently no
other view was taken. And the same
view Is still held by many eminent
scholars" And this view was and Is
held by men perfectly aware that the
Plymouth folks were Separatists, while
the Salem and Boston immigrants re-
garded themselves for little while as
members of the Church Of England
Since the Bostopians became Separa-
lists and Conereeationalists OF the
Plymouth sort soon after their ar.
rival. the distinction between Puri-
tan and Separatist seems hard IN
grasp. II Is we'll TO remember, more.
over. II we may remember It without
trampling on the innumerable multi
| tude Of Mayhower descendants, that
the Plymouth batch was small hill
Of potatoes In numbers. in wealth,
social rank. influence. Indeed, II II
had never landed on that coast which
FELICIA DoRoTHEA HEMANs wept to
find guiltless Of being stern and rock.
bound. would the history Of Massa.
chusetts have been affected to the
smallest extent? Romantic legend
poetry, the exha ustless throat Of com
memorative eloquence. would have
suffered. We wouldn't lose Willingly
Captain Mills SrANDIsH. still war
like on Puddle Dock with the Stand
ish Guards; MILES, the peppery LITTLE
shrimp" s his facetious captive. Ton
MORTON Of Clifford's Inn and Merry
Mount. loved TO call him. And o,
course we wouldn't want 70 miss tn,
Mullens-Alden anecdote or interfere
with the pride OF ancestry 70 appro
pirate IN n democracy. still. hear {
Plymouth man. Judge DAVIS. cited b!
Mr. MATTHEWS. in 1919;
I'm ten wears from the commencement
OF the Plymouth Colony the number o
Inhabitants did not exceed 5000. In a,
equal space Of time from the settlement
OF Massachusetts more than 10000 per
sons had arrived. and three hundre
ships had been employed in their trans
portation. In money and commodities
in artisans of every description. in tn
means Of defence and all the furnitur
OF a State. there was a corresponden
superiority"
The present distinction between tn
Ma ssachuSetts Bay "Puritans" and tn
Plymouth pilgrims" Mr.. MATTHEW
attributes to two causes:
First. the belief that the word PHI
grims' belongs exclusively or peculiarl
TO the Plymouth settlers. and second,
10 the notion, which first made It's ar
pearance about half n century ago. tha
: the early Plymouth settlers were M
D Purltans. while those OF Massachuset,
were"
With the motion" Mr.. MATTHEW
IS to deal later. lie shows that tn
term pilgrim" as applied 70 the earl
settlers at Plymouth long Gale
First Corners" and "FOrefathers,
first appeared in 179S: pilgrim Fail
ers" In 1I9o. st. PAut's phrase. "pi
grims and strangers was of cour,
familiar. BRADFORD speaks OF h
brethren departing from Leyder
y "They knew they were pilgrims
There was Pilgrim Society IN Col
cord in 1893. thirty years before or
was founded in Plymouth. In HIT
more than a hundred years the wor
"Pilgrims' has been localized 10 III
Plymoutheans.
Not the least refreshing part
I Mr.. MATTHEws's work Is his collie
ton Of the accounts OF celebration
u Mt Plymouth. The number OF toas
, and cheering glasses our wise ar
piOus ancestors quaffed nstOunds Il
Y degenerate moderns "RacChannlla
u topers," an anonymous F'edcralist In
y ing newspaper correspondent cal
- them:
"Why In the name Of common a
y. cency did not the brave and vrtuo
General then in the Chair give out II
mediate orders to his Drum Major
so round the Hall and beat to the tui
q of Drunk or sober. go to bed, Tom.
y To bed, ToM'?'
> "Thc anniversary Of the landr
p. OF our ancestors" was sometime call,
-. THE Feast of Shells" shell A Sh ar
succotash In shells being served. Tv
- anti-Jeffcrsonian tonsts of 1902.
II "Our Sucktdsh and our Chopdcr--Mi
r. they never he supplantcd by tho sou
a mcdOrc OF France or the rcroluttord
1. trhisEru OF tho ancient dom,nion