Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-15
Speakers Statement Adams
Was First to Dream of
Democracy Ridiculed.
ASKS FOR LOCAL PRIDE
IN HISTORICAL TRUTHS
Nothing Too Extravagant for
Massachusetts Writers,
Historian Says.

Dr. Lyon q. Tyler. president omcr
itus OF tho College Of William and
Mar, has sent to The TimesDis-
pptch the following letter in nro,cs,
against statements made by Charles
In"hlin. OF Boston. In lecture hcr.
wednesday night:
ITO the Editor Of The Richmond
T.m"S-Dispat
FL read with surprise and tnd,una
ton In your issue OF January - AN
account Of tho address At John Mar
shail HEN school OF Charles Zucb-
I'm. OF Boston. author and pubilc!st.
Here we are ID Richmond attempting
To plan for state pageant which
SHAH exhibit the primacy OF the
state In many ;hirsy. and here is a
"from Boston o,nphnAizinr to "a
richmond audience Nh. early life
ana reactions OF tho Pilgrims and
Iuri'"ns. and representing ono
Samuel Adams as the nrst man ever
To dream Of democracy and indie
r""dencc. and Proceeding to say that
no Monroe Doctrin" ever existed, 1t
~ possible" that Your representative
reported Mr.. Iucbliu wrongly. but Il,
~ certainty true that others from
i"Ston have talked tina, way. and f.,
- iair 70 assume that Mr.. Zucblin
must hay" said something very cx-
'rnvagant about Sew England to
nave evoked such a report
TELLS Of E"st"n's History
III Nj Iuohlin had had tn. proper
""licacy about him. lac would have
talked about TIA" carly III. and re.
actions OF the founders Of the re-
public al Jamestown. their !ntroduc-
ton of frc. Institutions To ,hLs con
tn"nt. AMI dw"l, upon tho demo-
cratic work az William CIaihoruc
Nathaniel Bacon and Patrick Henry.
ana upon tina, pf Ia" Virginia Com
rontion % lT16 which declared for
ind"ncnd"nc". Will" Boston. from
which Samuel Adams and Mr.. Zurb-
lin hail, was protesting her wiling
ness :" wait. most patiently To wait
one could have expected him to have
entered into the splri, 81 our Iro-
roseh pagean, and recrnincd from
emphasizing New England
However. his action shows that
th"r" - nothing too cNtraVagan; for
e N"w England speaker Not long
"Eo Charles Francis Adams Jr
wrote book styled 'Massachusct,s-
IT'S historians and Its History" in
which he cautcrizcd Massachusetts
HtN'"' '"NS ana showed how IN ihcir
histories they had "strugclcd" and
'squirmcd' and 'ShunIed' in the face
OF record ~ persecution by tho
Furithns which has few parallels
anNwh"r" Let the truth hc told
While there arc notable exceptions
~ Gamnli"l Bradford and Charles NJ
Andr"ws, tn" generality OF tho Mas
shchus"tts publicists. historians and
writers ar" narrow and provincial.
ana 'o,h!ly !ncapahl" Of taking n
Just view OF any question: With
them everything begins and ends ia
massachusetts, or New England. and
many go TO the extent 81 even snub-
hinS jamestown ont OF cXistcnc. and
dcc.arinE. IN tho face OF All the facts.
'h"t plymouth was the First Col
...r,, in''''"''""s'
'"''' h'"'" ming Is ihat
''''o'' p'"p'" Shon!d invite snch
'a.N.s ~ i"ct ure |" thcm on history.
N'I'IF hohoF every idea.
.'":''"Ns, OF tho North and
~. u" '"'ai Pfi"c or our own FOR
N""' MA? pc true or right? The
n,",n rum ~ mat there was very
H.'r exemplary IN the institutions
"' 'n' iu' i'ahs Every town was
an ''S",'"E confronted by the min
Io' an" select clique. the vast
majority "t inc people were disfran-
curse" ana most OF them could barely
'cau or write persecution was nm
pant anu tyranny of sterncst type
p'cNaiieh' AS SHOWN by their pub
NShcd records. all kinds of crimes
were common IN the New England
'oWns.
NOW thcre was splendid and
Shccthcniar BODY OF aris,ocrats in
colonial virginia. but they did not
nave anything like the political power
and prestige of the New England
preachers ana magistrates. And II