THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-VRTD AY. DECEMBER 23. 1898.
0
ANNUAL DINNER OF
NEW ENGLANDERS
Continued from I'r.go ;.
the famous notnoeuitlc Wilson In con
cress. Mr. lJnyton got n royal recep
ttdn when President Kanderson Intro
duced' him as "the man who iieut' Wll
Bon In the Routh." He wna not at all
disconcerted by tin; lavish plaudits
which accompanied his Introduction. Up
entered nt once Into the spirit ot his
toast response "The Vunkce In the
tfouth!" lie said:
The rounlr has laughed from one
end of It to tho other over that distin
guished member of congress who K't
lont In the mazes of hi? own speech nnd
pathetically culled on Speaker Heed i.i
tell him "Where lie was at." t tlil not
cure unon such an occasion na this to
run am risk of ucqultiiiK an undue
notoriety In the same way and 1 nlo
well l'uneniher that all words purely
devoted to the descrlptlo personao nr
elussud tts.puie egotlpm, nevertheless,
I will risk enouBh to say that there la
n sodd deal of trouble In defining JUFt
where I stand In relutiun to the two
most important elements that have
made up our country's civilization the
one starting with the st-rn and fanat
ical Puritan at t'lymout Hoc k, Ihe other
with the ijny and rolllckltiff euvullcr at
.lamestown, nnd which two element"
hnve tint nlwnvw lived tiicrcthcr In that
sweet peace that btisl-Aens and blesses,
and in consequence, In one period of
our Interesting history, were very well
known as Yankees on the one side and
Johnny llebs on the other. To explain:
OF GOOv STOCK.
I wiiH' born of a kooi! Massachusetts
mother who went south, like many
northern girls Old buck yonder, to help
educate It. My father was a Connecti
cut millwright by trade nnd the son of
a tnnner. who studied law at nights."
cot a license nnd about 1M7 struck
south and hung out his shingle, mar
ried the Massachusetts1 "school ma-am"
and started up at Phillppl so many
people In this world's history, yon
know have "met at Phillppl" and
there, "Down In Ole Virginity," I was
born less than three years "befo the
wall, sah." And there I have lived for
the forty-one years that 1 have been
permitted to watch the earthV moon's
change. Now, if that does not consti
tute me a Simon pure, unadulterated
".Southern Yankee," In the name of
reason "where am I at," nnvhow, and
where, wquld you find anywhere else a
better specimen of that anomalous ar
ticle? I feel verv much, tonight, facing as
T am my New Knglnnd cousins here,
like comparing myself to n very worthy
and able local Methodist minister who
down in my country deemed It very
properly his duty to take a hand In Un
political affairs of the country, and was
pretty generally recognized as "a
powerful talker on the stump." On
one occasion, when a very heated cam
paign was on. he was sent to proclaim
the tenets of his party to a community
composed of very staid old Irish fann
ers who were verv much "sot ngln' "
hlj political views. None of that faith
had dared to tackle that community
before and. the question at once arose
whether he should be permitted to
speak or not. A division of opinions
arose, but one old "son of Erin" was
very much determined that he should
not, and when the time, the people nnd
speaker all came, he arose and. In an
unmistakably loud and emphatic tone,
proclaimed: "Joseph, Jmvph Tayther,
I nay ye cannot spake here today. Ye
have no light to snake to us. for ye
are nayther a DImmycrat nor liish
mon. '
Teter, however, was equal to the
mergency'nnd, whirling on him. said:
I will speak here today. 1 do have the
best of right to speak to you. and while
I am.no Detnbcrat, 1 am a better Irish
man than you." "Ye can't prove it."
"Yes, J can, and I will. You see, my
mother was a full-blooded Irishwoman,
that makes me half Irish, doen It not?
Then my father's mother was an Irish
woman, full blooded, that made him
half Irish and me a quarter so, then I
married nn Irish woman of the full
blood. The .Scripture says the wife is
the better half of the man" Just
then in another quarter of the crowd
arose another burly, solomn-vlHjged
member of the race and, pointing his
long, bony linger at the first object,
cried out like n blast from Gabriel's
trumpet: "Sit down, Paddy, sit down
or ol'll make ye. Why, he's a full
blooded Irlshmon and u quarter, assure
as ye're born."
1o THE SOUTH.
I would not. Mr. Chairman, respond
to a single tingling wnsation of the
blood that runs in my veins If I were
not loval and true to the kith and kin
who stamped their personality upon the
cold, sterile rocks and hills of dear old
New England; nor would 1 respond to
a single throb of that love of home and
past association, around which clings
all the sweetest memories of life. If I
were not equally loyal and true to the
West Virginia hills, and the glad Ileitis
of "cotton and ot cane" that dot the
"Dixie" land the fair and sunny south.
I am therefore, It seems, peculiarly
qualified to criticize both for I love
both. Types of mankind run Into each
other, for all men eat and sleep, and
sneeze and die, without very many ma
terial Improvements being made, as the
J ears go by, in the mere form of dolng
so,
It will therefore not surprise you
when I say that our New 'England peo
ple are very much alike our (southern
people In many ways and It will be at
once cranted that the two are very
much unlike In many other ways. It Is
also undoubtedly true that even yet
there Is much, entirely too much, mis
understanding between both us to the
true character of the other. You send
a New Englander down south today to
'size up" its people and make a super
tlcial survey of the situation and he
ill often In his sententious way render
his verdict In a single word, "shiftless."
He cets off at a southern depot, pees
a goodly number of "darkeys" nnd
whites, too. "leanlm around" with
nothing apparently to do; he goes to
his hotel and Is simply annoyed by the
profuse offers of attention from the
landlord down to the porter; he makes
an engagement for 9,30 nnd at 10 Is
consumed with impatience because the
mun he in expecting Is standing down
street engaged In a political discussion
and forgot that time with the north
euer Is alwavs of "the essence of the
contract;" he drives out In the coun
try to see Its side: rescinds. In a quick,
jerky way, to every man's white and
black drawling salutation of "good
mavvnlnv" passes everybody, perspires
profusely, constantly wonders how lomj
It takes people In that country to
skoot along' and get unywheie: his
spleen turns., ngalnpt "tin toothless
hound stretched before the cabin door"
and the ragged pickaninnies basking in
the sun and when, to cap the climax,
he runs across two natives perched up
on a rail fence with knives and sticks
in hand, 'chawin' good old homc-nmd-and
whlttlln' " and "Jaw-In " over a
"hop'i" trade, he concludes there Is
nothing but "shlftlessnesti" In Uio
south. And then he hear on all sides
that eyerv southerner Is n lire-eater,
will light "at the diop of a hat," has
plekoyunlsh cornp on -verv toe. hates
Yankees worse than "the devil is son.
posed to hate holy water" and he goes
home, in ubsolute dlsKtist.
A DIFFERENCE.
un mo otlier hand, send the typical '
southern man up north. Now he will
J'lscust' the event several months b.
fore hand with his family. He will
talk it over with his friends. He dreams
of standing In old Uoston common, on
the old State House steps, of unterlns
the old South church, ot standing nt
the base of Uunker Hill, of watching
the waves "beat on the tern, rock
bound coast" at Plymouth Hock; his
mind Is filled with the hlstorY, the
beauty, the poetiy of It all. He usually
ends tin by taking his wife with him.
From the moment ho gets aboard und
leaves New Yoik, things begin to
change, his train, a long one, In crowd
ed with men and women coming, going,
always moving. They look neither to
the right, nor left, nor out the win
dow. It they have a nilnute'jt time be
tween stations they bury themselves In
a book, a newspaper, or a brown study.
They seldom speak even when know
ing each other, and when they do the
words come .nil like the crack of small
arms, sharp, oui.'k, incisive for a few
seconds and cease. The railroad con
ductor goes thrjiigh the train as If shot
from p. eutupnult at the rear, snatch
ing, punching, punching and snatching
Mi-kpts and by the time he gets through
the tuiln slows up, h ami th" brake
man uppenr simultaneously hi the
doots nf the ear and like u pistol crack
announce the station and wli.n the next
one will be, then crack goes the doois
(they never bnii? doois up north, the
action Is too quick for that i hey crack
them) ami that Is all there Is of it. At
tin station dozens pile off and dozens
Pile in tin' same old way--ai last a lady
finds herself without a seat the mtith
erti man slttlnL- bv his wlfo sees It,
looks around, no other man sllis, he
arises, lifts his hat, given wa. the lad
gives him a second's stare, drops down
Into the seat like lightning, and that's
the end of that. So It goes until our
friend begins to think about the clumire
or cars he ban to make, he can't undei
stand a word of the olllclnl announce
ments, ho studies the time-card, he
finds it like man. "fearfully and won
derfully made," and Its mysteries past
finding out, too many Jlnes, cross lines,
connections, counter-connections and
different routes apparently going to the
same place, and nt last he summons tip
courage to slop the mad career of that
conductor throuch the car with. "Sn,
Captain" He is frozen to denth right
then and there. That conductor lakes
less than a second to yell out, "I'm no
captain," and shoots on through.
MOKE CONFl'SION.
Somehow, goodness only kmnwi lira,
he gets off somewhere, and in setting
ott he Is almost pushed on to his nose,
his wife's dress, hat and clothing gen
erally arc crumpled, mussed, she Is
frightened halt' out of her wits, and he
feels oh, so lonesome' Before he gath
ers himself the train has gone, the
crowd hns gone. He asks Information,
no one stops to give it but jerks out
some unintelligible glberish walking
right ahead at a a. 10 gait. He goes to
a hotel, registers. Hie clerk hardlv
waits until the name is down, gives
him and his wife a mere glance, litiRs
a lMirter up and In a shorter time than
it take to tell II, he Is bolted into a
room In the third or fourth story and
then why then he Is forgotten. Now
that ?oor fellow came there to visit
the North with his wlfo. and the pros
pect Is slightly chilly. She may cry a
little, but he encourages her by sav
ing that they must have arrived at a
very busy time, yet In his secret heart
he cannot see why everybody should be
going to a fire eveiy day In the vear,
especially In a moderate sized town ot
lf.000 or 20,000 inhabitant's. Just be
fore noon he asks his wife to remain
inside while he goes out to reconnoitre.
He lights a cigar, and therein lie makes
a mistake for no one smokes, and he
soon feels he Is trespassing on good
manners nnd starts.
Things, ate comparatively quiet: no
man looks nt him for a moment, but
every one shoots past him. going to
that evei lasting lire: he walks i.n lo
the business center, a prolonged whit
tle sounds, then, In a second, like an
avalanche, out of the gates vast armies
of human beings, men and women,
pour down upon him, push him to one
side, sweep past him, leave him In the
gutterway and are gone before he real
izes that the world has not come to an
end but only the shops have shut down
for dinner. He musters un courage
after days to try to talk Lo s.nne one.
It's a sorry venture. He Is met with
"yes" and "no" replies to two or three
questions and then "Where you from?"
"From the South, sir." "The South'
The South's no good. I lout $.".00 on one
man to whom I sold whips down there"
and that's the end of that.
It Is needless to say that this Is a
mere Illumination, that a countryman
will feel the same In any large city or
business town anywhere. I know this
Is not true and I think T can speak
from both observations and experience.
There is a "set" jaw, a "cast" In the
eyes nnd a "twist" In the walk and
gruff "ring" In that voice that repels
and makes a southern man In their
midst wonder If ever, ever one of them
did Tor a single moment yield even
In thought to something else than the
hard, practical, austere struggle,
largely for money, which seems to be
the universal destiny. Ah, If he could
only "break in" and find how. be
neath that awful crust, true and brave
nnd honest anu tender and self reliant
hearts beat there. Nine times out of
ten the southern man never finds this
out. He sees Hunker Hill and Ply
mouth Hock It's true, but he goes back
home feeling much like the poor fellow
who wouldn't visit the fair maiden
at the "Peach Blow farm" any more,
me."
YANKEE PUSH.
"She said she wouldn't love me.
And out tlie door fahe shoved me.'
Do you wonder that when he goes
back homo he tells his neighbors won
derful stories about how the Yankee
has built up vast industries: how he
has made a land so poor, naturally,
that grasshoppers would groan as thev
walked over it, blossom like u rose
and has invented everything under the
sun. Yet, he notwithstanding Is .'(in
tent to remain in the land with the
'toothless hound" and the pickaninnies
basking In the sun."
What Is the caupe of the difference''
Come with me and let us see if we can
not find a common Diane. With me
my New England cousin, ir you will, to
the sunny south. Take things easy for
the time. Hemember the temperatuie
Is naturally too hot down here to go
all the time like you were shot out of
a gun. and then remember It does not
require near so much exertion here to
live. This element of climate has much
to do with It all. U you are a farmer,
remember that you scratch the back of
Mother Earth and tho grain grows,
without so much attention from the
compost heap. Hemember, too, that
wealth is a relative thing and that
money cannot buy all things. Note
how the "common tie" of humanltv Is
recognized here. You scoff at our
'first families" of the south, and yet
If tho lines have not fallen In pleasant
places, but on the contrary have
brought misfortune, Is it not better to
have your people around you say."Well,
Jones has failed, nnd it's a great pity.
He was a grandson of old 'Squire Smith
that lived down at Cross Roads and a
son-in-law of old Joe Drown that lived
on the hill, and all-round he comes
from one of the good old families here
abouts. We really do not know how.
but we will have to help i,m if we
can."
And In pome way. In somehow, after
everybody 1ms been talking that way
for a long lime, Jones gets a little "lift"
here and another tln-re and at last
"pulls out," no oin hardly knows how,
Would not our New England people
help each ether in the Mime way? Yes,
If they would only stop long enough t
think Hut let us on. . nnd thai
our Foiuhern people iiro ambitious, too
but In different ways. I never know a
northern man attend a political meet.
Ing in the south of the most Imma
teiial character but what he was Im
lirtiwcil with the number of those who
could hold their "end of the string" in
debate, and many a southern country
school house 1ms listened to a "local
light" In politics who talked like n
statesman and reasoned like an Aris
totle, Then, too, we yield to tiono In
the high attainments acquired by both
the ministry nnd the bar of tho south.
The North may woik harder, item
mutate more, live better In a material
sense, yet we In the South are fur bet
ter equipped In those lighter, untangt
ble things that make up life than we
get credit for.
SMAM, DIFFERENCE.
And here a strange distinction exist
between the two sections. Tho South
Is proverbial for Its hospitality, the
North Is net considered so. There is
much less dl'Terencc thnn Is supposed.
1 would not detinct one whit from tho
south's reputation In this particular,
only add to that of the north which In
much misunderstood. it is n differ
eine of method. The southerner, frank,
genial d monstrntlve, yes, effusive al
most, will seek openlv to expiess U)
vou his good will. All he has I your?
while you ate his guest. It ho has one
room and one bed In the mountains,
he will turn himself out nnd turn yon
In. nnd h will Insist on It and vou
will butt his feelings it you don't ac
cept, if he has a palace It's the mm?
thing nnd the latch string is always
out conic In. Ml will show you every
thing they do and how anxious they
are to do for your comfort and enter
tainment. You thank them profusely
and frankly and that Is all thy want,
they have enjoyed your company and
they have done their best for you and
all things are even.
If you visit a whole score of rela
tives, each one. rleh and poor, must
have his turn at you. AVhen you get at
the bottom of the northern chuinctor
you will find his hospitality of just as
admirable lint different a character.
There Is n secretive element In It. Ho
wants you to be well cared for with
out your knowing lust bow Us done.
He slips around and adds little touch
es here and there and If you catch him
at It he protests he was doing nothing
and walks away. If you try to thank
lilni he looks aggrieved and stops you
with "Ah, that's nnwthln." If lie's
Door nnd III nretint-eil in .i..n c.-.,. ......
he quietly sees that you are nt "P.roth
er Johns" for he hns a blggc i house;
not because you are not welcome at
IiIh own. but simply because you will
be more comfortable theie. He will ex
plain all this in the most matter-of-fact
way, and when you have gone you
feel, Oh! Iinv deeply you feel, how
I good and kind and true: how honest
and conscientious and self-sacrificing
I our New England cousins are fiod
I bless l hem when you truly know
I them!
I have talked already too long. This
is a great latin of ours and It has been
made so, north, east and west, largelv
, by the pioneers that have gone out
from England. I regret that not many
, have come from thereto the south. Can
the people of the two sections meet
land mingle? Yes. Heie tonight, stand-
Ing as we do at the threshold of tho
, twentieth century, I want to make a
I prophecy. 1 turn my eyes homeward
I to my beloved southland nnd I say to
you that the ill-- quarter of that cen
tury will be glorious for our common
' country and much of its history will
lie devoted to the story of tne develop
ment or the south. When the Nlca
, ragua canal Is built, as It will be In a
verv few years, she will cease her
! shipments ot raw cotton, Inciease won
Idrously the looms that have already
started there and ship the finished pro
duct both to Occident and the Orient.
Her timber, coal Iron, oil and other
minerals will be carried to the four
quarters of the world and she will
realize what Is to be the richest spot
on earth. In this development New
England will have a large part and
before that quarter of a century ends
mark the words, that the southern
Yankee will be not -wr an anom
aly on the face of the earth.
Mr. Dayton's expression of fealty to
the south, following as they did his
pledges of pride In Yankee biood, were
not lost on his hearers. They applaud
ed him to the echo on these Inter
polations. The applause was deafen
ing when ho referred to "the little hero
(Onernl Wheler) who climbed Santi
ago's hills and then climbed the tree."
He made frequent reference to the grat
ification of north and south in the
burial of sectional differences and
none ot these was lost on tho company
assembled. There applaus was a spir
ited, loud and patriotic uccompanlment
to all he said.
Rev. I. J. Lansing, pastor of the
Green Ridge Presbyterian church, was
a typical Dutch-PIIgrlm descendant ac
cording to President Sanderson's intro
duction. Mr. Lansing was on the card
to respond to the toast "The Pilgrim
and the Dutchman." He was said by
President Sanderson to be the only
Dutch-Puritan available for the occa
sion. Mr. Lansing said:
AT THE HKfllNNINtl.
To understand the forces which
threw the Pllgilms upon the shores of
Massachusetts In 1020. a brief survey of
the political and religious activities of
the age Is necessary. At that time, and
for a hundred years, Spain had been
tho chler political power in Europe and
America. Indeed, that nation might lie
characterized as the Goliath of the
world, to which the Netherlands piovcd
to be the David. For thirty-live years,
until IBM, Charles V. had governed,
Irom his Spanish throne, the principal
part of Europe: Philip II. succeeding
him, died in IS9S, about the time that
the Pilgrims removed from England to
the Nerherlnnds. The ruler on the
Spanish throne in i.iu was Philip HI.
Spain had made a mighty effort to sub
jugate to Romanism the whole of Eu
rope, and her naval power had been
broken against the cliffs of Albion, her
military power against the dykes of
Holland. Elizabeth of England, after a
rule of forty.flvo years, died seventeen
years before the Pilgrims landed here
and her successor, James I., lived untli
live vears after the settlement of Ply.
mouth. Tho England of Elizabeth con
tained about 1,000,000 of people and
while It had been nuccessful In destroy.
Ing tho Spanish armada, had, for kin
dred causes, lent some nld to the Neth
erlands in their struggle with Spain.
William the Silent, the great Stadt
holder, dying In 15SI, hnd left Maui ice,
his son, a worthy successor of a noble
father, who as a military leader and
civil ruler held his place until hi death
In 1623.
The politics ot these countiles can
only be understood fiom the religious
standpoint, since the movement of the
times, whether of states or armies, was
In entire subordination to rellgioui pur
pores. Elizabeth, like Henrv VIII
her father, was as bigoted as the pope'
whom they resisted. She held the most
oppressive attitude towurd all attempts
at freedom of worship and raved
against dissent as her father had raved
against Rome. James T.. from whom
better things was expected, in 1C04 Is
sued that fierce edict of Conformity
which gave all who did not worship He.
cording to the forms of tin- Slate and
Church of England the alternative of
conformity or exile. The whole power
of PhlllP II., as all the world knows,
was against any manifestation of re
ligious lift' outside the Church ,if Rome,
nnd this brought the Spanish power In
to lonlllct with ihe Netherlands, whore
equal tolerance was expended to ihe
Reformers and to the Romish worship,
while all other believers, unmolested!
could exercise their light of worship in
a private muiinei.
THE DUTCH FLEE,
on account of tho persecutions in
England against religious freedom, uh
early us IW'3. the English were lleelng
to Amsterdam, and in 1607 wo know
that a Scotch Presbyterian church was
founded In that city. In vain attempt
to destroy the Christian faith during
eighty yeais of war, which began in
lf.6S and ended In 101S, Spain hud burled
230,000 of her sous und allies In the
ooze of the Netherlands All the frlsht-
ful terrors associated with the perse
cutions under Alva, by which It Is be
lieved that lit least a hundred thousand
Prntestnnts weie sacrificed In the
Netherlands nlone, belonged to this
period. Netherlnnd. so called, means
the "beneath land -the land under the
sea;" while by the "Netherlands" we
menu the Netheiland and It colonies.
This interestlim little country to which
our fatheiH lied, and to which they
owed so much, Is about one-half the
size of South Carolina, or one-third
that of Ohio: Its extreinest length of
hind and water being scarcely IM miles,
Its greatest width a little moio than
HO. To make it tenable to man, more
t'han ninety lakes have been drnlnml,
and the land above water Increased
from leiu thnn 8,000 to something more
than 12,000 square miles. Who would
have supposed that such a country as
thl'i would have been the home of the
bravest of the bravr? the theatre of the
greatest nnd most suet essful struggles
for liberty In the nnuals ot mankind"
At the beginning of llieChtislian era,
Hermann, the liberator, turned back
the armies of Rome from this territory
which never could be subjugated to the
Human sway, Yet, even today, no for
tifications stand between the Dutch and
nnv enemlei-', savu the brave hearts of
her sons. The people are of the same
race aw those occupying the Rrltlsh
Isles. From their near vicinity came
the Saxons, Anglo-Saxons, Frisians and
Danes. The Frisians language Is more
like the Enslh'h than any other: the
kinship of the peoples, very close, ot
the Netheiiand provinces, Holland was
the richest, paying at one time nearly
half the national taxes, while the other
six provinces paid the other half. Here
was not only Amsterdam, but Antwero
the sicene of the Spanish fury, anil lyey
den a rich and piosperous centre of
trade and manufactuie; famous for
centuries for Us noble university. From
IfiO!) to 1021, a brief period of twelve
yeur, there was a truce between the
Netherlands and Spain.
IN 1.172.
As early as b'72. Knglnnd had given
some aid to the Netherlanders. Eliza
beth having sent her uoldlers under the
commund of her favorite, Liecester,
with Sir Philip Sidney, who met his
death In Unit country, for which sol
diers and service she had taken In bond
three Netherlnnd cities as a guarantee
of payment. Such, In briefest outline.
Is the Netheiiand to which the Pil
grims lied. Who were these Pilgrims?
We know Hint they landed at Ply
mouth, Maw., In 1C20. Who were they,
and whence came they, before that
time? Before the end of the sixteenth
century, thiough their desire to wor
ship God Intelligently, according to
their conscience, there had arisen a
little band of Christians on tho borders
of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Not
tinghamshire, centering In the small
country town of Scrooby.
They were called at first "Separat
isHV sometimes "Hrownlstn." They
were nn humble folk, mostly agricul
turalists, not used to trades and traf
fic. Peisecutlonr weie poured out upon
them, though their only offence was In
their mode of woishtp, and purity ot
life. They were exceedingly fortunate
In having for their ministers, William
Hrcwster and John Robinson, both
ncholars of Cambridge university, who
taught them the faith to which they
held. Suffering beyond endurance and
trying In vain to hide themselves from
the soldiers of James 1.. In 1C07 a com
pany of them lesolved to try to reach
Holland. Their design was frustrated
by the treachery of the sea captain who
had agreed to transport them. They
were arrested, robbed, and imprisoned.
Undaunted, in KJOX, a second company
endeavored to embark from the Com
mon between Giimsfliy and Hull. When
a part of them, mostly the men, were
on board the vessel, the remainder were
attacked by the soldiers of the king,
nnd so the vessel sailed away, leaving
behind the wives and children, and
some of the men on shore. These, after
suffering much, for they hnd' no homes
to which to go, and nothing on' which
to subsist, were at length sufficiently
fortunate to ieach Amsterdam about
1009. To this prosperous city they went,
intending to settle where they might
enjoy worship unmolested. The Nether
lands alone of all so-called civilized
nations' offered them freedom to wor
ship God. William the Silent had de
clared In a letter to the Dutch magis
trates in 1577. "We declare to you that
you have no tight to interfere with the
conscience of anyone, so long as ho
does nothing that works Injury to any
person, or a public scandal." No other
deliverance of this character, from any
ruler at that time, is recorded.
AID FROM THE DUTCH.
AVhen the Pilgrims arrived at Am
sterdam, and during their sojourn there,
the Dutch finding them honest, freely
trusted them, and It Is said that none
of them were ever before a magistrate
for any misdemeanor. At the end of a
year they resolved to change their resi
dence from Amsterdam to Leyden. The
cause of their Intention being found in
the fact that such differences existed in
the church at Amsterdam as threatened
schism, which they wished to avoid.
They therefore took their way to Ley
den, where they found a friendly refuge,
nnd set up n church of their own. That
w. may know what tho Pilgrims
brought from Holland. It Is necessary
for us to inquire what they found In
Holland? First of all they found a gov
ernment, almost republican. The Unit
ed States of Netheiiand were the first
example of a confederated republic with
a written constitution, dating from
1379, when the union of Heveu states
was formed nt Eutreeht. They, like
the English, had their Magna Charta,
but the Dutch -Magna Charta meant
tnoro freedom and liberty to the com
mon people than that of the English.
With them this dated from tho middle
of the sixteenth century, and nmong
other things it declared the congress of
the states to be supreme that no com
mand of the king could prevail against
the churches or the towns, and that
there pliould bo no taxation without
representation.
AMERICAN RATTLE CRY.
This afterward became the battle cry
of the American colonies In their
struggle for independence. When Philip
II. violated their charter in 1.1S1, they
deposed him from the kingship of the
Netherlands, and issued their declara
tion of Independence. This was a hun
dred years before the English revolu
tion of loss, and nearly two hundred
years before the American revolution
of 177C. Spain had recognized the Dutch
republic as- early as the 12th of April,
1009, after forty-one years of desper
ate war. so that the very year in which
the Pilgrims landed, tn Holland, the
Dutch were rejoicing over' the recogni
tion of their nationality by Spain. They
were not the only English In the Neth
eiiand. for between 13S0 and 1RI0 at
least 12,000 English were found there.
In twentv-throe towns of the Nether-'
land tlieie were churches of English
speaking people Ihe Reformed' and
Roman Catholic churches were sup
ported publicly by the state. BUt thes
English churches, and other dissenting
churches, received no stale support.
noniing meir wursiup in private or un
churchly houses, and yet wero never
molested.
They founded In the N'eiherlniul pub
lic schools fiiHtalneii by stale taxation.
Hefore tin reformation of Luther, be
tween i;i40 ami M'M. Geih.ndt liroote.
a noble minister who had been deposed
from the priesthood by the bigoted
Roman Catholic church, founded the
"Urotherhood of Common Life." for the
purpose of educating' the children and
the people. This good man created an
Intense enthusiasm throughout the
Netherlands for learning, so that fam
ilies often Ixmrded poor sludeutH with
out cost to help them in seeklntr un
education; mid when at length assisted
by the Impulse of the Lutheran Refor
iiiatlon, and by the more powerful im
pulse of tho Dutch struggle for free
dom. these schools wero adopted by the
state, the Poor people received their
education without cost, while the chil
dren of the burghers paid n small sum
for their teaching. The Netheiiand was
the chief printing office of Europe.
They fur excelled Ihe English In this
art. Paper had been Invented by the
Germans probably about 1.119. The Pil
grim Hrcwster, and those associated
with him, printed fifteen boohs. In
thirty-three months, between October,
1C1G, und June, 1019, nmong which were
those containing wvere strictures on
the course of James I. In his relation
to the church, which put him In n great
rage. The Pjlgrlms also found In Hol
land no small development of the In
dustrlul nets. Weaving had been car
Hed on In Leyden to a high degree or
excellence, and many of the names
afterwards borne by distinguished sons
of New England were taken from the
weavlni; trade an carried on In Leyden.
CLOSER UNION.
Of the soldiers who came over with
Lester and Sidney, some had settled
In the Netheiiand, and these were In
termarrying more or less with the
Dutch, so that there wa a tendency to
closer union between the two peoples.
Finding then icllgious liberty and se
em o shelter in the land of the Dutch,
the question might arise us lo whv the
Pllgilms left Holland. Foitunntelv,
these rrusons are plain. William Hrad
ford In his wonderful history (begun
about the year lGM), which is now In
the archives of the state of Massachu
setts, gives us four of the reasons di
rectly. The Hint, that they sought to
change their residence on account of
the great hardship of getting a liveli
hood in Levden: second, that some of
them were getting old, and yet greatly
desired to find a. perinnnent home, and
so thought they had best tly now while
they were yet nble.
It Is pathetic to read the third reason,
as Bradford designates It, that the chil
dren endured great hardship throuuh
poverty, so great that they scarcely
grew to their natural Mize, nnd had, be",
side, many temptations from which
their parents would fain shield them.
Among these temptations was that of
the violation of the Sabbath, which the
Dutch did not keep with sutllcient
strictness to satisry tlie Pilgrims.
While the fourth, and great moving
reanon for their seeking another home,
was a desire to propagate the gospel In
tlie remote parts ot the world. Yet
other reasons are very manifest for
their removal to America. In 1019, a
fierce stiuggle was going on between
Maurice, tho Stadt-holder of the Cal
vlnlsts, on the one side, and John
Harneveldt, with the Armenians, on the
other. The Armenians were struggling
for full religious liberty. The Calvln
ists would restrict it. The Armenians
were against colonization, while the
Cnlvinlsts strongly favored It, and In
this struggle John Harneveldt suffered
death ut the hands of the elector. The
PilgrlniM would fain escape from par
ticipation In Filch a strife.
Moreover, the printing press nnd
types of Hrcwster had been seized
under the threats of James 1.. who had
been loused to the highest pitch of Irri
tation and fury by the strictures which
had been made upon himself, and al
though printing wan free In the Nether
land, Maurice did not wish to forfeit
the friendship of James, but rather
therefore took away the prlvileses of
the Pilgrims. Moreover, the Pilgrims
desired to hasten their departure, be
cause the twelve years truce which had
existed since 1C09, the time of their ar
rival, would end In 1021, and ngaln the
Netherlnnd and Spain would be In
volved in the fierce struggles of war.
The younger men of the 'Pilgrims' would
naturally bo drawn Into the army, and
so the strength of the colony would be
greatly weakened.
RISKED THE PERILS.
They thought of America, of which
they bad much information, and n just
few of the. perils that awaited them in
case thev should cross the sea; but
Bradford says: They thought the
Spaniards, if they remained, might
treat them ns cruelly as would the salv
ages in America, If they should seek
that land. And so moved by these con
sideratlons.knowing full well the dread
ful clangers which awaited them, they
resolved to brave the perils of the deep,
and seek their homes in the wilderness.
The merchants of Amsterdam, knowing
their desire, offered the Pilgrims free
passage to America, If the Dutch gov
ernment would furnish a convoy to pro
tect them from the warships of Spain.
Tills the states generally declined to
do for two reasons. They could not af
ford, they thought, to send away any
of their warships, since they might
need them in the coming struggle with
Spain, and then, beside, they feared to
offend the English court, which was
now seeking the Infanta of Spain ns a
wife for Charles I. The Pilgrims) there
fore being poor, began to negotiate with
English folks for the means to make
their voyage; the "Merchant Adven
turers," so-called, of England, demand
ed ns a condition ot furnishing supplies
that the colonists should work for six
daysv resting the seventh, and for seven
years put all their earnings Into a com
mon fund, which should then be divided,
one-half srolng to the "Merchant Ad
venturers," and one-half to the Pil
grims. TheFe hard conditions, variously modi
fied, they resolved to accept, paying
sometimes fifty to seventy-five per cent,
for the use of moneys, and at length
they bought the Speedwell, a little ves
sel of sixty tons, not so large as a
canal boat, and resolved to take their
way from Leyden to England and from
England to America. It Is Interesting
to know that they found a friend In Sir
Edmund Sandys, son of the Blshon of
York, who had persecuted them at
Scrooby. Sir Ednvund loaned them
three hundred pounds, on very favor
able terms. The king of Great Britain
would not promise them religious lib
erty ere they sailed, and they went
away In dread lest It should finally be
denied them. Crossing to Southampton
they found the Mayllower of ISO tons,
which was to accompany them with the
rest of their party, und these two ves
sels sailed from Southampton on the
5th of August, 1020. They had gone but
a little way before the unswaworthlnes-s
of the Speedwell compelled them to re
turn to Dartmouth. Here they re
mained for some time tefitting, and
again sailed forth, but the evil purpose
or tlie master of the Speedwell and his
determination not to cross, compelled
them to seek the poi t of Plymouth,
where thev remained until the 10th of
September, 1020.
PILGRIMS SAIL.
As the Speedwell could not go, many
of those who had purposed the passage
to America gave It up until, as Brad
ford says, "Like Gideon's arm.v. they
had been sifted," or as Longfellow puts
It, "God hnd sifted three kingdoms to
find the wheat for this planting, then
had sifted tho wheat. leaving the seed
of a nation." Great, indeed, were the
hardships of the voyage, the vessel was
small, not very seaworthy. loaded with
sundry provisions, and containing 102
persons. The decks were leaky, and in
stormy weather, when tlie women and
children were shut in bet ween decks,
they were often wet for days together,
and suffered much fiom the cnld.
When in inld-ocean a break In ope of
the main beams tlneutt-ned to compel
their leturn. hut a Dutch Jackscr. w
which wa found on board, was used
to brace It up. anil the proceeded.
Land was first seen on the 9th day m
November. 1620. It proved to be Cape
Cod, and Indeed, for nearly six long
Full atrtngtn, health, totie
ana aeveloi'un-m to every
portlouof the body. Effect
of disease, ovemork, worry,
tlio follies o( youth and ex.
ceuen ol niauhood quickly
1 cured. Appliance uud rem
edle H'iu on trial. .v,i
inontu in (uiianct. Fcaled
particulars tree. Corre
spondence COUtidFIlLllll-
ERIE MEDICAL CO., BUFFALO, N.Y.
freeS
to all
1 MFW $
weeks they lay off the shore In ns se
cure anchornge as they could find, while
the strongest of their men In the pin
mice explored the rousts, seeking i
unliable place for landing and settle
ment. Some baser splilts had found
their way on board, who threatened,
because tho Pllgilms had no patent for
New England, that they would not obey
any Jurisdiction, und would do as the'v
pleased. Thereupon, before landing, tin
men of the Muvflower drew up a sol
cmn compact of the basis of their col
ony, which they signed m the cabin ot
the .Mayllower: and being ready now
to land, ut length on the 20th dav of
December, I hey took up their residence
on shore.
The subFcquent htsjory of the colony
we do not propose lo trace, but we ask,
ere we anticipate their enormous In
lluince In American civilization, what
did they take from Holland, where they
hnd temporarily sojourned for the
Smce ot eleven years? Really, their
heritage from the Dutch was iimon?
the richest portions of their equipment.
Of thirty-four men, heads of famllleo,
who came on the Mavfiower, all but
four were from Leyden, and had re
Hided there.
FIRST PRINCIPLES.
They broushl with them what thev
never had learned In England, a kiniwi
edge of manufactures and nudes which
weie of the greatest Imiiortance in w
cining and strengthening the new c'
ony. Their children had attended tl.
Dutch free schools, and th" fuMn
brought to Plymouth colony the geir
of Ihe free school system which up i..
that time was unknown in Englan.i
They also carried with them from II..I.
land the Idea and the practice of free
printing, or freedom of the pios who It
hiuinlwavs been known since that tlui"
In this country. They had learned In
the confederated republic of Holland,
as that was formed and exptesscd lit
a Protestant government, the true pnt
clplcs or American national union.
1ong before they went to Holland, it
had been customary in many of tlie
cities or the Netherlnnd to gather the
freeholders Into tin. public hiumiv by
the ringing of the bell, where civic
matters were discussed and decided by
Vole. The town meeting, tlietefote,
which is tlie germ of the free election
system of the Fulled States, was
brought with them from the Low Coun
tries. They made good use of the piln
clple of taxation based on lepresentn
tlon, and so thoroughly Infused till;
Idea into tlie Pilgrim nnd Puritan col
onies that it was made fundamental in
the principles of the Revoliitlonan
struggle.
Our coinatre. Hie re, I u Mi,, nn.i i.t.,
of our (lag they also brought w lib them
ii- viiiiuuL unuie on meir nardslilp"
Those hnrdf-'hlps cannot be told yet e i
should not come to our concluding sen
tences without reminding otirselv
that this, the (list winter of 1020
brouglit them terrible sufferings,
fore April was ended, a full half ot
who came in the Mayllower had i
almost wholly from quick consump.
and dlseasvs Incident to exposure
eighteen wives In the company, !'
teen died. Of twenty-four houseln
four were wholly obliterated. Al t.i
only six or seven persons were w hoi
well and able to help the rest. When
they were In their greatest extremity,
the crew of the Mayllower treated them
with great cruelty, refusing to help the
Pilgrims when they were nick, and even
refusing to help one another. When,
after a time, some of their own ship's
company sickened, then the Pilgrims,
whose kindness und gentleness breathe
through all their words and decds.rend
ered good for evil, and cared for the
crew- of the Mavfiower, when other
wine they would hnve polished for want
of care. The relationship between the
Netherlnnd and the Infant nation, which
has now developed to seventy-five mill
ions of people, Is peculiarly close we
may sav, closer almost than that be
tween this country and the one usunllv
known ns the mother country. When
our Revolutionary struggle came along.
George HI. demanded men and money
from the Netheiiand government on
the ground that they had pledged them
selves to support the-succession or the
House .of Hanover; but the states" gen
eral refused them a man or a dollar,
and this, although it brought clown up
on them the hatred of the British gov
ernment. Their warm regard for Amer
icans in the Revolutionary war was the
result of their love or liberty, and de
sire for Its general diffusion. This N
In contrast with the motive of tho
French,, though they acted as our allies,
but probably It was more out of hatred
to England, their hereditary foe, than
out of good will toward us. Thev
thought to embarrass Great Britain by
aiding the American colonies.
DUTCH AID.
The Dutch helped us for love of free
dom nlone. Dutch merchants loaned
our young government at that time
$11,000,000. The first salute to the
American Hag, after It had been adopt
ed by the United States, was given bv
the Dutch governor of St. Eustneheus
In tlie West India Islands Johannes
DeGraef on the 17th of November,
1770. That Hag indeed was given us by
the Dutch. At first the colors of tin
Dutch renubllc; wore ornnce whlt mni
blue. The orange, a combination of red.
iiini iettow, meant to tnem, symbolic
ally, the union o'f blood and gold; but
after they had puss-ed through the ter-
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dren's corduroy knee pants, worth $1.2".
for 4sv.. from 1 to jn years: tlfty per
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