The New York Herald Newspaper, August 3, 1853, Page 3

of cor own time saggest, it isin the "9 progress, which these venerable mon and comtrasted with that whiche new te inculeate to nu they knew, looking forward to mo reward, but thet whict cones from the at San Sepa Ta easter hinsel’ He was contest Ye de we events with God, He ws content, Reble woueu—Gud it memory!— the cush of the ying and close the ile she fomisting wolf was at their and while their «ick and saffering babes were the life «ith ther aloae could give—they ve the destiny of ther mat ina "tne destinies of natloas. nifestations. ea that it was the th here iL branches the (Applause.) But, sir, the manifest destiny dociriue of our cay—in it, Mr. President, and pens aad davgbiers 0! the Old Coloay—is it of the trad Pilgrim stamp, se) would tt bear the test of their Christian chemistry? Why, sir | velierethe mast recent most authoritative ¢xposition of it s—forgetting al- Baits that there iss Gxi who rvlech among the nations of this coun- of the carth—that it i+ the ciavifent dosti ef ours—one of th. coranle conditi Hifesten that it ts to © arch wareh, mare! of pagan Rome, throu) fieids of blood and battle, til i¢ ‘bas accom) ed ite winwioo ike that of the wanderi Ea es ~ President, whe relishe arts of peace, and and to observe that gros! mack of justice in @ clyii yee which the late Jvio Quvey Adams deslared was ft honer of our: ics\ fathe s—'they (he save) were the Grst Europes colony which observed that pa- tural it OF the Iecian ove psut to the acilcm which ly and added ail the territory which was obtained by them, whether, sir, >) the barter trade of the two jack kaives and piece of wsiopiu. oc whatever else. Every inch of tercitory they cbisives was by w fair compact with those whe helt (he +0ii;” and time most eminent writer om publie isw of modera times—the celebrated ‘ttei—has done merited hoaor to the Pilgrim fathers of " th and Marcscousette Bay, that they were ‘the first to establish whis preoeptive rule of natural jus- tice and national right. <1:, are we content te abide by the omample of eur fsihers in this respect, er do we desire to go om and wake it one of the eonditions of our ‘mational existence that we should mareh, march, march? tivecuns bad ® better motto and watehword than that; : saw with am undimned vi- elon in the clear rky abs: ¢ them ae clearly as the fabled qxoss of Constantine to his eye, *b york? 7, God, they were con: 10 fature prosperity nd homer. (Applans-) My {tizems, soms and daughters of New Hog'and, wuich do hoose? Which you carry frou bere a4 your guide im the coming daye?’ Shall the evuntry where soul've, and im whi @hildrea ase to live, b+ sym lized by or a Christin (Appleuse) I antics; the 30; here and rywhere where there is the Pilgrim blood will warming the heart the countemacoe of a sca or daughter of apark Pi steck; and I arb you ard them sir, to unite with santa ten pub RINT shall viier in tae ore oot tase ‘The Sons and D: f Naw England—May their oon- tributions to the tru f the republic be ever axhibit- ed in an oawavering fidelity to those prinaiples of their Pil- , which were founded on a rook. The Governor sat down amid the most enthusiastic Bpplause, when the President read the following ‘toast: — The Capo Cod Association, Plymouth, in 1644 gave one Prince te Cape Cod. (spe Oud has to-day seat us many im retura. Mr. Seuppzs, as President of ‘the Cape Cod Asso- ciation, returned thank» fur the honor conferred, and expressed his diffidenve at expressing his ideas in comparison with the feeling latent in his heart. He eloquently reviewed the progress of civilization since the landing of the Pilgrims, and indulged in wome very interesting speculations as to the effects thas would be produced upon their minds could they be empowered to witness the mighty changes which had beea produced by their humole but soul inspiring energies. He concluded by proposing: The Children of the old Colony ot Plymouth. Like old Anteous, they always ain new strength in contact with thelr mother ear” eaeral Wh The President proposed the next toast:-— ‘The Kewberkation of 1820 and its results. Air—“‘Auld Lang Syne."’ Hew. Epwarp Evexerr was then introduced to the company by the President, and after the tremen- ons cheering with which he was received had sub- ded, he spoke as fuliowe:— MR. EVEKETT’S SPEECH. * You, Ms President, have bee good enough to intimate ‘that amoog Ou; sumerous hovores gacsts to which your complimentary rewarks aigne hi applied with, as muck jastion as to myself, witn Possibly a single exce, ‘tion. m the indtvidux! to » hom yon look to Tespond the teast that has jus: on ed. I rise to obs; vingle Glreumavande jon may have be: ively applied to we than te ‘ether gentle- pra agen for it is woot true that on one pleasant oa which I hac been at thie delightfal and ba- Jeved Pigmouth. I pad suggs-ted that it might be expe- dient, not always, but occa-topally, to transfer the cele. of che great cay trom the winter te the summer seasce. Supposing that to be the allasion which you bad im your mind, I feel ths’ I may without impropriety obey your call in rising to renpoud te the toast that has just been given It is uow hard upon thirty years since I had the honor, om the 22d December, to address the sons and deughte: of the Pilgrims assembled in this place. peculiar 6 end an bovor. greater honor te find myself bere on ti sien, and to be permitted to partisipate festival, where we have au attvndaces of so many tinguished frieads and fellow sivzens from dist of the Union—from ulmo.t every State ia the you have pre ai told us—wb: ‘com repre, ciety of New York, o qarrying the name and the princioles ofthe Pilgrims to the farthest end of the Uvion—«bere we are lod. ‘with the company of our military friends fram aity, the greet commercial emporium of t States—where we sre henved with the presenoe of so muoh of the gravity, the)diguity, ané the character of the community; avd whee we wre favored with the Presence of so much of beauty, of grace, and of loveli- mes. (Applause.) 1 do indeed, sir, feel it to he a privilege to be here un- @or these olrcumetances, and I de deem myself most highly honored in being cated ugon to reapend to ‘toast which beat have just announced 12 eom nemoratic of the embarkation of the P.igrims, and ite resnits. 1 theme is vast; I sbrink row tt. I know not where to gin or where toend. It seems th.t you yourself, in the Temarke with whiok you {rvored the company, struck tl key note of this great theme, io sliuding to this gre continent before the Pilyrim- c«ms, and to the ‘of its primitive tphabitants. There is the beg gaw one or two of them poor wanderers, by the road-ice, wondering spectators was pansiog befure their eyes. I kaw iu the newspapers, two light bark canoes apneared in Bost ecbor, con ‘aining each a solitary Incian They seemed og they a) te gaze in silent wonder the city of the ole hi tr and crowned with the dome of the State Hon-e and at the long line of vil- stwetohing far into ibe back ground, at the numerous vessels outward bourd, a1 they dropped down the ebannel and spread their broad wiuga to the bi and those which were retu;ving weather beaten from the ends of the earth; at the stexmwers, dashing in every direction sores the barbor, breathing volu> ex of smoke from thetr They paddied their frail barks with dexteri- ‘ty and «peed through this stravge buxy, and to them, Ro doubt. bewilderivg seene; avd having made the ciroult of East Boston, the vavy yard, the city itself, and South Boston, dropped dowa wit the current, and disappeared mong the islands. was not a buman being of kindred blood to utter & word of weloome to them. in all the region, which on the day we vow commemorate was occuvied by their forefa gone. Ty would be han; ct ‘ttute of all the improvements of rocial life, and seom- incapable of adopting them, should have yielded mn To the civilized millious who have Taken aheit the to be the oase when strong and weak are brought into contact with each other.) and without affectation we may indulge a heart- felt sympathy for the feeble and wtricken relics of once powerful smd formidable tribes of fellow men. On tho Ist of August, 1620, the circumstances of the two races, ax far as this pars of Awerics is concerned, red baat Dearly the reverse of the picture we have just contemplated. Oo that day the territory now form the States of New England was occupied by numerous tribes, some of which wee troag and warlike. They were far beblid the nativex of Mexico and Pera; but they had acded some simple agrisultuce to their huntieg ond fishing—their mocessins, aud snow shoes, and stone hetchets, snd wampum belts. evinced their aptitude for the is acte of wavage life, they retaia- ed unimpaired their ative indevendense, ignorant of the claims to sovereignty which powarfal governments pa eater wales olf founded upon the right of di ‘eovery neither the ars, nor the arms, por the Giseaser, nor the vices of civilized jife bad commenced + tvem, which bas since pesn % condition of the American graces, @ hand'ul of care. twice doomed English exiles aot sail from Delft-Haven io Holland, with the inten fon, after being joined by stew brethren of the faith in ag: }, to evcounter the theu much crended perils of the Atlantic, aod the still more formidable uncertainties of the projected settlement on tbe outer edge of the new world. Two centuries and & third have pavsed—=the mo- mentous ages of national jnfancy, shildhvod, and youth, have been ravidly lived through, and aix prosperous re” guiticn, parents cfm still incrensiog family of States in bouscless Wert, bave grown up in the wilderness, dn the moantime, in this part of the contiaent, the native fmhabiteots bave sunk far below the point of compara- ‘tive weakners down to the verge of sonihilation; have assembled now and here to colebsate ‘whore this all-important change commenced (applause. I allude, Mr. Prevident, to this revelation in the condi. ‘ton of this coptinent, and the races that oecupy it, net ‘a8 introducing a narrative of familiar incidents ar a ‘trala ef common; este me but as pointing directly the great Prevented itaeif oa the America, and the of the Pligrim Fathers in ite solution ; am agony w rst public mani, festation might be raid to commeccs with tho svor memp fable embarcetion at Delft Haven, te which I have just islands in either ooean, ft were stoppisg places on the march of disco. { & continent mot innabited indeed by civil- ‘races, but still occupied by ome of the fami- Nes of rations! mae—that this great hemisphere, I say, should bave laid us diseovered for five thoussnd years upon the bosem of the deep—s mystery so vast—witbia 20 short s distamce—and yet not found out, is indeed a apy Sp ro mature, if [ may ee see ne bad m teeovery to the philoso) for the pre ponderazee of land'in the eartern hemisphere demanded & couvterpoipe in the west. Dark wooded trees had Grifted over the sea, and told of the tropical forests where they grew. Stupeedous ocean currents, driven westward ‘by the ever-breathing tradewinds, bed their mighty flexures along the American coart, and returned to Eurooe with tidings of the everlasting breakwaters which had stopped their wey. : Cromendees applaure) But the fulness of time bad pot yer onme. ‘erp and Assyria. and Tyre ard Carthage, and Greece and Rome must flourish acd fall, before the seals are broken. The ancient civilize tion musi be weighed in s bslance and found wanting. You, ond more, Nature must unlock her rarest myste- the quivering steel mast learn to tremble to the the Astrolabe must elii @ arch of heaven, ust demonstrate the ephericity of the earth, e ancients suspected but could not prove: th .catter the flying rear of mediceval dark instincts of @ new political. ictellectual, au: social life wust begin to kindle into action; amd then the great dixcoverer may go forth. (Renewed ap, ) He does go forth. Tne discovery is made—toe balance of the globe in redressed. A continent nearly equsl in extent to one half the ancient bemisphere is brought to light. What momentous questious prevent them- selves! Acother world! Is it a twin sister of the an- cient world? It bse mountains, and rivers, and lakes, and forests, but dees it contain the howes of man—of cultivated races, who have pursued inde;endently of their Eastern brethren, separate, perhaps higher, paths of civilization? Ins word, has great cause ok humanly wade en immediate gain by the wonderful eveat whic! has added ro much to the geography of the world as be- fore knewn? The first contact answered these questions in the nega- tive. The vative races, apparently insapable of assimi- lation, seemed doomed by s mysterious Providence to . The Spaniard came upon them, borne on rx, a8 they thought, from beyond the sea; ‘atrapge quadrupeds—horse and rider, as they suppored, forwiag but one aninal; snd he advanced of that fearful ordnance which tne founded with the bolted artillery of the skies; in all there terrors, and he brought them death. Those that escaped have borrowed little frem us but the poisoned ys the loathseme malady, the jurderous weapes. The shies are mild. the soil is fertile—there is every variety of climate—a bound- theatre human epjoyment and action—but the appointed agent was not there. Over the greater Ee of the new fousd continent, socisty, broken lewn by eternal wars between neighboring tribes— at once im its decrepitude and infaney, had not yet risen even to the pastoral stage, Nature, io fact, had not bestowed upon man the mute bat faithful partners of his toil—the horse, the ox the sheep, and other still humbler asrociates, whore ald (did we but know it) lies at the basis of his civilization; who furnish so much of his food and clothing meat, milk. eggs, and wool aad skips, and relieve his weary muscles of their heaviest burders. There is no civilized population to stand up and enter inte equal comparison and generous rivalry with Europe, The discoverer has come, but the settler, the eolonist, the conqueror—alas! that I must sdd, too often the oppressor and destroyer—are to follow in his train. By these various agenc es—joyous and sorrow- these path: ‘triumph and woe, the cal- ture of the old world, in the lapse of succ-ssive genora- tlona, reformed ef its abuses, enriched with ts animated by a broader spirit of humanity, trausferred from the privi ow to the massof the community, lato bs reproduced and perfected in the West. (Ap- Ure. Fyineed not say to this company, aseomabled on the shores of the haven for which so many noble hearts on that terrible voyage throbbed with sickeaing expectaney— that quiet haven where the Mayflower furled her tatter- ed?rails—that » greate nobler work was never per: formed by maa. (Applause.) Truly the opus magnum the great work of humavity. You bid me apeak of that portion of it whieh devolved on the Pilg:ims. Would to Heaven | could find words to do justice even to my own poor conoeptiona, and still more taat I could find con ceptions nut far below the august reality. A mighty work of improvement, in which (uot to «peak of what has been dose im other portions of the contioeat) the poor solitary Mayflower. so to say, has maltiplied herself into tke thousand vessels that bear the fleg of the Union to ; bas scattered her progeny through ti um ber of nearly a quarter of a million, for ev im that drooping company of one huadred; aa the simple compact which was signed in her cabin xhibited to the admiration of mankind a constitu: ticn of republican government fer all this grewing famil, es States. (Great applause) But the wort is in ita oe Tt must extend throughout the leagth and ith of the land; and what isnot done directly by ourselves ‘must be dene by other gevernments and other races, by the light of our example. Tae work—the work must goom. (Renewed applause.) It must reach at the North. te the enchanted cave of the magnet. within never melting barriers of Arctic ioe; it must bow to the lord of day on the altarpeak ef Chimborazo; it must look up and weeskin the i the Atiande HAE Bushes’ fa 7ube’ eeegeamans, cL the last promoator; i yi id dividual la goings i and the evening to rejoicegin the gladsome light of morals, and letter: anlar, (Ap- 1 Emperors, and kings. and parliaments—the the sti at governments in Europe—must engage in this work, in some part or other of the conti- nent; but mo part of it shall be so faithfully and suc- cossfully performed as that which was undertaken on the where we are now gatheved, by the Pilgrim Fathers of New Kngiand. (Applause.) Providence from the beginning strewed their path with salutary hardsbizs. Formidable difficulties beset them from the first. Three years of weary negotiation had failed to procure there moble adventurers the express suno- tion of the British government; they had scarcely ob- tained its reluctamt and tacit permission to Ist of Aug barked, a handful of Pilgrims, to lny upon this spot, the foundation not only of this ‘our beloved New Eagiand, t portion of United America which traces ics descent tO this venerated stock. When we covtrast the heart-atric! on that day knelt and wept on th till th pase pectators—iguore at of the lacguage in which thelr prayers wore offered, and the deep fountains of grief from which their sorrows flowod, were yot fain to melt in sympathetic tears—when we compare tiem with the busy, prosperous millions of our preseat New England, we seem to miss that due proportion between results and theiz causes, which history delights to trace, But re anda more appreciative study reveals the seore ‘here are two master ideas, greatest of the spiri- tual images enthroned in the miad of man, the only ones, comparatively speaking, which descerve a name among men —springs of all the grand beneficent movements of modern times, by whove influence the set- tlement of New England may be rationally exolaiaed, You have anticipated me, descendants of the Pilgrims; these great ideas are God and Liberty. 1t was theve that inspired our fathers, by the: * their weakn clothed with power, that their simplicity wau traasmut- ed to wisdom; by these that the great imiracle of their enterprise was wrought. (Applause.) Im aware that te ascribe such a result, compaay which quay at Delft Haven, material an age at once jd supremely credulouy, which is ready to rythivg spiritual rather thas God, and admits all marvels but the {aterposition of bis provi- dence—an age which supposes it @ thing of every day's occurrence to evoke from theft awful rest the spirits of the great and good. and velicves that master intellects, which, while they lived—obstructed with these organs rouse (applauve) Tavished the ears with “the tongues of men,” and have now cast off “this muddy vesture of decay.’’ and gone where they speak with “the tongues of angels,’’ can yet find mo medium of communication from the eternal world but wretched inarticulate rap- pings and clatteri: which pothouse clowas would be ashamed to ure im their intercourse with{ each other. (Applaure.) Asif our matchless Choate, for iastanos, woo has just electrified the land with a barst of eloquence not easily paralleled in Une of time, if sent with a mereage from » higher state of being, would some skulk- ing aud rappin behind 1) iasoot, instead of coming in robes light, with ice like the music of the spheres. (Applao An age, I aay, thet believes all thin and yetdoubte and sneers at the wonder working fervors of earnest mem, awayed by the all-powerful ia- duence of sincere faith. It believes—yes, im the middle of the nineteenth conta- ry—it believes that you cam have the attraction of gravi- tation, whioh holds the umiverse together, suspen by a rhowmas fora dollar, who will ble dance round the room by an act of volition, (applauve,) forget ful of the fact that if the law of gravitation were sus ye, ty amy other power than ry placet that walke the fir. moment, yea all the starry sum mtrex of the count- Jona syatems, unseen of mortal eyes, which fill the un: fe a would crumble back te eee in the Pilgrims nothing driven by dia id cae find ro- thing im the majestic process by which United America base been ertabliahed aw Loh hn temple of religious and civ] liberty—a general refuge of humanity—but a obap- ter in political history, which neither requires nor admits explanstion. Mr. President, this may sound like philosophy, but it {athe philovopby of the Bacdnoee It queacher the brizbtest glory of our nature, The Pilgrims wore 4 that principal, which (4 I bave just ) hi the first impulse to all the great movements modern , world—I mean profound reli They the frailties of humanity. principal itself wae combined with human weak- nesses. It wav wingled with the prejudices and errore of age, and country, aud ‘weot; it was habitually gloomy ; it was sometimes tntolerans : but it wae reverent, sincere, alloontrotling, It did not induence, it porveaved the soul. It steoled ike heart to the delights of lifo, it raised the frame above bodily weakness ; it enabled the humble to orave the frowba of power; it triamphed over cold, and hua the prison wid the scaffold; it taught ueeducated to speak with persuasive fervor ; it gave manly atrergth and conrage te tender and delicate women. [a the sdwirable letter of Robinson and Browter—whom I sbafl call great mou, Mr. President—wrtiten to Sir Edwyn Sandys im 1617—whom, they pathetically say, ‘ under above ali pervons aad things {a the world we rely Bpoa”’—amerg the suggestions which Lamy’ make to on- 9 thada Soursge him tofurther their undertaking do veally bellove and trust that the Lord is with na, hi 9 KIvOm oursolvos ix unto whom and w! any triala, and deavors, according 10"@ wervioe we h ae hh WIN" reaction thi te the ther throug! middle ages; which limited neither to coun- try. communion er sex, des cite of human weaknesses and errors, in the misrions of jusy, and the missions of the Sandwich [elands. in Wisthrop, in Penn and in Wes- ley; in Eliza Seton and Mary Ware, has accomplished the beneficent wenders of Christian faith and love. (Ap- air, our fathers embraced that second grand idea 8 fervor than the first. 1¢ was jock. They cherished it with « zeal pot less intense and resolute. This ie a vopis for a volume, rather than for the closing sentence of a epeveh at the dinner table I will only say that the bigh- est authorities im English bistorseEamec Hallam, Ma- caulay—neitber of them ipfluenced by nympathy with the Puritans, concur in the opinion that England wae in- éebted to them for the'pre ervation of her liberties in that most eritieal period of her pational existeace, when the question between prerogative and law. absolute authority and constitutional government, was decided vever. In coming to this country our fathers most certainly contemplated not reel a safe retreat beyood the ses, where they could worship God according to the dictates of their own covsclence, but # local government founded on popular choice, That their foresight stretched on- werd ibrough the suceessive atages of colonial aud pro- vincial government, which resulted in the establishment of a great republican confederacy, it would be extrava- gent to pretend; but from that ae and venerable compact, signed en board the Mayflower, while she yet nestled in the emb: of Provivcetown harbor after her desolate voyage, li! eary child at evening ia its mo- ther’s arms, thr every document aod manifesto which bears ow the question, there is a distivct indica tion of a oe, to establish civil government oa the basis of republican equality and popular choice. In a word, Mr. Presidemt, their political code united religion apd liberty, morals and lew, and it differed from the wild license whieh breaks away from the.e restraints, ‘as the wellegaided railway engine, instinct with its me- cbapie life, conducted by « bold but skilful aod erudent band, and propelled in safety towards its destination, with glowing axle along ita iron grooves, differs from the same engine when ita speed is ravhly urged beyond the point of safety, or when riven by Criminal recklessness or murderous neglect, it leaps madly from the track, and plunges with its shrieking train into the jaws of destruc ion, Loud and long protracted cheering followed Mr Everett’s eloquent speech. The Prusipent gave the next toast. Onur late distinguished fellow citizen and meighber, th Orator of 1820—Daniel We beter. This toast was received by the company standing, the band playing a dirge. The following ode, written for the occasion by Rey. Wm. P. Lunt, of Quincy, Mass. The first verse only was sung :— Ye men of Christian Bogland, That stand for Truth and Right; ‘Whoee faith bas nerved a thousand hearts, In exil ht! Your dai And flee o’er the sea Where the stormy waters roar, Where the wrath of man is faintly heard, And the stormy waters rear. The following toast was announced by the Presi- dent:— ‘ The Senate of the United States—The concentrated light of the stars of the Union,” Mr. CraR.es SvuMNER responded as follows:— SPEECH OF HON. CNARLES SUMNER. Mr- Prenioent, yeu bid me speak ior tue Senate. But I cannot forget that there is another voice here, of classi- cnt eloquence, which might more fitly repdecthia service, As oveof the humblest members ef that body, and as: cinted with the public council: brief pertod ealy, I should pr my @istinguished colleague, whose fame iv ed with @ long poliical life. should apesk tor it, And there is yet amother here, (alc. Hale,) who, taouga uot at this moment @ member of the Senate, has through- ctive and briliiant career, marked by a rare com- out Dipation of ability. eloquence, and good humor, so iden- tified himself with it ia che public mind that he might well speak for it always; and when he sovaks all are pleared to listen. dered it otherwise, From the departure at Delft Haven, from the deck of the Mayflower, from the landing at Plymoath Rock to the Senate of the Ucited States isa mighty coatrast, covering whole spaces of history—hardly lesa than f-om the wolf that suckled Romulus and Remus, to that Ro- man Senate, which, on curule hairs, swayed Italy and the world—from these obscure begianings of fpevarty and weakness, which you now piously commemorate, and on which all our minds naturally rest to-day, you bid us leap to that marble capitol, where thirty-one Powerful States, bound in indissoluble union—a plural unit—are gathered together in legislative body, con- stituting @ part of one government. which, stretehiog from oesan to ocean, aud cousting millions of pesole be- neath tts majestic rule, surpasses far in woslth and might eny govornment of jthe Old World when the little band of Pilgrims left it, aud which now promises to be a clasp between Europe Asis, bringing the most distant jokey Bear together. ro that there ,shall be no more ient or Occident. It were Jnteresting to dwall on the , but it i “-~s and pi we comm (Applause) Bat, ir, you have or- may jud, but, if we cam really foliow it, like truth, it ua free. For myself, I accept the ad no: day. It may teach us all never by word or. we way be few in numbers or alone, to awe these primal privciples of duty, which, from at Plywouth k. have boon the life of Ma: Let me briefly unfold the lessen. Few persons in history have anffered more from cou. temporary misrepresentation, abuse and persecution, than the English Puritans. ‘At first a small body, they were regarded with indifference or eoacempt But by dogrees they grew iu numbers and drew into their eom- pany men of education, intelligence, and even of rack. formers in all ages have had little of blessing from the world which they sought to serve ; but the Puritaas were not dishearteneed. Still they persevered. The obnoxious laws of oouformity they vowed to withstaad till, in the fervid lamguage of the ti mo, “they be seat baek to the darkness from whence they came.’’ Through thom the solrit of modern freedom made itself potently felt. in its grent warfare with authority, in church, in literature, and in the State; im other woras, for re- ligious, intellectaal, and political emancipation. Tha Puritans primarily aimed at religious freedom: fer thie they coatended in Parliament, under Elisabeth and James; for this they suffe ved are all there great and glorious ja for ose hsve alway they do, that Ha thize with their ed to coufoss that to them alone ‘the English ewe the whole freedom of their constitution” As among all reformers, so amosg them there were differences of degree. Some continued within tae pale of the patiomal ohurch, and there pressed their in-ffeot- tual attempts in bebalf of the good cause, Some at length, driven by conacientious convictions, and un- willing te be partakers longer in its enormiNes, stung alse by the cruel excesses of megisterial power, opaaly disclaimed the National establishment and me & separate first under the name of Browni: the person whe had this new organization then under the better name of Separatista After struggles in Parliament aud out of it, in Courch an Btate, continued through successive reigas, the Puritans finally triamphod, and the despised sect of Separatist, swollen im number, end now undor the deasmiaation of Independents, with Oliver Cromawoll as their head and Joha Milton as his secretary, ruled England. T! is Feces the final triumph of all, however few in num- re, who sincerely devote themselves to truth. (Ap- ae. vv of Plymouth were among the earliest of the Heparetints. As such they knew, by bitter oxperi- ence, all the sharpni gh gt sad rag Against them the men in power raged like the heathen. Against them the whole fury of the law was directed. Some were imprison- ed; all were impoverished, while their uame beowne @ bye-word of reproach For xsfety and freedom tho little Dand first sought shelter in Holland, where they continu- ed, im indigemce and obseurity, for more thas tom years when they were impelied to seek a home in this unkoown western world. Such, in brief, is their history. I ceuld pot say more of it without intruding upon your time; I could not say less without injustice to them. Rarely bave austere principles been expressed with more geutionsss than from thelr lips. By s covenant with the Lerd, they bad vowed to walk in all his wa; aceording to their ‘teodeavors, whatsover it shoul cost them—and also to receive whatsover truth sheuld be made known from the written word of God. Re- pentance and prayers, patience avd toars © theie weapor ‘It in not with ua,’ said they, ‘aa with other men, whom mall things can discourage or small diroontentments cause to wish themselves at home sgaia ”? And yet these men. with their anblime endurauce, and with their lofty faith, are among those who ware somo times called * Puritan koaves’’ and ‘ Knaves Puritan,” end were branded hy King James as the * very pests in the Church ard Commonwealth ? Tais small eo pan: ymoa- = of our forefathers wan exoresly termed the * ptock: favatice of Leyden;” and, at Whitehail. in 1863, a mask, by Carew, an elegant and careful post of the reign Charies 1., was performed by the King and his ooariie =| whereis the whole plantation of New England was tui to royal sport. It was seid to have “ purged more vira lent homors from the politic bodies than gusioum and all the Wert Indian druge have from the natural bodies of the kingdom ” (Sensation ) ‘And these outeasta, despised in thelr own day by tho proud ond powerfal, are the men whom we have met in this goodly number to celebrate—not for ay victory of war—not for any triumph of discovery, science or learping- not for worklly success of any kind Flow poor are silthere things by the side of that divine vir- tue which led them, amid«t the reproach, the obloquy ard the hardness of the world to hold fast to whe are mot a mockery— mere selfish gratu- lation—if they are a sincere homage to the chara the Pilgrim+—and [ cannot suppose otherwive—then ta it well for us to bs here. ‘Standing en Plymouth Rook, at their great anpiversary. we cannot fail te be in: epired by their example. We vee oloarly what it has done for the world, aud what it has dene for their fame. No man bere to-day will think their self sacrifice, their deviation from reesived opinions, their pig: oe error er delusion. iferralty peace sod power, but mot repo, @ present shelter, but pote home Wtill and onward, whe would keop vefore us gleam ber fore w to iris ie Launch our Msyflower an rate winter sea, The Presiwenr announced the following toast:— “ Sou b Carolira—We weleome her sons to the birth- place of New England.” Mr. Ricuarp Yzapon of the Charleston, (3. C.) Courier, responded as follows:— SPEECH OF MR. YEADON. Desceapanrs oF tHe I'nGKim Fariisns—The distin: guirbed and geserous compliment just paid to the S of South Carolina, and the enthusiastie manner in which it has been received by this vast and ps tiotic throng, devolves on me, in the opinion of my fellow South Caro- \inians bere preseat. the office and the duty of attemot- ing to make a e. Ia receat memory, however, of th atri which bave rolled from dixtinguinhed and ed Now England ears and hes! strains (pointirg to Mr Ei nly compa, rable to the music of the spheres aud tips which. like thereof the prophets of old, may justly be fire—I almost sh ink appalied from the ti to mingle the feeble and discordant wotes of my peony whistle with the trumpet tones avd rich harmoniew of illustrious speabers worthy of the Atheniaa ros- trom or the Roman Sevate in their palustent days. (Ap- ray But never shsll it be said that the Palmetto ‘ort failed vo revp né to Bunker Hill eicher in the inter- charge of the friendly uslute, or in the dixcha:ge of yol- lied thunder and iron bail ageiont the common foes of our common country. Like tbe galiant and lamented Butler, the commander and the hero of the ever glorious Pal motto regiment, I must not, avd will not, shua a place in p-fires! we ourselves must steor boldly through the despe- 8 of eloquence the picture though it be near the flashing of the guns. (Applaure. bons of the Pilgrim Sires,—I feel honored in wy association with you this day, in the festive, although temperate, celebration of an event, than which nose more important in Its bea on buman destiny, is chronicied on the historic page. It is the departure of your pilgrim fathers ad pilgrim wotbers from Deft Havem on the Ist August, 162), in that frail and often imperiled bark, the Mayfloaer, under the guidance of their pastor aud of their God, to sesk ligious ard bhish civil liverty ia ths ideraeus of America—to found on an oternal rock, the rook of truth, exterrally symbolled by the Plymouth Rock, near which We now reverentislly and joyously stand—s new empire of freed destined to solve successfully the problem of popular self government, and to surpass, iu extent of territorial domain, in greatness and giory, and in the prodvetion of the greatest good to the greatest mu aber, all otber empires, ancientor modern, waich history re- cords in her instrustive annals, or which yet play thelr parts on the grand theatre of national existense. Do- scended. as Iam maternally, endas numbers of my fal- low South Carolinians aro, citer paternally or matere pally, from Huguenot ancestors, who fled from even greater perrecutions than did your Puritan fatho: od encountered equal perils and made equal sscrifices with fe en can Uberty, 1 com fully sympathize in principle, aud in hope, s—decked and crowoed as it is with the beaming presence of the lovely dsuchters of the Pilgrim mothers. Permit me, fellow citizens of Massa- charetts, to seize this occasiou tor the purpose of twia- ing common garland in honor of the illustrious and now iswortal trio, who, after servieg their comhon country with am extent and varioty of service that made them and her glorious. have gone successive- ly avd at hort intervals to tho grave to be moan ed by their mother Srates with a domestic and a hearthstone grief—a sorrow that refuses to be comfort. 00; by sister States, alo, with responsive sympathy, aad by the nation st largo, a2 boreft at once of ner brightass: abd most cheri«bed jewels, and her strongest aad nobiost pillars, Clay, Webster, aud Calhoun were beyoad all vm: arison, the three men of America; and long, if ever, will it be ere three stars equal ia magoitude aad lustre will be again seen culmtra’ing at the aame time os our Rational meridian. The simtittudes and > fiicities in their fte, history, © numerous and striking. They were not fer remove mach otberio age, and they camo very rly as th ime om the arena of public and politieal Esch, in the very incipiano; of his public esreer, was recognized as so iatellectal Heroules, and sprang, at a single bound, to the lottiest eminence. Each, while living, was tne cherished son of his particular State; w that all ef thom are tenants of the gr: net. ther ef their mother States would exchange her deid offs pring for avy living sou in Christendom. Each, ia his oon section, stood without compeer im greatness and in the popular affections; yet cach was regarded as the common property of the republic, rendering her {liustri- ous service in the Sevate, in the Cabinet, and in the field of diplomacy, influencing her measures aud her de-tiay vy their sage counsela, in peace aod im war, identitied with her history andé her enwaréd march, and, ina large mea- avre, constituting her fame. (Applause.) Lhey all alike towered above the men of their country and of their time, moral and iatellectus! pyramids in tae midst of an intellectual and ealighied gencration, Exch wav ® prac tical farmer, fond of ruval eleganee and rural and skilled In sgricuitural rcionce. § Cathous Port Hill, bia clegamt aud well ordered mountain farm; Clay. amid ¢! and rural wealth of his beautiful and romentic A-hiend; and Wubster at his Marshfield encic- ltr st abundance, sepusi frea the ee Ee arcnaing obicuberly Lcdabel snk elegant hos pitali:y exch aapired tu the chief magistracy of the republic, seokizg the nebleend by noble means, and with motives ‘that make ambition virtue,” and each slike failed to win the noble ai glit. tering prize, each alike deserving, al- though not commanding suesess. There was, per- haps, teo, a similarity im reasons or causes of their common failure. Clay, when about to make his grest amti-abolition spocoh in the Senate of 1839, was warned by a gifted Sonator from oath Caro lina—the Hon. William C. Preston—taat, with ni well known opinions on the questiou of slavery, and ia view of hia aspirations for the Presidecey, well not unnecessarily to offead the the prompt and decisive answer of the and patriotic American was—‘I would rather be right than be President;’’ and the abolitionists bacame theace- forth his bitterest foes, and in all probability prevented his election to the Presidensy in ubsequent contest with Mr. Polk. We learn, from the eloquent and classical eulogy of the ascomplished Choate, worthy to take ita place in the richest casket and among the brightest goms of English oratory and English literature, that a similar incident adorna the bi-tory and illustrates tue character of the illustrious Webster. When warned that bis pa- triotie and constitutional course on the compromise of 1850, would endanger his prospects to the chief magis- tracy of the nation, “with his great eyes glowing, and the very lightning flashing from hie face,” his answer war—‘I would not swerve a hair fer the Presi 7 S>, too, Calhoum, by tue stiffness of his unpopular epinions on the subjeot of State rights, and expecially the firmness of his opinions on the great aad absorbing question of Southern rights, were the enief barriers to his success as an aspirant for the Presidency. But, although they all stood alike exeluded, by their very greatnesg, from the Presidential ebair, every one agrees thet they want nothing earthly to complete their fame ; that they would bave been more hoaored tuan honaring in wearing the Presidectis! laurel, and taxt as Senators in the Senate House,” they were pelitioal firmament, eclipsing in lustre and im glory the lesser stars thet have twinkled their foeble radiance from the highest place of the republic. Tnattnere were diversities between them ia the structure of their miads, in the character of their intellectual endowments, in their mental habitudes, ia their range of knowledge, and im their order and style of speaking and of eloqu cannot be doubted; but wherever thoy Giftered, It was as ome star difforeth from another etar im glory. Similar as they were in their lives ia death boy wero aot far divided, and thoy met the flaal doom of mortality in very similer cireumstances—eueh dying at the post of duty, and in the harness of the re- publie—two of them at the natioaal capital, and the third, during am intended temporary absence from but while yet charged with the cares of the natioa. I ia recorded in Hoty Writ that ‘‘ The glory of the terres- trial is one, and the glory of the celestial w another,” and these ‘iliustrious compeers haviog oo equally par- tieipated im the one, may we not plously, im this mun- dane sphere, indulge the hope that they aro'now rejoicing and beatified participants in the other oue—the heavenly courte -- the empyreaa realms above? Before closing my remarks, so inadequate to this great and interesting oooadun, I caanot forbear doing reverence to the manes and the shade of the illustrious} Weoater for his coustitutiousl fidelity to the South. {+ sprang from principle as well as fecliags {imbibed from parental instruction; and It is po wonder that the boy who drst read and studied the constitution of his countey on a com tou headkerchief, sheuld have beca unswerving and faith. ful in giving the full benefit of that coavtituuon to the cotton States of the South and West. It was under this ballowed influence that, at Kichmond, in 1840, ho made the memoraole declaration, that ‘in the oapitol of Vir ginia, under the light of an October sun, he gave it vo the wings of the wind, and wished it borne to every ouraer of the republie, that had no, power whatever, di- rectly or indireetly, to interfere with the ins tution of slavery in the several States;” and it was in the wane spirit that he took that poble stand in 1850, whicu saved his countzy from fraternal astrife—the Union from Gisoluvion. (Hiswos and applause) Aad while thus, se ® Southerner, rendering homage te the iHustrious dead, let me also do nomaze, w the illus- trious living, and returo my grateful thanks to thi f { the day, the gifted, the glorious E Webster ‘a worthy successor in the cavieot nate chamber.) for the declsrstion and sentiment, ut- tered by him im Congress, many ye ago, but still in- Gelibly improseed om my memory, —" Chere is no cvusoia which 1 would more readily shoulder a maske', thaa to { m4 downe servile insurrec ion in the Souta.” (Applause) a % me here, too, narrate an ssccdots, or an incident, connected with the great Carolivian, aud his iove and admiration for Massachusetts aud Boston It was in my lest conyersatiom with him, jast before be depar' from Charleston, on his leat mission to Washington, that he broke ont in warm, glo ving and sod Boston, ing, with evident pleasure, om the nncieut tins, poiita and rooial, ed the two aistor common- weelths and the twe sister cites, and disco quently om the affinities which yos obtatned bet ree to crmrervation, in hospitality, aud im social elegance and fivemen ¢. . w Tet anch principles and fedings.—sach as animated the boxeme of dead Wobsier and Calboun, aad such as yor amimaie the borom of the living Krerett, be eherial and Levenson fea ee we seems oaulising the loltient tom lor q the tue rowens for its longi! sad gare | the Herth Pele and the Isthmas of Darien ay Htivetionl voundariog ebt wette peng pre pling Amarone ~ateans ond by thee glertecs emanpts asd txlusoss merial in the shape of a werk of art, so perfect in de- sign and creation as to chall-pge and command the a1. wiration of the world, sho: rise to perpetuste the worth and servieos of the illastrio 1, a0 life and in death emanating either frem the as tion at large, or from the three Stetes more immediately alike honored and bereaved. I would, ase centimeat— Cainoun—Let @ group of statuary, chivelled io Parian marble, perpetuste their memory at the national capital ; or let Keatucky, Masrachasetia aud South Carolina pile a common monument 'o the illustri- ous thyee, at Ashiaod, Marshfield, or Fort Hill t> awaken the sdmiretion ard kindle the emulation of posterity, “ till suns shall set and rive ne more.’’ (Applause.) Hon. C. W. Urnam responded to the next toast, which was: The Puritans—They could not be, conformists—they would not be hypocrites. A letter was here read by the President from Mr Sears, authoriz’ng Mr. Hallett to subscribe in his name, $500 towards the erecti»n of a monument to the Pilgrims. The announcement was received with hearty applause. Rey. Mr. Biagpgn, of Boston, responded to the the following toast:— Our first Spiritual Plants—The early clergy, who, to save their consolexces renounced their livings at home ia excharge for the wilderness abroad. The following toast was replied to by Mr, John P, Hale: Religious Intolerance—It has peopled a continent; po- litical oppression — it has set « nation free, Mr. HALE was greeted with hearty applause. He spoke as follows:— SPERCII OP HON. JOHN P. HALE. Mr. Presidest—i thias I heard you suggest just thet you had s grest quantity of letters aod iments which you weuld kindly consider as read,and would hand them over to the reporters. Will you mot de the ssme thing with me? (Laughter) My ambitien is humb! and my purpose is to stamd before you this evening ina "bh in which I shali have few competitors. I will endea to be brief, my friends. I regr ih Me, President, that entiment of this character y: ve culled upon me to ere It is one that covers the whole field of religions duty and political privileges; and while you could not assigu it to one who more bgbly uppreciates there great interests, [ am sure that among those who are present, you could have found many that would more appropriately express their sentiments, which the announcement of such a theme calls up in evory Pilgrim and Puritan breast. As you have assigned it to me I will attempt the task; but I Must confess, ani om this cosasion Iam about to ask a privilege, wy friends and it is the very last that au am bitious man ever craves, and that is the privilege of age. Laughter.) I see around me young men, ambitious mea, that are just entering ujon thet career which I have finished and closed. (Merriment). Pard eo if T en per the ambition of youth with a little of (Laughcer.) i confess that whea I your kindness and over appreciation tee eight or tem. years was not suchas would properly edu cate me for addressing the sons of the Pilgrims on ground covsecrated by thelr first sacritices om this contineat. I feared that sume bold tropes and figures. on whieh vanls. ing smbition, upon the floor of the Seaa‘e, had beem ac- customed to tickle the enrs of the multitude, might aay. where else steal in upon me, and might, before i was avare of it, obtrude themselves upon this assembly. ia- opportunely and inappropriately. But I fird that Y was under s mistake entirely, and that the boldest tropes and figures that ever rung benoa’h the dome of your tederal capitol are tame to the conceptions which bave b poured forth from Pilgrim lips upon Pilgrim eare to day. (Applause ) We heard there of mea whose powers of Gige: tion were so capacious that the idea of swallowing Mexico dt a meal did not clarm them. To-day, in tae most cloquent lapguage, we have had the geniua of tho country taking her seat at the centre of magnetic attrac- tion, swalle wing Chimborazo fer supper, and kis+iog sunset with az affectionate emorace. (Apolause and laughter ) Upon a little reflection, after all it seems to me it is highly appropriate. Why should net Young Aarioa come to maturity first im Old Aceriea’s house? Why should rot the places where the tents were first pitched be thore where the young selons ahould be the most itur- dy? When shall rhetorical eloquence herestter plead and ay @ second part im the great game of manifest des tiny, apd the sons of the Pilgrims go forward in the path which their fathers trod more tham two hundred years agot I said I was going to assume the privilege of age— that of giving advioo—and I hope that by so doing I shall not trespa-s upos the proprieties of the escasion. The sentiment to which you have called upom me to respond is religious eppression. Religious oppression, this day, has peopled a jeontinent. I appreheod, much ard lopg aq we bave deelt upom that sentiment, that we have not yet appreciated it in all ita length and bseadth. When we are in possession of Biyilene and in the full appreciation whivt whey give fous witsout an effort and without a struggie— when all taat has been done to dare and suffer for their acquisition, their main- tenaxoe, thelr support, and te their transmission to us, is but # legend and tale of historr—we are but ‘tially prepared to appreciete the tremendous sacrifices by which they were attaiced. Relizious liberty, the bi-th right of eve cf us, wae not born in a day. Gene- ration after generation struggled for it. More than 400 ira ago the great truth oc free aud rel gious lidorty “proclaimed in the ears of arbi: monaroly and a Digoted church, sounded by the notes of Joha Wyclife on the ear of monarch after monarch, parliament after ie lament, and thuudersd at the doors ef State and Church. Martyr after martyr, after generation efter generat! set the seal of their Titnlite, of their allegiance to Great prineiple, by the sacrifice of their live it Was nus uuil me them two contu- ries had rolled away that the Pilgrims had come to the Gerperate determination to seek ina foreign land that. ligtous liberty for which they streve, and whieh could not get { land of their birth. Do we appre- clate to ite full extent the tremendous responsibility of such a reeolution? The facilities with which we now move from country to country, and continent to conti- nent, have done much to lessen in our admiration and judgment the realities of that fearful measure upoa which they desermined to venture. Tuey left their native land, and went to Holland, says their historian, because they beard it wasa place where the band of industry Teapt a successful roward—beceuse it was a place where politics! honors might be easily obtained, or richoa gathered up? No, nothing of that; but they wont there, says the simple historian, in the eloquent language of truth, ‘‘ because they heard that in Abl- lana thore was religious freedem for all mea.’’ Taoat single fact invested Holland in their eyos in ther hearts with a charm whi mo other place could possess. They went there “ because they heard’’ that there was xo earthly barrier, no despetic king, no hore- ditary church to com@in between the aspirations of the immortal seul, it rose up te the great throne of eter- nity, with their highest and holiest feslings of devotion. That wan what carried te Holland. (Appiauwe.) They staii there until untoward circumstanees made them turn their eyes to this contiaeat. Allusion has boen made to this continent. Sir, I apprehead that with all the glowing eloquenoe of truth with which that has beon depicted before yeu, full justies has not been done to tuat thought. What was the history of these meni Genera- tion after generation they had striven for religious and political freedom. They pleeed spiritual froedom before them as the tend and aim and object of existence; it seomed as if it had been settled ia the councils of eter- nity, that they could net have it om the old costineat. re then, whem the experiment had been tried—thea, when it appeared as if liherty had beon deapoiled of hor wer forever and aa if the fiat ef the Almighty bad goue Porte that His patience should no longer boar with men, it veomed that the genius of religious liberty pat up eae more prayer for one ether ia, before i¢ be aban- doned forever- and then, vir, im the connells of Eternal Wisdom, there was i:evealed te the eye of science, in the solitudes of the ocean, a new continent, where they might ge and try the experiment. (Great applause.) Tuvy came here, and they made the experiment, and it war Diessed and prospered by that Previdence whow hand had led them hither. But hy bol that spirit of Ca resaicn from which they ted follo: them here; and it Ei atact that ought to be remembered forever, that that great spiritual revolution for which the Pilgrim fathers had fought, and which preceded their political revolu- tion, bad been fo successful amd go entire in its vic- tory, and had so completely ‘@stabiished those rights beyond ¢ ntroversy or cavil, thet when the hour of our political separation came, aad the great duty of setting forth our wrongs to the world, wax devolved upom ‘8 committee of Congress, there was not the least intima- tion that their rights of conscience had been i: No, thank God: the Pilgrims had woa that rovolation be. fore. And, sir, it is no impeachment of thet last revolu tion to ray that, but for the spiritual revolution which eoeded, it never would have taken place. (A .plause.) ever! never! Now, itis curious to mark the history of the Pilgrim fathers for two hundred years, during whioh period they strove for their rights see 0e- fore me some of the venerable clergy. It was the abuso it that time, whioh was, ho of greatest avils of which they had to and of course it was deemed important by the crowa to shut up the mouths of the reformers ‘iust the ungodly lives ef the clorgy. It is curious to remark, a am index of what the staad- ard ef clerical morelity of that day was, that it was solemnly enacted that, to stop the moath ef the Pusiten ministers, clergymen shoud @ care not to ‘visit taverns and ale houses often, nor sit long at oards or dioe, or any other baer | gemes.”” A oe er.) wir, they come here, and they subdued s continent; bat before they subdued s continent they had something more difficult to subdue thee a continent, and that was the purpores of bigotry in the heart—of a prosecuting church, backed up by & psrscouting State, They over- came beth of there. It in worth while, im ooaciusion, to look fer = single moment at what wore the re plea which jod to their unparalisied success. oon tend, and I think the truth of history will bear me out, that the object at whish they simed was one of the gread oloments of their s. That was spiritual freedom Give them that, and he did not care where they had tt, even if they on enjoy it only upon an ice benud oaset, and amid ime Cruelties of savege warfare. Perils and popteste of chat character were thought but Mahiiy of, piritual free Inet oy ht frat on dom might be attained hrmmking courage, em unshaken faith, reverempe the Divine law, which stoed unswe before kings and ta, declaring ‘he ooaviction of consctence te be the rule of comduct, and that they would rewed at the peril of fire and faggot. Those wore the cements of their success—faith, courage and reverence for the Divine Jaw 1 do not baow bot I may effsod delicate ears calling the whiok guided them the la (inary apace) Nuw, bere, te dey, Me. as the ivittes |. Celebration are abows drawing to is peoina W use Unet 60 Ona do most fitting ic to the mecnery of thew ‘when cmp bawagt cu eity of pation, be wight Atly rey & of the relations between ‘the churetien ote and New York. He spore of the labors of Pi preachers and their suceessors in the work of edqcaticn and preachieg at home, aud their mirsiovary servioss sbread Pilgrim missionaries had borne the gexpel w every land, and the Ge gen snd the Missiesipol wag. mured the requium over their rasred dust. Ho ies. trated the convection between th« fortnaes of the Daten apd a a olopists, alike im the Old World and tae New. The fellowship began ia Holl tinued in America aad New England, Yaod bed is see frovt age aa of civil ard religious oppressors. Geatined to sacrince t! o humanty better by b the language of Shak«pesre and Baeos te the New wont Mr, Orgood illustrated the humauizing pewer of New York snd New England eoterprisa in the triumphs of @ cesceful, commerct: pire, acd pol to the saad; of Cape Cod as the cradle woere our mish'y +s kings were rocked in their infaacy and traiced for thetr heroie werk. He spoke of the beartiness of the New Yurk people—the true worth under the sometimes worldly sppearaese— avd called for a better sympathy between frieads of le:ters, religion abd humanity, communities a clowly allied. He closed with an appeal to the whole eom, to be trre to the good old cause, and serve their counter as well as themselves by being faithful to the schools, homes and churet os of thetr fathers. Ha then gave the following sentiment:—“Let us say from Plymouth Roek, Ged’s b eoning upon our Young America! The blood of 8} nations is mingled in her vetas; no drops of that bleod should be more loyal, mere generous. more youta- fal than the drops that descend from the old Pilgrims cart, The following gentlemen responded to /the: ant joined toasts:— The Press—The best index te Pilgrims’ progress, Fuller, of New York. sa Cape Cod—The right arma that sheltered the Mey: the ocean ta her gallan'ry and her enterprise; courts of justice her and her worth, Brinckley, of Barnstable. . The President stated, in the interval of the speak- ing, that Moses H. Grinnell, President of the New York society, had offered to be one of fifty who would give $1,000 for @ monument to the Pilgrims. Ne merous others would participate. Six thousand dol. lars, he said, had already been raised in Plymoptly for the monument, TBE CORRESPONDENCE. FROM THE PLYMOUTH CHUKCH, SOUTHWARK, ENG LAND. Jory 8 185%, To ram Present or THe Pricrim Soctery. PuyMouru, Mase + Honored Sir :—Your offisial communica:ion, deted Jace 10th, inviting the pastor and delegate of the Pilgsia Church at fonthwark to be prevent and to unite in the eelebration of the embarkation of the Pilgria Fathers at Delft Heven, on the first day of August, reached its des- twetion ov Juve 27. The Rev Jona Waddiegton is at ‘Lbis time im the south of France. seeking restora‘ion of bealth and streogth, under ths divine guidance, for betix bis partner in life and himelf. On scoount of his absence, there‘ aod time aot allowing of any communieatioa with hia in ths interval between the reoelps of your letter and the date of this re ply, it fella upon me to acknowledge, in Mr Waddiogion’a behalf, how deeply he will feel the token of yous to bim as the pastor of » flick chureb h'story prove them to be mo to the faithful bacd of exiles to your dist any religious sccivty can lay claim to pal location, wherein they sought statedly to worship toeie God, in conformity to His will, so nearly as they cowd discern itin His revealed word. it too highly estimate, is, under ali the: circumstances. Terihe allowed, I trust, to remark upom the interest which cated since eur fir from your country to us, in the person of the Hoa Ab- bett Lawrence. t gentleman’s sympathies were awak- ened at onew, for he seemed to feel that his country de served, and would reflect additional glory from the infor- mation it was our privilege to impart to him at successive intecviews, er by writing. Indeed, he was so alive te the value of what he learned, that he feneronsly gure ‘cou mané that he would net be denied to Mr, Waddiegten, ‘when it was possible he could see him; he is eonseq cently ever in our grateful rewembranee, and followed oy our most respectful sslutations. Berides Mr. Lawrence, we have beem favored with fre quent interviews wi h other influential friends from the oited Sates. In 1861, we were expecially honored by w visit of wa jet and researea from Dr. L. Bason, of Haven, and the Rev. Seth Bliss, accompanied by the Rew. — Hovey, of Boston, and Mr. Morse, of New York. The result gave satisfaction alike to them and to us, Asd@ rivce that RY serderepd Correspondence has several times pessed betwoem our pastor in particular and seme of your divizes in whom he has excited « keen iatezest, either personally or by the transmission of copies of um | peerage ey letters with other informetion reles- ing peculiarly to our eommion ancesters, the Pilgrim Fa- there and thelr immediate successors, For the messure of which hes fellowed my owm efforts in hglping to extend a knowledge of the inessiam- ble worth of that illustrious band of exiles whese em darkation at Delft Haven the Pilgrim Society, of Piy- mouth is about to commemorate. Icaunet but indulge and express grateful emotions, under the ever Prevent couvietion that it was my Heavenly Father whe sustained and directed me through a period of such in- tense applation and of sueh weighty respomsivility. My e+pirations and my heart are often on the other side af ‘the Atlantic, but Providence has hereia put an interdict upon me; seventy five years it admonish me that aa rand ‘ better country” demands my {mosseant soli- citnde, That Mr. Waddington mey never visit year shores is far from improvabie, exe=pt that his ailing eem- panion at home is an impediment. Ia the name of the church ia Union street, South and tbeir pastor, 1 am, honored sir, your greatly ob’ rvant, oe BENJAMIN HANBURY, Senior Deacon, 158 laekfriags ‘To Riehard Warren, Esq., Plymouth, Mass. FROM ROBERT C. WINTHROP, Nia@aka batis, July 23, 1658 My Deak fre—Your obliging communication of last moath, inviting mo to neite with the Pilgrim eye Cy celebrating the axniversary of the embarkation of the Pilgrims as Del(t-Haven, on the firat of August, was duly teoe! Tthank yon for it sincerely, and still more for the: very Mid sind complimentary terms in which it was com deferred giving ite final and formal am. late day from ® real reluctance to say ma, and from the hope that I might still see my way olear te. be present om the oseasion. But I am journe: ia thie region with my family, for their health, as well as my own, and there is no longer the slightest prospect of my being within striking distance of Plymouth fer some weeks te come, S have naited heretefore in commemorating the virtuas and heroism of our Pilgrim Fathers, both on the $244 of December, and om the 17th day of September, aad should cordially join in eonscerating still another wo their memory. yy cannet be remem tee or reverenced too deeply; and that not as a mere matesr of respeet and gratitude to the dead, but for theim- provement and instruction of the living. a has there been a moment in cur hig tory, when it was more important than at this moment, that the American people sheald remember not the rock on whieh the Pilgrima landed, but the Rook m which they trusted, and rhould cherish and held fast to the prineiples whieh fitted te become the Fathers apd Founders of a + oduntry. We are rushing a! im the path of national ment and exte: with @ velocity of whieh the at this moment ia my view, hardly furnish an exagger: embiem,; aud there is too much cause for approhensiom that the roar of the torrent and its #) ite many eolored — = at iapulad un to the dan, whieh always an im ive precipitate ores. Tt will ve well if we donot forget, that the only safe and sure pi Progresr—a progress cont fear of God, in respect for goverament, dom, and in justice to all mankind, ‘The descendants of the Pilgrima, and the rene Frgland are now scattered far and wide over a vast their enterprise and inflaence are upon ein at Se a eet ee Lat hg it that their lives practice are in origin of which they are no justly proud; on] let prove their title to hail from Piymouth Rook, sot by genealogies aud pedigrees, but by virtues and pripetples of the Pilgrims upom ther character and conduct. Thence will our country be cure. ‘Accapt ence more, my dear sir, my eordial thanks your friendly and fistioring invitat with of my sincere regiot at being to be with you, low me to place at your disposal for the iment, whick has been suggested ! ny j = i ts Li i] Plymouth Roek: orum bliin, ¥ROM OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Prrravimcp, Februery § 1 Daar Sin—I feel very muck obliged by the ki tion of the Committee of Arran gem clety to attend the ovlebration of th embarkation. I fear that it will hardly be in my power te be prevent, fixed as I am for the summer at the wetemm edge of the State, [i would have gives me mach phar sure to be with yon, had the old territory of MassseBar notte kept withim any reasonable limits; but Pip eoutts, Rock in so much nearer sunrise thea Badéle Mogateim, tbat one feels =p maces the mere theaghs of tip journey between Lew pose Yeasts are all done away with in jose tee, ox I woud send you one, I Chink the Judge bo of mo in the pottery line, or I would have made seam thing out of this: mae