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rhe I'ilnritn Fathers always interesting at
Thanksgiving time urc usually considered
from the religious viewpoint, as is natural.
Also much is written about the influence of the
Plymouth colony upon the political formation
of the American nation. Here is something
out of the ordinary a consideration of the
Plymouth colony as an economic success. Dar
win P. Kingslcy calls the Pilgrims "the most
successful adventurers in all history." He is
president of the New, England Society in the
City of New York, a writer, a speaker, a man
of wide culture, a student of Shakespeare and
a collector of Shakcspcareana. In addition he
is a noteworthy figure in the business life of
the country. The address which follows in
part was made at the one hundred and four
teenth annual festival of the society. John
Dickinson Sherman.
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iOPULAK knowledge of the little group
of men, women and children which
landed at Plymouth Is to this geuerul
effect :
They were members of a church In
Scrooby, Kngland, under the leadership
or ministry of John Hobinson; they
were persecuted and fled to Holland;
they left Holland later for reasons
never very clear to the average man;
they sailed In the Mayflower, and
founded the colony and church at
Plymouth In 1020. In relatively recent years they
have come to be known as the Pilgrims, but to
many of us the name does not coney any Idea
by which this small group 's distinguished, when
the larger term "Puritan" Is used. To most men
"Pilgrim" and "Puritan" are Interchangeable
words. a '
Theso Impressions ure Inrgely erroneous, mid es
pecially so In confusing the purpose and the ulti
mate achievements of Pilgrim and Puritan. The
Puritan was tho driving force which politically,
commercially, and morally created New England.
The Pilgrim, on the other hnnd, had no such driv
ing power; but he made an unequaled contribu
tion to tho progress of the world, In which the
Puritan had only a collateral part.
Tho nucleus of what finally became the famous
Plymouth church wns a little group of farmers
and laborers brought together at Scrooby, in tho
north of England, through the personal magnetism
and capacity of William Urcwster. They were n
part, and a very radical part, of the Puritan re
volt of tho time. They claimed to be a church,
but they hud neither pastor nor organization. The
first urtlcte of their creed was opposition to the
established church, and while they were served
from time to time by the Puritan clergy of that
church, they were clear from the beginning that
they must separate from It wholly. This wns about
IGOfl.
William Bradford united with this unorganized
group nt about this time, and John Robinson a
little later. They were nil spiritual rebels. Their
revolt was against the Purl tuns quite as much as
against tho Episcopalians. Py their standards
the Puritans were of tho two the greater slnnern,
because, having seen the truth, they paltered und
Dhuflled ; they stayed in the church.
Contrary to lougrestnbllshed and still persistent
belief, the members of the Scrooby congregation
were never persecuted by either church or Btate.
Tho Pilgrims went drat to Amsterdam, but they
didn't like It. Tho city tolerated nil Borts of
religious dissent. Therefore, whllo there was work
to be had In Amsterdam, they finally settled In
Leyden chiefly because that city bad within It no
other religious malcontents; they had tho field
of dissent all to themselves.
The group never flourished. They were mostly
fnrmers and laborers. Leyden was an Industrial
city. Its Industries were strongly controlled by
guilds, and It was necessary to become Dutch citi
zens to get really lucrative employment. Tho life
was hard. The young people begnn to murmur.
Somo begnn to break nway. Some even became
Dutch citizens.
The original emigrants were now approaching
mlddlo life, and time wns pressing. They were
determined to remain English, but soon realized
that they could not do so If they stayed In Hoi
land. They thou decided that whllo they would
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remain English, they could not return to England
without risking contumlnatlon by contact with
Puritans and Anglicans.
The wilderness of America, with all Its terrorn,
seemed to offer them the essential conditions.
They early decided not to go to Jnmestown, be
cause the Episcopal church was already established
there. They tried to get definite concessions from
the established church as to their own government
and worship, and then abandoned such attempts.
Finally, In June, 1011). they got a patent from the
Virginia company. They concealed their real pur
pose, and got the pntent in the name of John Win
cob. They hoped to sail without revealing who
they were and what they purposed. Later they
abandoned this patent for another granted by the
Virginia company to John Pelrce mill associates.
Under this Instrument their anonymity was com
plete. They then negotiated a seven-year contract with
Thomas Weston and a group of London merchants,
afterward known as the Adventurers. The con
tract, as first arranged, covered the financing of
the enterprise and planned to set up n trading
post. The question then wns how many would
go ncross the sea, and who?
It was decided that If a majority voted to go.
Hobinson should lead them; If the majority voted
not to go, Ilrewster should lead those who went.
The majority voted not to go, and Hobinson never
saw the New world.
On September 10, 1020. the Mayflower left
Plymouth on her Immortal vnynge. In mid ocean
they nearly turned back because of some structural
weaknesses in the ship. Land was sighted on the
nineteenth of November. The sailors said It was
Cape Cod; so they turned south, as they were
under u Virginia patent and must hind In territory
controlled by the Virginia company. They quick
ly ran Into the shoals and breakers that lie about
tho cape, and then turned northward.
In doing tills they abandoned their pntent en
tirely. The famous compact signed In the May
flower's cabin before they landed wns drawn up
not iib a kind of earlier Declaration of Indepen
dence, as orators time out of mind bnve said, but
because some of the men denied that P rail ford had
any authority over them after the pntent hnd been
nbandoned. The new instrument wns Intended to
be n declaration thnf all stood on an equal footing.
The critical period of the Plymouth colony was
from 1020 to 1027. In those seven years Its found
ers achieved the success nnd rendered the unique
service that bnve mightily Influenced the subse
quent development of the world.
These were not the first religious zealots who
landed i the New World, for the Huguenots bad
precede (hem; nor was Plymouth the first col
ony, for many settlements hnd been made earlier;
but they first interpreted Amerlcn to Europe. The
thing that Impressed Europe was not the high
Ideals of the Pilgrims, not their religious devotion;
the fact that counted wns their economic success.
It Is not easy for us to understand what It
meant in those days to demonstrate to the Old
World that men could live, could even prosper, In
tho New World, without nld from over the sen.
No one had previously done It; no one believed It
could be dne. The men nnd women of Plymouth
enmo to the New World to nuiko homes, to stick
even though they died In the struggle. They stuck
nnd they died. In tho flrRt year more than one
bnlf their number died. In the next six years, out .
of n population of one hundred nnd ninety-nine
only six died.
The great Puritan migration which begnn In
1027 which directly created Massachusetts, and
hnd an almost Immeasurable Influence In founding
New England was the direct result not of tho
Pilgrims' religious beliefs but of the economic suc
cess achieved nt Plymouth.
Six, possibly more, of tho guarantors of the Hay
colony hnd been members of the Adventurers who
purchnsed the Mnyilnwer and' backed the original
enterprise. They know the wholo story Intimately
and profited by the cxperlenco.
After IflM themlgrsv
tlon from England wni
very large, and was
nmdo up, not of adven
turers nnd profllgRts
peers, but of the best
blood of England.
Nevertheless, Plymouth begnn relatively to lo
ground. Whole communities enmo over In a hotly,
bringing nil classes from laborers to physicians
nnd clergymen; but few -vent to Plymouth. The
Pilgrims had no constituency. Their bitter op
position to the established church ttnfl to the I'url
tans, and their desire to be let ulone, effectually
Isolated them from their sister colonies.
In the next two decades Uradford, IJrewBter, and
Standlsh died and Wlnslow returned to England.
The creation of thriving towns all about Massa
chusetts hay ami to the west as far as the Con
necticut elver, on the Sound, and even over od
Long Island, powerfully reacted on the little group.
Up to 1GIK) Plymouth was the dominant fore
In the New World. After that men and event
swept past her nnd uroiiiid her until In 1001, Bhe
was swallowed up by Massachusetts.
Their absorption Into the Massachusetts colony
wns quay and natural. In 101)1 their creed did not
differ materially from that of the churches founded
In Salem and In the later colonies. All the New
England churches were as completely separated
from the established church as even Robinson
could have wished.
The political extinction of Plymouth wiih really
a triumph. The Pilgrims had conqueied spiritual
ly. The New England churches were ruled by the
congregations. What they called popish practices
weie everywhere ended.
Plymouth, losing her civic Independence, became
first a general possession of all New England uml
then a tradition of the nation.
The llttlu Mayflower band had become n mighty
host, steadfast always In the maintenance of
Individual rights, and latterly stout defenders of
religious liberty.
There are now more sons of tho Pilgrims In the
Mississippi valley than In Massachusetts, more on
the Pacific coast than In Plymouth.
The revolt at Scrooby. so unlmportnnt that It
was scarcely noticed by tho uuthurltles, nt first
registered merely a protest against established er
ror nnd power. Then, with llttlo conception of
the significance of their acts, tho men who led
that revolt became the most successful udventurera
In ull history.
Europe generally regarded Amerlcn much as
the Creeks regarded all tho world beyoud the Pil
lars of Hercules as uninhabitable, except by bar
barians, and full of terrible monsters. Coloniza
tion had previously been a failure because It had
lacked knowledge, and n right purpose. The un
churted western sens nnd tho unexplored western
world were almost as mysterious In 1020 as they
had been In 1402. The economic success of Plym
outh dissipated the mystery nnd mudo the conti
nent a land for citizens rather than for adventur
ers, for workers rather than for profllgnte peers.
Europe's uttltudo was Immediately changed, and
the New World wns slowly transformed from n
IJotany bay Into a place of Illimitable opportunity.
The Pilgrims were politically Impracticable nnd
remained economlcully unimportant to the end.
They were splrltunlly brave, but as a body apart
they were Impossible to live with. They agreed1
with few, and few agreed with them; but they
made the great demonstration, they and not Col
umbus made the great discovery.
An ancient legend tells us that the two great
rocks standing one on the southerly point oti
Spain, the other over against It on the northerly
point of Africa, were torn asunder by Hercule
to admit the Atlantic and form the Mediterranean,
sea. This beautiful old myth, as Is the habit of;
myths, fitted Itself to existing facta and explained!
a mystery by creating a greater mystery.
The Pilgrims did not mystify. They answered'
tho riddle over which Europe hnd gravely pon
dered for nioro tlmn a hundred years. They lifted
the curtain which for six hundred years hnd con
cealed the great mystery. With their feeble hands
they erected pillars that marked tho entrance to
a now continent through which speedily poured
tho flood of life that has given America to th
world.
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