Historical Address, Delivered in the First Congregational Church in Stamford, Ct
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Excerpt from Historical Address, Delivered in the First Congregational Church in Stamford, Ct: At the Celebration of the Second Centennial Anniversary of the First Settlement of the Town They were watered by the tears of trial, and nurtured by the hands of more than paternal solicitude, and we, their children, are now reaping the reward of their sufferings, and enjoying the fruits of their toil in full maturity. Permit me to advert to the fact that this day commemorates also the landing of our first fathers, "the Puritan Pilgrims," on the Rock of Plymouth, and the recollection of that marked and hallowed event shall make this occasion doubly interesting. We celebrate the birth time, both of New England and one of New England´s eldest children the town of Stamford. We recognize the twenty-second of December as an annual festival, sacred to the memory of the Pilgrims. The Day shall remind us of their undaunted courage; their sufferings; their adventurous enterprise and faith; such as well deserve our recognition and our honour - not now alone, but annually, that event shall be commemorated. But in this Centennial Anniversary, we meet hut once. At its next observance our children´s children shall assemble, long after the present population of this town, whether old or young, shall have passed together to the grave. Another hundred years will carry us and ours across life´s stormy ocean, and land us (may we trust!) upon the shores of a better country - our feet on the "Eternal Rock." We gather around this event, then, with feelings of peculiar interest. It shall be strongly marked upon the tablet of our memory. - We will speak of it when aged, and fix its associations deeply in the recollection of our children. And why should not the origin of a New England township be an event of interest? These municipal associations furnish an anomaly in the history of man. They started into being, and still continue to be, the purest democracies on earth. Their commencement marked at once the beginning of a social community; of a religious congregation, and of a Church of Christ. Then the township, and the parish, and the Church, were almost synonymous terms. The first parishes of New England were the nurseries, too, of literature and of American liberty. They were the cradle in which was rocked the infant nation, and, I may add, the infant Church. They embodied all the elementary principles of religious, social, and civil order - elements moulded into practical shape, and acted out with vigour, and with the happiest results. Unlike the towns of any other country, they did not derive their origin or privileges from the State - the State owes its existence and glory to them. They were not, strictly speaking, at first even colonies. Each seems to have been an enfranchised community, exercising all the rights of sovereignty, and so united with the other as to form a model in miniature of a free republic. And when the English government asserted its jurisdiction over them, it was only to assume the "central powder" which had been created by a surrender, on the part of each town, of inherent privileges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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