Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Twenty-Ninth Annual Reunion of the New England Society of St. Louis: Commemorating the Two Hundred and Ninety-Third Anniversary of the Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, December 21st, 1620; Buckingham Hotel, December 22nd, 1913
You are all doubtless familiar with that humorous rendition of the famous interview between Columbus and Ferdinand and Isabella during which the explorer promised his patrons that he would sail West and dis cover America, and the sequel which culminated with the dialogue as Columbus walked down the gang plank to meet the assembled savages - You are CO lumbus - Then you are Indians Ha! We are dis covered; and following the same fancy we can read ily imagine this hardy band of Puritans gathered to gether in the cabin of the May?ower, some ten or fifteen thousand strong they must have been, unless one has the heart to lay the axe of cold reason at the fairest roots Of some hundreds of thousands of family trees we can imagine, I say, these men of deep purpose plan ning to locate on that stern and rock bound coast, just the rock entitled to the name Plymouth - just the rock in every way suited to become the corner stone worthy of its place in the building of the New Republic.
That was two hundred and ninety-three years ago come, - yesterday and still there persist through the generations Of descendants many of the best of the dominant traits which make New England proud of her sons and daughters; and what 'history and Hered ity had to do with it we shall have the pleasure of hearing from my distinguished predecessor, Doctor Arthur E. Bostwick. (applause)
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