VII.

No venture e'er before like object sought,

Nor shared so many hopes with doubting fears; No other Age so well the spirit caught,

Which grasps at once the fate of coming years; While yet the proud, benighted, envious,

Had naught but scorn for this CHRISTOPHORus.

VIII.

The Queen's own banner waved the fleet " Adieu,"
And trumpet echoes cheered the hero bold,
Imparting courage to the humble crew,

His plans and hopes to help unfold;

And he, with nerve high-strung, but courteous,
With prayer joined faith to be CHRISTOPHORUS.

IX.

No lashing seas, nor tempests fierce and wild,
No angry threats his earnest life to take,

No chafing of his temper, firm and mild,

Could make him from his solemn purpose break; But as such strokes grew madly furious,

The more he dared to be CHRISTOPHORUS.

X.

The seas once crossed, the New World surely found, He gave it hallowed name, "Salvator Blest,"

And planted royal banner in the ground,

With honors duly borne from East to West.
By faith discerning nations numerous,
The future subjects of CHRISTOPHORUS.

XI.

From other Eastern lands and British Isles,

As years rolled on, the swift-winged transports flew

On rival ventures, and by cunning wiles

Sought each to bind the Old World to the New, Yet lost, through methods harsh and tyrannous, The spirit of a true CHRISTOPHORUS.

XII.

Then, maddened year by year through treasure found,
And Passion's greed for titles, lands, and pelf,
The natives of the soil, in bondage ground,

Were used alone to meet behests of Self;
And Christ-like graces, pure and plenteous,
Were lost to view without CHRISTOPHORUS.

XIII.

And thus it came, while kings and mighty thrones
Made merchandise of men for selfish ends,
Despising man, as man, his wail and groan,
And each with other only plunder blends,
The New-Found World, so fair and beauteous,
Must longer wait for true CHRISTOPHORUS.

XIV.

The years rolled on, and many score were told,
Till centuries twain and more sad record made,
When, as the rights of man their claims unfold,
Just rights for all, whate'er their race or grade,
There sprang to view, with Freedom glorious,
The sway and charm of known CHRISTOPHORUS.

XV.

And thus Columbia's soil, set free at last

From rule by brutish force and selfish aims, Through INDEPENDENCE gained and dangers passed, A higher law, the Law of Right, maintains; While Church and School, with savor gracious, Proclaim the conquests of CHRISTOPHORUS.

XVI.

Henceforth, the aim of nations to be great,

Win lasting wealth, and compass true renown,
While each the other's merit seeks to mate,
And only honor's course with glory crown,
Shall be to prove most wise and virtuous,
And man become indeed CHRISTOPHORUS.

HENRY B. CARRINGTON.

PART I.

THE PATRIOTISM OF OUR FOUNDERS.

INTRODUCTION.

THE centennial year of American Independence, 1876, introduced such a memorial review of general and local history as belongs only to countries which have produced men, or have established landmarks, well worthy of notice through successive generations. The world's recognition of our political and material progress, and the settlement of issues which retarded, if they did not seriously endanger, American liberty, have already done much to restore a waning veneration for the founders of the republic. Monuments, statues, libraries, colleges, and other memorial buildings and institutions have been made tributary to the more distinct and permanent recognition of the great and good men of the past. America is indeed no longer young, but had become so absorbed in the stirring events of these busy times as to be tempted to underestimate the severity of the sacrifices which secured the blessings and glories of to-day.

In the enjoyment of exceptional civil and religious freedom, it is well to revive and cherish the associations which reach far behind the actual war for independence, even though they lack the exciting elements of battle on land or sea. Thereby we honor the personal experience of those pioneer settlers whose life was chiefly that of intense soul-struggle, with very faint conceptions of the vast range of prosperity and blessing which would be the result.

Our founders, in common with all who seek a foreign shore for a new home, or even for mere adventure, shared the hope that worldly prosperity would be the result, and that escape from the oppressive restraints of the Old World would insure

a healthy independence of action and the corresponding benefits in the New.

The purpose to administer their own government in the interests of both civil and religious liberty was nowhere more distinctly asserted than by the founders of Maryland, but they did not cross the ocean under such an overwhelming pressure of religious obligation as did those who had no alternative but emigration or the surrender of religious convictions. The settlers of Maryland had the high privilege of being accompanied by their religious faith, and building for freedom, without the sacrifice of home ties and home endearments. Many of our founders, however, came to these shores because their religious faith was itself exiled, and they followed, rather than abandon or betray it. The Dutch at New York, the Swedes in Delaware, and the hardy colonists who first tilled other plantations along the Atlantic coast, alike command our respect and grateful tribute. From their varied activities and temperaments we derived much of the force which united all in final resistance to British dictation. But there was a distinctive moral force which shaped our destiny as a nation, never to be slighted or forgotten. It is only by a just appreciation of that class of labor and sacrifice that our youth can comprehend the magnitude and wisdom of their labors, so as to be just to all, unjust to none.

THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS.

THE breaking waves dashed high, on a stern and rock-bound coast,

And the woods against a stormy sky their giant branches tossed, And the heavy night hung dark, the hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark on the wild New England shore.

Not as the conqueror comes, they, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of stirring drums, and the trumpet that sings of fame;

Not as the flying come, in silence and in fear,

They shook the depths of the desert's gloom with their hymns of lofty cheer.

Amidst the storm they sang, and the stars heard, and the sea! And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang to the anthem of the free!

The ocean eagle soared from his nest by the white waves' foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared,-this was their welcome home!

There were men with hoary hair amidst that pilgrim band,— Why had they come to wither there, away from their childhood's

land?

There was woman's fearless eye, lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow, serenely high, and the fiery heart

of youth.

What sought they thus afar? bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas? the spoils of war?-They sought a faith's pure shrine!

Ay, call it holy ground, the soil where first they trod; They have left unstained what there they found,-freedom to worship God!

FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS.

THE FOUNDERS OF OUR GOVERNMENT.

THE love of liberty has always been the ruling passion of our nation. It was mixed at first with the "purple tide" of the founders' lives, and, circulating with that tide through their veins, has descended down through every generation of their posterity, marking every feature of our country's glorious story. May it continue thus to circulate and descend to the remotest period of time !

Oppressed and persecuted in their native country, the high, indignant spirit of our fathers formed the bold design of leaving