Show The Puritan Migration The 21000 English Puritans who came over to New England before the meeting of the Long Parliament have now increased to nearly 13 OOOOflO According to the most careful care-ful estimates at least onefourth of the whole population of the United States at the present moment is descended de-scended from these men Striking as this fact may seem it is perhaps less striking than the facto fact-o the original migration when we stop to contemplate it in its full meaning In these times when great steamers are sailing every day from European ports bringing hundreds hun-dreds of emigrants to a country coun-try which is at least as far advanced in material civilization aa the country which they leave the arrival of a thousand new citizens each day has come to be a commonplace common-place event But in the seven teenth century the transfer of 21 000 welltodo people within twenty years from their comfortable homes in England to the American wilderness wilder-ness was by no means a commonplace common-place event It assumed somewhat the character of the migration of a whole people In the quaint thought of some of our forefathers themselves them-selves it was aptly likened to tho exodus of Israel from the Egyptian house of bondageJohn tfiske in Harpers Magazine for December |