| Show tS y C c r l I It Ity b bt t I 1635 t y r I 1935 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON MEMBER l 31 The TheD dying light of ot the win wint wintry wintry D t try day Is slanting across the sun dial and bringing to a close an anther ther ther year Except for tor a few tew white settlements clingIng cling log Ine precariously to th the thu edge of the wilderness North America Is still sUll stillI the red man mans s coat conti nent True the Spanish have been es- es es established hed do down don n In the Great South Southwest Southwest Southwest west for or nearly a x hundred years and aDd andSt St SL Augustine In Florida Florid is 1 I nearly three quarters of a century old I true rue too the French rench have been salting up and down the St SL Law Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence rence for nearly a century but the establishment est of New t France as a permanent perm colon colony Is very ery recent As for Cor the other oilier f E European na Da lions who have hare sou sought ht to plant out out- outposts outposts outposts posts In the New t they world world they are newcomers Indeed I For tor or only t two 0 decades hive he h e the Dutch been on the Hudson with Ith their New t ether t land which Is to become New t for or a much less time than that hn they tended e their th lr rule over o what hat Is now New hew Jersey Io UlI Down ii 11 on the James rh river er a little colony of Europeans has atlon and Indian massacre for fora fora or ora a quarter of a century and up on the st stern rn and rock bound coast of Massachusetts another colony of people who ho speak the same tongue his endured e even een en greater grenter hardships for or more thin a n decade And these are the people who are to dominate the North t American continent at last for they speak the tongue of Old Ln England land 1 For tor or New w England Is to survive sunhe when New t Prince France New t t and New t Spun Sp are but memories From the h two 0 little settlements PI Plymouth mouth and Boston which united sill III become e eventually the state of Massachusetts ha the settlements which are to grow Into the states of Milne and v Mw Hampshire and two more will soon have hs their origins there Lord Cah Calvert ert has already erected his cross at St Mary s on the Ches Ches- Chesapeake Chesapeake bay blY to found the colony In which there Is true religious free free- freedom freedom freedom dom and from Crom which Is to grow the Free State of Mar Maryland land But Dut a half century Is Iq still to pass before Penn realizes his dream of ot f fi ft i t iJ r t r 4 ref d i ROGER WILLIAMS a City of Brotherly Love Lo and lays the foundation for the state ot of Pennsylvania unla and a n full ull century Is Isto isto Isto to c before Gen James Ogle Ogle- Oglethorpe thorpe Ogle thorpe Is to found that thit haven hl of refuge which will sill III become Georgia Thus the picture as the old year 1631 dies hen the rising sun of the n new w year 1633 casts Its beam across the sun dial It t fore foreshadows great events that are to come comeDown Down Dos 00 n In the gov gO councIl writes Into Its record this laconic entry On On the of of 1035 1635 Sr John Harvey thrust out of ot his government go and Copt Capt John West cst acts as Governor 0 ern or till the KIngs 8 pleasure Is 18 known n Thus Is chronicled a 1 free ree people peoples S first re- re rebellion re to rebellion bellion hellion albeit an nn orderly one and andI andas andas andas I as one hl historian says sa s It points to tot two t 0 facts facts- first a n spirit of ot Inde Inde- Independence Independence inde- inde independence and self re respect In the young community and second a faculty of self control which pre pre- prevented vented what hat was a n rebellion from de degenerating Into tumult and anarchy And to follow ollow through years liter later another Ir Isto Isto Is to declare passionately Give Ghe mei me t i liberty or give SlY me death I and still another Is to pen these Immortal words Resolved ed Thit Th thc these e United Colonies are lire and of right rl ht ou ought ht to be free and independent States Up In 10 New l Ln England A UA cloud small at a hand like cloud cloudIs cloudIs Is spreading 0 over er the sky of Massa chus Bay So small email It was wa as Inthe inthe In Inthe the bare overarching vault ault that mo most t people tal tai e a no notice of It nut But Anne Hutchinson watches It grow and spread feeding on the parched pi pl tins of the sky s ky The ministers and magistrates are blind to this spreading portent Secure 10 n their places they do not sense the tremulous hope that has seized the pet people pie It ItI I l Tl TJ at tremulous hope bope Is hope for tor 1 true freedom of worship because I the ecclesiastical hierarchy these ministers and magistrates who vho left England because they would not conform to certain prescribed An practices In turn will allow not the slightest deviation from the worship Vo which they themselves or ordained But Dut there Is la one who dares to de- de deviate deviate de deviate In more way Vo ays than one a one ayoung youn young Welshman eishman named no Roger er WU Clams IIams of Salem He declares that the state has no authority over the consciences of men that there should be freedom of worship anti and entire separation of church and sta state tate te Roger Williams Is America s first dangerous erous radical Massachusetts Ray nay In Is no place for such men So the General Court orders him to leave the colony but finally allows vs him to remain until spring t F h f t Jr J iv fA r rJOHN JOHN ADAMS If It he will not go about to draw others to his opinions He does not go about but he does welcome oth others othera others ers era to his hou house e where he preaches his radical doctrines So the Court sends a constable to arrest 11 Vii llama IIams He lie flees through the snows of winter to the hospitable wigwam of Massasoit on t Day Bay There he Is to remain until spring then go forth to found the colony of Pro Providence But nut there Is la still that other dangerous radical She has formed ormed Americas America's first woman s club She Insists on criticizing the preaching of the colony s a ministers Out with her heri I So Anne Hutchinson Is also banished She She too goes to the south and makes a settlement Thus grows gross the colony of Rhode Island dedicated to the prIncipal of freedom of worship So Is to see the planting of the seeds of lib lib- liberty of erty-of erty of political liberty In Ir Virginia and religious liberty In Rhode which Island which are to bear fruit a century and a half hilf liter later In the Con Constitution of the United States of Amet lea But nut Roger and Anne hutchinson are not the only dissat dissatIsfied dissatIsfied ones In Massachusetts Hay Bay colony Another Is Thomas hunker pastor of the church at t e teton Heston ton Looking to the south he sees the fruitfulness and commodiousness of Connecticut and because of thE want of accommodation for their cattle and the danger of having It possessed by others Dutch or Ush he tells the General Court of the the strong bent hent of their spirits to remove thither But Dut the Court refuses re- re refuses re refuses fuses permission for him to take his people and goIn goIn go goIn In the meantime back In Eng England England land a group of prominent Puritans Including lord I ord Siye and Sele Sole Lord Brooke Sir Richard S John Hampden and John pym alarmed at the Increasing tyranny t ranny of Charles Chlrles I have bave planned pl to es a refuge In America SecurIng SecurIng SecurIng Ing a grant of land south smith of ot they hive have appointed John Jr as gO governor of their colony In 1635 he Is to build ah a h y 4 t v a 4 a r III v lu luI I l J i l 1 tl 1 t C fort tort and call the place Saybrook In honor of Lords Suc Saye SIl e and e eThe The next year ear Hooker will vein take tabe his family and most of his congregation lion with Ith him and migrate south Soon there will sill be other towns up and down n the Connecticut river vii ley and from the these e beginnings In 1635 will row trow row the colony and event ent eventually eventually the state stale of Connecticut a December 31 1731 The sinas In the hourglass arc are slipping swiftly away The old year Is dying Soon the new year of 1735 will be bornAnd bornAnd born bornAnd And an as It Is l born lorn orn there Is also born a son BOn In the e home of B Ii French goldsmith In Boston Apollos Apollo Rivers was his name when he be landed on the shores of America But Hut when he was marri d od d to Deborah Inch Hichborn born he be Anglicized his name to Paul Revere And on January 1 1735 when this little son Ron Is born to them they give him the name of Paul Revere also Young Paul will grow up op to fol follow follow follow low his father fathers s a trade to become an expert goldsmith an artist artist a dentist In fact fact act a very versatile young man mon But nut history will not remember re- re remember re remember member him for or his hie skill In any of those trades Instead It will remember remember bet ber him as the th courier on a n mid midnight midnight midnight night ride In 1775 The British are coming 1 I he shou shouts ts as he rouses e every ery Middlesex village and firm fum and his voice will come thun thundering doting do down don n through the years to remind us how he rallied the pa patriots to the defense of those liberties Tiber ties which were first demanded In and In Rhode Island In a hundred bundred years before he was born bero While hale little Paul Revere Is just learn learning In to crawl about on the floor of his bis fathers father s 8 house bouse In Boston a son Is la born to tu a farmer living near Braintree Mass The date Is October 19 17 1735 1715 and this little boy hoy hoyla Is also given his hia fathers father s name name- name John Adams HP hie Is to go to colle college e to become a lawyer and In nr 1765 to write for the Boston Ga Gazette Gazette zette a series of essays denying the right of the English Parliament to Impose taxation upon her American colonies without their consent In 1775 he Is to attend the Con Continental Congress In Philadelphia and there to propose as ns commander of the army anny raised to defend Amer AmerIcan Amerlean lean Ican liberties a Virginian named George Washington ashington And Vo when hen an another another another other Virginian named Richard henry Lee offers otters the resolution that These United Colonies are and of rl right ht ought to be free and Inde lode Independent Independent pendent States and moves Its adoption adoption adoption tion this same John Adams Adans will second the motion and will be ap- ap tF I e eF F 1 f 1 r f s 4 ft 1 t U UT T wiT i CJ tit OSCEOLA pointed a member of the committee to draw up a n Declaration of Inde lade Independence Independence He lIe will help bell write that Immortal document he will sign It and when at last the fight for or liberty Is la won he will be one of the peace corn com commissioners missioners who sign the treaty of peace that ends the Revolution and he will become the first minister of the new nation to the court of St James It vv will not fall to his lot lotto lotto lotto to be one of those who draw up the Constitution for the new republic but under Its terms tenDs he will become the first vice Ice president of the Unit United United United ed States which wh he helped and Its second President And Andon Andon Andon on July 4 lS 6 e exactly 50 GO years reus to the diy day from the Ump time he had signed the Declaration of Independence dence John Adams will die his great work orb ended But Dut before the sands In his hour bour hourglass hourglass glass have ha run out he will have done other things s besides being a Signer and I i 1 rather Father of the Re lle Republic public to guarantee his Immortal ImmortalIty immortalIty ImmortalIty Ity He lie will have ha given gien to the time no na notion nation tion a son John Quincy ms Ad who ho Is destined to be the sloth resident President of the United States and to be the only ex President who ever er sen served ed Ills his country In congress aft after after after er leaving the bile louse House December 31 18 1 4 lick tock Tick tock I tuck I The lat last lai l min lOin minuses uses utes of the year 1834 1831 are arc slipping Into luto eternity as the hands of the clod clock move mu to a straight up upright upright upright right position on the dial One two two- two three three three- four tour five fi of sl 1 seven eight nine nine- ten nine ten ele the eleven the In-the the lock os es twelve t teh eh e 1 IThe The year Is 11 ushered la In laIn In In the Vu bite House Bouse at ashing ashington ashington ton bits sits Pt President Andrew Old Old n placed cil there by the votes of the Western estern frontiersmen and the common people of all see sec sections of the country I or the days of the Virginia d dynasty nasty and the New Iw England oligarchy are done Democracy In America la I at last triumphant January 30 In the Capitol they are holding the funeral of Congress Congress- Con Congressman Congressman re s- s man Warren R It Davis of South Car President Jackson leaves the White House louse to attend As he passes through the rotunda a man leaps out with two pistols In his hands bands Pointing hands Pointing both at the President he be puns pulls the trl triggers Jers But Hut neither Is dl discharged Before he can try he la Is seized and hustled bustled away Later the man Richard Lawrence La Is to be tried found Insane and shut up In an asylum For a little 4 l V Vw w rI r I Ili MARK TWAIN I while his name Li la on every Amer American Iran ican s lips but soon he be Is forgotten this this man who would be the first to assassinate an American President That dark fame tame Is to be reserved reserve for John Wilkes Booth who Is to succeed where I awrence failed and ane send Abraham Lincoln to a mar marty martyr's martyrs martyr's ty tyr's s graves grave gra vo But Dut If Death passes by the Chief Executive In this first month of 1835 before the new year Is scarce scarce- scarcely scarcely scarcely ly half balf over It will knock at the thedoor thedoor thedoor door of the chief Justice of the Unit United United United ed States It Is a position which he has held for 34 years the long longest longest est eat In the history of that high trib trIb- trIbunal tribunal unal On July 0 6 In Philadelphia will willdie willdie die John Marshall who had bad been In In bringing about the of the United States Con and whose Interpretation of that document during his long service on the supreme bench has Imprinted Indelibly his name upon the law V of our land While such great e events as these theS are taking place back In the East Easta a little town In Missouri Is the scene of another event ent seemingly ly unimportant at the time but destined to result In many hours of delight for Cor thousands of later Americans On November 30 Florida 1 Mo Io 10 becomes the birthplace of a boy who will bear the name of Sam Clemens when he gro grows groves s up to be a Cooled Confederate Confederate erate soldier a Mississippi rh riser er pilot a miner and a newspaper ne newspaperman man In Nevada t e But limit It will be un under under under der the name o 0 Mark Twain that he be will be known far and wide and American literature will be he enriched by his Tom Sawyer and Huckle berry Finn and Rou Roughing It and andI life I Ife Ile on the Mississippi MI and In Abroad In the Missouri town of Florida a boy Is la born but In the state of Florida as this year 1835 dies some brave bra men will die In the outbreak of one of the costliest Indian wars warsIn warsin warsIn In American history On December 23 the fierce chieftain of the Sem SemInoles SemInoles SemInoles Osceola Osccola creeps stealthily up to F 1 Fort ort King an I 1 shoots down Gen General General General eral Thompson the In linn lIan agent and five fi other 0 white bite men And on that same day his fierce tribesmen ambush the |
