{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3886", "width": "2534", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3615", "width": "2320", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3668", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3615", "width": "2320", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "A DISCOURSE\\nDKLIVEREI) IN THK\\nFIRST CHURCH OF DOVER, MAY 18, 1873.\\nTwo Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary\\nSETTLEMENT OF DOVER, N. TL,\\nBy GEORGE B. SPALDING,\\nPASTOR OF THF: FIRST CHURCH.\\nil ,il:lisl,. d hii Request.-]\\nDOVER, .V. H.\\nFREEWILL BAPTIST PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT\\n1873.", "height": "3668", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3615", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "A DISCOURSE\\nDELIVERED IN THE\\nFIRST CHURCH OF DOVER, MAY 18, 1873,\\nTwo Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary\\nSETTLEMENT OF DOVER, N. H,,\\nBy GEORGE B. SPALDING,\\nPASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH,\\n[Published by Request.\\nDOVER, N. H.\\nFREEWILL BAPTIST PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT.\\n1873-\\nJ3", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": ".::x", "height": "3682", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "DISCOURSE.\\nThe glory of children is their fathers. Proverbs 17: 6.\\ni\\nWe live in a country whose national history has not yet\\nreached its first centennial. Our oldest institutions are\\nalmost of yesterday. Our most ancient structures are free\\nfrom the moss and stains of age. Our ideas, and associa-\\ntions, and even our memories are within the boundaries of\\nthe near and present. It is, therefore, difficult for us to\\nconnect ourselves with an event which antedates by centu-\\nries the lives of most of us, an event which is farther re-\\nmoved from the birthday of the nation than that day is\\nremoved from the present.\\nTwo Hundred and Fifty years ago Then James the\\nFirst was on the throne of England, nearing the end of his\\nvices and stupidities. Shakespeare was but just resting in\\nhis tomb from his immortal labors. Galileo was o:ettino|;\\nready his heretical solar system to lay at the feet of the newly\\nelected Pope. Bacon still lived, and wrote with all his\\nwonted profundity of thought and splendor of eloquence.\\nMilton, that year, a youth of marvelous beauty, entered\\n1*", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "the University at Cambridge. Rare Ben Johnson was\\nbusy with his court masques and comedies. Sidney was a\\nboy playing at his mother s feet.\\nHere, this side the great water, a feeble colony of En-\\nglishmen was holding its position on the Virginian coast at\\na vast expenditure of money and a great sacrifice of human\\nlife. That very year they were fighting the Indians through\\ntangled woods and swamps. That very year a feebler colony\\nof Englishmen was passing a third year on the Massachu-\\nsetts coast, living on five kernels of corn to the individual.*\\nIn May of that year, two hundred and fifty years ago this\\nSabbath, one hundred persons, weak with sickness and\\nstarvation, laid down at night not knowing, according to\\ntheir own record, where to have a Bit in the Morning,\\nhaving neither Bread nor Corn yet, adds the writer, we\\nbear our Wants with Cheerfulness, and rest on Providence. f\\nIn the same year and month of May, a boat from an English\\nship came up the river Piscataqua. It bore a little com-\\npany of men, none of whom are known to us by name, ex-\\ncept two brothers, Edward and William Hilton. J They\\nsteered straight on up the broad stream until they came to\\na point of land made by the flowing in of another river.\\nIt was not the first time that these waters had been stirred\\nby a foreign keel, and, perhaps, it was not the first time\\nthat this point of land had been trodden by foreign feet.\\nTwenty years before this, Captain Martin Pring had sailed\\nup this chann^el 3 or 4 leagues, perhaps ten miles,\\nand had explored its banks for sassafras, which was held in\\nhigh estimation in Europe for its aromatic and medicinal\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Bancroft s Hist, of U. S. Little, Brown Co. Vol, 1, p. 315.\\ntPrince s Annals of N. E., first edition, vol. 1, p. 135.\\nJPrince s Annals, vol. 1, p. 134.", "height": "3682", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "qualifies. Nine years before, the renowned Capt. John\\nSmith had sailed along its wooded banks, and, on his return,\\nhad written in admiration of the deep waters of Piscata-\\nqua.\\nBut the keel which now grated along the shore until it\\nrested in some nook of the land turned not back. The two\\nbrothers, with their few associates, were soon lifting up axes\\nupon the thick trees. They threw up a rude house or two.\\nInto them they gathered the articles and instruments, which\\nthey had brought with them, necessary for a fishery. They\\ncame to stay. And so Dover was born and cradled, and\\nput to rest for at least eight years. At the end of that time,\\nit could boast the possession of only three houses.\\nLet us recall the features of the scene which these found-\\ners gazed upon. The same sky of blue and cloud the\\nsame unrivalled water view, of rivers with their shining\\narms, and great placid bays, all pulsing with the ocean s\\nlife the same rounded mountain and swelling hills all this,\\nwhich fills us at each new beholding with increased admira-\\ntion, met their eyes also. But the scene to them was wilder,\\nfidler and richer. The Neck, now so bare, was clothed\\nfrom summit down to the water s edge with lordly pines and\\noaks, whose dense foliage swayed to and fro in the wind and\\nsighed responsive to the ocean s roar. Innumerable trailing\\nvines, many of them flaunting in gayest colors, interlaced\\nthe trees and rendered passage difficult. The deer had their\\nwell worn paths to the springs and grasses of the lower\\nland. The rivers were filled with fish, and with all kind of\\nwater fowls. It was a scene which, to those men accus-\\ntomed to the open, cultivated fields of England, must have\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Bancroft s Hist, of U. S., vol. 1, p. 114. Ibid, p. 328.", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "6\\nbeen almost terrible in its beauty. Probably, at that time,\\nthere were only a few Indians in the region. Years before\\nit must have been a favorite place to them. Bat the entire\\neastern coast of New England, just before its settlement by\\nwhite men, had been swept clean of its inhabitants by a\\ngreat pestilence. The Pilgrims found in the neighborhood\\nof Plymouth vast burial grounds, and bleaching bones scat-\\ntered everywhere.* The Indians whom they saw were few\\nin number, the fragments of once powerfid tribes. There\\nwas no savage whoop to smite with fear the Hiltons and\\ntheir companions. They were startled by no other sound\\nthan the mighty crash of some monarch tree, which, at some\\nmoment of profound stillness, having reached the measure\\nof its days, trembled and fell, ringing its own knell through\\nall the solitude around. Unmolested and unobserved, the\\nwhite invaders plied their occupations, curing fish and furs,\\nand lumbering along the rivers banks. The elder Hilton,\\nEdward, is spoken of by Winthrop as a gentleman of good\\njudgment. Neither of them is supposed to have been a\\nPuritan. They came here in the interests of Capt. John\\nMason, who had a claim to the region under a royal grant.\\nCapt. Mason was a strong Churchman, and it may be pre-\\nsumed that the Hiltons were like minded. The few acces-\\nsions made during the first eight years were from a class of\\nmen with whom the Puritans had no sympathy either upon\\nreligion or moral grounds. In Prince s New England\\nChronology, I find this very significant entry, under date of\\nAug. 20th, 1630. Speaking of some who returned from the\\nPlymouth Colony to England on account of sickness and\\nthreatened .famine, and of dislike of our Government,\\nwhich restrained and punished their Excesses, the annalist\\n*Prince s Annals of N. E., vol. 1, p. 106.", "height": "3682", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "goes on to say that others, also, afterwards hearing of\\nMen of their own Disposition at Pascataway^ went from us\\nto them whereby, tho our numbers were lessened, yet we\\naccounted oui selves nothing weakened by their Removal.\\nIt is almost certain that Dover got some recruits from this\\ncompany.\\nIn 1631, the ownership of the plantation passed to\\nLords Say and Brooks and others. Capt. Wiggin, who\\nhad been the agent of the old company and was con-\\ntinued in the same office by the new one, went back to\\nEngland to procure more ample means for carrying on the\\nplantation. In the fall of 1633, the Captain returned, hav-\\ning with him a number of families from the west of England,\\nsome of whom, according to Hubbard, were of good estate\\nand of some account for religion.\\nAmong them was Rev. William Leveridge. He was a\\ngraduate of Emanuel College, Cambridge. According to\\nWinthrop he was a godly minister. Belknap writes of\\nhim as a worthy and able Puritan minister.\\nThis first minister must have entered upon his work with\\ngreat enthusiasm and energy. The settlers who came with\\nhim divided the lower part of the Neck into lots, with\\nreference to building up a compact town. It must have\\nbeen under the inspiration of their minister that a meeting-\\nhouse was first erected. It was placed upon the most ele-\\nvated site, crowning the little settlement, and giving to it\\nwhatever grace and glory it might boast. It was a rude\\nstructure of logs and mud, but, like the temple of old, it\\nwas beautiful for situation.\\nThe place where the first church was built should forever\\nremain sacred to us, and to our children after us. When\\n*Prmce s Annals of N. E., vol. 1, p. 246.", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8\\nthe magnificent temple was reared by Solomon, the glory of\\nits marble walls, its golden pinnacles, and its precious wood\\ncould not eclipse the glory of the rude threshing floor of\\nAraunah, where God appeared to David his father, and\\nwhere his father first raised the altar of worship. That soul\\namong us is wanting in some most precious quality that has\\nno reverence for yonder spot where the fathers prayed and\\nworshiped. I love to linger in thought around the place.\\nI think of those hard, rough men and the scarcely gentler\\nwomen, at the sound of the drum leaving their huts at the\\nrivers banks, mounting the hill, perhaps stopping at the way-\\nside spring which still flows, entering in below the low\\nporch, and gathering within the rude audience -room. There\\nare some who love better the stately ritual of the Church\\nservice. There are others who care little for any service.\\nThere are a few who have felt the sting of Church bigotry\\nand persecution in their English homes, and are ready, with\\nlarge, grateful hearts, for the free and simple service to which\\ntheir Puritan minister will lead them. I think of him,\\neducated within the classic walls of the great EngHsh Uni-\\nversity, a man of scholarly tastes and acquirements, who\\nhad already won honors in the land of Shakspeare and\\nBacon, in this log church in the wilderness, lifting his\\nhands to prayer above those untaught men, and, out of the\\nlove for Christ which glowed within him, striving to shape\\ntheir roughness into the grace of a Christian faith and Hv-\\ning. We catch his earnest, tender tones in prayer, his\\nlearned exposition and solemn appeal in sermon, and the\\nstrange song of their united praise.\\nBut the voice crying in the wilderness, like his of old,\\ncried in vain. The minister lacked both the spiritual and\\nmaterial support of his people, and in less than two years\\nwithdrew to Boston, where he was admitted a member of", "height": "3682", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "9\\nthe first church. He died at Newton, L. I., after a life of\\npatient, heroic service, leaving behind him a commentary on\\na large part of the Old Testament, a monument of his schol-\\narship and piety which is still preserved among the records\\nof that ancient town.*\\nAfter this, for two or more years, the people were with-\\nout religious instruction. In the trade of fish, furs and\\nlumber, and in the cultivation of corn, the plantation became\\nsomewhat flourishing. During all these early years, the set-\\ntlers here were under the necessity of carrying their corn to*\\nthe windmill in Boston to be ground.\\nIn 1637, there cam.e up from Massachusetts a strange\\ncharacter, another one of those men who could not endure\\nthe rigor of the Puritan s manners and laws. George\\nBuRDET, had been a colleague minister in the Established\\nChurch at Yarmouth, England. Somehow he had gotten\\ninto citizenship at Salem, Mass., and had even preached,\\nthere, but he thought that there would be ampler room for\\nhis free conscience and morals in the Dover plantation.f\\nHe found here two quite distinct elements, an Episcopal\\nand a Puritan one.i\\n*Thompson s Long IsL, vol. 1, p. 480. Kicker, Hist, of Newtown, L. I.,\\n53, 98.\\ntWinthrop s N. E., vol. l,.p. 332, note.\\niThe early settlers of Dover and Portsmouth and of the Isles of Shoals were\\nattached to the Church of England. They were thorough-going royalists.\\nHow bitterly they hated the Parliament against the king, and the Puritans\\nof Massachusetts against the Church of England, how vast were the projects\\nof some of their leaders, looking to the establishmentof Episcopacy and mon-\\narchy in these northern regions, is seen in no little part of the annals and cor-\\nrespondence of those days. In a historical sketch of the Isles of Shoals, by\\nJohn Scribner Jeuness, published by Hurd Houghton, there is a very in-\\nteresting and most significant reference to this matter. We refer the reader\\nespecially to chapters YI. and X. In Dover there were those whose sympa-\\nthies were with the Bay Company and the independent ideas, both civil\\nand religious, which the Puritans represented. These, for the most part,\\nwere the men who came over with the Puritan minister, Mr. Leveiidge.\\nThe fact that there existed here in Dover these two parties, representing\\nprinciples and polities thus antagonistic, is the true key for our solution\\nof the strange events which now open upon us.", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10\\nHe began at once to preach and also to intrigue. He\\naspired to be a sort of Pope, uniting in himself both the\\nspiritual and temporal headships. And he succeeded. He\\nset the people against Governor Wiggin and got himself\\nelected to his office. He then put himself into correspond-\\nence with Archbishop Laud, the bitterest and meanest of all\\nthe Puritan s many foes. In his letters he tried to show\\nthat the men of Massachusetts were aiming* to establish an\\nindependent nationality.* What personal ambition underlay\\nall this abominable hypocrisy and lying can only be guessed\\nat. Perhaps he aimed at a bishopric here in North\\nAmerica But in this the prelatical pastor and politician\\nfailed. A letter of his to the English prelate was intercept-\\ned. His treachery was thus exposed. He withdrew into\\nMaine. He afterwards went back to England, took sides\\nwith the royalists against the parliamentary forces, was taken\\nprisoner, and this is the last known of him.\\nBefore Burdet left Dover, another even more conspicuous\\nfigure appeared on the stage, through whom this increasing\\ndifference between the Puritan and prelatical elements issued\\nin a direct colhsion and so was hastened on to due settlement.\\nThere came to Boston, one Hansebd Knollys, a graduate\\nof Cambridge, England. He had received ordination\\nfrom the Bishop of Peterborough, but was afterwards a\\nzealous opposer of Episcopacy and the liturgy. t In July,\\n1638, he arrived at Boston. He was without money. His\\nown statement is, I was necessitated to work daily with\\nmy hoe for the space of almost tlu ee weeks. At the invita-\\ntion of some of the more religious here, he came to Dover.\\nDr. Quint, writing upon this subject, thus concisely states\\nthe condition of affairs in Dover at the coming of Mr.\\n*Winthrop s Hist, of N. E., vol. 1, pp. 358, 359.\\nfNeal s Hist, of the Puritans, vol. 2, pp. 368, 369.", "height": "3682", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "11\\nKnollys He found a settlement originated under Epis-\\ncopal auspices, though enlarged under other influences a\\npeople mixed in their character, none of them emigrants for\\nconscience sake, and none of them Puritans of the Bay-\\ntype, the settlement a refuge for men who could not endure\\nthe IMassachusetts rigor no church organized after fifteen\\nyears of colonial life and a minister who, in spirit a church-\\nman, was corresponding with Archbishop Laud, and who\\nwas supported by a portion of the people.\\nOf some of the best minded, says Winthrop, he\\ngathered a church. This refers to the organization of the\\nchurch, of this church, in January, 1639, that is, 234 years\\nago\\nAnd just here, because in these last days it has been\\nclaimed that this venerable church was organized by a Bap-\\ntist minister as a Baptist church, or that it soon became a\\nBaptist church under him, and because this claim has been\\ngiven a sort of weight and respectability by being allowed a\\nplace in Dr. Sprague s distinguished work, The Annals of\\nthe American Churches, it must have some notice.\\nTherfe is no hint anywhere found that Knollys was a Bap-\\ntist before his coming to America. Winthrop, who speaks\\nwith great particularity of him, and with an evident dislike\\nof him which would have led him to charge Knollys\\nwith all that he was guilty of, if not something more, never\\nspeaks of him as being a Baptist. He charges him with\\nholding some of Mrs. Hutchinson s opinion, that is, with\\nbeing an antinomian.f In all the controversy which raged\\nso fiercely here in Dover, divided the people, tore the\\n*Dr. Quint, in his Hist. Mem., No. 44: It is evident that the church was\\norganized within a few days, immediately following 13 January, 1638-9, O.\\nS., or 24 January, 1639, as w^e should reckon it. The time can not be exactly\\nascertained.\\ntWiuthrop s Hist. N. E., vol. 1, p. 351.", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12\\nchurch, and involved in itself the lively interest and the\\nspecial interference of the Massachusetts people, there is\\nnever a word in any record of it that affords a fact, or even\\na hint, out of wiiich this Baptist theorizer spins his dream.\\nFor a masterly refutation of this atsurd claim, I com-\\nmend you to an article by a distinguished son of this\\nchurch, who is greatly jealous of the mother s fame and\\nhonor.*\\nThe truth is, the conflict which was fought out within the\\nwalls of the old church and along the single street of Dover,\\nwas the same in character with that which had been raging\\nfor half a century in England, and whicli was yet to soak\\nwith the blood of its noblest citizens many of its fair fields.\\nHanserd Knollys was a Puritan. Hatred of the English\\nestablished church had been generated in him by the perse-\\ncutions which began to be brought against him from that\\nquarter from the day when he renounced the ordination\\nwhich he had received from its hands. Herbert Skeats, in\\nhis History, says that Knollys knew from experience, even\\nat the first, all that Church persecution could tell. And\\nwhen he fled from it, the High Commission Court, in Charles\\nthe First s time, followed him into New England. f He\\ncame to Dover, organized a church, and began preaching,\\nsurrounded by the same prelatical tendencies and influences\\nthe nature of which he knew well of in his English home.\\nBut those tendencies and influences were soon to gather head,\\nand challenge from him, and others like him, stout and suc-\\ncessful opposition.\\nThomas Larkham in this year, 1640, came to Dover. He\\n*The Congregational Quarterly, January, 1871. Article entitled Hanserd\\nKnollys in Sprague s Annals. By Eev. Alonzo H. Quint, D. D.\\ntA Hist, of The Free Churches of England, Herbert S. Skeats, second\\nedition, London Arthur Miall, p. 155.", "height": "3682", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "13\\nhad been an Episcopal minister at Northam, England. That\\nhe still retained his church notions is evident from the fact,\\nas recorded by Winthrop, on Larkham s arrival, that he\\nwas a man not savouring the right way of church disci-\\npline, and again, from the fact as recorded by Hubbard,\\nwho calls him, in reference to Burdet, another church-\\nman. Mr. Larkham, finding the Massachusetts Puritanism\\nuncongenial to him, came up to Dover, fie was a man of\\nconsiderable wealth, and, buying some of the shares in the\\nplantation company, he became greatly influential. This is\\nseen in the fact that he persuaded the people here to change\\nthe name of their town to Northam, this last being the name\\nof his English home.* He was a man of brilliant speech\\nand of popular address. The people began to want him as\\na preacher. Knollys was obliged to retire before him, and\\nMr. Larkham took the pulpit. Here he discovered his\\nchurch notions at once and in a very marked way. Win-\\nthrop says he received into the church all that offered\\nthemselves, though men notoriously scandalous and igno-\\nrant, so they would promise amendment. This usage was\\nsquare against the Puritan idea. Its prevalence in the\\nEnglish church was one ground for our fathers separation\\nfrom it. They, as Furitans, aimed at a pure church. Here\\nKnollys met him denouncing his practice. But Larkham\\nwent on carrying his prelatical notions still further.f+ In\\nhis baptism of children, he signed them with a cross, and\\nregarded them as regenerated by the rite. This was a prac-\\ntice and a notion which the Puritans had protested against\\nfrom the first. He buried the dead according to the English\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Before this it was called Cochecho [Indian, Plungins: Water] or Hilton s\\nPoint. Note 1, p. 85, vol. 1. Provincial Papers, New Hampshire.\\ntWinthrop s Hist, of N. E., vol. 2, p. 33.\\ntLechford as quoted by Savage in note to Winthrop s Hist., 2 vol., p. 32.", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14\\nforms. The Puritans buried without even a prayer.\\nNow came the conflict in this obscure church and town,\\nthe same which already was raging in Scotland, and which\\nthis very year, transferred beyond the Tweed, was destined\\nto convulse England from end to end a conflict which here\\nas well as there involved principles entering into the very\\nnature and form of government, and which, as it might\\nend, would give shape to the civil and political institutions\\nand the character itself of the two people who, in the prov-\\nidence of God, were called to rule, each its half of the\\nworld\\nThe Puritan Knollys and his adherents rose up and ex-\\ncommunicated the Churchman Larkham and some of his\\nfollowers. Larkham appealed to the magistrates, who sum-\\nmoned the Knollys party to appear and answer for their ac-\\ntion. Capt. Underbill, who sided with the Puritans, mar-\\nshalled them into military array. They marched up the\\nstreet towards the court room, perhaps the meeting-house,\\nthe Puritan minister going in advance armed with a pistol,\\nand bearing a Bible mounted on a halberd for an ensign.*\\nLarkham and his party declined the challenge, but sent down\\nthe river to the Episcopal plantation at Portsmouth for aid.\\nThe field of contest was not within the province or jurisdic-\\ntion of Portsmouth. But the Episcopal Governor came up at\\nonce in a boat, with an armed party, to the assistance of the\\nimperiled churchmen. Knollys was besieged in his own\\nhouse, till a court was summoned, when the Governor, sit-\\nting in judgment, found Underbill and his party guilty of\\nriot, and, fining them, banished them from the plantation.\\nAppeal was made by the Puritans to the Massachusetts col-\\nony. Simon Bradstreet, Esq., Timothy Dalton, of Hamp-\\n*W inthrop s Hist, of N. E., vol, 2, p. 33.", "height": "3682", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "15\\nton, and the famous Hugh Peters, then minister of Salem,\\nwere sent as commissioners by the Governor of Massachu-\\nsetts. They came on foot to Dover. Having thoroughly\\ninvestigated the troubles here, and finding both parties more\\nor less in fault, they terminated the affair by revoking the\\nexcommunication of Larkham and the fines and banishment\\nof the other party.*\\nI have thus carefully rehearsed this passage in the early\\nhistory of Dover, not to stir a feeling of animosity against\\nany church or party of to-day. These events and these\\nmen belong to the history of a past which we to-day are\\nliving over. No review would be at all complete and truth-\\nful, which overlooked this most significant affair. In itself\\nthis controversy held an important place in its time, engross-\\ning the attention and inflaming the passions of men beyond\\nany other event that happened in that generation. But it\\nhas a place of greater meaning and importance than the im-\\nmediate circumstances which surrounded it would seem to\\nindicate. It was a quarrel between Churchmen and Puri-\\ntans in respect not only to ecclesiastical power, but in re-\\nspect to civil and political power also. It terminated not\\nonly in putting this ancient church forevermore under the\\nname and the principles of Puritan Congregationalism, but\\nit ended in putting the civil government of this Dover\\nplantation, and perhaps eventually of New Hampshire itself,\\nin harmony with the government and political principles of\\nthe other New England colonies. There were men here\\nwho hated Massachusetts. They sympathized with the\\nPortsmouth plantation, whose people, Adams in his Annals\\nof Portsmouth says, were not puritanical, but retained\\ntheir attachment to the Church of England. These men.\\n*Belknap s Hist, of N. H., Farmer s edition, p. 26.", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16\\nboth, here and in Portsmouth, were in constant correspond-\\nence with men high in the church and royal interests in\\nEngland, who purposed to crush the growing liberty and\\nindependence of the Puritan colonies. Had these men tri-\\numphed in this most critical time in the history of the church\\nand plantation, there can be no doubt that the history of\\nNew Hampshire down to the war of the Revolution, and\\nfar beyond that event, would have been greatly different\\nfrom -what it now is. The defeat of Larkham was speedily\\nfollowed by a union of the New Hampshire plantations with\\nthe Massachusetts colony. Two years after, they entered\\ninto that first confederacy which included all the colonies\\nof New England and which continued for nearly forty\\nyears. Of this union it has been finely said, it was the\\nprototype of the confederacy of the States during the revo-\\nlution, which was, in fact, the germ and vivifying principle\\nof our existence as a nation.\\nOf Hanserd Knollys I must say a word. Both Larkham\\nand Knollys were charged with gross immorality. Dr.\\nQuint, who has thoroughly examined the matter, unhesi-\\ntatingly pronounces the accusation against Knollys false,\\nand is inclined to doubt that against Larkham. In re-\\nspect to the former he says, His whole life gives the lie to\\nthe charge which Winthrop had heard, and incautiously re-\\ncorded, of gross immorality in Dover. That Knollys com-\\nmenced a suit for slander, should have some bearing. That\\nHugh Peter should send a letter from Dover by Knollys,\\nwhen the latter was on his way to Boston, earnestly recom-\\nmending him, is a clear refutation. Nor could a wicked\\nman in his latter days say, My wilderness, sea, city and\\nprison mercies, afford me many and strong consolations.\\nThe spiritual sights of the glory of God, the divine sweet-\\nness of the spiritual and providential presence of my Lord", "height": "3682", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "17\\nJesus Christ, and the comforts and joys of the Eternal\\nSpirit, communicated to my soul, have so often and so\\npowerfully revived, refreshed and strengthened my heart in\\nthe days of my pilgrimage, trials and sufferings, that the\\nsense, yea, the life and sweetness thereof, abides still upon\\nmy heart. In times when irreligious men and haters of\\nministers were compelled by law to pay for the minister s\\nsupport, ministers were fair targets for slanderous and lying\\ntongues, and a false rumor outtraveled the truth as fast\\nthen as it does in these days of daily papers and telegrams.\\nKnollys went back to England. He became identified with\\nthe Baptists. For fifty years he bore his testimony to the\\ntruth which was in him. For almost fifty years he was sub-\\nject to a pitiless persecution. He gathered an immense con-\\ngregation in London. He was a chaplain in Cromwell s\\narmy. He was known widely for his scholarship and his\\nfervid piety.* But hatred and bigotry begirt him round as\\nwith fire. He was stoned out of a pulpit in Suffolk by the\\nPresbyterians. He was imprisoned again and again by the\\nroyalists. He wandered a fugitive on the continent but\\nhe was faithful until death. When he was ninety-one years\\nold the Toleration Act was passed, and for two years he knew\\nfor the first time the blessing of religious liberty. He then\\npassed from eartli in a transport of joy. His body lies\\nburied in Bunhill Fields, where lie so many of England s\\nsainted heroes. God grant us to be as pure in life, as brave\\nin speech, as patient in suffering, as joyful in death and as\\n*Hist. of 4he Free Churches of England, Herbert S. Skeats, p. 155.\\nHist, of the Puritans, Neal, vol. 2, pp. 368, 370.\\nSkeats says, He was, perhaps, the most active preacher in the denomi-\\nnation preaching for forty years, in prison and out of it, seldom less than\\nthree or four times a week. His scholarship adorned all his sermons and\\nall his writiugs.", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18\\nsure of heaven as was the first minister of this venerable\\nchurch\\nDover, having placed herself under the jurisdiction of\\nMassachusetts, appealed to the courts there for a minister.\\nIn answer to this request David Maud was sent here in\\n1642. He was a graduate of Emanuel College, Cambridge.\\nAccording to Hubbard the historian, Mr. Maud was a\\nlearned man and of serious spidt and of a quiet, peaceable\\ndisposition. Under his ministry, continued until his death\\ntook place in 1855, the church was prospered. During his\\ntime a new Meeting-house was built by Major Waldron\\non the site of the old one. This building is thus described\\nin the writing of the day, as forty foot longe, twenty-six\\nfoote wide, sixteen foot studd, with six windows, two doores\\nfitt for such a house, with a tile covering, and all the walls\\nplanck. The support of the minister was met by an an*\\nnual payment of fifty pounds in money and the use of a\\nhouse and land.\\nJohn Reyner succeeded Mr. Maud in the ministry.\\nHe came to Dover in 1655 from Plymouth, where he\\nhad been settled eighteen years. The next year a\\nMeeting-house was erected at Oyster river for the ac-\\ncommodation of the people living in Durham. The\\nagreement between the two parishes was that \u00c2\u00a3100\\nshould be raised for two ministers who might exchange as\\noften as they should agree. Probably these two ministers\\nwere represented in the sole person of Mr. Reyner until in\\n166T he was assisted in his work by his son. The minis-\\nter s salary in 1658 was \u00c2\u00a3120, a part of which was payable\\nin provisions rated as follows beef 3 1-2 d. per pound,\\npork 4 1-2 d., wheat 6 s. per bushel, malt 5 s., peas 5 s.\\nIn 1659 a house was given to Mr. Reyner and his heirs.\\nIn 1669, perhaps to meet the wants of this younger minis-", "height": "3682", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "19\\nter, it was voted at a Publick Town meeting that there\\nshall be a minister s house built upon clover neck the di-\\nmentions is as folio we th that is to say 44 f. in length 20\\nfoot wide 14 foot between joist and joist with a stak of\\nBrick chimneys and a sellar of 16 foot squaer, this house to\\nbe Builded at the charge of the hole town in general.\\nDuring the ministry of the elder Reyner the drum used for\\nsummoning the people to meeting was displaced by a bell\\nwhich was imported by Major Waldron.\\nThis plantation of Dover was held by grant by Capt.\\nMason. At the time when he made the purchase from the\\ncouncil of Plymouth his idea was to become a proprietor of\\na vast manor which should yield to him, through rentals\\nand taxes, a revenue fit for royalty. It was a dream of\\nwildest ambition. It was impossible of accomplishment.\\nBut the effort to make good this royal prerogative, persisted\\nin throug^h the life of Mason and continued throusfh more\\nthan a century after by others who inherited or purchased\\nthese claims, was a source of immense litigation and trouble\\nto the settlers of Dover. They claimed the land by pur-\\nchase from the original owners, the Indians. They would\\nnot recognize the agents of the foreign proprietors. They\\nwould not be taxed. They would cut trees, no matter how\\nmany arrow heads, the sign of the foreign claimants, were\\nput upon them. They had what they called swamp\\nlaws, which were much more liberal in their provisions\\nthan were those of the proprietors enacting.\\nThe leading spirit in the long and relentless resistance to\\nthese English claimants was Richard Waldron. He was\\na man of indomitable courage, vast tact, and unconquerable\\nwill, he was more than a match for the score of agents and\\n*Dover Town Records.\\n2*", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20\\ngovernors sent over to enforce the rights of English owners.\\nIt was sometimes possible to obtain in the courts judgments\\nagainst the titles of occupants, but it was exceedingly dan-\\ngerous to levy an execution. An officer of deputy-governor\\nBarefoote, in attempting to carry out a judgment of the court,\\nwas forcibly resisted and obliged to relinquish his purpose.\\nWarrants were then issued against these rioters, and the\\nsheriff with his attendants attempted to seize them whilst\\nthey were attending service in the old Meeting-house\\nImmediately there was a great uproar in the congregation.\\nThe sermon was stopped. A young heroine, whose name,\\nunfortunately for her descendants, is not mentioned, seized\\na Bible and hurling it at the head of one of the officers,\\nbrought him to the floor. They were all so roughly handled,\\nsays the historian, that they were glad to escape with their\\nlives. As late as 1746 these rights, which were originally\\nconferred upon Mason in 1623, were sold to twelve citizens\\nof this State, and, under their titles, not a little land in this\\npart of New Hampshii*e is held to-day. f\\nAs early as 1662 the Quakers made their appearance in\\nDover. The Puritan had brought his hatred of these men\\nwith him from England. There, notwithstanding the purity\\nof their lives and the truth of their principles, they had\\ngiven some grounds for the hostility with which they were\\nregarded by both Churchman and Puritan. Skeats, in his\\nadmirable history, says of the Quakers, after eulogizing their\\npurity, enthusiasm and piety, had they abstained from at-\\ntacking other sects they would probably, in the time of the\\nCommonwealth, not have been attacked but when they at-\\n*Belknap s Hist., p. 114.\\ntDr. Quint s article in the Congregational Quarterly, January, 18T1, on\\nHanserd Knollys.", "height": "3682", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "21\\ntended places of worship and publicly assailed both the\\npreachers and their doctrines, they excited an animosity\\nwhich fell little short of fury. The New England Puri-\\ntans regarded the Quakers as constituting a most dangerous\\nelement among them, and in the spirit of the age they per-\\nsecuted them with relentless cruelty. I he arrival of these\\nmen at Dover caused a great excitement. The inhabitants\\npetitioned for reliefe against the spreading of their wicked\\njrrors and ordered that Capt. Richard Waldron shall\\nand here be impowered to act in the execution of the lawes\\nof this jurisdiction against all criminall offendors. In\\nanswer to this, Capt. Waldron issued his warrant, and three,\\nat least, of these inoffensive people were whipped out of\\ntown. The same results followed this insane persecution\\nwhich had already followed a like persecution in England.\\nThe English historian writes, The Quakers were whipped\\nand imprisoned, put in stocks, pilloried, and made subject\\nto every personal indignity, but they still increased in num-\\nbers with an unexampled rapidity. So here in Dover,\\nwhere only, within this Province, the Quakers were perse-\\ncuted, that sect has flourished perhaps to a greater extent\\nthan in any other town in New Hampshire. f The Quak-\\ners were able to build a Meeting-house at Dover Neck in\\n1700, and to-day they hold a respectable position in the\\ncommunity.\\nIn visiting the site of the old Meeting-house one must\\nneeds mark well her bulwarks. The remains of her an-\\ncient fortifications are still visible. As early as 1667 the\\nMeeting-house was surrounded mth a fortification made of\\nlogs built upon an earthern entrenchment. It was a hun-\\n*Provincial Papers New Hampshire, vol. 1, p. 243.\\ntColl. N. H. Hist. Soc., vol. 2, p. 45.", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22\\nclred feet square, and, at two diagonal corners there were\\nprojections, circular in form, which probably were sur-\\nmounted with towers. Having recently gone over this\\nentire region for personal observation, and having gleaned\\nfrom the oldest inhabitants all the traditional knowledsre\\no\\nwhich they possessed of the matter, I have formed an\\nidea of the situation of the early settlement which I venture\\nto lay before you. The houses of the early inhabitants were\\nbuilt down on the lower lands which meet the two rivers.\\nRemains of what seem to be cellars are still visible. The\\nMeeting-house was purposely built on the high ground, not\\nonly for the sentiment of the thing, but more particularly as\\naffording an outlook over the houses below and the entire\\nregion around. The vast advantage which such an elevated\\nsite would afford is at once apparent in view of the dreadful\\ncircumstances which necessitated this fortification of the\\nplace. Standing in the angle-towers of the entrenchment\\na sentinel in the northwest corner could sweep with his eye\\nthe houses on his side, now deserted by those who wor-\\nshiped within the entrenched church, a large part of the\\nBellamy river and valley below, and the great bays beyond\\nand a sentinel pacing to and fro in the southeastern corner\\ncould hold under his eye the houses on the Cocheco bank,\\na great length of the river itself and the Maine shore and\\nregion beyond. It would hardly be possible for the Indian,\\nhowever stealthy his movements, to shoot his canoe along\\nthe river and fall upon the unprotected houses without call-\\ning to himself the attention of the watchful guard and evok-\\ning from him an outcry upon the congregation within. This\\nentrenchment was built because of a new and most threat-\\nening danger. The settlers on Sunday mornings, when the\\nbell began to ring, took down their guns, which hung on\\ntheir household walls, and, putting themselves at the head", "height": "3682", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "2S\\nof their respective families, marched towards the Meeting-\\nhouse on the hill. Arrived there, the guns were stacked in\\nthe rough entry. The sentinels were stationed on the outer\\nwalls. Worship began. The hymn, the prayer, the ser-\\nmon was often broken in upon by the startling cry of the\\nfaithful watchmen. The guns were seized, and the men\\nwent forth to fight,, and sometimes to die. There is an ac-\\ncount here and there given of one and more shot down by\\nthe Indians, as they were going to or from the old Meeting-\\nhouse.\\nI am not going to recount the horrors and atrocities of\\nthe four great Indian wars which well nigh depopulated\\nDover. Hundreds of brave men were killed. Women and\\nchildren were driven off in herds to Canada. The laborer\\nin the field was surprised and scalped. The wife, busy\\nabout her domestic affairs, and the child sweetly dreaming\\nin its cradle, were seized. A thousand nameless horrors,\\nwhose recital would chill your blood, were here performed,\\nmaking those who lived to envy the cruel lot of those who\\nhad died. In 1677 a peace between the Indians and the\\nwhite men was declared. Twelve years of blessed quiet\\nensued. Meanwhile the inhabitants had moved more and\\nmore away from the original site. A mill and other build-\\nings had sprung up around the falls at Cocheco, which was\\nabout four miles inland. *The place is now the center of\\nour present population and business. Near the banks of\\nthe river which now drives our greatest industry, there were\\nbuilt five garrison houses, the walls being of heaviest tim-\\nber and the inner doors and the palisade-gates strongly\\nbolted and barred. Into these fortified places, at sunset-\\nhour, the neighboring families were gathered, and the watch\\nwas placed. Some years had elapsed since the last attack\\nof the Indians upon the little settlement. The inhabitants", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24:\\nwere often meeting them with an unsuspecting confidence.\\nThe Indians were daily seen in their streets. They traded\\nat their doors, and sometimes they lodged in their very\\nhouses. But time was only intensifying the Indians hatred\\nof Major Waldron. His act of treachery committed thir-\\nteen years before, by which four hundred of their number\\nhad been seized in a time of peace and sold into slavery,\\nhad not faded from their memory. They were familiarizing\\nthe white man with their presence in his streets and homes,\\nand putting to rest his last suspicion, in order that the re-\\nvenge which they were ever meditating might at last meet\\nits full measure of blood.\\nOne evening, in June of 1689, as the inhabitants were\\ngathering into their garrisons, two squaws applied at each\\nfor a night s lodging. They were admitted. At midnight\\nhour they opened the doors to the lurking savages without.\\nThe garrison of Major Waldron was the first thus surprised.\\nThe old hero of eighty years was roused from his deep\\nsleep by the yell of the Indians who thronged his chamber.\\nHe sprang up, grasped his sword, and lay round about him\\nwith desperation and great effect. But a blow from behind\\nsent him senseless to the floor. The savages seized him,\\ndrew him out into the hall, and, binding him fast in a chair,\\ndanced around him, and mockingly saluted him as judge.\\nThen each cut his breast across with a knife, shouting out,\\n^I cross out my account.\\nSo died a man who was a ruler among the men of his\\nday, of strong, clear mind, flashing wit, fearless spirit, and\\ngiant strength; a man to whose bold enterprise, broad un-\\nderstanding, and tireless energy, Dover owes a vast debt of\\ngratitude and praise.\\n*Belknap s Hist., pp. 126, 127.", "height": "3682", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "25\\nIn this attack twenty-three of the inhabitants were killed\\nand twenty-nine were driven away as captives. The mills\\nand most of the houses were burned.\\nFor the next ten years, Dover was subject to an almost\\nconstant assault by the Indians. At other times, the great\\ncold and the deep snow of winter had secured the distressed\\ninhabitants a respite from their sufferings. But now that\\nthe Indians revenge was seconded by popish enthusiasm,\\nno winter could protect these frontier settlements from the\\nremorseless foe. The terror and anguish of those years,\\nwhen the very door-stones were stained with children s\\nblood, when households were broken up, half their mem-\\nbers, as captives, dragging their bleeding feet to Canada,\\nand half lying in the peace of death, in the fields among\\nthe corn rows, or by the waters of the spring, where their\\nwily enemy had waited patiently for their coming the ter-\\nror and suffering of those times, we, who lie down at night\\nin an unbroken security, and go and come without a thought\\nof fear, can in no way imagine.\\nThe history of Dover and the history of the First Church,\\nfor a period in their existence, which covers nearly one\\nhundred and forty years, are interwoven with each other.\\nIndeed, they form an almost single and inseparable thread\\nin the narrative. In the Massachusetts and Connecticut\\ncolonies, the State existed for the Church. If this can not\\nbe said of our Dover Plantation, it must be said that Church\\nand State stood together in closest, and, for nearly a century\\nand a half, in indissoluble union. At one time the minister\\nof the church was governor of the plantation. The town\\nrecords and the church records were one. The minister s\\nsalary and all church expenses, the building of jNIeeting-\\nhouses and parsonages were matters which were discussed", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26\\nand voted upon in publique Towne Meetinge as mucli as\\nwere matters which pertain to the boundaries of neighbor-\\ning towns, or to the rights and privileges belonging to the\\nBever traid. It was not until 1762, during the ministry\\nof Jonathan Gushing, the great grandfather of Peter Gush-\\ning, the present oldest deacon of the church, that the parish\\nwas incorporated distinct from the town. It is proper, then,\\nthat, before closing, I should gather up certain facts which\\notherwise might seem to belong exclusively to the history\\nof this ancient church.\\nThe massacre of Major Waldron and his associates by\\nthe Indians took place during the ministry of John Pike,\\nwho was the successor of the younger Reyner. The de-\\nstruction of the mills and of the best houses at Gocheco\\nchecked for a time the current which was drawing to it the\\nbusiness and the population of the Neck. With the excep-\\ntion of the branch Meeting-house which had been built at\\nOyster River (Durham), the old church on the Neck was\\nthe only one in all the great territory which now includes\\nDover, Durham, Newington, Barrington and Somersworth.\\nUp to 1713, or thereabouts, the inhabitants of Somers-\\nworth were obliged to travel from five to eight miles to the\\nchurch on Dover Neck. The records of the times show\\nthat there were many and bitter controversies between the\\npeople who lived on the Neck and those living in the contig-\\nuous neighborhoods, touching this matter of church privileges\\nand accommodations. During the ministry of Nicholas\\nSever, who succeeded Mr. Pike, the population had so in-\\ncreased at the Cocheco Falls that a fresh difficulty broke\\nout about a site for a new church. For the accommodation of\\n*New Hampshire Churches, p. 345. Somersworth.", "height": "3682", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "27\\npeople living here and at Madbury, Eollinsford and Som-\\nersworth, the town voted in 1714 to erect a Meeting-\\nhouse on Pine Hill. The city of the dead, which now cov-\\ners so great a surface of the hill, was once the little church-\\nyard, where a few graves lay in the shadow of the old\\nchurch walls. Services were still continued in the building\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0on the Neck, but in 1720 it was abandoned. Its site was\\nafterward occupied by a school-house. In 1758, during\\nthe ministry of Jonathan Gushing, the tenth minister, the\\nfourth fleeting-house was erected. It held the site of this\\npresent one. This edifice, in which we are gathered to-day,\\nis the fifth. It was completed and dedicated Dec. 30, 1829.\\nFrom this mother church have sprung the church at\\nNemngton, organized in 1715, the church at Durham in\\n1718, the church at Somersworth in 1730, now represented\\nin the churches at Great Falls and Salmon Falls, the church\\nat Barrington in 1755, and the Belknap chiuxh in this city,\\nwhich was organized in 1856.\\nFor two hundred years this chuixh held within itself the\\nentire ecclesiastical element of Dover. In 1824, the Meth-\\nodist Episcopal church in Dover was formed. In 1825, the\\nUniversalist society in Dover and Somersworth was organ-,\\nized, and reorganized at Dover alone in 1837. In 1826,\\nthe first Freewill Baptist church was gathered. In 1827,\\nthe first Unitarian society was formed. In 1828, the Frank-\\nlin Street Baptist church was organized. The Roman Cath-\\noHcs built their first church here in 1830. In 1839, St.\\nThomas church was organized. In 1840, the Washington\\nStreet Freewill Baptist church was formed.\\nWith these few fii-st chapters of the history of Dover, I\\nmust close the volume. To one of her own sons, who loves\\nthe very stones of her streets, and who knows her full his-", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28\\ntory as well as any story of childhood, I leave the task of\\nthe completed narrative.*\\nAnd yet I may, in closing, call your thoughts away from\\nthese early days of the fathers struggles and sufTeriugs to\\ndays when their children and their children s children even\\nto our own time renewed the old experience of tear^ and\\nanguish. The heroic qualities which we have admired in\\nthose forefathers shone in undimmed luster in their sons\\nwho under the leadership of another Waldron, met a no^\\nless deadly foe on the battle-field of my own dearly loved\\nState,t of New York, of Rhode Island, wherever northern\\nmen were marching and fighting through the y^ars of the\\ngreat Revolution. And those qualities of patriotism, loy-\\nalty hatred of oppression, and brave fidelity which shrinks\\nnot Ironi death, were transmitted in their unsullied bri^ht-\\nnessto fathers and sons of our days. The boys of Do^er\\nfell into the old line of duty where their fathers stood, and\\nmarched and fought with the old, unflinching heroism\\n.through the swamps and wildernesses where treason was\\ncrouching to throttle the nation. Many of them lie in un-\\nknown graves, beneath the sod which they crimsoned with\\ntheir blood. Many of them lie on yonder hillside, amidst\\nthe scenes of the tathers sufferings and trials. And we re-\\nmain to hold them all, the fathers and the sons together, in\\none close, tender embrace of love; to celebrate their com-\\nmon virtues and dedicate ourselves with a more solemn pur-\\npose to all that was grand and true in their lives and char-\\n^Zl\u00c2\u00b0ttn ^^^iS^{t^l^:^^^^f,^^^^ Of Dover, March 2, 1871, Dr. A.", "height": "3682", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "^9\\nThe same current of time which has swept through these\\ncenturies of Dover s history, bearing on its bosom so many\\ngenerations of men, is under us, sweeping us onward.\\nThere are duties for us to do. There are sacrifices for us\\nto make. There is a nobleness of character and action for\\nus to reach. Farther down this stream of time, there will\\nbe another gathering. The youngest living and those now\\nunborn will meet to celebrate another stadium in Dover s\\nhistory. We shall have been gathered to the fathers\\nWhat shall we have done to make that day more grateful\\nto them What virtues shall we have achieved, what work\\nof beneficence or enterprise shall we have wrought out\\nwhich shall call for richer garlands and wreaths and gladder\\nsongs and worthier speech than ours to-day Blessed shall\\nwe be if those who are gathered then can say of us, as we\\nto-day say in grateful memory of those who are gone, the", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3682", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3682", "width": "2330", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3714", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "discoursedeliver00spal_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "", "height": 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