The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, November 26, 1953, Image 6
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, Novemli
WILLIAM BRADFORD, PILLAR OF
PLYMOUTH
The outsiders who came in behalf
of the Adventurers and sponged off
the Pilgrims for several months
were expected to obey the laws.
They could be expelled at the wish
As a protest against the outr^g- of the governor.
of the Pilgrims From the Adventurers and their
of G&cT to the bdttdrh as precisely I pushed south as far as the Dutch
to set down the church’s discipline rsettlement at Manhattan. Plymouth
so that no one without blam^ may, was free.
differ in anything from the same.’" j It would be pleasant to know tfoat
In expelling two agitators from | Bradford was able to p v ay the debt
Continued from pace two) ! As a protest against tne outrag- 'n wie guvnuui. the colony Bradford created the rift! Promptly and easily. But Plymouth
u “ , eous terms many of the Pilgrims From the Adventurers and their that was eventually to free Ply- was never destined to enjoy a gold-
day and invited Chief Massasoit, ’ ‘ . hii'elings in Plymouth came howls mouth from outside control. “Here- en age. Its whole history was one
who came and brought ninety of his turned back, and tne a s q{ .. bigoted ,, '‘intolerant” and “die- upon,” as Bradford described it, of hard 0 knocks. The trade monop-
young braves. recruited any abie-bo vnvae „ > tatorial”—the echoes of w'hich can! “the Adventurers broke into piec- oly flourished at first and then met
A more worldly man than Brad-;could tind ^ f y ? 'still be heard. But it must have es" By this time they were wran^-! with every conceivable difficulty,
lord might have called this begin-j Thus miet _ been a just precedent that Bradford ling among themselves and Brad- And here, perhaps, the courage of
ner's luck instead of Divine Provi-oanded r .. p-, ■ i, set more than three centuries ago— lord sent pepery Miles Standish toi William Bradford faced its hardest
Enough to eat was the ex-i stiangers i ne ^ “ j it is precisely the one our govern- London with an offer to dissolve test, in the long-drawn-out, heart-
dence.
coption in Plymouth. The men to l T nen '‘ ^‘‘hp Mav"- ment follows today !An alien and an the partnership^' In 1627 the Ad- breaking affair of pulling the cold
had proved inept at fishing, and not the Ley t £ p . p vivil American citizen pbey the same venturers sold their interest in the 'ny otu of debt. He succeeded but it
too good at shooting game. Pro- l0 ' vei i°. • „ „ . n t u p „„„ laws, and both are equally protect-" colony for 2400 pounds (something i took nineteen years. Not until 1646
visions supposedly sent from Eng- body P° - 1 a t ed by thpm. We screen out of our like $130,000 in 1953.) After two was the last lingering creditor sat-
land did not arrive. Trade goods aboai signe h law-making bodies all those who years of grace the colonists were to isfied, and to accomplish this Brad-
ran out. Sometimes there was so to submit to wnatever raws un. weuld vote to overmrow our pay it in annual installments. Brad- ford and some of the other men
little food that men had to live and colony should maxe. lished way of life. And we deport ford and the other officers formed sold off a part of their own land,
work on a daily ration of one fourth Bradford was soon com ince tbe un( j es j ra t>le. a company of eight men and as- Many times Bradford had asked
of a pound of bread. . the 0 »t Although he lived in an age of sumed the debt, asking only that the colony to choose another gov-
. The Pilgrims never had a regular squeeze ^ trims i hysteria and persecution, Bradford the colony grant them a monopoly ernor. “If it is an honor,” he said,
' finf forthemseWes^ Eage/to^eap was a_ tolerant man by any -stand- onjtKe fur trade to^ raise the money, j “it is fit that others should partake
the profits of extra manpower, they
made a practice of surprising hard-
In one way, Providence had fa-Jup Plymouth with more colonists.
Priscilla have their mo
there is nothing of mas
ble to commemorate 1
ment of this man who
the first American. E
living monipient—a (
racy that gives every n
to make his own cot
God. Thanksgiving,
might remind us, is a
renewal of that covena
FINAL SETTLE
Take notice that‘on '
of November, 1953, I v
final account o fmy act
as Administrator of tl
J. Willie Young, in the
Judge of Probate of La
ty, at 10 o’clock q. m.,
same day will apply foi
charge from my duties
trator.
Any person indebted
Thanksgiving, to it, tru«» .ensa, fenii for .hemselvj. Eager to reap - VtoMM Z’ women |" The dto" to" p£ j J it. ‘ *Tth«™! ^^1 “'or ’
any time Providence saw fit to ease, the profit of extra mqnpo^e e) were tortured and burned as w itch- mouth was to wipe the slate clean [ should help to bear it.” But the date; ami all persons hi
the gnawing of their empty belliOT. made a Pra^ lc e ^ surprising hard- es There was no hounding of of communism. A few years be- men of Plymouth found no one so ’ P
In one way, Providence had fa- up Plymouth with col °” ’ Quakers while he lived. In 1650 a fore, acting on his own responsibil-! worthy of the honor or so capable
vorod them better than they knew. The first Thanksgiving was Roman Catholic priest from a ity, he had assigned each man a of bearing the burden. With the
[Landing at Plymouth the Pll P rir j^ Past when the ^rtune set asho e French colony in Main visited P i y . twenty-acre plot of ground, and exceptin of five years he bore the
—1-. ™ the 'birty-five persons, empty-handed. ( m ou t h and stayed for two months now he made a complete division brunt of the colony’s every blow
And in the Anne orougm s xy, as the g 0vernor ‘ s con g enia i guest- of aU property. What every man during the first thirty-six years of
«M* beltot to* tty ^
miraculously chose the spot on the
New England coast where the In
dians were least savage. In Hol
land they had listened to tales of
its existence. He was still in his
® .. . hp]n „. ith th p com-1 lon 13 a P erson aI covenant between A new life and energy took hold fighting harness when death came
nloody atrocities told b > £ tur h n ‘"f; ^ *5 ^^the 1ml tZe God and the ^dividual is found of the men of Plymouth. Trading at sixty-seven.
exp orers, “ n 1 pivmouth diverted furs and other trade goods in th ese lines; “It is arrogancy for posts arose on Cape Cod, in Con- In modem Plymouth you find no
nights in the Plymouth diverted furs and other^rade^oods ; ^ man or church U) think that h(? necticut and ag far nf)rth as the' monument to William Bradford.
or they have so sounded the Word Kennebec. Trading expeditions Miles Standish and John Alden and
settlement, with men thinking of to private accounts.
lurking be- tested to the Adventurers , ‘and w’as
‘he undeclared enemy
vond the edge of the clearing. The rebuked, for being ‘ "contentious. ’ i
Pilgrims' fears in this regard can be He demanded extra supplies and
appreciated today by us w’ho live; was accused of spending, all his
under the menacing shadow of the time in idleness. The Adventurers
H-bomb. began to promote other colonies;
The few real skirmishes Ply- and their men stopped off in Ply
mouth had with Indians took place Plymouth to be fed and outfitted at
after bad feelings had been stirred
up by other, more aggressive col-
niesi Bradford's policy was to re-
-pect the rights of the Indian and
meet him halfway. When the
neighboring Wampanoags made
triendly overtures, Plymouth
promptly signed a treaty with them
me of the colony's first official acts.
Today we might regard the w’hole
^tremony as rather quaint; the gov
ernor coming in from the cornfield
*c> don his robe of office and wel-
me Chief Massasoit in full regal-
a cf deerskin, bone necklaces and
mulberry paint: then both of them
-.tting down and solemnly work-
out an agreement "not to in-
re “v do hurt" to each other’s peo-
■ v Vet the simple six-article
•.* had a moral force all to often
.. kmg .n modern non-aggresion
urn.- Behmd the Pilgrims’ agree-
v. th the Indians was the hon-
.abie intention of both signatories
: dv b> its terms. This accord
rved peace for forty years.
. A danger more serious than In-
• nr.s '.ay within the colony itself.
C.. had or.g.nated in the business
artmrslup between the Pilgrims
against said estate w
them on or before saic
proven, or be forvere b
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Administrator,
Clinton, S. C.
October 30, 1953
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the Pilgrims’ expense. Sharp let-
tens were exchanged. Relations
grew worse ani finally the Adven
turers sent agents to Plymouth to
undermine the church.
From the beginning, Bradford
had fully grasped the danger of los
ing control of Plymouth to enemies
of the Separatist faith. He ahd the
Leyden group had endured perse
cution and exile and risked their
lives in the wilderness because they
believed in the separation of church
and state. In terms of their own ex
perience, this meant believing that
if a body of like-minded men form
ed a congregation they should have
the right to regulate their own wor
ship; to use the sacrament or not
use it.' to pray standing or kneel-
ing, to baptize by sprinkling or im
mersion, to have a musical instru
ment or sing unaccompanied, to
address their ministers as Brother
or Father: and they believed the
government should keep its hands
off.
Incredible as it seems in. the
twentieth century, when every cult
and ism has free rein, King James
" 4 ’ - f'W? vowed to Juuxy them out of Eng-
.v and for danng to form a
themse.ves Ad\entureia « , . .,,ij
... - group at Scrooby wnere ih^., could
put .up the 700 pounds tequal
- ■ a:most S40U.000 in 1953) required
.atfit the Mayfiower and the ill-
. ..ted Speedwell. The Pilgrims
:<,!"* d a contract to fish and trade,
ppiying their profits to the invest-
r.en*. At ihe last minute the Ad
en; arer> added the two conditions
•hat forced communism on the iS«
ant colony. The settlers were for-
bidden to own land or homes or to
work in their own interest. They
were to operate on a common-
labor basis for seven years, with a
dlVBi# " ° f cnTSThat tt r Per ‘ y lor" voting*"that
r mm
worship without accepting - the rit
ual of the Church of England,
To make sure of this separation
of church and state after they
transferred to Plymouth,, they drew
a sharp line between the function of
the two bodies. Governor Bradford
himself—as the state—was never
eVen a deacon. And he realized
that this freedom of the church
jrom interference would continue;
in Plymouth only as long as the
government was in the hands of
rften who favored a free church. |
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Court, but he had to prove that he
was “godly, sober, and discreet.” A
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of Elections until he could pass a
test of moral conduct and had set-!
tied down as a permanent resident.
The laws themselves were not dis- |
criminating. The Legal Code—a
body of remarkably well-defined
laws, formulated by men who were J
neither lawyers, magistrates nor j
' university graduates—granted the j
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was the right of trial by jury.)
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part at first, in making the laws, j
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