Book/Printed Material The pioneers of New-York : an anniversary discourse delivered before the St. Nicholas Society of Manhattan, December 6, 1847 Copy 2
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Image 1 of Copy 2 THE PIONEERS OF NEW-YORK. BY C. F. HOFFMAN. NEW-YORK: STANFORD AND SWORDS, 139, BROADWAY. 1848 -O- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 2 of Copy 2- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 3 of Copy 2 THE PIONEERS OF NEW-YORK. AN ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE DELIVERED BEFORE THE DECEMBER 6, 1847. The first settlement of this State coincided with its natural advantages. Wliile Englishmen came to America, either flying from...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 4 of Copy 2 rr r l^£ 3 Q^ PRINTED By JOHN R. M GOWN 106 Fulton-Street.- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 5 of Copy 2 THE PIONEERS OF NEW-YORK. Mr. President and Brethren of the St. Nichohis Society, I greet you on the occasion of this anniversary of the revival of our ancient fraternity a revival which...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 6 of Copy 2 A tlionsand years went by a!:;iiin the angel stood upon the earth He !^aw the eternal hills around, the same. But the leafy plain which they had enc-ireled, how looked it now?...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 7 of Copy 2 hill and dale, laced by pebbled brooks or seamed here and there by deep artificial excavations. The once grassy and mountain- girt plain had become an isi-ano. He saw in one part...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 8 of Copy 2 in Uximil and Palenqiie, some approach to the physical realization of the Arabian fable, it shadows forth but too truly the mind of man. The alternate mental feebleness and proud intellectual achievement...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 9 of Copy 2 engineering was subsequently made famous over Europe by the pupils of Vauban.) fitted them for tbe reconnoisancc which they consummated with so much skill upon this Northern Continents The very points which...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 10 of Copy 2 8 the ten generations of pioneering energy of which this State was the scene before tlie Puritan interpreter of history was abroad. It should be renieiubered, that while modern New-York is so...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 11 of Copy 2 9 liear so imu-h ol tlie I liritau Anglo-Saxon stock, who tirst settled on tlie outer-casing of tins continent? Why is it that we hear so little of those who struck inwardly...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 12 of Copy 2 10 opinions here was far more liberal and tolerant tban that prevailing in tbe neigliboring colonies, those who have stated the fact leave us to make up our own judgment as to...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 13 of Copy 2 11 springs iu the hearts of these our progenitors. We regard their councils and their deeds as a sacred bequest to memory, with all who now enjoy the fruit of the tree...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 14 of Copy 2 12 as tbey already do in our school books, (written almost exclusively by New-England men) some of the most interesting and valuable lessons in the philosophy of society, will be lost to...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 15 of Copy 2 13 As regards priority of settlement then, it is well known that England, at an early day. (.laiiued this province as a part of Virginia, and claimed it also on the ground,...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 16 of Copy 2 14 rather, their Chiu-cb and their Lyceum, embodied the Puritans first ideas of the settlement of a new country, and many of their descendants are unwilling to recognize any other evidence of...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 17 of Copy 2 15 This, (says Mr. Brodhead,) marks the first official recognition of the existence of Neio Netherlaiid its name occurs for the first time in the grant which was made to these merchants...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 18 of Copy 2 16 years from the establishment of those trading stations at the head of the Hudson navigation, a thorough coast survey was attempted in a vessel built here in New Netherlaud, and launched...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 19 of Copy 2 17 The fur trade, the early nursery of the hardihood of New Netherland. and her favorite si)here of adventure, long after she passed to the British rule, was now holdly entered upon...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 20 of Copy 2 18 lu 1638 the trade as well as the cultivation of the soil of New Xetherland was by the formal act of the States-General, thrown open to every person whether denizen or...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 21 of Copy 2 19 questionings of every new dogma, and impinge it witli Puritanic intolerance upon others wliile tlie two noblest edifices upon the continent, consecrated to the Faith of the original Pilgrims, are now...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 22 of Copy 2 20 We must now— in order to see how far the rights of a freeman were guaranteetl to her citizens, at the very inception of the iwlitical history of the State we...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 23 of Copy 2 21 peculiar to the confederacy. The government favors no curioui^ inquiry into the faith of any man. At Amsterdam every sect known in Europe, almost in the world, hath its public meetings...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 24 of Copy 2 22 Let us now see bo\v tlie first white Reimblicans of New- York carried out tlae eclectic principle of citizenship, already indigenous to the soil of this State, as shown by Colden...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 25 of Copy 2 23 who at bis own expense iniiiorted hither the settlers upon his manor-graut, was the ininieaiate vassal of the State, and was resixjnsible to that sovereign authority for the conduct of the...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 26 of Copy 2 24 It is to the Reimblic of Holland, and the wise and beneficent modification of the feudal code, which obtained there, and not to the puritauic idea of popular freedom introduced from...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 27 of Copy 2 In 1G24, ten yeai-.s after tlie Ilollanclers established their three forts on the Hudson, and connnenced that line of posts whicli soon extended from the Connecticut to the Delaware, we have the...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 28 of Copy 2 20 New Netherlaud, tbey liad a grant of land assigned to them. Endowed with the usual privileges of free manors, such as free exercise of their religion, powers to plant towns, build...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 29 of Copy 2 to trace tbe liberties of New-York, ami establish them as of Puritan origin. But these men most assuredly came not hither to bring Puritan freedom, but to escape from pure Anglo-Saxon tyranny,...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 30 of Copy 2 28 more, they sball be couipelled. within one year after their arrival, to erect a decent habitable tenement in New Netherland. The next element of Knickerbockerhood dates from the year Ui(i5, when...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 31 of Copy 2 29 In 1GG4 crowded in the cavalier followers of the now restored Stuarts, some of whom, (like the Pilgrim fathers,) had been sojourners, with their prince, in Holland, and spoke her language...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 32 of Copy 2 30 Scottish soldier, who fought under opposite banners abroad sent the banished captive, and his land-bountied conqueror to sit down side by side and cultivate the arts of peace together upon the...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 33 of Copy 2 31 The Pioneers of New-Yoi k then were, as we have seen, of any other than Puritan Anglo-Saxon origin. From the brown In this calm infancy of society the rigors of law...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 34 of Copy 2 32 plains of Noniiaiidy and the green vales of England; from the sunny hills of Savoy and the bleak wastes of Finland, came they a woman in very easy circumstances and abundantly...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 35 of Copy 2 33 bitlier to this land of a thonsaml lakes where hhthely gathered the Sahiion higher of Erin s rivers, and the hunter of the Stag tlirough Scottish heatlier, to ply their sport...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 36 of Copy 2 34 nesse.s of New- York, with men who had slaked the fever-thirst of battle in the Khine and the Scheldt whither too. to stamp our share in the heritage of England s...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 37 of Copy 2 35 we gather it from her many able and patriotic writers, lias been the gradual liberalizing of a strict demi-ecclesiastic caste of men of a homogeneous origin. The law of progressive civilization...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 38 of Copy 2 3G Kock? Is the genius oi American institutions referable solely to tbe PHrltan origin of New England? Guizot calls the reformation begun by Luther an insurrection of the hmnan mind against the...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 39 of Copy 2 37 Now tlie prerogative to lueddle with the concerus of your neighbor, here asserted with such unconscious simplicity to meddle according to i/our conscience, and your opinion of what is good for...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848
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Image 40 of Copy 2 38 It matters not what part our people took upon either of these questions, or whether it was worth while for men of sense to take any part. But the excitement among...- Contributor: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Walt - Hoffman, Charles Fenno - Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
- Date: 1848