VII.
Post-Offices—The Colonies.
“There were men with hoary hair
Amid that pilgrim band:
Why had they come to wither there,
Away from their childhood’s land?”
Hemans.
If fanaticism had not been mixed up with the materials embarked on the Mayflower, July 22, 1620, those scenes which disgraced humanity and civilization and enacted under the belief of witchcraft would never have occurred here; but, unfortunately, that evil came over with the “Pilgrim Fathers,” and its consequences gave a dark page to the history of the “Land of Promise.”
They were, it is true, the pioneers of liberty to a certain extent,—freedom to the body, but not to the mind.