Excerpt from The Arrival of the Pilgrims
On a Saturday afternoon in November, 1620, on a day that would now be called the twenty-first, a small ship, of one hundred and eighty tons in the reckoning of that time, sailed into the bleak harbor at the extremity of Cape Cod. Today, three hundred years later, at the suggestion of the President of the United States, the event is being commemorated in thousands of American towns and villages. Last summer the initial stages of the same voyage were commemorated with impressive ceremonies by the Dutch at Leyden and Rotterdam and by the English at Southampton and Plymouth. We may well ask the question, and indeed it is the purpose for which we have come together this evening, to ask the question, and if we can to answer it. Why should this event be celebrated so extensively and with so much emphasis at the end of three hundred years?
May I say for myself and for my own simple part in the services this evening that I respond always with great pleasure to every invitation to return to Providence, where during thirteen years it was my happy privilege to teach, where I formed lifelong connections with the best of friends, and where every kindness was constantly bestowed upon me.
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