It is pleasant to take one of these little dingy11 half-sheets between the thumb and finger, and picture forth12 the personage who, above ninety years ago, held it, wet from the press, and steaming, before the fire. Many of the numbers bear the name of an old colonial dignitary. There he sits, a major, a member of the council, and a weighty merchant, in his high-backed arm-chair, wearing a solemn wig13 and grave attire14, such as befits his imposing15 gravity of mien16, and displaying but little finery, except a huge pair of silver shoe-buckles17, curiously18 carved. Observe the awful reverence19 of his visage, as he reads his Majesty's most gracious speech; and the deliberate wisdom with which he ponders over some paragraph of provincial21 politics, and the keener intelligence with which he glances at the ship-news and commercial advertisements. Observe, and smile! He may have been a wise man in his day; but, to us, the wisdom of the politician appears like folly22, because we can compare its prognostics with actual results; and the old merchant seems to have busied himself about vanities, because we know that the expected ships have been lost at sea, or mouldered23 at the wharves24; that his imported broadcloths were long ago worn to tatters, and his cargoes26 of wine quaffed27 to the lees; and that the most precious leaves of his ledger28 have become waste-paper. Yet, his avocations29 were not so vain as our philosophic30 moralizing. In this world we are the things of a moment, and are made to pursue momentary31 things, with here and there a thought that stretches mistily32 towards eternity33, and perhaps may endure as long. All philosophy that would abstract mankind from the present is no more than words.
The first pages of most of these old papers are as soporific as a bed of poppies. Here we have an erudite clergyman, or perhaps a Cambridge professor, occupying several successive weeks with a criticism on Tate and Brady, as compared with the New England version of the Psalms34. Of course, the preference is given to the native article. Here are doctors disagreeing about the treatment of a putrid35 fever then prevalent, and blackguarding each other with a characteristic virulence36 that renders the controversy37 not altogether unreadable. Here are President Wigglesworth and the Rev20. Dr. Colman, endeavoring to raise a fund for the support of missionaries38 among the Indians of Massachusetts Bay. Easy would be the duties of such a mission now! Here—for there is nothing new under the sun—are frequent complaints of the disordered state of the currency, and the project of a bank with a capital of five hundred thousand pounds, secured on lands. Here are literary essays, from the Gentleman's Magazine; and squibs against the Pretender, from the London newspapers. And here, occasionally, are specimens39 of New England honor, laboriously40 light and lamentably42 mirthful, as if some very sober person, in his zeal43 to be merry, were dancing a jig44 to the tune45 of a funeral-psalm. All this is wearisome, and we must turn the leaf.
There is a good deal of amusement, and some profit, in the perusal46 of those little items which characterize the manners and circumstances of the country. New England was then in a state incomparably more picturesque47 than at present, or than it has been within the memory of man; there being, as yet, only a narrow strip of civilization along the edge of a vast forest, peopled with enough of its original race to contrast the savage48 life with the old customs of another world. The white population, also, was diversified49 by the influx50 of all sorts of expatriated vagabonds, and by the continual importation of bond-servants from Ireland and elsewhere, so that there was a wild and unsettled multitude, forming a strong minority to the sober descendants of the Puritans. Then, there were the slaves, contributing their dark shade to the picture of society. The consequence of all this was a great variety and singularity of action and incident, many instances of which might be selected from these columns, where they are told with a simplicity51 and quaintness52 of style that bring the striking points into very strong relief. It is natural to suppose, too, that these circumstances affected53 the body of the people, and made their course of life generally less regular than that of their descendants. There is no evidence that the moral standard was higher then than now; or, indeed, that morality was so well defined as it has since become. There seem to have been quite as many frauds and robberies, in proportion to the number of honest deeds; there were murders, in hot-blood and in malice54; and bloody55 quarrels over liquor. Some of our fathers also appear to have been yoked56 to unfaithful wives, if we may trust the frequent notices of elopements from bed and board. The pillory57, the whipping-post, the prison, and the gallows58, each had their use in those old times; and, in short, as often as our imagination lives in the past, we find it a ruder and rougher age than our own, with hardly any perceptible advantages, and much that gave life a gloomier tinge59. In vain we endeavor to throw a sunny and joyous60 air over our picture of this period; nothing passes before our fancy but a crowd of sad-visaged people, moving duskily through a dull gray atmosphere. It is certain that winter rushed upon them with fiercer storms than now, blocking up the narrow forest-paths, and overwhelming the roads along the sea-coast with mountain snow drifts; so that weeks elapsed before the newspaper could announce how many travellers had perished, or what wrecks61 had strewn the shore. The cold was more piercing then, and lingered further into the spring, making the chimney-corner a comfortable seat till long past May-day. By the number of such accidents on record, we might suppose that the thunder-stone, as they termed it, fell oftener and deadlier on steeples, dwellings62, and unsheltered wretches63. In fine, our fathers bore the brunt of more raging and pitiless elements than we. There were forebodings, also, of a more fearful tempest than those of the elements. At two or three dates, we have stories of drums, trumpets64, and all sorts of martial65 music, passing athwart the midnight sky, accompanied with the—roar of cannon66 and rattle67 of musketry, prophetic echoes of the sounds that were soon to shake the land. Besides these airy prognostics, there were rumors68 of French fleets on the coast, and of the march of French and Indians through the wilderness69, along the borders of the settlements. The country was saddened, moreover, with grievous sicknesses. The small-pox raged in many of the towns, and seems, though so familiar a scourge70, to have been regarded with as much affright as that which drove the throng71 from Wall Street and Broadway at the approach of a new pestilence72. There were autumnal fevers too, and a contagious73 and destructive throat-distemper,—diseases unwritten in medical hooks. The dark superstition74 of former days had not yet been so far dispelled75 as not to heighten the gloom of the present times. There is an advertisement, indeed, by a committee of the Legislature, calling for information as to the circumstances of sufferers in the "late calamity76 of 1692," with a view to reparation for their losses and misfortunes. But the tenderness with which, after above forty years, it was thought expedient77 to allude78 to the witchcraft79 delusion80, indicates a good deal of lingering error, as well as the advance of more enlightened opinions. The rigid81 hand of Puritanism might yet be felt upon the reins82 of government, while some of the ordinances83 intimate a disorderly spirit on the part of the people. The Suffolk justices, after a preamble84 that great disturbances85 have been committed by persons entering town and leaving it in coaches, chaises, calashes, and other wheel-carriages, on the evening before the Sabbath, give notice that a watch will hereafter be set at the "fortification-gate," to prevent these outrages86. It is amusing to see Boston assuming the aspect of a walled city, guarded, probably, by a detachment of church-members, with a deacon at their head. Governor Belcher makes proclamation against certain "loose and dissolute people" who have been wont87 to stop passengers in the streets, on the Fifth of November, "otherwise called Pope's Day," and levy88 contributions for the building of bonfires. In this instance, the populace are more puritanic than the magistrate89.
The elaborate solemnities of funerals were in accordance with the sombre character of the times. In cases of ordinary death, the printer seldom fails to notice that the corpse90 was "very decently interred91." But when some mightier92 mortal has yielded to his fate, the decease of the "worshipful" such-a-one is announced, with all his titles of deacon, justice, councillor, and colonel; then follows an heraldic sketch93 of his honorable ancestors, and lastly an account of the black pomp of his funeral, and the liberal expenditure94 of scarfs, gloves, and mourning rings. The burial train glides95 slowly before us, as we have seen it represented in the woodcuts of that day, the coffin96, and the bearers, and the lamentable97 friends, trailing their long black garments, while grim Death, a most misshapen skeleton, with all kinds of doleful emblems98, stalks hideously99 in front. There was a coach maker100 at this period, one John Lucas, who scents101 to have gained the chief of his living by letting out a sable102 coach to funerals. It would not be fair, however, to leave quite so dismal103 an impression on the reader's mind; nor should it be forgotten that happiness may walk soberly in dark attire, as well as dance lightsomely in a gala-dress. And this reminds us that there is an incidental notice of the "dancing-school near the Orange-Tree," whence we may infer that the salutatory art was occasionally practised, though perhaps chastened into a characteristic gravity of movement. This pastime was probably confined to the aristocratic circle, of which the royal governor was the centre. But we are scandalized at the attempt of Jonathan Furness to introduce a more reprehensible104 amusement: he challenges the whole country to match his black gelding in a race for a hundred pounds, to be decided105 on Metonomy Common or Chelsea Beach. Nothing as to the manners of the times can be inferred from this freak of an individual. There were no daily and continual opportunities of being merry; but sometimes the people rejoiced, in their own peculiar106 fashion, oftener with a calm, religious smile than with a broad laugh, as when they feasted, like one great family, at Thanksgiving time, or indulged a livelier mirth throughout the pleasant days of Election-week. This latter was the true holiday season of New England. Military musters107 were too seriously important in that warlike time to be classed among amusements; but they stirred up and enlivened the public mind, and were occasions of solemn festival to the governor and great men of the province, at the expense of the field-offices. The Revolution blotted108 a feast-day out of our calendar; for the anniversary of the king's birth appears to have been celebrated109 with most imposing pomp, by salutes110 from Castle William, a military parade, a grand dinner at the town-house, and a brilliant illumination in the evening. There was nothing forced nor feigned111 in these testimonials of loyalty112 to George the Second. So long as they dreaded113 the re-establishment of a popish dynasty, the people were fervent114 for the house of Hanover: and, besides, the immediate magistracy of the country was a barrier between the monarch115 and the occasional discontents of the colonies; the waves of faction116 sometimes reached the governor's chair, but never swelled117 against the throne. Thus, until oppression was felt to proceed from the king's own hand, New England rejoiced with her whole heart on his Majesty's birthday.
But the slaves, we suspect, were the merriest part of the population, since it was their gift to be merry in the worst of circumstances; and they endured, comparatively, few hardships, under the domestic sway of our fathers. There seems to have been a great trade in these human commodities. No advertisements are more frequent than those of "a negro fellow, fit for almost any household work"; "a negro woman, honest, healthy, and capable"; "a negro wench of many desirable qualities"; "a negro man, very fit for a taylor." We know not in what this natural fitness for a tailor consisted, unless it were some peculiarity118 of conformation that enabled him to sit cross-legged. When the slaves of a family were inconveniently119 prolific,—it being not quite orthodox to drown the superfluous120 offspring, like a litter of kittens,—notice was promulgated121 of "a negro child to be given away." Sometimes the slaves assumed the property of their own persons, and made their escape; among many such instances, the governor raises a hue-and-cry after his negro Juba. But, without venturing a word in extenuation122 of the general system, we confess our opinion that Caesar, Pompey, Scipio, and all such great Roman namesakes, would have been better advised had they stayed at home, foddering123 the cattle, cleaning dishes,—in fine, performing their moderate share of the labors124 of life, without being harassed125 by its cares. The sable inmates126 of the mansion127 were not excluded from the domestic affections: in families of middling rank, they had their places at the board; and when the circle closed round the evening hearth128, its blaze glowed on their dark shining faces, intermixed familiarly with their master's children. It must have contributed to reconcile them to their lot, that they saw white men and women imported from Europe as they had been from Africa, and sold, though only for a term of years, yet as actual slaves to the highest bidder129. Slave labor41 being but a small part of the industry of the country, it did not change the character of the people; the latter, on the contrary, modified and softened130 the institution, making it a patriarchal, and almost a beautiful, peculiarity of the times.
Ah! We had forgotten the good old merchant, over whose shoulder we were peeping, while he read the newspaper. Let us now suppose him putting on his three-cornered gold-laced hat, grasping his cane131, with a head inlaid of ebony and mother-of-pearl, and setting forth, through the crooked132 streets of Boston, on various errands, suggested by the advertisements of the day. Thus he communes with himself: I must be mindful, says he, to call at Captain Scut's, in Creek133 Lane, and examine his rich velvet134, whether it be fit for my apparel on Election-day,—that I may wear a stately aspect in presence of the governor and my brethren of the council. I will look in, also, at the shop of Michael Cario, the jeweller: he has silver buckles of a new fashion; and mine have lasted me some half-score years. My fair daughter Miriam shall have an apron135 of gold brocade, and a velvet mask,—though it would be a pity the wench should hide her comely136 visage; and also a French cap, from Robert Jenkins's, on the north side of the town-house. He hath beads137, too, and ear-rings, and necklaces, of all sorts; these are but vanities, nevertheless, they would please the silly maiden138 well. My dame139 desireth another female in the kitchen; wherefore, I must inspect the lot of Irish lasses, for sale by Samuel Waldo, aboard the schooner140 Endeavor; as also the likely negro wench, at Captain Bulfinch's. It were not amiss that I took my daughter Miriam to see the royal waxwork141, near the town-dock, that she may learn to honor our most gracious King and Queen, and their royal progeny142, even in their waxen images; not that I would approve of image-worship. The camel, too, that strange beast from Africa, with two great humps, to be seen near the Common; methinks I would fain go thither143, and see how the old patriarchs were wont to ride. I will tarry awhile in Queen Street, at the bookstore of my good friends Kneeland & Green, and purchase Dr. Colman's new sermon, and the volume of discourses144 by Mr. Henry Flynt; and look over the controversy on baptism, between the Rev. Peter Clarke and an unknown adversary145; and see whether this George Whitefield be as great in print as he is famed to be in the pulpit. By that time, the auction146 will have commenced at the Royal Exchange, in King Street. Moreover, I must look to the disposal of my last cargo25 of West India rum and muscovado sugar; and also the lot of choice Cheshire cheese, lest it grow mouldy. It were well that I ordered a cask of good English beer, at the lower end of Milk Street.
Then am I to speak with certain dealers147 about the lot of stout148 old Vidonia, rich Canary, and Oporto-wines, which I have now lying in the cellar of the Old South meeting-house. But, a pipe or two of the rich Canary shall be reserved, that it may grow mellow149 in mine own wine-cellar, and gladden my heart when it begins to droop150 with old age.
Provident151 old gentleman! But, was he mindful of his sepulchre? Did he bethink him to call at the workshop of Timothy Sheaffe, in Cold Lane, and select such a gravestone as would best please him? There wrought152 the man whose handiwork, or that of his fellow-craftsmen, was ultimately in demand by all the busy multitude who have left a record of their earthly toil153 in these old time-stained papers. And now, as we turn over the volume, we seem to be wandering among the mossy stones of a burial-ground.
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