1867. This sketch runs back to the cradle of Puritanism, summarily rehearses the causes of which it was begotten, accompanies the Pilgrim Fathers across the channel, and depicts the salient features of their residence in Holland, and the reasons which pushed them to further removal, sails with them in the Mayflower over the stormy winter sea, recites in some detail, the incidents which accompanied the settlement at Plymouth and the kindred colonies throughout New England, and closes in the sunshine of that league between the New England colonies which was the prophecy of the Republic, and the crowning glory of those who are distinctively called the Pilgrim Fathers.