At last a most insightful piece from our correspondent of the upper North, Cecil Poole, in which reflection is given to the noble act of civilising natives the word over. Though no picture of Cecil exists, we gain a characterisation of the man through his writing. And reflect once more on the certainty derived from manifest destiny and religious certainty. And remember folks, any donations to this site, which is wholly religious, is 100 percent tax deductible, so that we might also make a stand against moral “weakness”.
Read on, if you dare.
‘The True Jehovah’, Saint Tone of Santamaria.
There is great evidence of moral turpitude overcoming the Godless. Indeed Bronwyn Bishop (with prescient warnings “of bestiality and the killing of newborn babies” ) and Anthony Abbott’s concern for religious freedom must be praised for alerting Australians to the dangers inherent in forsaking our one true Jehovah. We at pcbycp applaud their courage.
Today’s lesson comes from the Pilgrim fathers of Plymouth Massachusetts in the early seventeenth Century. (1620’s). That their colony prospered was due in no small part to their devotion to God, and to following the moral life God demanded.
In larger part it was due to fur trading, a trade that could not have been undertaken with the local Indian population providing the furs.
The Pilgrim fathers set sail. To multiply in godly certainty.
The vast bulk of furs were beaver skins, and these were in furious demand all over Europe. Such was the demand that by this time beavers had been hunted to virtual extinction in Europe. Thus the stage was set for the Pilgrim Fathers to make a killing so to speak. The trouble was that others were onto the game, including a fellow born in Devon in 1576, Thomas Morton. Morton set up a trading post north of the Pligrims on the shores of Massachusetts Bay. The Pilgrims were none to happy with this competition and noted that Morton was (variously) a ‘kind of pettifogger”, with ‘more craft than honesty’, ‘an arrant knave’, and ‘a born Bohemian and reckless libertine, without either morals or religion’.
Morton’s settlement came to be known, not inappropriately, as ‘Merrymount’, a rowdy place ‘bent on having fun while making money’. Morton made friends with Indians, noting their social graces including respect for the aged, compassion, humour, willingness to share, also noting an absence of jails, gallows or underclass. Little wonder the Pilgrim Fathers were not impressed.
As further sign of Godlessness Morton liked to party and invited neighbouring Indians over to kick up their heels with beer, poetry, and dancing under an eighty foot maypole. One of their songs included the lines ‘Lasses in beaver coats come away, Yee shall be welcome to us night and day.” The chorus went like this
Maypoles were banned in Australia by the same people who banned Guy Fawkes.
Drink and be merry, merry, merry boys,
Let all your delight be in Hymen’s joys,
Lo to Hymen now the day is come,
About the merry Maypole take a room.”
The leader of the pilgrims, William Bradford wrote of Morton and the Merrymount community that they
And lo, after six weeks of wandering, God anointed the Plymouth brethren with soap.
“Fell to great licentiousness and led a dissolute life, powering out themselves into all profaneness. And Morton became lord of misrule, and maintained (as it were) a school of Atheism. And after they had got some good into their hands, and got much by trading with ye Indians, they spent it as vainly, in quaffing & drinking both wine & strong waters in great excess, and, as some reported, ten pounds worth in a morning. They also set up a Maypole, drinking and dancing about it many days together, inviting Indian women, for their consorts, dancing and frisking together, (like so many fairies, or furies rather) and worse practices. As if they had anew revived & celebrated the feasts of the Roman Goddess Flora, or the beastly practices of the mad Bacchanalians.”
For more than fifteen years these opposing forces battled for the upper hand. As Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote ‘Jolity and gloom were contending for an empire.’ Finally as the Puritan Roundheads were battling the Royalists Thomas Morton (America’s first hippie) was arrested and thrown into gaol.
Plymouth brethren give praise to the Ikea outdoor table setting. C. 1628.
With this ill-advised push to allow Godless same sex marriage not only are we facing threats to freedom of religion, bestiality and the killing of newborn babies, but we are also threatened by a come back of the Maypole. Lord save us.