Leaving the Old World to find better pastures

Reason to look for New Pastures

The  country where many grew up and currently see is unrecognisable from the times when we were a child. For many it is also nothing like any more of what they hear from their grandparents.

Today America is facing a time again, which many hundreds of years ago men tried to escape.The America, that many oppressed people risked their lives to escape to, now more resembles the oppressed nations that those people fled.

Even Americans themselves start seeing that their beloved country which was going to be the freeport of many good luck searchers, has become a country that continues to spiral into oppression and despotism.

How many of those Americans do remember the reasons of their ancestors to look for new pastures? How many do want to think about of the essence of the words of their founding fathers?

Eternal rules of order and right

Do they remember that propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.? (George Washington, who was supposed to negotiate an all-inclusive treaty with the Red Race, which at the time consisted of 568 separate tribes.)

Also today they should wonder if they really want to choose for the total freedom for every body, no matter colour or faith, and if they can bring forth the will to bring security to the whole nation. All the civilised countries should go for the liberties of the nation accepting that all people are just users of the land, and not really owners of the sand or anything of this earth. For the American founding fathers there was still the believe and a conviction in their minds and the minds of the other inhabitants that these liberties are of the gift of God.

They had enough that those gifts were violated. But at that time time still trembled for their country when they reflected “that God is just: that His justice cannot sleep forever.”

Men that feared God

“Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor,” by William Halsall, 1882 at Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

Christians or unbelievers, churchgoers or non-churchgoers, Federalists or Democrat-Republicans, northerners or southerners, to a man, America’s founders were men that feared God. That God often was also an initial point of departure. Lots of them had problems with the way the world was revolving in the Old World.
They saw which problems there were in many churches and which battles were fought in the name of God. They were fed up with the struggle to survive and with the struggle for life and for faith. Many knew their Bible Words and took notice how apostles travelled from one place to another and did not mind to go on, when in one place the people did not want to hear about God. they do did not mind to go to other places to come at ease with God and their believes.

Fearing God they undertook a big adventure.

All the time they kept family values high. They took time to educate their children in the system in which they believed and in the Faith they wanted to work for.

European migration

When the great European migration began the new immigrants were confronted with the strange native inhabitants, with a total different culture and totally different believes. In certain instances the co-existence of Europeans and Native Americans was peaceful. In other cases, there were cultural clashes, leading to violence and disease. Alcoholic drinks (drugs) and weapons became the cause of many difficulties and lots of grieve on both sites.

“Landing of the Pilgrims” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

102 English colonists (later referred to as the “Pilgrims“) with the believe in humankind and dreaming of the possibility to work together to make something beautiful, set sail in 1620 on the Mayflower.
“Of the 102 colonists, 35 were members of the English Separatist Church (a radical faction of Puritanism) who had earlier fled to Leiden, the Netherlands, to escape persecution at home. Seeking a more abundant life along with religious freedom, the Separatists negotiated with a London stock company to finance a pilgrimage to America. Approximately two-thirds of those making the trip aboard the Mayflower were non-Separatists, hired to protect the company’s interests; these included John Alden and Myles Standish.” (EB)

The Iroquois Indian Nation, including the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, the Senecas, and the Tuscaroras, greeted the Pilgrims when they finally anchored in Plymouth Harbor, Massachusetts, or Plimoth the oldest municipality in New England and one of the oldest in the United States. The Iroquois Federation Government consented to permit the Pilgrims to live with them providing they first agreed to experience life as an Indian and were willing to comply with Indian Federation rules. The Pilgrims strove with the idea that people can join together and agree to govern themselves by making laws for the common good.

Chiefs and Warriors of the Six Nations, in a general council, demanded that peace and friendship would be firmly established, and shall be perpetual, between the United States and the Six Nations.
The United States acknowledged on November 11, 1794, the lands reserved to the Oneida, Onondaga and Cayuga Nations, in their respective treaties with the state of New York, and called their reservations, to be their property; and that the United States will never claim the same, nor disturb them or either of the Six Nations, nor their Indian friends residing thereon and united with them, in the free use and enjoyment thereof: but the said reservations shall remain theirs, until they choose to sell the same to the people of the United States who have right to purchase.

This Census Bureau map depicts the locations of Native Americans in the United States as of 2000. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Many Indians kept to the idea that there was creation and they were allowed to be part of it but not to consider themselves owners of it. Having no one owning the land, they considered themselves also free to move around, but when they did this they should never take another man’s personal property. They also found that other tribes should be allowed to have different ideas about gods or how to treat those ancestors and holy spirits. There had to be no persecution for religious beliefs. This meant that they preferred freedom of religion. They also had a prohibition against slavery.

17° Century

On November 21, 1620, Richard Warren cosigned the Mayflower Compact, covenant of equal laws for the Colony (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In the 17th century, European powers had already successfully colonized some part of the world. In the  England had a successful hold on North America and various other areas, including India, Spain had a large hold of South America and North America, and the Dutch had successful outposts in India. The French were beginning to colonize parts of North America, but did not have permanent settlements like the Spanish and British colonies.

In 1638, just 18 years after the Mayflower, the Swedes began their migration to America. Unlike the Pilgrim Fathers, the Swedes were not religious dissenters – they were an organized group of colonizers sent by the Swedish Government to establish a colony in Delaware. In 1655, the colony was lost to the Dutch.

18° Century

Many Germans, around the year 1700,  were fleeing their homeland to find an easier life in other European countries, the Western Hemisphere, and Australia due to extremely violent conditions. The Germans had found for many years, like the later Belgians their country repeatedly attacked by armies of various nationalities. Inhabitants of the southwestern part, especially, were constantly robbed and tortured. Entire villages were often burnt down and their inhabitants killed. During the flood of emigrants from Germany, its rulers tried to stop the flow, but to little effect. In fact, the flow increased, and in 1709 about 15,000 Germans left for Britain, and 3,000 crossed the Atlantic to New York. In 1745, there were an estimated 45,000 Germans living in Pennsylvania alone.

19° Century CE

In the mid-1840s, a wave of Swedish migration began with the landing of a group of migrant farmers in New York and continued up to World War I. During the colonial era most of the immigrants to the U.S. came from Northern Europe. Their numbers declined during the 1770s, but picked up during the mid 1800s. New arrivals came from several countries, but mostly from Germany and Ireland where crop failures caused many to leave their homelands. Other groups also arrived from the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, the Scandinavian countries, and Eastern Europe.

After the depression of the 1890s, immigration jumped from a low of 3.5 million in that decade to a high of 9 million in the first decade of the new century. Immigrants from Northern and Western Europe continued coming as they had for three centuries, but in decreasing numbers. After the 1880s, immigrants increasingly came from Eastern and Southern European countries, as well as Canada and Latin America.

20° Century

By 1910, Eastern and Southern Europeans made up 70 percent of the immigrants entering the country. After 1914, immigration dropped off because of the war, and later because of immigration restrictions imposed in the 1920s. The reasons these new immigrants made the journey to America differed little from those of their predecessors. Escaping religious, racial, and political persecution, or seeking relief from a lack of economic opportunity or famine still pushed many immigrants out of their homelands.

You would think this escape would form the best ground to put away discrimination and to come to an open mind concerning different ways of thinking and different believes or different religions.

Freedom consensus

But there men overlooked something. Selfishness, jealousy, greed and the want for power took many in the same trap as their ancestors way back in the Old World.

You would have thought together the different nationalities would be able to come to a consensus and would be able to figure out a system were everybody had the freedom to live in equality. Strangely enough the United States became a country which by many Europeans would become known as the cradle of slavery and be known as the nursery of of race-hate.

Created equal

The founders of the States to be United were aware that when in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Lots of those immigrants were brought up in a Judeo-Christian society, with the knowledge that all men were created in the image of God and that they had received a task to fulfil on this world.

Man Made in the Image of God, as in Genesis 1:26 to 2:3, Bible card published 1906 by the Providence Lithograph Company

“And Elohim said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over all the earth and over all the creeping creatures that creep on the earth.” And Elohim created the man in His image, in the image of Elohim He created him – male and female He created them. And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Bear fruit and increase, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over all creatures moving on the earth.” And Elohim said, “See, I have given you every plant that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed, to you it is for food. “And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to every creeping creature on the earth, in which there is life, every green plant is for food.” And it came to be so. ” (Genesis 1:26-30 The Scriptures 1998+)

They believed it to be the best thing to hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Securing rights

Naturally they had seen in the Old World this would come not from itself, and they had to take measures to secure these rights. At that time many of them also knew their history and had heard about the many governments which brought countries to success but also to decline. They heard about the Roman and Greek empires and in their own regions of Charles the Fifth, the Dutch Glory, but also the oppression of the Duke of Alva and the Spanish troops.

They had heard about the French physiocrates and the colbertism (from Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683), French minister of finance under King Louis XIV ). Many liked the slogan “Laissez faire, laisser passer”. The land was very rich and provided enough food to export and trade. But Colbert’s idea was interesting for the use of those precious materials the people had found in many riverbeds. A “favourable balance of trade” in which goods were exported for gold, versus an “unfavourable balance of trade” in which gold would flow out of the country was chosen for, in the line of the ideas of Colbert who also intended to get rid of internal tariffs, and to tax the nobility, but failed.

Instituted among men

The many immigrants had seen many governments ruling for such a long time having everybody in their power, they would not like that in their New World. Therefore they wanted to make sure that people could be brought on to rule but also be abdicated by the people. Being conscious that governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, such a Form of Government could become destructive of these ends. So it was made possible that the people themselves had the right to alter or to abolish ,the government in power and to institute a new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

English: A collage of Native Americans dressed in European attire. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Prudence

For them who had to be very careful for what they thought and wanted to do prudence had become a very important teaching. “Prudence indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

We can wonder then how it became possible that a long train of abuses and usurpations saw the light. Also many unjust movements were taken against people of an other skin colour.

Also strange that when they had the basics in the Holy Scriptures there was so much hate preached over the many nations in the New World. It took many years to heal the wounds and to come to a point were more people could have the same rights as their ‘brothers and sisters’ of the New World.

Today the people of the United States should consider their Constitutional Laws and put them in regards to the Judeo-Christian values, which many find they have as their base.

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To be continued: Men of faith

Please do find more about the history of immigration:

• History though the eyes of those who  lived it –  Eye Witness to history
• US Immigration history

About the American ideas about governing:

• Declaration of Independence
• U.S. Constitution
• The Bill of Rights
• The Federalist Papers
• Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
• Guide to American Historical Documents Online
• Charters of Freedom from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
• Treaty with the Six Nations

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1. Christian values and voting not just a game
   People shall, in a certain way, always get what they choose for. In case they voted some government they can not complain afterwards that this government brought something in Law, when they could have figured that out beforehand. God absolutely instructs us to obey man’s laws unless they violate God’s laws, so as long as they are not against the Will of God, we shall have to obey them. And have to pay our taxes for example. (Giving the Emperor what belongs to the emperor.)
2. Judeo-Christian values and liberty
3. A world in denial
4. Liberal and evangelical Christians
5. Fear of God
6. Fear of God reason to return to Holy Scriptures

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