250 A SAGA OF THE SEAS 
But in token of those better feelings 
Which have since united two nations 
One in race, in language, and one in religion, 
With the hope that this friendly union 
Will never be broken. 
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster. 
“Patriotic” Americans, whose feelings had been aroused, 
were indignant that Field should carry out his plan in the 
face of their opposition. Some of them procured dynamite 
and blasted the offending monument. Field had a new one 
cut and placed. In November of 1885, this also was dyna- 
mited. Deciding not to replace the marker again, Field an- 
nounced that the spot was now sufficiently marked. It was 
indeed: the “insult’’ to the nation’s glory was “avenged.” 
Unknown patriots had demonstrated their spirit. 
In October 1878, another memorial in which Field parti- 
cipated aroused no such resentment. On the seventy-fifth an- 
niversary of the marriage of his parents, he and three other 
sons gave the town of Haddam for a park or public green 
the site of the meeting-house to which the “old parson” and 
his new bride had come in early married life. A similar gift 
of a park and memorial tower was made by Cyrus and David 
to the town of Stockbridge. The father’s first charge as a 
young man had been at Haddam, Connecticut, after which 
he had gone to Stockbridge; but he was recalled to Haddam 
for a term of years in later life, after which he retired to 
Stockbridge to spend his last years among the Berkshires. 
Field’s hard application on the elevated-railway problem 
emphasized the need for relaxation to improve his health, 
which had never been strong. He arranged a trip to the 
south of France and Algiers for the winter and early spring 
of 1880. While taking this rest, he had time to reflect and 
mature his plans. He was now sixty years old, and the ner- 
vous energy that had sustained him on difficult tasks was a 
