Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-01-29


lotteries were complained of in Parlia /
ment, they were declared to have supplied /
the real food by which Virginia had been
nourished." Until 1920, there were no
families in the State, no women. There
were then transported 90 women, who, on
arriving, were bought and sold for tobac
co. About the same time there arrived
. 100 idle and dissolute persons. These
were the first convicts transported to
America" Such, according 10 Chief
Justice MarShoU,* was the commence
ment of Virginia.
"At the time the southern Colony was
commenced, q charter also had been Civ
en- for a northern one but it resulted in
Just flung out a few ships, ira lficking
with the natives. and surveying the coast
of what is now New-England. Interest
and money-seeking fIiled in attempting to
overcome the obstacles which rigorous
climate opposed to colonization. "a
stronger motive than even interest" was
summoned iato operation, when Provi-
dence would induce European settle
/ ments on this stern and rock bound coast"
/ There was band of Christian men in
! the North Of England, the g ultraists' of
! their day, who were odious to the then
conservatives in church and state
because they could not, in conscience,
submit to [what they deemedl unscriptur-
al impositions and human inventions, they
were loaded with heavy fines and forfeit
ures- nay, hunted about as partridges on
the mountains, and prosecuted as pests TO
society" At length numbers of them
emigrated to Holland Tin 1902. After
residing 10 Leyden some Is years, diff
cuties are experienced there also. To
avoid these molestations, TO train up their
children for heaven, and above all, the
desired hope they had of spreading the
gospel Of Christ and laying foundation
for the advancement Of religion and the
kingdom of Christ in this remote part of
the world-these acre some Of The chief
reasons which induced our ancestors to
determine on removal from Holland. /
This step was in entire harmony with
their character. The men who, 2I9
years ago, landed en- the rock of Pvm-
outh, were indeed, not men of crank and
fortune" nor otherwise, such rs their
countrymen who began the Virginia
Colony. They were not, however, the
less worthy They were the flower and
strength of the Puritans, whom foreign
author that repudiates their doctrines,
{ has characterized as men with whom
knowing, serving and loving the Great
Being was the great end of existence
men who, rejecting with contempt the
ceremonious homage substituted By 9th
ers for spiritual worship, looking down
on the rich and the eloquent, on mobiles
and priests to whom others looked up;
rendered better service to God, deemed
themselves rich in a more enduring treas
ure, eloquent In a sublime language, no.
bles by the right of an earlier creation,
and priests by the imposition of a might
Ter hand" What men can claim no.
bier ancestry? We will bless God that
he raised up such men, that he enlarged
their minds as we'll as sanctifed their
hearts, that be gave them views of truth
lar in advance of their age, that he
strengthened them to at accordantly with
such perceptions, SO as, renouncinr hu-
man favor for his smile, TO choose dps
ert with civil and religious freedom rath-
er than even paradise without it. But
l know not to give f1ttering titles, or ac-
cord perfection TO any thing this side of
| heaven. Faults indeed, the pilgrim IA
theirs had ,-yet submit how far most OF
these were such as they shared in CON-
mon with all men of that age Would
God, all of US were morally their peers
Who of their sons should pride himself
in laying bare their infrmities? Let us.
with blessed Shem aud Japheth, rather
walk backward and mantle over than,
with cursed Ham, 90 forward and baseIv
mock good Noah's shame.
Thus unlike each other were the
ColoniSts of Jamestown and Plymouth
and so the States of Virginia and Massa
chusetls, OF which those settlements W ere
the germs; and SO the two great divis-
| Ions OF our nation, OF which those States
were the prototypes and have been the
leaders. The different character of the
southern and South west sections, as con-
trasted with the northern and Northwest
/ portions of our common country. has ex-
| listed from the beginning, and must be ac-
knowledged to have been given, in its ell
ements, by the founders of those original
southern and northern colonies.
+" And wherein is the difference. There.
lew overgrown propsietors engross the
soil. Poor slaves, stolen and robbed Of
OF all things, even of themselves, HOE il
and waste and exhaust its powers. Here,
land Is distributed among many moderate
Possessors, who themselves, with hired
and paid assistance of fellow freemen,
PLOUGH 1t and preserve and increase lis
productlVenesS. There warm as their