The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-29

hundred and orseven years back the first permanent
English settlement in Virginia find himself sprung
from some respectable immigrant or paupo or ytslon
taken from he prisons Of Enropei There was not a
single European to be found before that time except
in the Spanish colony St Augustine Native Aaeyi-
sapGges and kaow nothngs' were alone TO be
found in all the length and breadth Of our now happy
and lovely country! And must confess that they who
now bear that name represent admirably their illus
ious progenors The old natoes treacherous and
cruel to death, to the early immigrant the
hpes SO also They had their war-dances and fires
scapngknves and omahawks for the unprotected exile
from oppression and they held their dag po0-co,ps to
eoncoc schemes and plans of operation for the destruction
OF unsuspecting innocence and virtue, and do
"know nothing Jurors follow the barbarous example, even
in the heart Of civilization and freedom and refinement
and prospcrtyd the result Of early immigration and the
distress of the exiledistress of which fancy may form
approximate idea but which language cannot express
words utter:
They saw through sorrows ngthenng night
Nought but the faggots guilty lights
The clouds they gazed at was the smoke
That round their murdered brethren broke.
Nor power above, nor power below,
Sustained them in that hour of woe.
A fearful path they trod
And dared a fearful DOOM
To build an altar to their God
And find quiet tomb"
These repeat were the objects for which earliest
fathers America, and these the Objects together
with Others that urge and invite those who at this
day Twere long to tell of all that come and with sghs
and themselves off forever from all the dear and
tender sympatbes of life
I" Behold they come, those sainted FORMS
Unshaken by the strife of storms.
Heavens winter cloud hangs coldy down,
And earth puts on its rudest form
But colder, ruder was the hand
That drove them from their own fair land
Their fair land Refnements chosen seat,
Arts trophied dwelling, Learnngs green retreat,
BY vaor guarded and by victory crowned,
For all but gentle charity renowned.
Even from that land they dared to part,
And burst each tender tie
Haunts where their sunny youth passed
Homes where they fondly hoped at last
In peaceful age to de-"
The nations of Europe awakened by the astound
ing intelligence that another continent rich in all the pro-
ductons of Nature lay sumberng in the western ocean
and accordingly we find them commissioning individuals
charterng companies to to America On the 9th
May l496 Henry VII commissions Cabot and sail
voyage of discovery. In 1874 John Verrazani was
commissioned by Francis King Of France. Cartier came
in 1884; Colign in 1862 and in 1878 Humphrey Gilbert
by patent of Queen Elizabeth authorized to take pos
session o any and all The heather and barJarous
lands that he might diseore not haping been before occupied by
any Christian poWern Raleigh came in 1888, and CON
tnued making discoveries and observations and settle
ments till 1881 Gosnod in 1902 De Mons in 1903
The London company projected their enterprise in 1906
and the Plymouth company in 1907 In 1907 under the
auspices Of the London company Newport Gosnold and
Smith made the settlement at Jamestown, in Virginia In
1920 the HPigrm Fathers and established them
selves at Plymouth which they named in tender recolec
ton of the city of that in England from which they
fled In 1880 Boston settled, and named after
town of the same name in Lincolnshire from which
they undertook TO escape to Holland In 1851 Roger
Williams Baptist preacher forced to leave the colony
of Plymouth and settled Providence Rhode Island The
Dutch and English discover the Connecticut river In
1881 New Hampshire is settled in 62o Delaware Is set
Il l, .IaaI,rs
settled at ST. Marys under Calvert and the Jesuit Fathers
The Dutch settled at New Amsterdam now New York In
l6l4 and Cartier and Penn established the settlement
New Jersey in 1904 North Carolina settled in 1868
and South Carolina by Governor Saye in 1870 Pennsy-
vania settled in 1888 and Georgia in l732 by 0ge-
thorpe with his little colony Of lG cmigrants Thus the
country settled at various points from Massachusetts,
to Florida and thus by immigration the foundation Of
present glory laid by poor people from the Old World
and have doubt but that with very few exceptions
unpromising class of foreigners has since then
landed on the shores of the New World and certainly
they very Ear from being what might expect hav
ing fed from tyranny at bome they in many instances
exercised the oppression the bgotry and nto
erance that from which they fed But LET not dwell
upon the obliques Of poor human natureet
rather seek and admire the virtues that shine like jewels in
the vast Of infrmitos The settlements aug
mented by accessons from abroad and at the
Of the French war; In 1854, find them powerful
and important and entering cheefuy zcaousy and with
viruous gratitude the ranks Of their opresor and
against her enemies That the birthday of glory
for in that struggle trained the troops and marshaed
the generals that in quarter Of century achieved
own independence Poverty and misfortune made us
strong and taught MS the extent Of
We were then loyal subjects Of the king and spent both
and lives TO sustain the British constu-
ton and British laws and TO extend the dominons Of
royal MASTER and expc future friends from the conti-
nent Of America, In my next letter viii examine this
war and show It's and effect and the part the colo
mics took and the ngraude Of Britain that led TO our
revolution and freedom-wthout the aid Of
tiye-Americsns know-notngs,' but who hen nor,
labored day and night to betay infant freedom into
the hands OF its enemies
Mr. Editor, trust win arrive al the interesting
and truthful details Of history when hope to show what
kind OF have stered crushed liberty and virtue
everywhere and when and from whom they received atten
ton and support
DEMOCRACY.