Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-11-15

general intelligence that such . lOly should be
allowed to play such part. UuquestiOnably
there were sottlers n Virginia, as there were
also IN New England, connected with arsto'
cratic iamiIss Bat they were 80 few 10 each
colony as not to modify essentially tho prevail
ny population, when toJk lts character from
the mass r,tber than ir m aDy individual. The
origin Of Virginia is % well authenticated as To
leave litto doubt with regari 70 the character
lot It's population, unless you REJECT all the con
current es .lmony ol conlel0pcraflts, aud all the
concurrent admissions VI hst0gl ms. Perhaps
there IS nothing 10 cur early history WIN re
gard t. which tho authorities are 50 various
and 50 clear From their very abundance, II
~ difficult to choose.
| begin with the carly patron OF Virginia,
'L)rd Delaware, who, alter visiting the colony,
described the people there IN letter dated at
jamestown, July +, lGl0 as " men Of dis.em
poted bodies and infected minds, whom no eX.
am les daily before their eyes, either u good
moss or punishment, can deter from their habit
ual lmpletlos or terriiy from a shameful death p
ISiraehey's History Prqacs, p. 52I Ian
guage cannot be stronger
Bat the colony winch began with bad men
Vas increased by worse. la lGlJ, klng James
wrote 70 tbs Virginia Company commandlng
them to send hundred dss lutte persons to
Virginia, whom the knight marshal sh-'l dclg.
er. fSbachy's History Of Virginia VOL !,
ip. los Thus, by royal cjnm1nti was thls
colony made a Botany Bay
The company, no, cJn,cnt with the - hun
dred dissolute peIsjBs supplied by the klng'-
order. entreated Tor more, until Captain John
smith. the hero Of Virginia, Na6 moved to ex
press hIs disgust lie testhes . the 0yll when
lhe wrote. in 1922 " Since came from thence,
he honorable company hly. teen suhors to bis
imaIes,y 10 gef rlgqbond and coEd.mIed meH to
70 thiiher nay, 80 much scornai was the name
lUl virginia, same did choose 10 be hqngd ere Hey
uoha 20 MitLer, anil mps." SmH's Netc
EagIqnd Trias, 1922 This VS. tai enough.
But the Virginia Company SEEN 70 have been
in,,rs.ble 70 tho shame oi such settlement.
It, agents and orators ylndlcaied ;ho uu.ity OF
line ebony on this account. la work entitled
f" Nara britannia, Offering most eEc llent fruits
lby planting 10 Virginia, Iubli he'd 10 London Ia
1909 and dedicated 10 g. one OF his majesty 4
council fur Virgins j. Was openly argued,
that unlCss " swaTms OF Idle persons 10 lead
and naughty practices we're sent aUroal - We
must pf1ylIe shortly more Fr'oi' aud corrections
for their bad cJni uJu- au1 that II was
d" most profitable for our state TO ri our mll-
utuies 81 such as lie az home, peettng iAe
land With psftIIeuco and penufy and injecting
lone an1trer with VICE anI ylllainy, worse thau
the plause its-lL d. D,nue dean ot n.
Paul ., poet also, ina selm0n " prcacIel u the
Honorable Company of the Nrglnian Plantation
18Th November, 1922 thus sets forth the
merits Of the colony The plantston shall
redeem uauy wretch lFOm the laws u death
from the hands Vi the * scutoucr. !! fhalI
sweep -FOUR streets and wash your door iroul
idle rer.ous. and the chliten 0f IDLE persons
.nl employ them Sue1 Ne Iu1s by which
recruits were gained lor Virginia.
History recsrds zoe upqucsI0nahe re3nlt, and
here tie authorities multiply. sF jonathan
lChilI. n hH "D.sc1urs3 Vi he Trade OF the
Plantations, published ia l,9s, says Virginia
and Barbados were frH ys0phd by d sJft Of
,oss v.srant people. H.l /, not been for our
plantations. tLey must have cJme 20 De hqNgeI
lor ,taIred. OF sold Tor sJlliaFs.' DR.. DJugid-s
10 his Colonial History, printol 10 l749, gives
the following testimony Oar plantations IN
America, Nee ERgimd trcV'.d, have been
generally suited / b, mAicJn,euts from the
Administrations iiom time 70 time. . 81
lrAudalau, d.b.on as refuge from creditors
and 3, by cOnyios VI c.lmina who chose TIA 5
poftation rather than deagn." Douglass H's
iorv. Vol >. p 42s Graham the s;otch nis-
tOnAn, who has .r.tteu 81 cInsrieutously ol
our country, speaking OF the hTst settlers, says
of Virginia "A great proportion OF these new
emigran CONSISTED OF prohlsate and llcsnIious
yeuths. seot from England By their ri nds, with
the hope OF cnanglug their deStlaies, or ioT the
purpos, OF ,cTeelnE them from the justice oi
conienp, Of their country with Others
ike these, moro likely to eJrrup; and prey upon
an lnians common Nealth than to iuster IL.
Graham, UaiisI SAFES Vol. |, ? 81 Tne
historian OF Nirpla, William smith, whose
work was puhllshcd at " llll,msbarg IN the last
century is not less explicit " / cannot but
remark" he Says, " how early that custom
arosl Of Transporting lore aud dssJluIe persons
" Virginia, as place OF punishment and als-
grace, whIch although originally designed lor
ths Advancement and Increase Of the colony, yet
has certainly proved a great prejudice and bun
dranoe 10 it, growth lor II hath lid one CT the
hne.t Countries OF BRUSH America under the
unjust scandal of being mere h'il upon tarih
another Siberia. and Ouly it Tor the reception Of
nAlslac;ors and the yiest OF the people 50 that
few, at least few large bodies Of people have
been Induced willingly TO trAuspor. themselve;
70 tutN n ltANlf euA ANA J""t'-N' 'tN'N'Nf 't''
northern colonies, have prthtet ther by
TSmuh's Hiaoryof Virginia, Nol. /, p los,
Bus tins is no. all Anothes historian OF Var
gnia oil our own day, whose work was pub
lshsi Al Richmond, Ia 1916, while showing
that pride Ia bis Site wnicA would chaog'
ever, settler la,o "cIyIlicr, has be-n CON
PEELED 20 make the following most tuclui con
lesion " Gon,lcman reduced 10 poverty by
gaming and ex.rayasance, to- proud TO o's, to-
iuag too dig-hroksn tradsamen with some siiS
ma Of fraud yet clngine to their names-tost
men, who hal expended in the mother couu'ri
the las, shred OF honest reputation that wat
ever held-rikc consumed with disease ant
shattered in the service OF impuuty-hbc'iiue'
whose race Of SIN was yet to run-and unFuly
sparks packed Oh By their friends to escapI
worse destines ut homa-these were the mei
who came & AID IN founding nation, und Il
transmit 10 pos,eriiy their 1Sn immaculate
impress" iioriaoa's HHory Of Virginia
Vol. /, p. l6g Aud this same historian con
fesse, that sccial life 10 Virginia, beginning II
sucl bascness, after moro thaa century, hat
levolored afntocraoy neither OF talent, nj
learning, nor moral WORTH hut Nl land ant slave
in,ere,t' Liid, Vol. >, p 2olI So mucl
for the testimony Of history oven when writel
and printed IN Virginia.
know not the number Of d,sp,ri,a pers,u
shipped 10 Virginia but there wcro euOugi
To leave an indolliblc imprtssioa en- Tie colony
and 10 give it name 10 tho literature OF IN
time. Il was this colony which suggested t
B,con tn. most pregnant words Of one oil hi
E.says, which FURNISHED 70 DeFOo severn
striking p,ssages in one Of bis romauccs an,
which provoked MAsinser to dialogue IN on
OF his dramas. Let me glance TOR on MON n