Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-05-09
Flnt FnmilicS.

For years the land has been sickened
u.;,b the boast of Virginians and CAROLYN
isns this; they were descended from a
,uperior class of beings to those who were
,be prnsenirurs of the citizens of Other
e.r,cially the Northern-States. The fact
/ i, If there is any merit in descent it is all
due to the people of the Northern States,
for they were originally settled BY the
respectable and industrious classes of the
old countries. among whom were many of
rhe titled nobility. These are facts Of
history. History also exhibits the true
character of the hr>t families of Virginia.
Srrschey, in the preface TO his history.
saws:
l begin with the early patron Of Vir-
xinia, Lord Delaware, who, after visiting
rhe colony, described the people there in
letter, dated at Jamestown, July I. 1910.
A. "men of distenpered bodies and in
fected minds, whom no examples daily
before their eyes. either of goodness or
punishment. can deter from their habitual
impietieS. or terrIfy from a shameful
death" Language cannot be stronger.
And according to the same history,
"the colony, which began with bad men.
was increased BY worse. In 1919, King
James wrote to the Virginia Company.
commanding them TO send hundred
diSsolute per-on$ To Virginia, whom the
knight marshal shall deliver. Thus BY
rnval command was this colony made
Buranv Bav." The Company of the NIr-
pinia Plantation. says Smith IN his New
England Trials, "not content with the !
hundred dis-olute persons supplied by .
the kings order. entreated for more. until !
Capt. John Smith. the hero Of Virginia. /
was moved TO express his disgust. de !
te>tifeS TO the evil when he wrote. in 1922:
Since I came from thence, the honorable
company have been suitorS TO his majesty
70 get vasabond and condemned men 10
90 thither: nav. so much scorned was the
name of Virginia, some did choose 10 be
hanged ere they would go thither.
This was bad enough, but the Virginia
Company seem TO have been inSenSible to
the shame of such a settlement. Its agents
and orators vindlcated the utility Of the
colony on this account. In work emit
tied Nora Britannia. offering most ex-
cellent fruits by planting in Virginia"
published in London, in 1909, and dedica-
ted to lone of His Majesty's council for
Virginia" it was openly argued that un-
less swarms of idle persons, in lewd and
naughty practices" were sent abroad, we
must provide shortly more prisons and
corrections for their bad conditions :" and |
that il was "most profitable for our State |
TO rid our multitudes of such as lie at |
home. Fostering the land with pestilence |
and PERJURY, and injecting one another with !
vice and villainy. worse than the plague |
itself" DIR. Donne, dean Of st. Paurs, |
poet also. in a sermon preached TO the |
Honorable Company Of the Virginia Plan !
tation. 18th November, 1922" thus sets !
forth the merits of the colony: The |
plantation shall redeem many wretch |
from the laws Of death from the hands OF
the executioner. It shall sweep your !
streets and wash your doors from idle !
persons, and the children of idle persons, :
and employ them" Such were the puffS |
by which recruits were gained for Virginia. |
Had not the lords of the Rebellion claimed !
superior virtues, because Of their alleged !
superior descent, history would not have |
been searched for the foregoing facts. IT.
view of these facts, and their recent failure !
to lord il over the Nation, it will perhaps
be we'll for them not to boast loudly of
their ancestry. The ruling race on this
continent is certainly not the offspring of
penal coloniSt>, bur may be looked for in
the descendants of those who sought these
shores for high and noble purposc-so
found and perpetuate an empire Of liberty
and freedom of conscience.