The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-04-02

the Z2u, 10 sec tnat company fe1tcu.-t WE
l.. y. aJg., lie met West returning to James
town, and found (hc says) the company so
inconsideratcly located, that "for remedie
whereof he presently sent to Powhatan
60 sell him the place called Powhafan,
promising him 10 defend him against the
Monacans." rs the consideration. spetman,
SAYS Smith, "sould me 10 him (Powhatan)
for toune called Powhatan." Smith says
be spent nine days in seeking to reclaime
them :" at The Falles THAT l.. IN trying TO
make them give UP Vests Forte and locate
at " Non-Such but rs he was unsucccss-
ful In this, about the iSt OF September (vol.
T., u. 23S.) she set saye 1or James
Town." and THEN the saIyages assaulted
those 100 in their Forte, siep many, De.
smiths vessel grounding, he returned, and
the colonists then consented 70 go to his
seat n, Non-such, where. after laying lot
OF them "by the heels as a matter Of
course. he seated the rest ''ga,lantly."
..Tbe salyages also hce presently appeascd,
rcdeIiycring to either party their former
losses. Thus all were friends" while
Smith was at The Fallcs the Indians also
killedmany In Nansmun.-Vol. l., p. 1885,
During all this time Captain West was at
jamestown. and ! infer that he was then
chosen 10 govern the colony at The eXpira-
ton OF Smiths term, on the 10th Of Sep
tembcr, 1900. From Smiths narrative i
infer that Captain West returned about the
9Th of September, and then his company,
Smith says, "returncd agalne TO the open
ayre at Vests Fort, abandoning Nom
Such,o Smith-mOst wonderful man
seems 10 have succeeded in convincing our
historians that their forefathcrs were fools,
a I,< 10 aud with fII.f lnn,lUl n
ergy TO draw their last breath; that all the
brains, all the courage, all the energy OF
the whole colony was concentrated in
Smith. Captain spetman says Smith
"made knowne to Captain Weste how he
had bought toune for them to dwell in
but Captaine West having be-
slowed co< 10 bogine toune in another
place, mislikod IL; and unkindnessc there
upon arising between them, Captain
Smith at that time rcpliede litell, but
afterward conspTed with the Pow
hatan 70 Kill Captain WcStc, which
plot tooke but smale effect, for in We meane
time Captain Smith was Aprehendcd and
sent aboard for England" (rhis state
ment may he true, rs besides "the I'M
kindnesse" between them about the seats,
no doubt Smith was jealous OF West, who
had been chosen TO succeed him.) Some
time after West arrived, Smith returned
for Jamestown, aud, sleeping in his
boate, accidentalle one fired his powder
bag. which tore the flesh from his body
and thighes aiae or ten inches square in
most pi,tifull manner."-Vol. l., page
2S9.) This must have happened about the
9th Of September, and he tells us he was
then "nccre an hundred myIes" from
JamcstOwnc. He must have reached there
about the l1th. lie returned to England
on the 9Th or 9th OF October, 1G09,i and he
SAYS he was detained three weeks after he
got on board. Then he must have gone
aboard about the 18th of September. His
authority Us President of the Council Qhe
was never Governor OF Virginia. ceased on
the 10th OF September, for under the Kings
Articles no one could hold that Office
" above the space OF one YEAR"
The company under West is given as 120,
under Martin as 100, and these eco were
forced. at the end OF six weeks (before
Smith LEFT the colony, but after he had gone
aboard, TO return TO Jamestown, having
lost "neere halle their men among the sal
wages" from which we must infer that
about 100 were killed; and sin James
towne, at the same time, and in the same
100 sicLned and hattie the m9nber
died." (50.) Smith carried men over to
testify in his favor, and Percy Chen
acting GovG'noD sent over others
to testify against him, no doubt all re-
turned who could get away. as there was
nothing in the prospect to induce any one
to stay. Is il not reasonable TO suppose
that 90 returned? Then. OF 430, there
were killed, died, or returned TO England |
between early in August and the 9Th OF |
October, 1909, about 10, leaving at that |
line in the colony about 2G0, or. according !
o Spetman's statement ('' about 50 4" on the |
arrival Of the third supply 100 less-i. e., |
60; and really taking all of the statements !
n the General History into consideration, |
md putting the death-rate at the minimum, !
according with these statements, do not |
sec how there could have been over 200 |
eft alive in the colony.
In my former statement ought TO have |
mid "the yciiow-fever had been raging" |
instead OF ",caS raging" at Jamestown, as |
he frost had then no doubt alleviated that |
isease; but "the starving time" had com |
nerced, "when, by reason of the colde, il |
vas not possible for us to endure to wade
n the water las formerly to gather oysters
o satisiic our hungry stomackS.'
When Smith left the colonists were suf-
cring for food. There was no harvest TO
gather; no real houses 20 shclterT no COM
orts OF any kind. The yellcw-fever had
zen raging az jamestown, and there were
rot 800 left alive in the colOny-most
,robably not 200. There was neither legal
commander nor preacher; "neither Chi
urgian nor chirUrgery"; and the very
hips that carried Smith were "ladcn with
iothing but bad reports and letters OF dis
When note that Smith WAS once i'm the
mplOy OF the Virginia Company OF Lon
lon: meter QgGia once in the employ Of
london merchants: neger again once in
he employ Of the Northern Company OF
Virginia: neUer again; that he was not
hrce years in America, and that he spent
he rest OF bis lie, some twenty-odd years,
II England. seeking positions which he did
lot get. making claims for past services and
dVanceS which were not allowed; writing
inseh up in the most beautiful style, be-
oming more and more ostentatious with
ach succeeding edition OF his works, until
sec him, vain old man, collecting to-
ether aud putting in a more pronounced
hape every little bit, in poetry, prose, and
icture, that he has issued in his own
raise, or his friends Of him Qnuch OF
which ia apparently only an Offering
0 his vanity, 1 am very much
{ your opinion, that "Smith does not de-
erye 30 much attention" But, then,
lso see historian after historian simply
opying Smiths account, almost " re'6dtim
Werotin'," for their history OF the
of this colony, and therefore | ,
hink his statements ought TO be sifted to ,
be very bottom, because it il most import ,
nj 10 Ea0,c whether orr histories have ,
cen founded in sand or "built upon n .
ock'-whether the foundation Of this .
reat republic was laid by blaggart or by .