The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-07-09

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ginia and Description of the Country
This map shows that he had fine eye
for typographical outline. Other
works were "A Description of New
England 1916; New England's
Trials 1920; THE General Historie,'
l624,s with three later editions. He
wrote also, "A Sea Grammar and sew
eral other books, which went over the
same ground of his own adventures, and
the history of the jamestown colony.
These books were written and published
by him at his own expense. He
distributed them gratuitously in large
numbers, solely with view to exciting
interest about America, and helping
him in working up his plans.
"Reading between the lines, we see
man of strong nature, full of conceit,
of manners disagreeable because ego
tistical, impatient of opposition, and in
sufferably fond of talking about aud
magnifying his own adventures. Yet
he was no ordinary character. The
very rashfulness aud impulsiveness he
manifested in England made him fertile
in expedients in fighting Powhatan.
The very strength of his dictator-like
intellect, which gained him the hate Of
the Jamestown colonists, whether of
lower or equal rank, caused him to
achieve success with the savages and
keep the storehouse of the fort full of
corn. His great energy expending
itself on the one hobby of working up
expeditions to America, no doubt. made
him to some extent nuisance In Eng
land, after he was discountenanced and
insulted by the Virginia company.
But that Smith was smart man, OF
rare force and ingenuity, far ahead of
his age in forseeing the future great
ness of America, and possessing execu-
tive ability of high order, must be
conceded. He came, in time, to regard
himself the originator of all the dis
coyeries and colonizations of his busy
age, mentioning the Virginia colony as
my colony and in relating the story
of an expedition, of which he was only
private in the rear rank, saying, 4
took ten men and went ashore 1 or
dered the boats to be lowe red and SC
forth. His staggering rhetoric brings
a smile to the face of the reader. Hil
latest and best biographer says: I'll
Shakespeare had known him, as he
might have done, he would have had
character ready to his hand that would
have added one of the most amusing
and interesting portraits to his gallery
He family suggests moral Falstaff, II
we can imagine Falstaff withou
vlces.' Smith was not only a goot
Churchman, but good man. His pri
vate life, passed amid the roughes
characters and surroundings, was up
right and pure. He was never heart
to use an oath.
"In spite Of his incessant efforts, b.
writing books, making speeches, AM
addressing letters with offers of his ser
vices to colonization societies, Smitl
was compelled to remain mere specta
tor of the rapid settlement of the New
World. Though out of money and ou
of reputation, his buoyant spirits never
sunk. He was Micawber, always ex
pecting something to turn up, or bette
yet, a ColoneI Mulberry Sellers, wh'
was never without scheme with mil
Inns in it, Hardship and disappoint
ment made him prematurely old, If
did not make him unhappy. His las
years were spent in poverty-s.rickel
seclusion, princes mind imprisone'
in a pauper's purse as was said OF hin
by q friend. Fed by his great expecta
tions,' he held up his head to the end
Almost his last act was to make his will
In due form, pompously dlsposlng Il
Thomas Parker, Esq, of'an my houses
lands, tenements, and hereditament
whatsoever They were located onl.
In his fancy. When the instrumen
was duly drawn, he, who had writtel
so many books, could only make hi
mark. The end had come. On Jun
2lst, 1881, being fifty-two years old
he passed away. He lived and died
bachelor. He was welded to his low
of adventure. While there was mucl
about him at which to laugh, there
more which begets admiration an
sympathy for him who called himself
. on the title pages Of his books, tn
Sometime Governor Of Virginia an
and Admiral of New England "