The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-12-02
Schoolboy Answer to Suggs.

gro who thought he had "a tremendous
bite and jerked with such might that
he fell into the river back waId, getting
his head above the water only to find
his hOped-for prize in his native ele-
ment and rs sound as ever. He
imagines his so-called 'poundings"
equal in effect the exertion that pro-
duce- them. However, he is mis-
taken. | am glad there is AN old
"codger" at my back, aud thank kind
providence there is more than one.
They are such a. Goodrich, Ridpath,
Greedy, Stevens and Frost, and Suggs
will have to pound harder than ever
before he drives them from me. n
bGw at Democracy was not meant by
that all was not pure at jamestown.
That ! was mistaken in one thing Is
cheerfully acknowledged. Reference
was made tn jamestown Democrats,
the singular should have been used,
the ROckport correspondent being the
only one of that class in my knowledge
all the other Democrats of my az
quaintance being so from principle net
from place. In regard tn comparing
jamestown and Plymouth at differ
ent dates, | said nothing, and Suggs
and every other reader of the HERALD
L 'Ht,.. Li.tArRs t..ly
the historian wrote it and his assertion
that misquoted is certainly unfounded.
The history of jamestown oates a.
surely back To the landing its first set
tiers AS that of Plymouth does to the
time when the first pilgrim set his foot
on New England soil, and Suggs need
not try to leave thirteen years of its
history out of sight and make the ar
rival of the ninety women, in 1862, the
starting point. To show that more
than two women had come over before
the ninety, make another quotation
from the hated Goodrich at does not
appear that more than two women
came over till 1911, when twenty ar
rived. - History, page 30.
1t is true that the number of colo
nists was at one time reduced To sixty,
hut this does not change them from
"rakes and libeftines," "vagabond
gentlemen" etc, to men of good char
acter, beside their number was after
wards raised to about two hundred by
the arrival of some emigrants who had
been wrecked in the West Indies, but
who set out from England with those
who were called ."rakes and liDertines"
and people packed off to escape worse
destinies at home;" being pills from
the same box, it is reasonable to sup
pose they were mainly of the same
character.
did not quote 'Smith's own protest
against receiving any more 'rakes,' >"
etc. because | have not seen it, This
was what IquOted IL entreat you"
says he, "Ia,her send me but thirty
carpenters, husbandmen, gardeners
fishermen, blacksmiths, masons and
diggers-up of tree-roots, well provided,
than thousand of such as we have. -
Goodrich, page 46. 1t should be borne
in mind that this was before the ar
rival of the "rakes and lihertines," and
after the arrival oil the first two
women.
Even if the arrival of the ninety
women were taken as the commence
ment Of the history of jamestown, it
would not screen them from the one
hundred criminals who came over and
became citizens, for the ninety women,
the one hundred criminals and the
twenty negroes arrived about the same
| time-l620.
No one illustrated "a class of respect
able colonists by its worst, extreme
elements" for if we take history for it
We will see that the majority were not
respectable" but were men of bad
character. That there were good men,
| do not deny, but their voice was OFTEN
overruled by the vicious as has been
is referred to the words of the second
author quoted in my first article, who
who was no other than Horace Greedy,
a man who should be dear TO the heart
of every Southern man, AS one who
after his principle had triumphed was
among the first TO sign the bail bond OF
Jefferson Davis
1t seems the London Company OBJ
tanned II new charter in 1909, and they
were soon enabled To send out nine YES
sells with five hundred omigrants. On
one of the vessels were the three "tem-
pOrary governors" hut their ship was
driven on the shore of the Bermudas
'The remainder of the squadron ar
rived safely at jamestown, but so little
We're they expected, that when first
seen at sea they we've mistaken fol
enemies. "A great part of the new EN-
igrants were profligate and licentiou,
youths, sent over by their friends to
screen them from justice in their own
country; the residue consisted princi.
pally of INDECENT gentlemen, too proud
to beg and too lazy to work, of broken
tradesme idle retainers, of whom the
great had been eager to rid themselves
and others like these, more fitted t.
ruin commonwealth than to found
or maintain one. Under the command
of seditious leaders, this pernicious crew
without the least authority proclaimed
the charge which the constitution hac
undergone, and proceeded to overthrow
the colonial presidency and council,
etc.-Frost, pages "a, 30.
But you ask for the "Lord's sake
: not to bring up any more history. ii