Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-16

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settled near st. Augustine. Tht
|spaniards being jealous of such
enemies in their vicinity, set t.
work and massacred' every one. II
the meantime Ribault had left the
colony to attack the Spanish flee
on the coast. He failed to- fine
the enemy he sought, but encoun'
tered a terrible storm, in which he
was shipwrecked. On his return
to Fort Carolina he found the
Spanish flag floating above its
ruins. The Spaniards demanded
their surrender, what else could be
done? Behind them lay starvation
and ceaseless wandering; while
before them? Possibly their lives
might be spared, but not so, they
were marched in the fort with
.hande bound behind them and
put to death.
The. next attempt was made by
Sir Walter Raleigh at Roanoke,
Ya.,. or rather North Carolina. The
colonists in that instance becom-
ing dissatisfied soon returned
home. Greenville. who had brought
them over, arrived a few days after
their departure, and left fifteen
men to hold Roanoke, while he re-
turned to England for new colony.
A new colony was collected and
brought over and on reaching
Roanoke they found only the bones
of those left by Greenville. They
either were massacred or died OF
starvation. None were left to tell
the tale. Before many weeks it
was decided to send to Gov. White
for supplies. White being detain-
ed in England did not return until
after two years, hut then nothing
was to be found of the colony he
had left. What become of these
colonists has ever been mystery
to the world. What instances of
suffering and hardships can my
opponents bring forth which will
equal these two cases?
The next important attempt to
colonize was made at Jamestown,
va. Time will not allow my going
fully into detail but you all know
Of the numerous and thrill ling.ad:
ysntnTssof Capt: Ohm smith b, and
the famous s starving time" when
the colony was reduced by famine
and disease from 500 to go. Next
in course Of hardships comes the
first massacre in Virginia, in
which the heartless toma-hawk
-
spared neither age nor sex. During
this massacre about $50 men,
women, and children were treach-
erously murdered. The very day
of the massacre some of the In
dians were in the houses, and sit
ting at the tables of those whose
murder they were plotting, saying,
"Sooner shall the skies fall, than
peace be violated on our part"
The Indians remained at peace for
about twenty years, when they
again began hostilities, by MUIR
dering 800 men, women, and chill
dren. Next on the calendar of
colonial sufferings is the landing
of the Pilgrims, which happened
in mid-winter with the snow on the
ground, and the spray of the sea
freezing as it fell on their clothes.
making them look like a coat OF
mail. Words cannot express the
sufferings of the long and weary
winter which followed, when many
men died from cold and hunger
The dealing out of the FIVE kernels
of corn ls known to all. There
was only Ollie pint of corn N ths
whole colony, aud when it was
divided up, amounted to only five
grains apiece. Again in the same
winter, at one time there were only
seven able to take care of the. sick
Talk about your Valley Forge
Why, sir, it cannot be compa. ed
with the sufferings to which I have
barely alluded. During their first
winter in the New World. the Ply,
mouth colony was reduced to 4t
souls by famine and disease.
Next on the roll comes the Pequod
and King Philip wars, with theil
numerous barbarities, which only
the Indian is capable of infictine
upon his enemy. The wars will
the French and Spanish followed
with all the horrors which
my opponents may say existed
J,r;no tho rovo1niinn The frs