New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-02
sells had landed their freight Of refugees In Vir-

sells had landed their freight Of refugees IN VIZ
glnia At last the King vacated the charter'
but the colony could now stand even that blow
and free government had so taken root IN
the colony that It could never afterward De
quite extirpated. new English state with
popular government had been founded or de-
liberate purpose by a group Of English states
men, at the head Of whom. and easily nrst' was
Sir Edwin Sandys whose great service 10 inc
people and nation that were to come mas DEC"
almost forgotten.
RELIGION entered these affairs on two ines'
the first lire Of missionary effort stimuia'eo u!
the rivalry Of the Latin Church IN the opaii'"
doninions and the second beated asceticlsh
within the company at home. III the hhs"'"
Church was not to be mere insulated rag
ment broken from the Church Universal 1t must
show its vitality in the conversion OF lhue'''
and there were no more obvious infidels IMAM
those naked slaves Of the devir VINO hao
been found in North America Inc oPihio"
WAS general in those times that man had been
taught by the Deity to wear clothes. Inc want
of costume among the Virginian redskins was
satisfactory proof that they were really "or-
shippers Of the devil 1t was inferred from the
immense number of new kinds OF animals 'ha'
America had never undergone the chastisemeh'
of the Deluge. The species known in ASH
Errona and Africa had strained the capacity
Of the Ark and it impossible to see what
Noah could have done with opossums raccoons'
buffaloes and all the other creatures "nicn MS
descendants now met for the first time. IN
fact. everything went to show that satan had
Nod h,s own yrav in the New World ever since
the year one
Devoted missionaries went to Virginia to con-
vert the savages 20 the English rengloh anu ~
the English way Of wearing clothes' Inc" Suo
cess was proportionate to that or other HIS
sionaries. They kept the peace among inc
colonial leaders and they impressed the natives
with their earnestness and sincerity. IL oiu
not occur to the missionaries that the red man
was child Of the devil in the same sense tha'
the white man was--namely. thar II ne peca"e
suspicious Of being treated unjustly ne "ouid
revenge himself in the most dlabohcai way nc
could imagine. Ascetc diettantelsrn IN Eng
land was equally oblivious to this possibility
of the Indian character. Nobody was looKihs
for the same kind of treachery from the indian
that INSCRIPTIONS white men wer" READY at al
times to play upon him. In the household OF
the London merchant Ferrar, foremost member
of the Virginia Company. religion preserved the
romantic cast of the Middle Ages. Long AFTER
the company thing or the past the FER
rars kept up at Little Giddings in Huntingdon
shire a perpetual round Of devotiCns, never ceas-
ing night or day, the vigil Of each member OF
the household being accurately fixed. 80 that the
chapel might always be in use. This rehgion
was refined; il needed books and ceremonies. IL
could be transferred to the colony only IN COM
pany with the education which 1t demanded
The Ferrars gave much money for the education
and religious training Of Virginia savages. A
school was founded for them. and rewards were
into their families. An endowment OF fl,3OO
was collected for a college, to which the hrst
beouest was a good library. In short. the super
structure colonial life was getting on much
faster than the foundation. The actual re-
lations between the settlers and the Indians
were not understood at all In England. The
former were starving in the effort to make SILK
wine and iron. while the latter began to feel
that their hospitality had been abused THE
horrible massacre Of March. 1872. made the
Indian question something other than the
Ferrars saw It, All schemes for educating the
savages were obliterated in a day. The only
thought after this was how to put the savages
to death, old and young, men and women. more
often by foul mear5 than by fair. The settlers
even emulated, II they did not surpass. the
treachery of the Indians. With the dissolution
of the company by quo warranto proceedings
in 1924 the government OF the colony passed to
the Crown, and the Ferrars had no more to DO
with Virginia"