The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

properties OF medlclnaI NERDS. and his
cell became the resort OF learned ma!..
He was visited by those concerned in his
plans for colonizing America. among
them his friend Hariot who wrote the
most intelligent account OF Lanes eXpedl
ton. Hackluyt, patriot and historian, al
so the principal assignee OF his franchises
and interests in Virginia. more thai
any other man caught the spirit OF his
enterprise and kept popular interest alive
until King James was foced by public
sentiment or tempted by his own lust tor
fame and dominion to give his sanction
to sending colony to America.
1906. The most persistent efforts were
made to set Raleigh at liberty, as ms
colonizing scheme again grew into favor.
Queen Anne, of England, and the King
Of Denmark, and James Oldest son Henry
Used their utmost efforts in his behalf
but without avail.
1906, April %. James granted a new char
ter to the two companies who now pro,
posed to undertake the colonization CT
Virginia" Among the four named
cCrporators of the company which
settled jamestown stands the name
Of Raleigh Gilbert doubtless
nephew of the great explorer, after
whom he was named. The treasurer and
general manager Of this company was Sir
Thomas Smith who had acted in the same
capacity over the company by which the
| settlements of Roanoke Island were eff
fccted. OF the nineteen corporators of
| the City of Raleigh which John White
was enjoined to build in 1887, ten were
among those who subscribed to the James
town expedition. Raleigh in prison, the
mcn he had inspired were still the CHIEF
promoters of American colonization.
| 1907 JAN /. The expedition under Capt
Newport known as the jamestown expe-
dition set sail for Roanoke Island, but
was driven by storm into the Cheasa-
peake Bay, the shores of which, twenty
years before Raleigh had designated ior
! the settlement Of the lost colony This
Chesapeake country was within the limits
OF the territory granted him by Queen Eli
abeth, and his grant was kept in force
ia the hands OF his assignees until it
was revoked by James to pave, the way
| for that monarch to possess himself OF
the fruits of Raleigh's labors and at
the same time belittle so much of his
fame as he could not appropriate.
The people of the nineteen States and
FIVE parts OF States embraced in the terri
tory of Raleigh's Virginia" on this side
the Mississippi owe to him their first
debt OF gratitude for the land they oc.
cupy. 1t is fitting that North Carolina
on whose soil his far-reachng expert
ments were made, should have taken the
lead in erecting suitable memorials of his
labors but the other States, and Virginia
especially, should be proud to follow the
State which more than a century ago
named its capital in his honor.
Duh i1ho bic
the World" book commended
by Cromwell and studied by Mil
ton. Raleigh's royal prosecutor objected
tt the circulation of this book on the
ground that it's criticism OF TIE ancient
Assyrian Kings and Of Henry VIII OF
England might be construed into a re
fiction on James own government. The
notion that only king was competent to
| sit in judgment on the conduct of a king
with the similar falacies inherited from
him by his son Charles 1, cost the latter
first MS crown and then his head.
] 1916, March 10. Was released from the
Tower after an Imprisonment for more
| than twelve years, broken in health
and no longer fitted to endure the a.
| Invites which had made him famous but
in spirit he was as undaunteG as ever
and Immediately began to fit out an ex-
petition to America.
His enthusiasm seemed to suit the pI;r-
poses of the King who was bent on mar
rying his son Charles into the royal fami-
ly of Spain and hoped that the fear of the
great ''sea-rover" might succeed where
diplomacy had failed.
1917, June u. Sailed, out of Plymouth
OH his last voyage for America. His ex
| petition had been partly appointed bS
his enemies and not without design: one
ship deserted him before ne was hat
across the Atlantic, another was lost in
a storm: others still were hulks OF dis
ease commanded by disloyal captains and
manned by men whom he called mere
scum" There is no better picture in
English history than that of this old
man. broken in health, racked by fever
long separated from the kindred spirits of
his dauntless young manhood, steadily set
ting his face toward the sunset to make
his last play for continent which the
vanity and treachery Of his king cast
| awav.
| Nov II. Anchored in the mouth OF
CAYENNE river in the Island of Trinidad.
On the mainland the Indians still re
membered him, though it was more than
twenty years since his first visit, and
| fCcked to the coast when they heard he
| had returned.
Himself too feeble to lead he dispatched
his son and his old friend Captain Key
mis-, with a party Of men uD the 0ronoko
to search for q mine the Spanish and the
Indians had told him existed somewhere
in that region.
December 81. The party was attacked
by the Spanish near San Thoma and IN
the fighting which followed the younger
Raleigh was killed at the head of his
command.
1918 The oronoko expedition returned
and brought with it the certain tidiRgs
OF it's failure and disasters and also a
letter which proved that the King of Eng
! land had warned the Spanish Government
of Raleigh's approach. The great navi
gator saw now that he had been betrayed
into a death trap.
Reproached by him FOR his ill-success
| Keymis committed suicide. In "a counsel
OF the remaining captains, Raleigh pro