The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-03-16
SUNDAY WILL BE OBSERVED
AT The JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION
The Governors Have Laid Down Rules " hich Will
Insure Good Order and the Conveniences and
Pleasure of All Worthy Visitors Gambling,
Betting and the Sale of Liquor Win be
Suppressed.
Suppressed.

divided into two periods; the first
Iextending from the permanent settle
ment of the English colonies to the
close Of the American Revolution,
1.-THE second from the acknowledge
Imcnt of the independence Of the col
lonies to the present time. Com
lparing the conditions of the country
a; the beginning and at the end of
lthc second period. and noting the
Expansion In area, population, agri-
culture, mining, transportation COM
lmerce, education, art, science, inven-
ition government, international rela-
Itions and the settlement of princi-
pies and actions upon which human
society Is well and firmly constitut-
ed, we find national development
which has no parallel in the history
OF mankind. No other nation of an
Icient or modern times grew during
a century. and quarter from birth
to maturity of principles and of
power of dominating influence upon
ali governments and people. What
lever of foreign evils we have inn
ported through practically un-
restrained immigration, the laws OF
our national life, founded upon the
best precepts of ages, have pre-
served and advances the highest
principles of human liberty. What
ever difficulties and failures we
have met and yet endure the people
o. the United tSates are today
among the foremost in moral pro
gress and in Just aspirations for the
future.
| Yet the attainments of the nation
had their genesis in that earlier
period of Colonial life. At the times
OF the first permanent settlements
os Virginia and Massachusetts, the
people of England were representa-
tive of the highest type of clviliza-
ton then existing. Through foreign
wars and domestic controversies.
through many wrongs ana tyrannics.
they had conceived certain rules of
national existence, which. often
broken, and trampled upon by par
ties and monarchs, survived in the
conscience and resolved of the peo
plt as the heritage, the very birth
right of freeman. Those high views
were transmitted with the first col
oEies to the soil of our country.
THE Puritan never succumbei to OPP
rression never losed his grip upon
those inalisnable rights which come
to man from God. The Cavalier
was an agent in the establishment
oe benefcient rules Of free gov
erament. If we find among both
types individuals who had no views
except of self-advlncement, 1t is
equally true that they were dom
mated by men Of character who were
inspired by an earnest desire to pro-
mote the future good of their coun-
TRY and posterity, regardless of their
personal interests or profits.
Among the men who settled at
jamestown on May 10. 1907, there
were leaders of high conception of
government and In the colony of
jamestown were the first assertion
Ios social and governmental prlnci-
pies which lie at the foundation of
our national life. Some of the acts
of that colony were the beginnings
lof our constitution.
The movement for the colonization
Of Virginia, following the treaty of
peace between England and Spain,
Ia 1905, was national In scope. 1t
became one of the important factors
in the politics Of the period; not on
ly in England and America, but in
France, Spain, and the Netherlands,
hot only in the contest then going
on betwee Protestatism and Roman
Catholicism but In the conflict be-
tween the Crown and the Commons.
While the Plymouth colonists were
Independents and those of the Mass
achusetts Bay settlements Nom con
formists, they held the same Chris.
tan faith as those of Virginia. The
emigrants TO Jamestown, notwith-
standing the presence Of few
Roman Catholics, were not only dis
tinctly undivided in faith ana united
in part the Church of England
iHe MINISTERS OF thnt church took
an active part, from earnest inter.
est, in the colonization of Virginia.
and the sermons. state papers ana
records Of The time show tint the
work of the church was the first i'm
portant element of colonization and
lof subsequent Influence and effect
upon the government and institu-
tions of the new land. The FIRST
charter began with the declaration
o. propagation of the Christian re-
ligion; and the objects of the eype.
ditions under Gates and Delaware
stated in the letters patent, included
as the first, advancement of the
Kingdom of God
The work of the church was sun
plemented by the early institution in
Virginia of the family. The practice
o. divorce, too frequent and uniusti.
fable, disrupting family ties, has not
broken seriously the vast number of
homes. wherein the family life
makes the stability of this nation.
Good governors settled the prop.
Q: relation of the colonlsts toward