The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-10

MA. 8
prise which the people had been enthusiastic about
Not until the founding of William and Mary College
Of the settlers with regard institution OF learning And
then thought had for the education Of their
own sons than Of the children Of the aborignes. j.
version Of the Indian Christianity died after the
declared to be his conviction that useless to under
take to convert the Indian until priests and anee1ts put
this utterance being wise and rue The truth is except
in instances their main thought of the Indian be
individual instances where the old zeal for the
sion Of the Indian remained could said that there
was general interest in the matter Of his cvangezaton
There likewise unfortunate delays in the industrial
development Of the community The ironworks at Falling
Creek under the superintendent Of Mr. Berkeley aban
worked successfully At various times efforts made
to rehabtate the works but there chance OF
such promised at the time OF the massacre
In other respects, doubtless the massacre had "a whole
OF nterdpendence They made to feel that the dangers
which they liable common dangers and that
be saeguarded scarcely be doubted but that there
solidarity among the settlers after the massacre that
The astounding phase Of the whole transaction is
that the colonsts little discouraged While there
were propositions that jamestown be removed to locality
more easily fortified there suggestions that the
whole enterprise Of colonization be given over With extra
ordinary courage they themselves to that
and readaptaton that should guarantee surely their
future
The communication which sent to the London Com
nanv disclosing the dngs Of the dreadful massacre had the
ng Of high hope and of dauness courage and in answer
the brave Engshnen Of the London Company stretched
the seas grasped the hands OF their brothers on
the western shores pledge and covenant OF loyalty
ana devotion in the establishment of American colonization
Some one has said that it the John Bull IN the iangIsh
men that inspired the great movement and 1t was the o
Bull that maintained and brought to successful reaza
ton H., 1l,,e
Except in one other separate events the lndas
OF Virginia rarely aggressive IN FORCING any
English settlers the every confhc
Opechancanough still alive IN 1914 re was now
nearly one hundred years old, and had lost the vgor anu
strength Of his early manhood So wasted had ne Decom
That he could not open his and had to be carried ABOUT
mon litter yet the old mans recollection OF the pas
ndaunted to the last the long brooding the treat
r7ent his people received at the hands OF the ngns
settlers led him last desperate resolution TO make wal
again on the English Whatever could have induced the on
chief to believe that there any chance OF success ~
one could imagine. reported, however that ne la
been told Of civil then in progress IN fngland, a
that now was the root out 1ngllsmen -
further sought to explain the action Of the old Chief Dy
suggesting as ground for the fact that Sir John Harvey
upon the territory set apart Tor the Indians
g s "a be doubted whether either Of these had influence
At all upon the old It looks very much as though
was an instance vengeul spirit OF the savage tina
remembered everything and forgot nothing that had TO de
suddenly threw himself upon the settlers along the uppe
banks Of the York and Pamunkey Rivers and before TN
Engs, rally their forces nearly three hundred OF IN
settlers were slaughtered Berkeley who then at tn
head Of affairs Jamestown got together body OF morse
men and marched rapidly the and routed the ndah
on his litter to Jamestown 1t said that it was the pui
pose Of Berkeley transport him to England but this u
DIGNITY spared the old The fire Of his anger burne
{iercey until the very The crowds gathering aroun