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ship over. TO becom. planters or artif-

ship over, to become planters or ertif-
icers holding in reserve dreams OF the
carving OF colonial fortunes.
The Seafower carried to Gov. Bell
In the island q plan OF government
devised by the company for the local
administration of its affairs. The
Governor was to have n council OF six.
named by the board at home. With
explicit exception OF certain contingent
cies, the Governor was to act only after
conference with his councillors. The
council had legislative powers checked
by Gubernatorial veto. Governor and
council were the supreme judicial tri-
bunal In civil and criminal cases. b t
provision was made for jury drawn
from the planters. Capt. Daniel Elfrith
was appointed admiral Of the company's
navy, next in precedence to the Gov
ernor The scheme OF government was
framed with the lessons of Virginia ex-
perience In mind.
The company sent q mace 30 the
Governor:
on tho ono end upon a plate OF silver II
a portrayment OF tho seal OF the company.
viz. three islands and the words written
about 1t, "Legem ejus expectabunt." taken
out OF Isaiah kill, 4: THE Islands shall
wait for his law" which prophecy we hope
may in some sort be fulnlied by planting
tho Gospel In those islands. on the end
OF the stan upon a plate likewise OF silver
are engrossed these words. "Innocens
liberavit insulam." taken out OF Job xii.
30, The Innocent shall deliver or preserve
the island" good memento Mt all times
when we 20 20 God's house or to places OF
counsel or Judicature.
The religious element was prominent
at the start. The clergyman carried an
Introduction TO the Governor in which
these words were used: "Our sincere
aim and desire above all things Is TO
plant the true and sincere religion and
worship OF God, which in tho Christian
world Is now very much opposed" But
the consuetude of religion is not peace
but the sword. and the colonists fought
over the faith. Immigrants from the
Somers Islands brought views not con-
sonant with those of the company's
Puritans Gov. Bell stood sternly for
a material well being not put In jeop-
ardy by sectual quarrels. The young
Welsh minister Lewis Morgan TO-
mented fractional dlscontents and was
recalled by the company. In defence
against his accusation that tho pro-
moters were working for their own
| pockets under cloak Of hypocritic pro-
] i'HHi'ir VI u lblS ltlltT WAS
addressed to the colonists; and supple
menting the hortatory word with
measures of practical disciplinary ef-
feet, probably inspired by Ppm, drink
| Ing and gaming were drastically cup
pressed and such innocent recreations
as chess and target shooting prescribed
| for the amusement OF the colonists.
| Three new parsons were sent out.
Specifically It would seem as though
theocracy's thriving were affected by
climatic influences and the rugged
quality OF the Puritan faith more
| adaptable TO the rigors OF northern
coast than TO the enervatins tropics.
But Mr.. Newton, in chapter on the
Saybrook project. points out a more
reasonable explanation:
| on the one hand have the narrow
| theocrats OF New England stepped In the
| theology and political speculation OF Ley
| den and bort and resolved 10 conhne the
full rights OF citizenship TO their creed. on
| the other we have the Erastian English
squires. conservative laymen gioryins in
what they believed TO be England's ancient
constitution.
Under the administration OF these
practical men the continued and in
creasing exchange OF compliments with
the Spaniards led TO fun operation OF
the charter right to the use of arms
and to the ultimate conversion of the
settlement into a fortified outpost OF
very worldly commerce.
The fertility OF the island was sur
prising Corn. cotton and tobacco were
grown, but the company objected "a
traffic In "the noXious weed" and the
cotton, being badly prepared and
packed, was not successful In the Eng
) fish market Large rewards were Of
fered for the discovery of a staple CON-
modify for cultivation In Providence
and II was thought to have been found
in flax, or sisal hemp, brought from
, the mainland by Capt. Camock After
some experiment with It In England 1,
was found vendible in large quantities
at good prices. A process for gettine
! the fibre out OF the leaf devised In
1884 the company received a patent
7 comforting sole rights In the trade fol
fourteen years and fixing a rate OF duty
, on the import of tho commodity equa
| to that paid by the best unwrought
fax now brought into the kingdom. ;
: Nader and indigo planting were tried
| but were too arduous for white labor
, In that climate. Negroes were brought
into the island from Association IN
1000, IHtTttfeu III NUMBER sum
: GENTLY to constitute a menace to tn.
I peace and safety OF the white popu
lation: but in 1886 there were onl,
, ninety OF them TO about 500 white men
forty women and few children.
I Troubles multiplied, to the oppres
! sion OF the gentlemen adventures
! Company interference in minor matter
{ Of local import was resented by tn
! government in the island; absente
: landlordism began to prevail. unprofit
A ably to the civic fortunes OF the colony
; and more and moro tho Providence
= navy" clsshed with Spanish rivals. II
= 1886 the frst serious disappointment
= was suffered: an expensive voyage on
from England. with return freight in
! sufficient to reimburse the undertaken
= plunged the company into debt 8
]. deeply that, upon Pym's urging, a lev,
= was imposed upon the incorporators o
: such proportions as completely I
S frighten away the smaller Puritan in
A vestors whose participation Pym espe
e cially desired. and to subordinate tn
y 'theocratic" element to the influence @
G wealthy speculators interested only 4
t the purely commercial aspects Of tn
y enterprise. Early In tho same year tn
r Spanlardg descpnded upon Aasoc,ot,-,