The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-17
John Pym ana Company In the
Caribbean, 182s-41.

In the conventional. perhaps I'M
avoidably inadequate, teaching OF his
tory, concerned more with results than
with causes and processes, certain su-
perilcialities OF statement become cur
rent, correction OF which by competent
authority in plain statement ia in
telectually stimulant. \ case in point
is The Colonisin0 Activities Of the Eng
iish Puritdns Yale University Press.
by ARTHUR PERcIvAL NEWTON, lecturer
in colonial history at the University
OF London. Mr.. Newton's clean schol-
arship la informed by appreciation OF
the human picturesque Hasty history
IL responsible for common but errant
regard OF Puritan colonization in Amer
lea in the seventeen century ms an
affair of New England only, romance
of religious oppression: and sometimes
"A subjectlvely American view, as though
Englishmen, instruments OF a univer-
sal yearning for tho creation or a
United States OF America, had DELHI
! erately set about the establishment Of
new country Independent Of Englar !.
| Similarly the West Indies IN the CEN
| fury OF colonial beginnings Is frequently
viewed not simply as region Of pirat-
ical exploitation, which It was. but as
| that only: and this II was not. There
were those among the Puritans, and
indeed especially among the most prom
| lnent, experienced and influential of
them. who thought not only that en-
terprse in the islands of the southern
seas must yield greater results than ex-
| ploitation of the stern and rockbound
| northern coast but that the Caribbean
| could he made tho site of a flourish
I NhAarnAxy IN
adds to the commonly circulated ac-
| count chapters of interest in both Eng
lish and American history.
He surveys the movement from the
southern outlook because the career
of the Providence Company, fully and
completely recorded though little cited
was perfectly characteristic OF the Gu.
riously compounded. God and Mammon
aims and methods of Puritan colonial.
ton, and because II involves those Puri'
tan leaders who played so large a par
In the development OF English civic
freedom. The story OF the Providence
Company and its colony in the Garth
bean contains the years, 1928 to 1870
OF the personal government" Of Charles
l., the long period of Parliamentary
suspended animation roughly deim
tied by the Petition of Right and tn,
Grand Remonstrance. In those year.
Ppm and his fellow protestants were
engaged in colonizing enterprise, ant
the Providence Company may reason
ably be regarded as a nucleus Of op
position to royal absolution. From nj
American point OF view interest centres
upon the factors that directed tn,
streams OF British emigration to NORTH
or south and made the continental APP
proach successful where tho more at
tractive insular venture failed.
The choice Of channel for migration
resulted In a retrospectively remarkably
contrast OF strong personalities. Tn
Earl OF Warwick, man Of power and
veteran colonizer. coveted foothol
In the fertile islands In the keel clef
waters OF the Caribbean. In "Nortl
Virginia" the prospect seemed dlsms
! enough, the Pilgrims were engaged Il
bitter struggle for the conquest of
bleak land and the Earl was decided,
: not popular In the affairs Of the Wiz
> ginia Company. But into the Leadership
OF the Massachusetts, Bay Compan
there came In the natural course G
, events at that era when men OF tn
, middle class were setting the STAN
5 of their personalities upon the nations
destiny an obscure Suffolk squire,
John winthrop; and against "the eau
tlon. the experience and the knowledg
] OF past failures OF the man Of affairs h
8 ranged the fervor. the enthusiasts
= and the hope IN the f:r.nre OF the ne
man." with the result that for the frs
h time Gin the British historians vie
] the Mayfiower exiles left no achin
3 void in English life) there crossed II
e Atlantic company of steady goinl
j responsible men Of business. with r
= hankering for the excitements of az
!. venture, moving their families and the
p possessions oversee 10 form mot
l. colony but a commonwealth" And I,
e day who knows any Providence In
: about the Caribbean but little Ne
d Providence Of the Bahamas7
r Since 1853 Bngiisn privateers me
a preyed upon Spanish shipping