The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-06-26

AA&4 VA As&& AiAtfA& rants lost NNAEA anu
went back with the ships to England.
Winter found those who remained
short Of food and still without sui
/ ficient shelter, and want and disease
/ claimed 200 victims among them.
/ Even the ships they despatched hasti-
/ ~ % England FOR corn brought very
little when they came again, for grain
was scarce and dear at home also.
With the spring came health and
hope again, as always: but bad news,
too. Those who had returned home
/ disheartened had spread damaging i
7 reports about the colony, not only Il
telling Of the sore straits Il vas IN 10 /
/ live. but also declaring that Mr.. WIN, 4
throp and his people had openly re-
/ pudiated the Church 81 England and /
turned separatists, like the people AZ /
/ Plymouth. II was difficult 10 uufet I
these reports, because they were 1
+. practically true.
They tried TO explain away their /
novel proceedings when they wrote 20 |
persons Of influence a. home; they
tried % persuade even themselves
that they were not separatists, but
only a distant and necessarily distinct
fragment Of the Church Of England,
Of the form which they hoped and
expected 90 see that great chugch
some day assume; but they were, in
fact, founding a separate establish
!. ment which denied the authority Of
the mother church altogether.
Virginia had slowly grown to a
population Of 5000, while the Puri-
tans organized their company and
transported it to America. Virgin
ians bore themselves very much Es
, Enelishmen did everywhere. There
D was nothing peculiar about them ex-
cept their hardihood, as Of frontiers
! men, and their knowledge Of how ~
2 was 10 be managed and set forward
J Ia a wilderness. lt has not m1do
: much difference among them that the
Z Virginia company was dissolved and
q the colony put into the hands Of the
king Nirainians wished their inil-
: vidual rights TO be left untouched,
Z and watched their government mar
g rowly to see that il did not impose
1 upon them; but their life went well
3 enough, and they were not disposed
y to seek radical changes either I'm
, church OF state.
& New Netherland grew also, in a
a way which might have looked 70 a
i chance victor very like the growth Of
a Virginia. The Dutch West India
q Company had found that II they kept
e 20 the plan with which they had be-
n gun, they could not hope % make
j. anything out Of their slow growing
4 settlement az Fort Amsterdam. The
r. council Of the company, accordingly
j. determined 20 offer large tracts Of
n land 20 any one who would send 0EeE
IS as his own cost fifty adult settlers
.e with stores and e0uipment-and with
F. the land extraordinary powers Of in
a dependent control, which should con.
Is situate the owner q sort Of feuda
s. prince, a. PATRON" and lord Of hi
estate.
y The Dutch farmers and peasant,
= who slowly filed the estates Of tn
le PATRONS with tenants were not *.
k the free yeoman Of the southern col
r. ony Of the English. They were jus
- as little like the New England col
E. onista 70 the northward. Among thes'
D. settlement had still another way o
d, growth. They did not develop by III
p slow spreading q private estate
.n along the river valleys. The 1sv
England valleys were not fertile; Oh.
a rivers were not deep or bread enough
be % be the highways Of the colony.
s. The sort Of government the puri
D. tan settlers wished 70 maintain. more
Of over, would have been almost impos
Of sible had the people not kept 70
= gether in close groups for c0mmoi
j. action and worship. The r0verno
a and company who ruled Massachu
az sets Bay governed there very watch
N fully In the midst Of the settlements
a. and took care 20 know the men 4
70 whom they made grants Of land
sy Sometimes they made grants 20 In
i'm dividuals fer special services or M
a eral contributions 10 the cs-upany'
81 funds but usually they gave Ian
an only 70 bands Of settlers who mean
n 70 form communities. and who wer
under the leadership Of persons whor
.ir the governor and his associates trust
Fs ed.
al TIE government a the colony as
as whole was hy no means 80 democrati,
nd The company" governed: and n
r E company consisted only 81 those VII
re were admitted as afreemen" w n
as own vote. At first there were onl
re twenty such among ali the thousan
,s- settlers az the bay. and twelve .
he these were the officers q the CON
ID pany By slow degrees the nunfAe
a.
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