Lives of Eminent Individuals Celebrated in American History: in Three ...

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Lives of Eminent Individuals Celebrated in American History: in Three ...
Sparks Jared
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In times of peril and adversity, men, by a kind of unerring instinct, discover who is the ruling spirit, and put the helm into his hands as the only pilot that can weather the storm. Such times had now come upon the infant settlement, and they turned their eyes upon Smith, as the only man who could rescue them from the difficulties in which they were involved. The new President and Martin were neither able nor popular, and the official rank of the former was but dust in the balance, when weighe...d against Smith V native superiority.
From this time the chief management of affairs devolved upon him.
He entered upon his duties with characteristic ardor and energy. He set about the building of Jamestown, and by kind wdrds and encouraging promises, and, more * The writer in Smith's History acquits the council in England of all blame in respect to their scanty provisions, and sums op the causes, which led to their difficulties, in the following terms.
" And now where some affirmed it was ill done of the council to send forth men so badly provided, this incontradictable reason will show them plainly they are too ill advised to nourish such ill conceits ; first, the fault of our going was our own ; what could be thought fitting or necessary we had, but what we should find or want, or where we should be, we were all ignorant ; and, supposing to make our passage in two months with victual to live and the advantage of the Spring to work, we were at sea five months, which we both spent our victual in pass- ing and lost the opportunity of the time and season to plant, by the unskilful presumption of our ignorant transporters, that understood not at all what they undertook.


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