. History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent. hree, one never came over. Evenafter they had embarked, a court was held on boardthe Arbella, and Thomas Dudley was chosen deputy-governor in the place of Humphrey, who staid emigrated, and had hardly reached America,before he repented that he had come ; the country hadbeen described in too favorable colors. It was princi-pally the calm decision of Winthrop which sustainedthe courage of his companions. In him a yieldinggentleness of temper was secured against weaknessby deep but tranquil enthusiasm. Pare
. History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent. hree, one never came over. Evenafter they had embarked, a court was held on boardthe Arbella, and Thomas Dudley was chosen deputy-governor in the place of Humphrey, who staid emigrated, and had hardly reached America,before he repented that he had come ; the country hadbeen described in too favorable colors. It was princi-pally the calm decision of Winthrop which sustainedthe courage of his companions. In him a yieldinggentleness of temper was secured against weaknessby deep but tranquil enthusiasm. Parent-like dis-tributing his goods to brethren and neighbors at hisfirst coming, and, for the welfare of Massachusetts,cheerfully encountering poverty and premature age,his lenient benevolence could temper, if not subdue,the bigotry of his times. An honest royalist, averseto pure democracy, yet firm in his regard for existingpopular liberties; in England a conformist, yet loving*gospel purity even to Independency; in Americamildly aristocratic, advocating a government of the. ^\A):\*J/9vt=m^y GOVERITOR OF THE EMIGRATION WITH JOHN WINTHROP. 355 least part, yet desiring that part to be the wiser the best; disinterested, brave, and conscientious, ^^v^—his character marks the transition of the reformation avowed republicanism ; when the sentiment ofloyalty, still sacredly cherished, was gradually yieldingto the irresistible spirit of civil freedom. The whole number of ships employed during theseason was seventeen; and they carried over not farfrom fifteen hundred souls. About eight hundred—allof them Puritans, inclined to the party of the Inde-pendents; many of them men of high endowments,large fortune, and the best education; scholars, wellversed in all the learning of the times; clergymen,who ranked among the most eloquent and pious inthe realm—embarked with Winthrop for their asylum,bearing with them the charter, which was to be thebasis of th
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