. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... howas to rule the settlement with absolute au-thority according to the instructions of thecouncil. He was made master of the livesand liberties of the settlers by being author-ized to declare martial law whenever in hisjudgment the necessity for that measureshould a^ise, and was made the sole execu-tive officer in its administration. \ Thus the emigrants were deprived ofevery civil right, and were placed at themercy of a governor appointed by a corpo-ration
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... howas to rule the settlement with absolute au-thority according to the instructions of thecouncil. He was made master of the livesand liberties of the settlers by being author-ized to declare martial law whenever in hisjudgment the necessity for that measureshould a^ise, and was made the sole execu-tive officer in its administration. \ Thus the emigrants were deprived ofevery civil right, and were placed at themercy of a governor appointed by a corpo-ration whose only object was to makemoney. The company, however, defeatedthis object by the manner in which it se-lected emigrants. Instead of sending outhonest and industrious laborers who werecapable of building up a state, they sentonly idlers and vagabonds, men who were S2 SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. neither willing nor fit to work. The com-mon k*tock feature was maintained, and thusthe greatest obstacle to industry that couldbe devised was placed in the way of thesuccess of the colony. Still there weremany who were willing to seek the new. BUILDING THE FIRST HOUSE IN JAMESTOWN world even under these conditions, andmany others whose friends desired to getthem out of the country. The company was soon able to a^eet of nine vessels containing: mor^ thanfive hundred emigrants, and a stock of do-mestic animals and fowls was included inthe outfit of the expedition. Lord Delaware, a nobleman, whose character commander:the confidence of his countrymen, was of the colony for life. As he wzHnot able to sail with the expedition, he delegated his authority during his absence toNewport, who was admiral of the fleet, SiuThomas Gates, and SisGeorge Somers, whowere to govern the col-ony until his fleet sailed in th^spring of 1609, but whetoff the American coaslwas overtaken by a se-vere storm, and two ves-sels—on one of whichthe admiral and thecommissioners had sailed
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