A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . m of almost everything but libertyand the right of obedience to the dictates of their own consciences, for-bade that they should go back to England. Where, then, should theyseek a new resting-place ? There were divided opinions. The anxious discussion of the subjectbegan a year or more before Raleigh returned, to lose his head, fromthat fatal ex
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . m of almost everything but libertyand the right of obedience to the dictates of their own consciences, for-bade that they should go back to England. Where, then, should theyseek a new resting-place ? There were divided opinions. The anxious discussion of the subjectbegan a year or more before Raleigh returned, to lose his head, fromthat fatal expedition to Guinea where he had lost his son. El Doradowas still believed in ; there were some among the Puritans of Leydenbold enough and imaginative enough to urge a removal to a land wherein perpetual summer, upon a soil that should yield them the fruits ofthe earth almost without labor, and in the enjoyment of wealth that,from the abundance of gold, need have no limit, they hoped to forgetthe perils, the hardships, and the poverty of the past. Some were opposed to any change. They dreaded to expose theirwomen and the aged to the perils and privations of a long voyage, to achange of climate, and to the dangers to be encountered from a savage. Church at Austerfield, Bradfords Birthplace. 1617.] PROPOSED REMOVAL TO AMERICA. 381 people, stories of whose ferocity and cruelty moved the very bowels of men to grate within them, and made the weak to quake and tremble. But the more sober-minded, putting aside both delusive hopes and vain fears, turned their eyes to Virginia, though not to the colony on James River, where, it was thought, they remove to would be subjected to religious persecution quite as much as in England. Somewhere, however, within the wide domain of the Virginia Company they proposed to establish themselves as a separate and independent colony, trusting they might obtain from James the assurance that they should be left in the undisturbed enjoyment of their religi
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