"Sam": or The history of mystery./ By C. W. Webber.

CHAPTER XIII.
Historical depreciation of Sam's Southern children-Abusive epithets cur ren-Contrast with the first Northern Settlements-Who, apparently,
under the ban of Providence?-Who were the Discoverers and Explorers
of the New World?
So much for the peerless chevalier-the Father of Virginia, and Explorer of the North, —-illustrious John Smith!
Nor is this all of his career. It had been chiefly through
his influence, that James I was induced to grant the "first
colonial charter" under which the English were planted in
America; although the great majority of Sam's children
have never to this day, heard that there was any other place
settled in "the beginning," but Plymouth, or any code of
laws instituted than the precious "Body" of Rights, with its
"Blue" Lights, or Laws, to which we have referred; yet
not only is it true, that to John Smith and Virginia we owe
the "first colonial charter" in 1606, but to John Smith and
Virginia do we owe, in June, 1619, the "first colonial asseimbly" that ever met in America, and which was convened at
Jamestown.
While John Carver, Cotton Mather, and the " Saintly
Winthrop," are names canonized throughout the land as the
select forerunners of Freedom-so many "Baptists" proclaiming in the wilderness the "good news" of the approachinog regeneration of humanity-John Smith remains plain
" John Smith," who was "saved by Pocahontas."
0 In 1614, Captain John Smith sLiled from England, with two ships, to
America. He ranged the coast from Penobscot to Cape Cod. On his return
to England, he presented a map of the country to Prince Charles, who
named it New England. Thus was the first survey of her own coast, and
which resulted in giving her a name, made by the founder of these Southern institutions now so villified by New England.
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