CHAPTER V.

BEGINNINGS OF A COMMONWEALTH.

To the first English settlers in America a supply of Indian corn was of vital consequence, as illustrated at Jamestown and Plymouth 156

Alliance with the Powhatan confederacy was of the first importance to the infant colony 157

Smith was a natural leader of men 157

With much nobility of nature 158

And but for him the colony would probably have perished 159

Characteristic features of Lord Delaware's administration 160

Death of Somers and cruise of Argall in 1610 161

Kind of craftsmen desired for Virginia 162

Sir Thomas Dale comes to govern Virginia in the capacity of High Marshal 163

A Draconian code of laws 164

Cruel punishments 165

How communism worked in practice 166

How Dale abolished communism 167

And founded the "City of Henricus" 167, 168

How Captain Argall seized Pocahontas 168

Her marriage with John Rolfe 169

How Captain Argall extinguished the Jesuit settlement at Mount Desert and burned Port Royal 170

But left the Dutch at New Amsterdam with a warning 171

How Pocahontas, "La Belle Sauvage," visited London and was entertained there like a princess 171, 172

Her last interview with Captain Smith 172

Her sudden death at Gravesend 173

How Tomocomo tried to take a census of the English 173

How the English in Virginia began to cultivate tobacco in spite of King James and his Counterblast 174

Dialogue between Silenus and Kawasha 175

Effects of tobacco culture upon the young colony 176, 177

The London Company's Third Charter, 1612 177, 178

How money was raised by lotteries 178

How this new remodelling of the Company made it an important force in politics 179

Middleton's speech in opposition to the charter 180

Richard Martin in the course of a brilliant speech forgets himself and has to apologize 181

How factions began to be developed within the London Company 182

Sudden death of Lord Delaware 183

Quarrel between Lord Rich and Sir Thomas Smith, resulting in the election of Sir Edwin Sandys as treasurer of the Company 184

Sir George Yeardley is appointed governor of Virginia while Argall is knighted 185

How Sir Edwin Sandys introduced into Virginia the first American legislature, 1619 186

How this legislative assembly, like those afterwards constituted in America, were formed after the type of the old English county court 187

How negro slaves were first introduced into Virginia, 1619. 188 How cargoes of spinsters were sent out by the Company in quest of husbands 189

The great Indian massacre of 1622 189, 190