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tol at Washington. The group consists of five figures, representing the precise moment when Pocahontas, by her interposition, saved Smith from being executed. It is the work of Capellano, a pupil of Canova's."--Thatcher's _Indian Biography_, vol. i., p. 22. See Appendix, No. LXI., (see Vol II) for the History of Pocahontas.] [Footnote 304: Smith, in Pinkerton, xiii., 51-55. "The account is fully contained in the oldest book printed in Virginia, in our Cambridge library. It is a thin quarto, in black letter, by John Smith, printed in 1608."--Bancroft's _Hist. of the United States_, vol. i., p. 132.] [Footnote 305: In the year 1610, the South Virginian or London Company sealed a patent to Lord Delawarr, constituting him Governor and Captain-General of South Virginia. His name was given to a bay and river, and to the Indians who dwelt in the surrounding country, called in their own tongue Lenni-Lenape, which name signifies THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE. Lord Delawarr's health was ruined by the hardships and anxieties he was exposed to in Virginia, and he was obliged to return to England in little more than a year.] [Footnote 306: Captain Smith says of Virginia, "that the number of felons and vagabonds did bring such evil character on the place, that some did choose to be hanged rather than go there, and _were_."--Graham's _Rise and Progress of the United States_, vol. i., p. 71 "England adopted in the seventeenth century the system of transportation to her North American plantations, and the example was propagated by Cromwell, who introduced the practice of selling his political captives as slaves to the West Indians. But the number of regular convicts was too small, and that of free laborers too large, in the old provinces of North America, to have allowed this infusion of a convict population to produce much effect on the development of those communities, either in respect of their morals or their health.[307] Our own times are the first which have witnessed the phenomena of communities, in which the bulk of the working people consists of felons serving out the period of their punishment."--Merrivale, vol. ii., p. 3.] [Footnote 307: It must be remembered that the crimes of the convicts were chiefly political. The number transported to Virginia for social crimes was never considerable--scarcely enough to sustain the sentiment of pride in its scorn of the laboring population--certainly not enough to affect its character.--
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