For the Port Gibson Herald.

OUR COUNTRY-TTS PAST, IT'S PRE-


SENT AND ITS FUTURE.
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CHAPTER IL.


w. II. JACOBS, ESQ:


Owing to other pressing demands
upon my time, have been longer in resuming
my subject than had intended, when / sent you
my first chapter. This delay hope will not ope,
rate against the accomplishment of my main OBJ
ject.


That was seemingly an inauspicions moment
when our ancestors, under no better charter than
one of banishment, neutrality-suspicious., deter
mined to quit the land of their nativity. and plant
themselves upon the shores Of the western wild.
No ordinary motives could have induced the Pa.
ritans to embark upon an expedition, the result
Of which was SO uncertain, and for country SO
far as then known, known only as the habtation
of savages and wild beasts. No consideration
except one that was equal to life ITSELF could
have induced them to quit the land on the 9Th
Sept, 1920, after having suffered so much adyer-
sity between that date and the 22d July of the
same year.


Could human foresight have reached down the
line Of the future but few scores of years. in
stead Of having to sail in the "NIsytiower' after
the "Speedwell" had failed, "convoys & naviess
would have been solicited to defend them. But
fortunate for them and for us, they fell into no
such protecting hands, and hence, were brought
under no Indebtedness, and were therefore pre-
pared to act the more independently. The verv
hardships they had to undergo purified their
ranks, by inducing the efeminate and falterinu
to abandon the enterprise


The cupidity and treachery of their enemies.
which imposed upon them an unseawortbv shin
was the means of Kidding them, IN all urobabili.
" OF much trouble. "Man deviseth his way,
but the Lord directeth his steps" All their adj
versity worked together for good. No efsminate
noolllty' 20 designing priests, 40 craving qover-
aoFS "ers anxious 3 join this dispised bad