Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the New-England Society of the South-Carolina on the 22d December, 1820: Being the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Landing at Plymouth of the Ancestors of New England ON this day, two hundred years ago, a handful of individuals landed, at an inclement season, on an unknown and barren coast; in the land of pestilence, on the territory of the Savage. Fraud or accident had diverted the Course of their voyage, and they were placed beyond the protection, weak as it was, of European charters. Neither the Church nor the State accorded them the privilege of monopoly or of participation, and they landed with no better plea than their necessities, and no protector but their Goo. Providence was not unmindful of them. That they might with scrupulous honesty occupy the soil, its former. Inhabitants had perished by disease, or wandered into exile - that they might in infancy be secure from Indian warfare, the natives had been withdrawn from the sea shore - and lest famine should involve them in early ruin, the scanty grana ries of the Savage became the treasure trove of the stranger. The soil was rugged and mountainous, indicating the labor and perseverance which its cul ture required. It had not the baneful reputation of gold and silver mines, the cheap ruin of adventurers and nations. It was primitive and Virgina], like the enows that invested it. Scarce a path' on its surface 'but the track of the hunter and his game - scarce sound in its forests but the rude chorus of the winds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.