Henry Fisk Carlton

Name: The Landing of the Pilgrims
Author: Henry Fisk Carlton

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“The Landing of the Pilgrims”, is a work by Henry Fisk Carlton. It explores elements such as the New World, the Great North River and Mayflower.

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Henry Fisk Carlton, The Landing of the Pilgrims

“ JONES
So you are not bound by the Virginia charter in these waters.
PETER
Forsooth, Captain, I'd not thought on that.
JONES
You have here all the rights of free-born Englishmen. And if you rise like men and demand that your Elders hearken to your voice, who shall gainsay you?
PETER
Aye—who—who, indeed? If we vote to land here, 'tis not mutiny. [Pg 24]
JONES
Nay, 'tis but your right, if you want to land here.
PETER
We do—we do! Not a man in the company but would stay here if he had his way.
JONES
Then have your way—like Englishmen! Go to your cabin. ”

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Henry Fisk Carlton, The Landing of the Pilgrims

“ JONES
Because your Elder, Master Carver, says fix the ship and go on.
PETER
If Elder Carver says that, then there be naught that we kin do.
JONES
You'd stay packed in the ship's cabin, facing sickness and death, rather than rise up like men and tell the Elder what you will and what you won't do, eh?
PETER
Elder Carver and the twelve masters have the voice; we have naught to do but to obey.
JONES
Can it be that forty English freemen can't vote down twelve masters?
PETER
Under our charter the freemen have no voice. ”

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Henry Fisk Carlton, The Landing of the Pilgrims

“ CARVER
I know but little of the New World. I know not even where the Great North River or the Great South River may be, but only this I know: King James and his Virginia Company would take it much amiss, that having a patent to lands in Virginia, we turned to the Dutch and settled under their flag.
ROBINSON
And what has King James ever done for us but persecute us, drive us from our homes, and make of us pilgrims upon the face of the earth? ”

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Henry Fisk Carlton, The Landing of the Pilgrims

“ CARVER
We have no right to land here. Our charter grants us land in Virginia, not here!
JONES
I can't help that. The ship is in bad shape—I won't risk sailing her any farther without repairs.
CARVER
Very well, you may stop here for repairs, but we must go on as soon as they are made. [Pg 19]
JONES
It will take some time.
CARVER
My people will help you. We must speed the work.
JONES
Of course, I'll speed it all I can, but a man can't do any more than he can do.
CARVER
Well, get to it at once—this very day! We must get away from here within a fortnight or winter will be upon us. ”

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Henry Fisk Carlton, The Landing of the Pilgrims

“ JONES
Aye, so it will—and the winters in this country are bad.
CARVER
Then we must start south without delay.
JONES
Look you, Master Carver—
CARVER
Well, Captain?
JONES
Belikes 'twill be a month or more before I can make the Mayflower seaworthy—
CARVER
A month? Surely you can do better than that?
JONES
Perhaps not so well—why don't you land here? ”

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Henry Fisk Carlton, The Landing of the Pilgrims

“ And so in the cabin of the Mayflower the masters of the company, twelve in number, met in the first American legislative assembly and drew up one of the most famous documents in American history—the Mayflower Compact—which organized the first self-governing community in the New World. ”

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Henry Fisk Carlton, The Landing of the Pilgrims

“ CARVER
But we can do naught else—
PETER
Aye, we kin land here, and find a goodly place to build our homes and prepare against the winter that will be down upon us long before we kin get to Virginia. [mob agrees heartily] [Pg 28]
CARVER
Men—men—quiet—hark to me! We've no right under our charter to settle here!
PETER
Then tear up the charter. [mob agrees]
CARVER
Tear up the charter? Have no government? Nay, we can't do that!
PETER
We be freemen, Master Carver; we have a right to a voice in what we'll do, and what we won't do—and we all want to land here, don't we, men? ”

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Henry Fisk Carlton, The Landing of the Pilgrims

“ So Carver gathered together his company in the common cabin, and standing before the stern-faced, storm-weary gathering, the Elder spoke:
CARVER
Men of the Pilgrim company, as no doubt you are all well aware by now, the land we made this morning with such joy and thanksgiving in our hearts is not the land of the Virginia Plantation.
ALL
Aye, we know as much! So we have heard. [etc.] [Pg 27]
CARVER
But our ship is sore distressed from the buffeting of the storms, and Captain Jones must needs make repairs before we can sail on to our destination. ”

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Henry Fisk Carlton, The Landing of the Pilgrims

“ This time, since the season was far advanced and the Pilgrims feared that winter would be upon them before they could get established in their new home, the Speedwell was left behind, and on September 16, 1620, the Mayflower left alone for the New World. Halfway across the ocean the ship was beset by a long series of storms, so severe that it took more than two months for the ship to make the trip across the Atlantic. ”

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Henry Fisk Carlton, The Landing of the Pilgrims

“ All you will need to do is to remember that you are taking the part of a radio actor, that you are to read your speeches very distinctly, and that by your voice you will make your audience understand how you feel. ”

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Henry Fisk Carlton, The Landing of the Pilgrims

“ I consent to your wishes. [cheers] But it behooves us to enter into a compact, one with the other—that no man may say, once we have landed in New England, that we have no law and cannot punish the disobedient. [Pg 29]
PETER
May it please ye, sir, we be more than willing for the masters to write a compact that all can sign to be governed like any free-born Englishmen by the will o' the majority— [all agree]
CARVER
So be it—let the masters of the company join me in my cabin, and we shall make a compact joining all the company of freemen into a body politic. ”

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Henry Fisk Carlton, The Landing of the Pilgrims

“ Two months more in the cabin of this ship and half of our company will be dead.
JONES
Aye, belikes they will—and winter will be upon us hard and heavy. The winters in this country are worse than any you have ever seen in England or Holland. ”

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Henry Fisk Carlton, The Landing of the Pilgrims

“ The persons whose voices you heard as you listened, looked just as they did when they left their homes to go to the studio, although they were taking the parts of men and women who lived long ago and who wore costumes very different from the ones we wear today. ”

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