His prospectus, offering the means to the poverty-stricken people of reaching what he believed to be a home of ultimate plenty on the banks of the Red River, was an entirely worthy document.

His first point is, that his Colonists will be freemen.

No religious tenet will be considered in their selection.

This was even freer that was that of Lord Baltimore's much-vaunted Colony, on the Atlantic Coast, for Baltimore required that every Colonist should believe in the doctrine of the Trinity.

Then, the offer was to the landless and the penniless men.