The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-05-08
MAS&SAAMMSOMS 5,
From the Southern Baptist
TIE ENGLISH REGlClDES IN AAIE.
RIGA

MIA.
At the restoration Of Charles II.
agenelal amnesty was granted to all
except those who had been directly
Instrumental in the execution of his
father. Among those thus excepted
We're Goffe, Whalley and Dixwcll,
Judges inthat high commission Which
sent Charles Stuart sssss:lsc block
Driven away from Nr$E$iiD ,.;oAe
and sWliaily, seek an asylum liftS me.
" rlca, and on their ar,'i S,ss-i.. boston,
areientertaincd by NIr. Endico,t, the
Governor of the Colony, with every
mark of respect. But as there soon
comes royal warrant for their ar.
rest, the resici'les are forced to leave
Bo,sstton, and scw., refnge among the
& ssssash, aSas for tho officers asi 8,
of tho King had tracked them thith.
cr, they hid themselves in cave on
NEcst Rock, and continue, for two
years, unknown to any but few kind
friends, to whom they are indebted
ai3aa}9r The nccessarics Of life. A gain
forced to flee, we next see them in
Mill at Milford, where the maid of
the Mil, unconscious of their pre-.
scncc, often greeted their ears with
a cavalier song, setting forth the vir.
tues Of the blessed Martyr, and con-
signing by name the two fuyitivcs
themselves to disgrace and iniamy.
Following up their impcrfcc. his.
tory, we next meet thcal at Hadlcy,
where they lived in cold, damp
cellar, denied even the privilege of
such homcly JOYS as New England
then Afforded. Their lot was, indeed
sad, for New England was then one
vast wilderness and had scarcely yet
learned how to obtain from the cter-
nal granite of her hills the means of
subsistence, much less the means of
wealth. In that wide period of her
history, the Rcgicides lived in the
dens and caves of the cmth, with
two blood thirsty royalists in con-
stant pursuit, who tracked them as
,nen with brand and hound track,
from covert to covert, the wild beast
of the forest. Concealed by day, by
night they wandered forth to breathe
the pure air and exercise their weary
limbs. There were many to pity
their misfortuncs /; many hearts to
beat in unison with theirs and there
were many to execute the spirit of
revenge which thirsted for their
blood, but rs a price was set upon
their heads, no man vcnturcd to en-.
terrain them openly. At times, in
deed, they suddenly came forth from
their hiding places, and as suddenly
disappeared, leading the crcdulous Of
the day to believe that they were be.
ings Of more than an earthly mould.
And at last, in the same cellar which
had so long afforded them its protcc-
ton, they die, far away from the
scenes of their childhood, and the the.
atrc Of their public office. And in
the yard of Mr.. Russell, beneath
whose house they lived, their bodies
we're secretly buried, and, at a period
a little subsequent, were, with like
sccresy, taken up and conveyed to
New Haven, where they have ever
since rcposed.
1t was while the Regicidcs were at
IIadIcy, that an event transpircd
whica seems to belong rather to ro.
nance than to real life. An event
which has been interviewer in the
Wist-Ton Wish OF Cooper, the Oliver
Newman Of Southcy, and the Pcvcril
Of the Peak of Scott. In 1915 King
ihilip burst in fury upon the people
Of lfadlcy while they were engaged
in public worship, and stunned them
by the sudlenuess Of tho blow. a
rrin smile lightcncd W tl:c dark