Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1874-03-27
FOR THE TIMES.
CrOmWelliana.


CrOmwelliana.
Oliver Cromwell (born 1599O, though
coarse fanatic, and sometimes probably an
arrant hypocrite, was undoubtedly one Of
the greatest, if not the very greatest man,
that England has ever produced, from the
Norman conquest to the present day. He
was in the 18th year, at the death of the
great William Shakespeare, who died in
1916. The following is taken from an
old English book written and printed be-
tween the years 100 and 1850, showing
his extraordinary vigor, energy and saga
city in dealing with his own gloomy and
fanatical followers and adherents:
CROMWELL AND THE JEWELLERS.
"Nov. 1913. The levelling doctrine,
which Cromwell had introduced in the
army, to pull down the King and awe the
Parliament, gave him great deal of trou-
BILE about this time. The soldiers had
been taught that the natural rights of the
meanest men were equal to those of the
greatest; and that Governors were no
longer to be obeyed than they studied the
general good of every individual, of which
themselves (the People, were judges And
in pursuance of these notions, they entered
into confederacies and associations, and
made propositions to the Parliament, as
we'll as to their own Generals, to introduce
an equality among all people, and from hence
obtained the name Of JEWELLERS; which,
when they saw opposed by their officers,
they appointed general rendezvous at
Heath, in order to put an end
to all distinctions among men of which,
Cromwell receiving advice, he appeared
on Hounslow- Heath, when
they were assembled there, at the head f
some troops he could rely on; and having
demanded the reason Of their assembling
there in such numbers uithout has orders
and receiving some insolent answers from
them, he knocked down two or three of
the forwardest, and charged them with his
troops: and having killed and wounded
some, and made Others prisoners, he hang
ed up as many of them as he thought fit
upon the spot, and sent several more to
London, to be tried for mutiny and rebel
lion, in a more solemn manner, and he
thereby restrained this lerelling spirit for
the present"
"April 90, 1853. In the meantime Crom-
we'll went to the House of Commons with
a guard; and taking file of Musqueteers
with him into the House, he commanded
the Speaker to leave the Chair, and told
them they had sat long enough, unless
they had done more good, es11in6t out
You AN ionger ParliasIaRInt; / saw.
you are no longer Parliament He told
Sir Harry Vane, that he was a jusyler:
Harry Martin and Sir Peter Wentworth.
that they were couple of who're masters:
Tom Chaloner, that he was q drunkard:
and Allen the Goldsmith. that he was a
cheat and cheated the public. Then he
bid one of his soldiers take away that
oo's bauble the mace; and Harrison pulled
TIE Speaker out of the Chair; and Crom-
well having turned them all out of the
House, locked up the doors, and returned
to Whitehall. In the afternoon he went
to the Council of State, and told them the
Parliament was dissolved, and this was no
place for them, and bid them be gone.
After this the Parliament met again fer
the purpose of resigning their powers into
the hands of the Lord General which
they did. But some of the members con-
tinuing still to sit in the House, Colonel
White came thither with guard and de-
manded what they sat there for? They
nswered, To seek the Lord 'Pish,' saws
White. The Lord has not been within
these walls these twelve years. and then
turned them all out"
Cromwell's dealings with the Jewellers
reminds one, who is old enough to remem-
Der it, of John Binn's famous "coffin hand
bills" in the Presidential contest between
j. Q. Adams and ''Old Hickory" General
Jackson. This represented the sequel of
the prompt suppression, by Old Hickory,
a la Cromwell, Of formidable and dan
gerous mutiny among his own Tennesseans
in the Seminole campaign of 1918. This
he did by at once shooting six of the most
unruly Of his militiamen. He then with
out regular soldier oyerran all Florida,
the Seminoles into submission,
captured the Spanish authorities in time
of peace, hung Arburthnot and Ambrister,
two Englishmen, after they had been ac-
quilted by a court martial, and in sac
months completely and effectually ended
the war. T.
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