The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-12-02

while Suggs was defending him and
introducing quotations that did not
bear upon the subject, he deals the col
onists II heavy blow by speaEing Of his
interchangeable endeavors to establish
habits of order and industry" OF in
other words, "hablts of order and in
dusty" were not common among the
settlers.
Whether or not my charge in regard
to Smith was too severe ! leave the
reader to decide after perusing the fol-
lowing. He left England went to
Austria enlisted with the Austrians in
"A war with the Turks, was captured
and sold as slave. His mistress sent
him 20 her trother in the Crimea.
where he was treated badly.
"CSmithl was employed in threshing,
about three miles from the house
Here his master visited aim once IA
day. Watching lis opportunity, smith
dispatched him with the fail hid his
body ~. the straw, and mounting his
horse, fltd to the wo1dS. - GOO,i,ich,
page IS.
He was employed la IhTe-hing
grain about three miles from the
dwelling of his master, and one day
when the bashaw came a. usual To
oversee him at his labor, he KILLED him
with the fail used in threshiDg, hid the
dead body and made his escape OH his
masters horse. "-SereDs' .SchD0' His
tory, page ~.
Suggs picked Sentences here and there
from Black and mixed tiem with his
own surrilOus epithets that would have
made even BrOwnlOw ashamed of him
self az dealt with the leading repre~
sentative men of Plymouth and their
official acts" | suppose by this the
gentlemen had rather have some of the
official acts of jamestown or perhaps Of
Virginia; few of these | shall attempt
to give: When Captain Arnall kid
mapped Pocahontas and Carried her to
jamestown, THE authorities of the
colony, instead of furnishing Argall for
this atrocity, aggravated the outrage
by demanding that Powhston should
pay heavy ransom fer his daughters
liberation"
Again, ain los Sir George Calvert,
Lord Baltimore, visited Virginia with
some intention of founding a colony
within its limits, but the government Of
Virginia was at that time intolerant to-
wards the religion of the Roman Catho-
lie Church, of which he was Il member;
he therefore turned his attention to
some region beyond the jurisdiction Of
that colony,"-Stevens.
Again: unfortunately the colonial
legislation of these times (abOut 1879
became rs selfish and narrow minded
as the policy of the king was mean. An
aristOcratic party which had arisen IN
the colony obtained control of the House
of Burgesses, and the new laws rivaled
those of England in illiberality. Epis-
copalianism was again established as
the State religion. a prOscriptive Ordi-
nance was passed against the Baptists
and tine peace-loving Quakers were
fined, prosecuted and imprisoned.
Burdensome taxes were laid ON person.
al property and polls; the holders Of
large estates were exempt and the poor
err people afflicted. Tue salaries of the
officers were secured by IA permanent
duty on tobacco, and, worst of all, the
biennial election Of burgesses was aool-
ished, so that the members of the ex-
isting assembly continued indefinitely
in power. For while Berkeley and
his council outdid the tyranny of Eng
land. "-Ridpath's Pop. History q. S.
p. 1l9.
A ter the SUsquehana Indians had
been defeated, and compelled to sue for
peace, by John Washington, the his
torian remarks: six of their chief
tains went into Virginia as ambassa-
dor, aud, to the lasting dishonor of the
colony, were foully murdered This
exasperated the Indians and border
war ensued Berkeley "sided with the
Indians" but the colOnists ''were de-
termined to have revenge" although
the governor was backeiby he aristo-
cratic party aud the assembly in favor
ing peace. This was not in reality All
official act, but il is plain to be seen
that one party or the other was grossly
i'm the wrong
Finally Bacou's rebellion broke out,
but Bacon dies and Berkeley and the
"royalists" were victorious. THE con-
sequences of the rebellion We're very
disastrous. Berkeley AMI the aristO-
cratic party had now good excuse for
suppressing all liberal sentiments and
tendencies. The priuting-press was
| interdicted. EdpcatiOn was discOur-
aged or Forbidden. To speak or write
anything against the administration
or in defence of the late insurection
was made crime to be punished by
fine or whipping. lfthe offence should
be three times repeated, ii was declar-
ed fo be treason punishable with death.
The former tyranical methods of Taxa
ton were revived, and Virginia was
left at the mercy of arbitrary rulers"
Ridpath's Pop. History, L. S. pl22
| The reader must pot think that
Berkeley was alone in these measures;
he was hand i'm hand with the domi-
nant party of the colony.
referred to ostracism because | sup.
posed Suggs had the same feeling to-
ward republicans now that the Virgin
ians hsd toward the Puritans, as shown
by the following: About this time