The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26

mons hal) refused to serve the office,
which fines they appropriated to
defraying the expenses of build
senters were nominated and elect
ed to the office who were incapable of
| serving, because of the Corporation act
one who was bind, another who was
| bed-ndden. Fines were collected to the
amount of fifteen thousand pounds. The
matter was finally contested and the case
of Allen Evans was prosecuted through the
lower courts to the House OF Lords, where
the bylaw was finally declared void on
motion of Lord. Mansfld who supported
his motion by an argument worthy to
rank among the great oratlons OF his
tory. Glover refused to yield, and for q
time there was a dual government. In
| 1903, however, in order to end the strife
and settle the government it was agreed
to submit their respective claims. to u
new Assembly, for which boLn issued writs
of election. 1t met in October seated the
| Cary delegates from Chowan, whose cleo
ton was contested, chose Edward Moseley
! Speaker and recognized Cary as Presi-
dent. Cary had two of the Albemarle
precincts and all of Bath, giving him a
clear majority without the Chowan dele
gates.
| Glover again refused to yield, claiming
| that the members had not qualified ac-
ccrding to law and therefore he was not
| bound by anything it did. There was
some difficulty and Glover fed the State,
! taking refuge in Virginia Before mat
| ters had quieted Edward Hyde a kinsman
OF the Queen came to the province in the
summer OF 1910. He claimed to have been
| sent as deputy to Gov. Tynte, but owing
| to that gentlemans death he had no com
mission and could get none. He had let
tiers supporting his claim and the coun-
ell hoping to end the confusion, elected
| hum its president, ignoring the fact that
not beng member of that body he was
| ineligible to the office. All might have
| gone well at this juncture, but Hyde called
| an Assembly favorable to himself This
| contained members who wished to pay off
| old scores against the Cary party and be-
gan to enact hostile legislation, renewing
| the old controversies. A fine of one hun
dred pounds was imposed on ali officers
who refused to qualify themselves accord
ing to the strictness of the laws Of Great
Britain now In force. Also that all such
laws made for the establishment of the
church as well as the laws granting indul-
gcnce to the Protestant dissenters -
are and shall be in force" This led to a
further appeal to arms. Hyde called on
Gov, SpotsWood, of Virginia, for aid, and
the war was ended through his armed in
tervention. Cary and others were arrested
and sent to England for a trial which was
never had. The only witness sent against
him was Mr.. Tobias knight, Secretary of
the Province. Some years later while
occupying the same office under Gov Eden
he attracted some attention by furnishing
place of storage for the stolen goods OF
the pirate Teach. A little thing that has
since thrown some shadow on his reputa-
ton. Gov Hyde wrote that he would
take care that Knight be fully prepared.
and his Council asked that they might
have time to furnish evidence. Later
the Lords of Trade wrote the Earl of Dart
mouth I'VE have received no affdavits
or other proofs against any of the per-
sons concerned" A year later the Lords
Proprietors of Carolina, were called sharp
ly to task by the Crown in this letter:
MY Lords: Her Majesty is very much
surprised to find that several Of her sub
jects have lately been sent here in Gus
tody, without any evidence of their
crimes And therefore we are
commanded to signify Her Majesty's pleas
ure, that your Lordships give direction
to the Governor that he do not upon any
occasion send any of her subjects hitler
as prisoners, without good proof first
made of the crime, and that proof trans
mitted along with the prisoner
We might close here our story of the
FIRST battle in the long struggle that cul-
minated in the American Revolution and
Independence, but for one phase of the
subject, which greatly concerns us, be-
cause it involves the good name of one
to whom North Carolina owes much
In I'LL, and just at the close of the con-
flict we have been speaking of, there was
great uprising of the Tuscaroras and
the bloodlest Indian massacre known in
this colony The enemies of the popular
party at once charged Cary with respon
slbllty for the outbreak, and that one of
the Porters visited the Indians and instiga-
ted the act. 1t was a terrible charge and
ought not to have been made unless sup
ported by strong evidence. 1t was not
an uncommon eXpedient Of desperate men
to destroy their enemies in colonial times
An Indian uprising was the one thing most
dreaded by the early settlers, and their
sure and bitter resentment would rest
upon any man or party responsible for
such dreadful calamity
Gov. Spotswood, of Virginia, seems to
be the author of the charge He wrote
to the Council of Trade There have been
several affdavits sent hither to prove
that Mr.. Porter, one of Mr. Cary's pre-
tended council, was with the Tuscarora IN
dams endeaVoring by promises of great
rewards to engage them to cut off all
the inhabitants of that part of Carolina
that adhered to Mr.. Hyde. The Indians
own that the proposal was accepted by
their young men," He wrote substantially
the same to Lord Dartmouth
Martin In his History of North Caro-
lima says that after the defeat of Cary,
They returned on board, and their chief
sought a safe retreat in the swamps OF
Tar river, where he raised his standard
and attempted to bring the Tuscarora In
dams into an alliance. For this pur-
pose he dispatched Edward Porter, one
OF his Council, who endeavored by promi-
ses of great rewards to induce them to
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