The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-28

IN England, n their efforts 10 exclude
the dis-enters from participation n the
government II = something dreadful 10
ina n what would have happened turth.
CT to the poor dI-aenter~. i those church.
men bad succeeded n setting their reg
uiar church discipline a. proposed.
Further. tins exclusion was IN violation
OF the rights OF these people "a well es-
tablished Tor many years A. cary a.
1879, the instructions TO Governor John
Harvey said: But IN case anv man for
religions sake &c not free 10 swear allie
glance TO the King, then shall he subscribe
the same IN a book for that case provided
which shall b. deemed the same a swear
ing Such was the law and practice in
North Carolina until the very time Of this
exclusion. The instructions 10 Gov. John
son expressly included Instructions 10 our
Former Governors MS law the Quakers
obeyed to the letter. Pollock bears testi-
mony that col. Cary. Mr.. Porter .
took the oaths according to law. But the
Quakers would show themselves singular.
coming to the table In the Council with
their hats OH, laid their hands on the book
and repeating the words of the oath ex
cept the word swear, which they would
not pronounce, but the word Declare in
stead thereof, and. then having their ex-
PLANTATION OF the sense and meaning in
which they took 1t, entered underneath
they signed it without kissing the book. -
The contest had begun in earnest. Com
plant was made against Gov. Daniel to
Sir Nathaniel Johnson IN South Carolina
with such success that he was removed
and Col. Thomas Cary sent cut in his
room. Col. Cary was a Carolina merchant
Of some property, and the son-in-law OF
Gov. Archdale, the Quaker proprietor.
Shortly before this appointment he was
Register OF the Admiralty Court at
Charleston. He was most likely an ad
herent of the Church of England, and, at
that time, fresh from the presence and
association with Gov. Johnson, in sym
pathy with the effort to establish the
Church of England.
Upon his arrival the Quakers again
sought places in the Assembly and Courts.
He also rendered the oaths they had form
erly refused. They again declined them
and were again dismissed. 1t was at this
time the law imposing the five pounds
penalty was passed. This, says Gordon,
50 nettled the Quakers that IN the year
17O6 they sent one Mr.. John Porter to
England with fresh grievances and new
complaints to the Lords Proprietors, who,
by his cunning management, and the help
Of Mr.. Archaic, a Quaker proprietor, OBJ
tanned a new commission, by virtue where
OF Sir Nathaniel Johnson's power IN that
province was suspended, Col. Cary re
moved, and several new dcputations, sent
by the proprietors, with power 10 choose
a president among themselves"
Porter has been called the "cleverest
politician in North Carolina. He knew
that previous changes had worked but ht-
tie good to the popular party, and seems
to have devised a plan to test the next
man before he should be confirmed in
power. He got together the new depu-
ties without having a meeting OF the
Council as a body, and chose William
Glover as president OF the Council and
therefore ex offcio Governor, dlsplacing
Cary. But he with the lntatuatIon that
possessed the officials of the day, pur
sued, we are told by Gordon that Same
method as their former Governors dlu.
Thereupon a meeting was held of all the
Council, who declared the election Of
Glover illegal and reelected Cary, Glover
and Councillor Pollock alone protesting. Ii
was a great puzzle to the church politician
OF that day that the popular party should
be dissatisfied with a cha, >..-Inls
tratlon without a change OF lO.4cy also
Doubtless Porter had been able to BRING
news from England which satisfied Cary
that the church could not expect
further support from the proprletors al
tina time. Indeed we learn from Pol
locks Letter-book, that the Porter ele
ment claimed in the Council that the new
commission brought over by him revoked
the penal and disabling acts therefore
passed In North Carolina, and this con
tention seems to have been accepted by all
the Council except Glover and Pollock.
At this period the church party were
fun OF venom towards the QuakeIs ano
the popular party. Even DIS 1acltus VIII.
lns OF the early Christians describes their
"uCctrlnes as savage and ~ when
they breathed the very spirit OF peace
and purity; and charged them with be
ing animated with hatred OF their kind,
When their central tenet was an universal
charity so the HIgh-churclI Tories found
no imputation too foul Tor the peaceful
folks We call Quakers. Ignorant OBJ
stinate," wicked "perniclous,' are
common words applied to them. Gov,
Walker writes, if there lis not put a stop
to their growth, we snail the most part
\ y = become heather" Another speaks
of ''Quakers, Atheists DeisIs and other
evil disposed persons Indeed their rail
ing against them was only limited by the
terms of reproach IN the English tongu
which were at their cmmand. And all
because Freedom could not live unde
the laws sought to be established III North
Carolina and the popular party were 4or
Freedom.
4 SONG OF FREEDOM.
Freedom spake to the Greeks OF old
When the Persian hosts rolled on,
And their answer was stern Ihermopylae
And the plains of Marathon
And Leonidas and his Spartan few
Still make Us glow and thrill,
And the very name of SaIamls
Can move US stI,- ST. still.
Freedom spake to the fierce old Scots
When bid to bow the knee,
And their answer was Bruce and Bannock-
burn,
And fighting from sea to sea.
And still the name of Wallace wight
And the death he died that day
Breathe upon Scotland the sacred light
That never fades away.