The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-19

doubt better off on the high sea- which
/ is sort of neutral place OF nature be
| yond the reach, for the time, of mobs
/ or scepters, unless one falls in with a
black flag.
| At all events, off sailed my Lord Cul-
pepper. leaving Sir Henry ChicheIy rs
! lieutenant governor, and verify lie
might as well have left weather
cock as that wen intentioned but pill
! able gentleman. Give him but head
wind over him and he would wax
| fierce to order. and well he served the
| government in the Bacon uprising. but
| leave him to his own will and back
and forth he swung with great buster.
but no stability. None of the colony.
least OF all the militia, stood in awe
/ of Sir Henry Chichely, nor regarded
| him as more than a figurehead of au-
| thority when my Lord Culpeper had
| set sail.
The morning of the day after the
sailing, the people of jamestown whom
/ one happened to meet on the road had
| a strange expression of countenance,
| and / doubt not that a man skilled in
| such matters could have read as truly
| the signs of an eruption of those
| forces of human passion in the hearts
of men as of an earthquake by the
| belching forth Of smoke and fire from
| the mouth of a volcano.
Everybody looked at his neighbor with
either glare of doubt and wariness or
with covert understanding, and some
there were who had a pale seriousness
of demeanor from having a full com
-
what might come of it, though not in
the least drawing back on that ac-
count, and some were all flushed and
glowing with eagerness and laughing
from sheer delight in danger and dar-
ing, and some were like stolid beasts
OF the field watching the eye of q
master, ready at it's wink to leap forth
to the strain of labor or fury. Many
Of these last were of our English la
borers, whom / held in some sort of
pity. and doubt as to whether it were
just and merciful TO draw them into
such a stew kettle. for in truth many
OF them had not a pound of tobacco
to lose by the navigation act and no
more interest in the uprising than had
the muskets stacked in Major Robert
Beverly's first wife's tomb. Yet, I
pray, what can men do without tools.
and have not tools some glory of their
own which we take small account Of
and yet which may be recompense to
them?
Early that morning the news spread
that Colonel Kemp of the Gloucester
militia and troop OF horse and foot
had been sent secretly against some
plant cutters in Gloucester county who
had arisen before US and had taken
prisoners some twenty-five caught in
the act The news of the sending
came first, I think. from Major Rob
ert Beverly, the clerk Of the assembly,
who had withheld the knowledge for
some time, inasmuch as he disliked the
SAVIOR Of treachery, but being in his
cups that night before at Barry Up
per Branch out it came. Twas Dick
Barry who told me. I fell in with
him and Captain Jaynes on the James
town road that morning. Colonel
Kemp hath ridden against the rioters
in Gloucester with foot and horse, by
order Of the general court, and Bever-
ly hath been knowing to it all this
time" he said gloomily.
1AcA hC duoNu ludt man WIZ
served on two sides had no strength
for either, and one who had raised his
hand against Bacon had best been out
of the present cause. But Captain
Jaynes swore with one OF his broad
sides Of mighty oaths that twas best
as twas, since Beverly had some in
f1uence over the militia, and that he
was safe enough not to turn traitor
with his great store Of tobacco at
stake and that should the court pro-
coed to extremes with the Gloucester
plant cutters such a flame would leap
to life in Virginia as would choke Eng |
land with the smoke of its burning.
We knew no more than the fact of |
the sending, but that afternoon came |
riding into jamestown Colonel Kemp
with small body of horse, having left |
the rest and the foot in Gloucester. |
there to suppress further disorder, and I
with him, bound to their saddles, some |
twenty-five prisoners, glaring about t
them with defiant faces and covered /
with dust and mire and some with |
blood.
Something there was about that aw-
full glow of red on face. on hand or
soaking through homespun sleeve or
waistcoat that was like the waving
Of battlef1ag or the call of a trum-
pet. Such a fury awoke in us who
looked on as never was, and the pris-
oners had been then and there torn
from their horses and set free had 1t
not been for the consideration that
undue precipitation might ruin the
main cause.
But the sight Of human blood shed in
/ righteous cause is the spur of the
orave and goads him to action beyond
Ill else Quite silent we kept when
hat troop rode past us on their way
o prison. though we were a gather
ng crowd not only OF some Of the best
II Virginia, but some of her worst and
most uncontrolled of indenture white
slaves and convicts; but something
here must have been in our looks
which gave heart to those who rode
,ound to their horses. for one and
hen another turned and looked back
It us, and I trow got some hope.
However, before the night fairly FELL
wenty of the prisoners. upon giving