Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1911-08-10
The Governor Who Was Hanged.
Statesville Landmark.

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Statesville Landmark.
When Mr.. F. A. Linnpy ad.
dressed the North Carolina ii
tors at Boone a lew weeks ago
he referred to an ex-GovernOr OF
North Carolina who was hanged.
The publication OF Mr.. Linney's
address aroused some inquiry
on this point and inquiry h Ms
been made Of the Landmark as
to the name OF the Governor who
suffered the ignominious fate. A
friend of the Landmark who is
studious and of an enquiring
turn OF mind, has looked up the
matter and finds that the Gov
ernor was Drummond, the first
Governor of the State. The st0-
ry is told in Mrs. Speucer's First
Steps in North Carolina Histo-
ry' AMI is as follows:
In 1854 the Lord's Proprie-
etors appointed the first Govern
or for Carolina, OF rather for Al
bermarIe country. He was Will
lam Drummond, q Scotehman
by birth, who came from Virgin
ia and was a friend Of Governor
Berkeley. As he was ourflrst Gov
ernor it is pleasant to know that
he was q man OF good charac-
ter aud highly esteemed and oi q
good family We know very lit
tie OF the years in which he ruled
the Albermale country. de re.
turned to, Virginia afterward,
and ten years later he became en-.
gagged in a serious rebellion of
the Virginia people against their
Governor. Barkley was getting
old aud very hard and tyranicai,
land odious to the colonists after
having been a popular and ex-
cellent Governor .ior more than
30 years. They rose against him
in 1915 in what ia called ''Ba'
cons Rebellion" and were beat
en- and forced to submit, a n d
Berk'ey took q base revenge by
hanging all the eleaders who came
into hie hands. Among them was
ex. x.Goyernor Drummond, W h o
had been his friend, hut who felt
it his duty 10 oppose his tyran'
nv. The vindictive old man show
ed no mercy. He made a low bow
to his prisoner and with cruel
words of hatred told him that
he should be hung in hall an
hour. And 80 he was. as soon as
the gallows could be built. Drum
mond died calmly and full o.
courage, believing that he had
died in a good canse. This was
the sad end Of the man who had
been the first Governor of ouI
State. But for all that, he was a
S brave and a good man and hit
!, name stands much higher thar
Berkeley's. Its ofno consequence
how a man dies if he has livet
well. Berkeley died within that
same year in England, where he
had gone to explain away hi
6 barbarous conduct. but the king
i, refused to nee him or to forgive
him for cruelty. He is said tt
have died "of d broken heart,
but it is not likely that he haC
much of a heart to break. Thu
fake III the Great Dismal Swami
between North Carolina and Vir
gin,a was named in honor o
+. Governor Drummond.
So it will be seen that while tn
first Governor of North Carolint
met death by hanging, he wa'
the victim of a tyrant and hisol
fence was resistance of at yrant
Ry Ill accounts he was q goo
man and guilty OF NJ crime.
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