The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-07

The troubles of Massachusetts, did
not end with the death of King Philip
and the determination of the hostile
tribes. That very year Of blood and
terror, 1876, on the contrary, saw an
old danger renewed.
Mr.. Edward Randolph arrived out
Of England commissioned to COM
mand the authorities of the colony
to send agents over sea to answer
for their assumption of power over
the settlements to the north, beyond
the bounds set by their charter, and
in despite of the rights of those who
were the legal proprietors there. 1t
was the beginning Of very serious
matter.
At last there was an action of quo
warranto against her (16s3), and
then writ issued against her in the
Court of Chancery, and in the end,
October %, 1884, an adverse judg-
ment which declared her charter for
feited and her government returned
to the crown. It was bitter thing,
but there was this time no escape
from enduring 1t.
The same year, 1884, Virginia re-
turned to her normal government
again, as a royal province, and not
the property of Lord Culpeper. By
1854 the King, tired of him, had with
drawn his commission and bought off
his rights, leaving him proprietary
title over only the Northern Neck
of Virginia-the great peninsula
| which ran back to the mountains be-
tween the Potomac and the Kappa
hammock rivers; and the colony was
again directly subject to the crown.
| It was in the bad times of his rule
that new disorder fell upon the col
ony. In 1879 and 1850 the crops of
tobacco were immense; there was
more than could be sold, and its value
| fell so much that it was worth little
or nothing to make purchases with
and yet it was the colony's chief cur
rency. The assembly wished to STOP
or limit the planting of tobacco for q
little, by statute; but the King.
through the governor, forbade the
restriction; and there suddenly broke
forth a new sort of rebellion. In 1852
mobs of excited people swarmed upon
| plantation after plantation, destroy
ing the growing crops of tobacco
until what would have filled 10000
hogsheads had been cut up as it grew
and 200 plantations had been laiC
waste within a single county.
/ Government by proprietors did not
seem to go anywhere very we'll. Ever
Lord Baltimore found Maryland ar
uneasy property, and kept it only by
consummate tact and watchful man.
agement. At every change of politi-
cal weather there was sure to be
some sudden tempest or some covert
INSTRUMENTATION there.
In 1916 Cecilius Lord Baltimore
died, his only son, Charles, succeed
ing; and the next year one Davis and
one Pate, taking their cue from Mr.
Bacon in Virginia, made bold them
selves to head an actual rebellion IN
arms. BIT success in Maryland de-
pended upon success in Virginia
| When Mr.. Bacon died, the Maryland
. insurgents yielded as promptly as the
| Virginia; Davis and Pate went to the
gallows; and there was an end Of
that. But there was no ease in af.
fairs even then. The barons of Bal.
timore had the self-confdent tenants
Of many a miniature barony to dea
with in their province; and had oc.
casion to discover very often how
vital a commonwealth it was thai
surged restless under their govern
ment.
Newer proprietors had not the adj
vantage of their experience, and wer'
always slow to see how uncommon {
sort of property colony was-anC
that the high-spirited men who un
derstook to settle in colonies, ik'
Englishmen everywhere, must be gov
erned, if governed at all, under fires
system which took note Of their rea
circumstances and had their assent
Carolina furnished an example
J There were, in fact, two Carolinas
Since the abandonment of the settle
ments which had for a little while
struggled for a permanent footholC
on the Cape Fear (1664-1667), there
was nothing but unbroken wilderness
through all the long reaches of silen
forest which lay between the Abe
marie country and the settlement a
Charieston-full 260 miles as tn,
crow flies. There could not well b
J one government for both these sepa
rated places, except in name; and j
was difficult to tell which was tn
harder to govern.
Proprietary government was prov