The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-29

among the rest william DrummOnd
the capable Scotsman whom he hac
deputed to be the first governor of thu
settlements at Albemarle. and who haC
governed very quietly there. know
ing the men he had to deal with. bu
who was now in Virginia again. Mr.
| BaCon's friend and counselor.
| AS | live" cried the King, wher
| he learned the news from Virginia
the old fool has put to death more
! people in that naked country than
did for the murder of my father" and
| he showed little patience when the
old man came home TO make his
peace. The King would not see him
! and the broken governor was dead
| of Chagrin. men said-by midsummer
| G67O. Virginia was rid of him; for
got how we'll she had liked him a,
| first: and remembered without COM
junction how her people had cele-
brated his departure with bonfires and
J the booming of cannon.
1t was in that year. 1877, when Vir-
giniaS rebellion was over and her
chief rebels hanged, that the heady
settlers at Albemarle rose against the
proprietOrs and the acts of trade
thrust their governor out, and seized
5000 pounds of the customs revenue.
They were but 1000 people, all told
but they were all of one mind. and
did what Mr.. Bacon could not do. For
two years they governed themselves.
upon such model as might have
pleased Virginia's rebel
1t was not this government of the
country gentlemen" at any rate. that
had brought on the fatal troubles with
the redskins which had stirred Mr..
Bacon to his first act of rebellion: for
New England also. seIf-governed and
free as yet. had had her own struggle
with the Indians. even more terrible
and bitter. which had ended that same
evcntful summer of 1876.
The New England Indians had not
forgotten the fate of the Pequots;
but that was now close upon forty
years ago: the terror of il was no
longer fresh. and their own situation
had meantime grown a bit desperate.
They were being shut within intoler-
ably narrow bounds. and they could
not move away from the regions where
the English were slowly crOwding
them from their hunting grounds with
out invading the territory of other
tribes who would have no welcome
for them.
They were ready at last when a
leader should arise to plot for an up
rising and a last trial of strength
with the invading palefaces. Such a
leader arose in the person of Philip.
the chief of the Wampanoags. whom
the English had penned up within the
narrow peninsula of Good Hope by
the Bay of Narragansett. The flame
which Philip kindled among the VAN
panOags promptly spread to the Mar
ra EanSetts and the Nipmucks until
ii burned on every border. and New
England saw a day of terror such as
she had never seen before.
The fatal uprising began in June.
1915. and was ended-for those tribes
at least-by August, 1876. as the Pc
quot war had ended. with the annihila-
ton of the offending tribes. Those
that were not killed or taken were
driven forth in hopeless flight; those
that were taken were sold as slaves
IN the West Indies.
Thereafter there were only the tribes
in the north to reckon with. But the
white mems loss was almost as great as
that OF the savaGes. More than one-half
of the towns of Massachusetts and Ply
mouth had seen the torch and the toma-
hawk that awful year: twelve of them
had been utterly destroyed; no fewer
than $50 buildings. chiefly dwellings. had
been burned: S0o men had lost their lives
and scores Of women and children: debts
had been piled up and damage suffered
which it would take years of bitter toll
to pay and repair; and New England
was for Il little like a place desolate and
stricken. But she rallied in time. as
always before. and slowly worked her
way to better days, like the old days for
peace and prosperity. Her dangers and
anxietes were at any rate. lcssened in
one matter that had often seemed to
hold fear and danger permanently at its
heart.
Tomorrow: The Coming Of William