The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-07-20


Pennsylvania on his way to New York
doing all the mischief it was possible
for him to do, though he was treated
very civilly by friends here" An In
dian, seeing him in a fit of temper,
said, "the gentleman is drunk"
NO." OBJECTED bystander, che
never drinks strong liquor"
81 do not mean that he is drunk
with rum; he was born drunk" the
Indian replied.
About the middle of the year 1898
he also seemed to be a little drunk
with ambition, for he was then con-
sidering plan to bring the colonies
under style viceroy, with a standing
army to do his bidding. He found
this idea a bit premature, however,
and turned wistful eye on New Eng
land. 1t may have been at this point
that the bravery of Hannah Dustin
and Mary Neff impressed him, for this
was the date of the presentation of the
tankard. He likely could have got
the appointment, but the more lucra-
tive post of Governor of Virginia
beckoned and to that he went instead.
In less than six weeks after his &C.
cession to the Governors chair, Mich.
olson had so embroiled his affairs in
Virginia as to be losing the support of
the Assembly. When he found him.
self unable to control them he threat
ened violent means to bring them to
his wishes. All the tact of his for
mer regime was gone. No longer was
he the sauve, temporizing Governor
they had known before, but a tyrant
instead, though when the wild-riding
Colonel Parke gave him horsewhip-
ping by way of settling an argument,
the Governor bore it with singular
resignation. At the same time he as
sumed the role of defender of the
church, and so we'll did he pull the
wool over the eyes of some of the
clergy in England that they spoke
of him as the right hand of God and
thought him fit to be a bishop.
AS a lover he was quite as violent.
The father of a pretty Virginia girl
objected to Nicholson's marriage with
his daughter, and the Governor swore
in dramatic language to have his
blood. Suspecting a rival in young
clergyman, he waylaid him on the
road and in the Kings name and as
his superior in the church, forbade
him to enter the lady's house or to
speak to her. Finally, hearing that
she was to be married, the Governor
threatened to cut the Threats of the
bridegroom, the minister who should
perform the service and the justice
who should issue the license.
James Blair, the man WHO Hdu
been his friend in the early Virginia
days, wrote of him now:
No Governor had greater art to
gain the affections of his people than
he if only he chose to make use of it.
But instead of the halcyon days we
promised ourselves under his gov
eminent, we have never had SO much
go IN and tempest and hurricanes as
in that time. He governs US as if we
were galley slaves by roaring and
laundering abusive Billingsgate Ian
guage utterly indescribable to those
who have not heard it.
Nor was this an isolated complaint.
The whole colony shared Blair's la
ment and, after four years his re-
moval from Virginia was soughtand
in disgrace he left for London.
But the man recovered from defeat
as a cat from a fall, and in short
time he was appointed to command
the provincial forces that were to at
tack Canada by land while an English