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agreement in Rowan County for arbitration, marched into Orange County. His progress was marked by the destruction of wheat fields and orchards, the burning of every house which was found empty; the seizure of cattle, poultry and all the produce of the plantations. The terrified people ran together like sheep chased by a wolf; while Tryon crossed the Eno, and the Haw; and the men who had been indicted at Newbern for felonies, were already advertised as outlaws, when on the evening of the fourteenth, he reached the Great Alamance. The little army under his command was composed of one thousand and eighteen foot soldiers, and thirty light horse, besides the officers. The number of the army of Tryon is given exactly according to his own statement in a letter from New-York, 1 August, 1771. As the Regulators were not counted, their number is a matter of mere conjecture. Tryon puts it at two thousand. One newspaper account at the time says but three hundred took part in the battle.
January (search for this): chapter 23
land in its rivalry with England. His policy was so identified with the passions, the sympathies, and the culture of his country; was so thoroughly national, and so liberal, that it was sure to return in spite of the royalist Chap. XLVI.} 1771. Jan. party and the Court, and even though he himself was never again to be intrusted with the conduct of affairs. The cause of royalty was, for the time, triumphant in the cabinets; and had America then risen, she would have found no friends to cheer t, and securing peace without a compromise of the public dignity. When the Administration needed for its defence no more than the exposition of the madness of modern wars in the brilliant and forcible language of the moralist Chap. XLVI.} 1771. Jan. Johnson, Johnson's Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland Islands. 1771. the applause of Adam Smith Masere's Occasional Essays and Tracts, 178. was in accordance with the sentiment of the country. This was the happiest per
February (search for this): chapter 23
r General, his equals in ability, but most unlike him in character; Gibbon's Memoirs of Himself. and it was his fatal error that he indulged in slumber when America required all his vigilance. The Regulators of North Carolina gathered toge- Feb. ther in the woods on hearing that their Representative had been expelled and arbitrarily imprisoned, and they themselves menaced with exile or death as outlaws. They had labored honestly for their own support; not living on the spoils of other meght to fair trials, and the collectors of the public money called to proper settlements of their accounts. Petition signed by one hundred and seventy-four, addressed to Chief Justice Martin, &c. &c. Honor and good faith now Chap. XLVI.} 1771. Feb. prompted them to join for the rescue of Husbands. Tryon was intimidated. Newbern might be attacked and his newly finished palace, source of so much gratification to his vanity, of grievous taxation to the people, might be burned to the ground.
February 6th (search for this): chapter 23
was intimidated. Newbern might be attacked and his newly finished palace, source of so much gratification to his vanity, of grievous taxation to the people, might be burned to the ground. Without some manifest sanction of law he dared no longer detain in custody the sturdy Highlander, who had come down under the safeguard of his unquestioned election to the Legislature. Eager to take advantage of the Riot Act, he had by special commission called the Judges to meet at Newbern on the sixth of February. No sooner were they assembled, than he conspired with the Chief Justice to get Husbands indicted for a pretended libel. But the Grand Jury refused to do the work assigned them; and the prisoner was set free Tryon to Hillsborough, 12 April, 1771.. Angry with the indocile jury, the Governor by a new Commission, called another court for the eleventh of March; against which day he took care, by March giving the strictest orders to the Sheriffs, many of whom were defaulters, and b
March 6th (search for this): chapter 23
nst which day he took care, by March giving the strictest orders to the Sheriffs, many of whom were defaulters, and by the indefatigable exertions of his own private Secretary, to obtain jurors and witnesses, suited to his purpose. Tryon to Hillsborough. The liberation of Husbands having stopped the march of the Regulators, it occurred to some of them on their return to visit Salisbury Superior Court. Colonels Frohock and Martin to Gov. Tryon, Salisbury, 18 March, 1771. On the sixth of March, about four or five hundred of them encamped in the woods near the Ferry, on the western side of the Yadkin River. The lawyers Chap. XLVI.} 1771. March are every thing they complained. There should be none in the Province. We shall be forced to kill them all. There never was such an Act as the Riot Act in the laws of England. Deposition of Waightstill Avery. This deposition of one of Tryon's witnesses, taken alone, gives a very wrong view of the case. The letter of Frohock and
March 11th (search for this): chapter 23
tended libel. But the Grand Jury refused to do the work assigned them; and the prisoner was set free Tryon to Hillsborough, 12 April, 1771.. Angry with the indocile jury, the Governor by a new Commission, called another court for the eleventh of March; against which day he took care, by March giving the strictest orders to the Sheriffs, many of whom were defaulters, and by the indefatigable exertions of his own private Secretary, to obtain jurors and witnesses, suited to his purpose. e very officers of whom complaint was made, was the statement on the Government side, not of the Regulators. See Frohock and Martin to Tryon, 18 March, 1771. But Tryon and Fanning were bent on revenge. Chap. XLVI.} 1771. March On the eleventh of March the Court opened at Newbern; with willing witnesses and a unanimous Grand Jury, sixty-one Tryon to Hillsborough, 12 April, 1771. indictments were readily found for felonies or riots, against the leading Regulators in Orange County, who l
May (search for this): chapter 23
ces against officers taking exorbitant fees. Why then, it was asked, are some of you armed? Our arms, said they, are only to defend ourselves. They were told, that no Court would be held on account of the disturbances; but the very persons of whom they complained, finding them peaceably disposed beyond expectation, From the letter of Fohock and Martin. agreed with them, that all differences with the officers of the county of Rowan should be settled by arbitration on the third Tuesday in May. The umpires being named, the Regulators marched through Salisbury, gave three cheers, and quietly returned Letters of Tryon and of Martin; Caruthers in Life of Galdwell. to their farms, which were the best lands in the whole Province. This account, given by the very officers of whom complaint was made, was the statement on the Government side, not of the Regulators. See Frohock and Martin to Tryon, 18 March, 1771. But Tryon and Fanning were bent on revenge. Chap. XLVI.} 1771. M
May 16th (search for this): chapter 23
oclamation of 11 June, excepting from the amnesty, all concerned in blowing up Gen eral Waddel's ammunition in Mecklenburgh. while Tryon turned back, living at free quarters on the Regulators, Postscript to the same letter. forcing them to contribute all kinds of provisions, and burning the houses and laying waste and destroying the plantations of every outlaw. Tryon to Hillsborough, 1 August, 1771. The commissary had got occasion to purchase any provision for the troops, from the 16th of May, till they quitted their settlements the 20th of June. On the ninth of June he arrived at Hillsborough, where the Court awaited him. His first work was a proclamation inviting every person to shoot Herman Husbands, or James Hunter, or Redknap Howell, or William Butler; and offering a hundred Chap. XLVI.} 1771. June. pounds and a thousand acres of land, as a reward for the delivery of either of them alive or dead. Then twelve men, taken in battle, were tried and brought in guilty o
May 17th (search for this): chapter 23
cial return of the killed and wounded. Of the Regulators, above twenty fell in battle, besides the wounded. Martin's Hist. of North Carolina, II. 282. Some prisoners were taken in the pursuit. Before sunset, Tryon had returned in triumph to his camp. The next day James Few, one of the prisoners, was by the Governor's order, hanged on a tree as an outlaw; and his parents ruined by the destruction of their estate. Then followed one proclamation after another, Proclamation of Tryon, 17 May, and others. excepting from mercy outlaws and prisoners, and promising it to none others but those who should take an oath of allegiance, pay taxes, submit to the laws, and deliver up their arms. After this Tryon proceeded to the Yadkin to join June. Waddel, who had incurred some danger of being cut off. Waddel then moved through the Southwestern counties, unmolested, except that in Mecklenburgh his ammunition was blown up, Tryon's Proclamation of 11 June, excepting from the amnesty,
June 9th (search for this): chapter 23
Gen eral Waddel's ammunition in Mecklenburgh. while Tryon turned back, living at free quarters on the Regulators, Postscript to the same letter. forcing them to contribute all kinds of provisions, and burning the houses and laying waste and destroying the plantations of every outlaw. Tryon to Hillsborough, 1 August, 1771. The commissary had got occasion to purchase any provision for the troops, from the 16th of May, till they quitted their settlements the 20th of June. On the ninth of June he arrived at Hillsborough, where the Court awaited him. His first work was a proclamation inviting every person to shoot Herman Husbands, or James Hunter, or Redknap Howell, or William Butler; and offering a hundred Chap. XLVI.} 1771. June. pounds and a thousand acres of land, as a reward for the delivery of either of them alive or dead. Then twelve men, taken in battle, were tried and brought in guilty of Treason; and on the nineteenth of June, six of them were hanged under the eye
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