Charleston, il luogo e la gente, da St Julien Ravenel con illustrazioni di Vernon Howe Bailey . ead forpardon. Johnson conosceva il suo dovere fin troppo bene. Bonnetsoffenses erano troppo flagrante, sua ipocrisia troppo evidenti.Egli aveva già preso il giuramento di pentimento e hadreturned contemporaneamente ai suoi modi malvagi. Il suo appello è stato come theDevil citando la scrittura. Egli fu impiccato, come erano i otherprisoners, quaranta in tutti i. Essi sono stati sepolti su bianco Pointshoal, appena al di sopra di bassa marea. Il luogo ha beenfilled e ora è il giardino della batteria, la massa favoritepleasure di Charleston. A circa lo stesso tempo (paglia o B

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Charleston, the place and the people, by St Julien Ravenel With illustrations by Vernon Howe Bailey . ead forpardon. Johnson knew his duty too well. Bonnetsoffences were too flagrant, his hypocrisy too apparent.He had already taken the oath of repentance and hadreturned at once to his evil ways. His appeal was as theDevil quoting Scripture. He was hanged, as were the otherprisoners, forty in all. They were buried on White Pointshoal, just above low-water mark. The place has beenfilled up and is now the Battery Garden, the favouritepleasure ground of Charleston. About the same time Thatch (or Blackbeard) was takenby an expedition sent out by Governor Spotswood of Vir-ginia, but commanded by officers of the Royal Navy. TheCarolinians had fought their fight alone and unaided, THE CONQUEST OF THE PIRATES 79 the Lords Proprietors having refused to hearken to theircalling. Just at this juncture when the people were angry attheir neglect, and at the heavy debt which the expense ofthe defence left upon them, the Governor alone being onethousand pounds out of pocket, their Lordships saw fit to. ^f kw* ^rv^_yzi^Xu • A Corner of the Battery Garden enact certain laws and regulations which bore heavily ontheir trade, and endangered their lands. The colonists sawclearly that their only safety lay in escaping this short-sighted and selfish rule; but how was that to be done?The Proprietors legally owned the whole country as onegreat estate. Mr. Maurice Ashley, grandson of the great 80 CHARLESTON Lord Shaftesbury, spoke the simple truth when he said Noman has a just title to anything if the Proprietors have nota title to Carolina. The soil thus bound, how could theinhabitants be free? Twere long to tell and dull to tracethe negotiations, the plots and counterplots, the petitions, addresses, memorials, etc., which followed those ill-advisedmeasures. The colony sent agent after agent to urge theirclaims: Mr. Boone, Mr. Francis Yonge, Colonel JohnBarnwell. The Proprietors were deaf a

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• bookauthorravenelh
• bookcentury1900
• bookdecade1900
• bookyear1906