History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent .. . ve-yard, are all that now mark for the stranger the pen-insula of Jamestown.^ From the smoking ruins. Bacon hastened to meetthe royalists from the Rappahannock. No engage-ment ensued ; the troops in a body joined the patriotparty ; and Brent, their royalist leader, was left at themercy of the insurgents. Even the inhabitants ofGloucester gave pledges of adhesion. Nothing re-mained but to cross the bay, and revolutionize theeastern shore. The little army of Bacon had been exposed, by night,to the damp dews of the low
History of the United States from the discovery of the American continent .. . ve-yard, are all that now mark for the stranger the pen-insula of Jamestown.^ From the smoking ruins. Bacon hastened to meetthe royalists from the Rappahannock. No engage-ment ensued ; the troops in a body joined the patriotparty ; and Brent, their royalist leader, was left at themercy of the insurgents. Even the inhabitants ofGloucester gave pledges of adhesion. Nothing re-mained but to cross the bay, and revolutionize theeastern shore. The little army of Bacon had been exposed, by night,to the damp dews of the lowlands; and the evening airof the balmy autumn was laden with death. Baconhimself suddenly sickened ; his vital energies vainlystruggled with the uncertain disease,^ and on the first 1 T. Account, 2L ning rashly ventures tlie conjec- 2 Review, in Burk, ii. 252, and ture, ii. 374. Yet in 1680, Hening,Burwcll Account, 54. ii. 400, his death is called infa- 3 Hawkss Contributions, 20. nious and exemplary, and, in 4 Was Bacon poisoned. He- 1G77, Hening, ii. 374, it is called. RUtM* or .« *. J-^j £ S TOWM ZW YO! I 1 TlLDi .TiONS-J THE GRAND REBELLION IN VIRGINIA. 229 day of October he died. Seldom has a political loader chap. been more honored by his friends Who is there now, said they, to plead our His eloquence could ^^^^animate the coldest hearts ; his pen and sword alikecompelled the admiration of his foes, and it was buttheir own guilt that styled him a criminal. His namemust bleed for a season ; but when time shall bring toVirginia truth crowned with freedom, and safe againstdanger, posterity shall sound his praises.^ An uneducated people obeys promptly the first callto action for freedom ; it is less capable of union andperseverance. The death of Bacon left his partywithout a head. A series of petty insurrections fol-lowed ; but in Robert Beverley the royalists found anagent superior to any of the remaining ships in the river were at his disposal,
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