What are some good quotes/reference quotesa bout Nathaniel Bacon? Or, websites for quotes.
2007-09-11 13:08:49 · 2 answers · asked by So Sam Said 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
“Very good parts, and a quick wit, but impatient of labor, and indeed his temper will not admit long study.” ~~John Ray, Nathaniel Bacon’s boyhood tutor
“Indifferent tall but slender, black-haired and of an ominous, pensive, melancholy aspect, of a pestilent and logical discourse tending to atheism, but given to much talk, or to make sudden replies, of a most imperious and dangerous hidden pride of heart, despising the wisest of his neighbors for their ignorance, and very ambitious and arrogant.” ~~Royal Commissioners’ Report
“He had broken into some extravagancies, and could not contain himself within bounds.” ~~Thomas Bacon, Nathaniel’s father, explaining why he had to withdraw Nathaniel from Cambridge University after two and a half years residency.
"The poverty of the country is such that all the power and sway has got into the hands of the rich, who by extortious advantages, having the common people in their debt, have always curbed and oppressed them in all manner of ways."
- Nathaniel Bacon
"If the redskins meddle with me, damn my blood but I'll hurry them, commission or no commission." ~~Nathaniel Bacon
BACON'S APOLOGY
"I, Nathanael Bacon Bacon Jr., Esq., of Henrico County, in Virginia, do hereby most readily, freely, and most humbly acknowledge that I am, and have been guilty of divers late unlawful, mutinous, and rebellious practices, contrary to my duty to his most sacred majesty's governor, and this country, by beating up of drums; raising of men in arms', marching with them into several parts of his most sacred majesty's colony, not only without order and commission, but contrary to the express orders and commands of the Right Honorable Sir William Berkeley, Kn't, his majesty's most worthy governor and captain-general of Virginia. And I do further acknowledge that the said honorable governor hath been very favorable to me, by his several reiterated gracious offers of pardon, thereby to reclaim me from the persecution of those my unjust proceedings, (whose noble and generous mercy and clemency I can never sufficiently acknowledge), and for the re-settlement of this whole country in peace and quietness. And I do hereby, upon my knees, most humbly beg of Almighty God and of his Majesty's said governor, that upon this my most hearty and unfeigned acknowledgement of my said mis-carriages and unwarrantable practices, he will please to grant me his gracious pardon and indemnity, humbly desiring also the honourable council of state, by whose goodness I am also much obliged, and the honorable burgesses of the present grand assembly to intercede, and mediate with his honor, to grant me such pardon. And I do hereby promise, upon the word and faith of a christian and a gentleman, that upon such pardon granted me as I shall ever acknowledge so great a favor, so I will always bear true faith and allegiance to his most sacred majesty, and demean myself dutifully, faithfully, and peaceably to the government and the laws of this country, and am most ready and willing to enter into bond of two thousand pounds sterling, and for security thereof bind my whole estate in Virginia to the country for my good and quiet behavior for one whole year from this date, and do promise and oblige myself to continue my said duty and allegiance at all times afterwards. In testimony of this, my free and hearty recognition, I have hereunto subscribed my name, this 9th. day of June, 1676.
"NATH. BACON."
The Council interceded thus:
"We, of his Majesty's council of State of Virginia, do hereby desire according to Mr. Bacon's request, the right honorable the governor, to grant the said Mr. Bacon his freedom. Dated the 9th. of June, 1676."
"In Memoriam, Nathanael Bacon, the younger, General and member of the Governor's Council. Born in Suffolk, England-1630-40-died in this County in 1676. Originator of his socalled Rebellion, whose influence in the foundation of the Spirit of Americanism is immeasurrable-the Washington of his day, popular and patriotic, whose magnanimity strongly contrasted with Berkeley's malignity. A soldier, a statesman, a saint-Gloucester, who honors the noble dead, and cherishes the memory of kingly men, and in whose soil the body of Bacon is said to sleep, erects this monument to the great patriot, by the authority of the Circuit Court, through the generosity of friends." ~~Tribute to Nathaniel Bacon engraved on a marble slab in the Gloucester Court House, Virginia.
2007-09-11 14:37:14 · answer #1 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Shay's rebellion was localized, over taxes and the use of money/specie. Bacon's actually tried to get the lower classes and Native Americans to over-throw the local government of the elites.
2016-04-05 07:38:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nathaniel Bacon Quotes
2017-02-23 08:53:09 · answer #3 · answered by plascencia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋