Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI. BESIEGED. While we lads crouched amid the vines which covered the porch of the dwelling wherein we had entrenched ourselves without due authority from the owner, watching intently for some token that our enemies were creeping up on us. the question came into my mind as to whether a goodly portion of the present trouble did not come from the fact that Master James Hunter was one of the deputies appointed by the association. Then there came back to me all I had heard regarding the arrest of Masters Husband and William Hunter, a cousin of Deputy Hunter. It was said by some that Fanning had particular reasons for desiring the imprisonment of James, while he did not have a speaking acquaintance with William. When the arrest was made, or rather when the two Regulators were taken into custody to convenience Messrs. Fanning and Edwards, the wrong Hunter was taken, and he against whom the attorney had been working was appointed one of two to represent the Regulation at an interview with the governor. It was a vile act, throwing two men into jail on a charge of seditious conduct, simply to pleasure a couple of villains; but even this was not the worst of our treatment at the hands of Governor Tryon and his minions. I could fill an hundred pages like this with accounts of injustice done us of the Carolinas, and yet set nothing down which might not be verified by reliable witnesses, while every item would be the record of an outrage as gross as that committed in the imprisonment of Masters Husband and Hunter. If it could have been known throughout all the colonies what we of the Carolinas suffered under the misrule of William Tryon, then would that declaration of liberty which was made in 1776, have been brought about five years earlier. However, it is …
