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Show TODAY IN HISTORY I WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 20. 1010. Benjamin .1. Losing In his "Eminent Americans." sny3. "Often, In men's mm nmtlon success makes Effort a virtue" h t f lluro inukos it a crime. A successful success-ful blow at tyranny Is called nalrlotlam-i nalrlotlam-i "nsuecessful one is bran.td0 as rebe -Hon. "Nathaniel Bacon lifted his arm fm-Popular fm-Popular freedom, failed and Istory ,-o-corded his nanio among traitors " Bacon was a man of groat boldness and energy of character. Jle was a vounc yei:, 0t M0,bI 'rthf ami w"I lleh, eloquent and popular. Hc came to America during Cromwell's ru e In England Eng-land and was given a scat In llie council of Governor Berkeley, of Virginia Thoroughly Thor-oughly democratic in his "lows ' Bacon often crossed tho official path of th" haughty cavalier, cspeciallv after the res oration of Charles II inAdc the VIr glnla loyalists insolent and tyrannical I he assembly, under the liberties of the people, propagated the vipers of Intolcr- narffig800 party was formed, and Bacons re bel- n'nm? OWe( ' Tl,c Ben(-,al causes wero political and economic tvranny. tho immediate im-mediate occasion being' Berkeley1." nl i oVilicPOnCy.V--T,,C ,,m,,n"3 md heco ne-hostile ne-hostile In lfi,0. and .massacres of men women and children In thc outlaying "el- Uements was of almost dally occurrence. But Bcr.ke ey persistently refused to "al out the militia, for the reason, it is bo- leved. that hc did not wish to dlstiirh he fur trade, from which he was rccc - ing a good Income. In defiance of the governor Bacon raised a band of men und "marched against the Indians on April "n. 1G76. UI- li?i!.ns 011 ,,om H st,"5lHR defeat. Berkeley, Ber-keley, greatly Incensed at tho youn-man youn-man s insubordination, started after I n ultJ, H'000 of 110180 : bt scn.-c.elv e left .Jamestown when word reached him that the whole peninsula had rise tiTAi i ,Mnslc"lng back, he found i that he must do something to placate th" people, and he dissolved the lone Nik? sembly and ordered a new election. This . was duly done, and Bacon was dec nd to the burgesses. This assemhlv passe ' a series 01 reform Jaws known as "Uu- ! n3tL,flw;s ,,,Tno oIfl governor, deeplv offended at this course, dissolved the assembly as-sembly and proclaimed Bacon, who had again marched against thc Indians -I traitor, whereupon Bacon, at the head' o' sevcra hundred men. marched P0I Jamestown and burned it to thc ground. Berkolcy fled beforo the armed In -vadc-s , t,,0k refuge on thc eastern side of lhc Chesapeake. Bacon had now full control of Virginia's affairs and T even contemplated resistance to t ." kings troops, that were said to be on tholr way to the colony, when a deadlier foo than armed mon-thc nwamp fovcr-endod fovcr-endod his short, brilliant career, and Virginia, Vir-ginia, was destined to spend another hundred years as a royal colonv At Bacon's death his followers scattered, scat-tered, and Berkeley was again in fui: possession, and hc wreaked vengeance o them by hanging more than a .score. In" l lhSPvi Wimam Orummond. a bcolch Presbyterian, and one of thc lcd-ing lcd-ing men of the colony. Bui the king was djspleascd with the governor's rancor 'The old foci has taken more lives in that naked country than I have taken for the murder of my father." said Charles and Berkeley was recalled. April JO Is the date on which Iho Spanish Span-ish fleet was destroyed by Rhiko In 1B57-011 1B57-011 which the siege of Boston began In 1.7o and on which Cromwell dissolved the Itnmp parliament In 1053. It s the bl. i day of Rudolph Ackerman. wi,"'0 s it turned lithography as. a flno art (ITCH-Napolepn (ITCH-Napolepn III (1S0S); Henry C Tucker" man. the critic and poet (1S13). an.l Allcc Cary. the poetess (1S20). |