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nor to rule over them, and the words of Richard gave comfort to his soul.
22. Now Richard was a man of great riches, but his stores of knowledge were not abundant; and he desired greatly to be made a ruler and a Senator over the province called Carolina, and he believed that James the Deluded had great power, and could minister unto his desire, and he became a faithful follower of James.
23. Then James the Deluded opened his mouth and said, "Verily, O men of Charleston, I give thanks unto you all, and more especially unto Richard, (whose name shall dwell in my remembrance) for the favour ye have this day shown forth, in setting me up to be made chief Governor over this province.
24. "Ye all know that in the days which are past, I James did join with the counsellors of the North, in ordaining statutes which you now declare do bow you to the dust, and which despoil you of your substance.
25. "But when it was made manifest that the path which I pursued would lead me far from your favour, and that ye would take from me all power and honour, I saw the error of my ways, and turned from the weaker to the stronger side.
26. "And rather than suffer for conscience sake, I confessed unto you my sins, and declared that I had been under 'a Natural Delusion,' to which my eyes are now open.
27. "And I will now pronounce openly before you all 'the creed' in which I now believe, and ye shall see that I am strong in the faith.
28. "I believe the Tariff of him called Mallary, to be a palpable, deliberate and dangerous violation of the ordinances of the realm, and that it is a device of cunning men to despoil you of the fruits of your labour.
29. "I believe that ye are oppressed, and ruined, by the statutes which have been ordained by the great council of Andrew the King, and that desolation will soon cover your land, even as the waters do the great deep.
30. "And I say unto you, O men of Charleston, that ye may cry aloud for relief, but ye shall find none at the hands of the Yankees, your enemies; wherefore arise at once, and stand forth in your might: ye 'ought, and must resist.'
31. "Peradventure some of you shall say, how can we resist without doing battle with Andrew the King, who hath sworn before Heaven, to enforce the ordinances of the realm.
32. "But I say unto you, fear nothing; and if Andrew the King, shall do that which he hath sworn, upon his head be the blood which shall be spilt—for it is his fault, and not ours.
33. "And if he send forth a power to enforce the Statutes of the Realm, assuredly his reign will be a "Sanguinary Despotism," against which our fathers have taught us to rebel.
34. "And we will defend ourselves with our own right arm; and if in the heat of strife we shall spill blood, or rend asunder the Realm—of a surety this is not 'Disunion or civil war,' but it is that which is called glorious revolution."
