At length a rumor17 reached our shores that the Prince of Orange had ventured on an enterprise, the success of which would be the triumph of civil and religious rights and the salvation18 of New England. It was but a doubtful whisper: it might be false, or the attempt might fail; and, in either case, the man that stirred against King James would lose his head. Still the intelligence produced a marked effect. The people smiled mysteriously in the streets, and threw bold glances at their oppressors; while far and wide there was a subdued19 and silent agitation20, as if the slightest signal would rouse the whole land from its sluggish21 despondency. Aware of their danger, the rulers resolved to avert22 it by an imposing23 display of strength, and perhaps to confirm their despotism by yet harsher measures. One afternoon in April, 1689, Sir Edmund Andros and his favorite councillors, being warm with wine, assembled the red-coats of the Governor’s Guard, and made their appearance in the streets of Boston. The sun was near setting when the march commenced.
The roll of the drum at that unquiet crisis seemed to go through the streets, less as the martial24 music of the soldiers, than as a muster-call to the inhabitants themselves. A multitude, by various avenues, assembled in King Street, which was destined25 to be the scene, nearly a century afterwards, of another encounter between the troops of Britain, and a people struggling against her tyranny. Though more than sixty years had elapsed since the pilgrims came, this crowd of their descendants still showed the strong and sombre features of their character perhaps more strikingly in such a stern emergency than on happier occasions. There were the sober garb26, the general severity of mien27, the gloomy but undismayed expression, the scriptural forms of speech, and the confidence in Heaven’s blessing28 on a righteous cause, which would have marked a band of the original Puritans, when threatened by some peril29 of the wilderness30. Indeed, it was not yet time for the old spirit to be extinct; since there were men in the street that day who had worshipped there beneath the trees, before a house was reared to the God for whom they had become exiles. Old soldiers of the Parliament were here, too, smiling grimly at the thought that their aged31 arms might strike another blow against the house of Stuart. Here, also, were the veterans of King Philip’s war, who had burned villages and slaughtered32 young and old, with pious33 fierceness, while the godly souls throughout the land were helping34 them with prayer. Several ministers were scattered35 among the crowd, which, unlike all other mobs, regarded them with such reverence36, as if there were sanctity in their very garments. These holy men exerted their influence to quiet the people, but not to disperse37 them. Meantime, the purpose of the Governor, in disturbing the peace of the town at a period when the slightest commotion38 might throw the country into a ferment39, was almost the universal subject of inquiry40, and variously explained.
“Satan will strike his master-stroke presently,” cried some, “because he knoweth that his time is short. All our godly pastors41 are to be dragged to prison! We shall see them at a Smithfield fire in King Street!”
Hereupon the people of each parish gathered closer round their minister, who looked calmly upwards42 and assumed a more apostolic dignity, as well befitted a candidate for the highest honor of his profession, the crown of martyrdom. It was actually fancied, at that period, that New England might have a John Rogers of her own to take the place of that worthy43 in the Primer.
“The Pope of Rome has given orders for a new St. Bartholomew!” cried others. “We are to be massacred, man and male child!”
Neither was this rumor wholly discredited44, although the wiser class believed the Governor’s object somewhat less atrocious. His predecessor45 under the old charter, Bradstreet, a venerable companion of the first settlers, was known to be in town. There were grounds for conjecturing46, that Sir Edmund Andros intended at once to strike terror by a parade of military force, and to confound the opposite faction47 by possessing himself of their chief.
“Stand firm for the old charter Governor!” shouted the crowd, seizing upon the idea. “The good old Governor Bradstreet!”
While this cry was at the loudest, the people were surprised by the well-known figure of Governor Bradstreet himself, a patriarch of nearly ninety, who appeared on the elevated steps of a door, and, with characteristic mildness, besought48 them to submit to the constituted authorities.
“My children,” concluded this venerable person, “do nothing rashly. Cry not aloud, but pray for the welfare of New England, and expect patiently what the Lord will do in this matter!”
The event was soon to be decided49. All this time, the roll of the drum had been approaching through Cornhill, louder and deeper, till with reverberations from house to house, and the regular tramp of martial footsteps, it burst into the street. A double rank of soldiers made their appearance, occupying the whole breadth of the passage, with shouldered matchlocks, and matches burning, so as to present a row of fires in the dusk. Their steady march was like the progress of a machine, that would roll irresistibly50 over everything in its way. Next, moving slowly, with a confused clatter51 of hoofs52 on the pavement, rode a party of mounted gentlemen, the central figure being Sir Edmund Andros, elderly, but erect53 and soldier-like. Those around him were his favorite councillors, and the bitterest foes54 of New England. At his right hand rode Edward Randolph, our arch-enemy, that “blasted wretch,” as Cotton Mather calls him, who achieved the downfall of our ancient government, and was followed with a sensible curse, through life and to his grave. On the other side was Bullivant, scattering56 jests and mockery as he rode along. Dudley came behind, with a downcast look, dreading57, as well he might, to meet the indignant gaze of the people, who beheld58 him, their only countryman by birth, among the oppressors of his native land. The captain of a frigate59 in the harbor, and two or three civil officers under the Crown, were also there. But the figure which most attracted the public eye, and stirred up the deepest feeling, was the Episcopal clergyman of King’s Chapel60, riding haughtily61 among the magistrates62 in his priestly vestments, the fitting representatives of prelacy and persecution63, the union of church and state, and all those abominations which had driven the Puritans to the wilderness. Another guard of soldiers, in double rank, brought up the rear.
The whole scene was a picture of the condition of New England, and its moral, the deformity of any government that does not grow out of the nature of things and the character of the people. On one side the religious multitude, with their sad visages and dark attire64, and on the other, the group of despotic rulers, with the high churchman in the midst, and here and there a crucifix at their bosoms65, all magnificently clad, flushed with wine, proud of unjust authority, and scoffing66 at the universal groan1. And the mercenary soldiers, waiting but the word to deluge67 the street with blood, showed the only means by which obedience68 could be secured.
“O Lord of Hosts,” cried a voice among the crowd, “provide a Champion for thy people!”
This ejaculation was loudly uttered, and served as a herald’s cry, to introduce a remarkable69 personage. The crowd had rolled back, and were now huddled70 together nearly at the extremity71 of the street, while the soldiers had advanced no more than a third of its length. The intervening space was empty — a paved solitude72, between lofty edifices73, which threw almost a twilight74 shadow over it. Suddenly, there was seen the figure of an ancient man, who seemed to have emerged from among the people, and was walking by himself along the centre of the street, to confront the armed band. He wore the old Puritan dress, a dark cloak and a steeplecrowned hat, in the fashion of at least fifty years before, with a heavy sword upon his thigh75, but a staff in his hand to assist the tremulous gait of age.
When at some distance from the multitude, the old man turned slowly round, displaying a face of antique majesty76, rendered doubly venerable by the hoary77 beard that descended78 on his breast. He made a gesture at once of encouragement and warning, then turned again, and resumed his way.
“Who is this gray patriarch?” asked the young men of their sires.
“Who is this venerable brother?” asked the old men among themselves.
But none could make reply. The fathers of the people, those of fourscore years and upwards, were disturbed, deeming it strange that they should forget one of such evident authority, whom they must have known in their early days, the associate of Winthrop, and all the old councillors, giving laws, and making prayers, and leading them against the savage79. The elderly men ought to have remembered him, too, with locks as gray in their youth, as their own were now. And the young! How could he have passed so utterly80 from their memories — that hoary sire, the relic81 of longdeparted times, whose awful benediction82 had surely been bestowed83 on their uncovered heads, in childhood?
“Whence did he come? What is his purpose? Who can this old man be?” whispered the wondering crowd.
Meanwhile, the venerable stranger, staff in hand, was pursuing his solitary84 walk along the centre of the street. As he drew near the advancing soldiers, and as the roll of their drum came full upon his ears, the old man raised himself to a loftier mien, while the decrepitude85 of age seemed to fall from his shoulders, leaving him in gray but unbroken dignity. Now, he marched onward86 with a warrior87’s step, keeping time to the military music. Thus the aged form advanced on one side, and the whole parade of soldiers and magistrates on the other, till, when scarcely twenty yards remained between, the old man grasped his staff by the middle, and held it before him like a leader’s truncheon.
“Stand!” cried he.
The eye, the face, and attitude of command; the solemn, yet warlike peal88 of that voice, fit either to rule a host in the battle-field or be raised to God in prayer, were irresistible89. At the old man’s word and outstretched arm, the roll of the drum was hushed at once, and the advancing line stood still. A tremulous enthusiasm seized upon the multitude. That stately form, combining the leader and the saint, so gray, so dimly seen, in such an ancient garb, could only belong to some old champion of the righteous cause, whom the oppressor’s drum had summoned from his grave. They raised a shout of awe11 and exultation90, and looked for the deliverance of New England.
The Governor, and the gentlemen of his party, perceiving themselves brought to an unexpected stand, rode hastily forward, as if they would have pressed their snorting and affrighted horses right against the hoary apparition91. He, however, blenched92 not a step, but glancing his severe eye round the group, which half encompassed93 him, at last bent94 it sternly on Sir Edmund Andros. One would have thought that the dark old man was chief ruler there, and that the Governor and Council, with soldiers at their back, representing the whole power and authority of the Crown, had no alternative but obedience.
“What does this old fellow here?” cried Edward Randolph, fiercely. “On, Sir Edmund! Bid the soldiers forward, and give the dotard the same choice that you give all his countrymen — to stand aside or be trampled95 on!”
“Nay96, nay, let us show respect to the good grandsire,” said Bullivant, laughing. “See you not, he is some old round-headed dignitary, who hath lain asleep these thirty years, and knows nothing o’ the change of times? Doubtless, he thinks to put us down with a proclamation in Old Noll’s name!”
“Are you mad, old man?” demanded Sir Edmund Andros, in loud and harsh tones. “How dare you stay the march of King James’s Governor?”
“I have stayed the march of a King himself, ere now,” replied the gray figure, with stern composure. “I am here, Sir Governor, because the cry of an oppressed people hath disturbed me in my secret place; and beseeching97 this favor earnestly of the Lord, it was vouchsafed98 me to appear once again on earth, in the good old cause of his saints. And what speak ye of James? There is no longer a Popish tyrant99 on the throne of England, and by to-morrow noon, his name shall be a byword in this very street, where ye would make it a word of terror. Back, thou wast a Governor, back! With this night thy power is ended — to-morrow, the prison! — back, lest I foretell100 the scaffold!”
The people had been drawing nearer and nearer, and drinking in the words of their champion, who spoke101 in accents long disused, like one unaccustomed to converse102, except with the dead of many years ago. But his voice stirred their souls. They confronted the soldiers, not wholly without arms, and ready to convert the very stones of the street into deadly weapons. Sir Edmund Andros looked at the old man; then he cast his hard and cruel eye over the multitude, and beheld them burning with that lurid103 wrath104, so difficult to kindle105 or to quench106; and again he fixed107 his gaze on the aged form, which stood obscurely in an open space, where neither friend nor foe55 had thrust himself. What were his thoughts, he uttered no word which might discover. But whether the oppressor were overawed by the Gray Champion’s look, or perceived his peril in the threatening attitude of the people, it is certain that he gave back, and ordered his soldiers to commence a slow and guarded retreat. Before another sunset, the Governor, and all that rode so proudly with him, were prisoners, and long ere it was known that James had abdicated108, King William was proclaimed throughout New England.
But where was the Gray Champion? Some reported that, when the troops had gone from King Street, and the people were thronging109 tumultuously in their rear, Bradstreet, the aged Governor, was seen to embrace a form more aged than his own. Others soberly affirmed, that while they marvelled110 at the venerable grandeur111 of his aspect, the old man had faded from their eyes, melting slowly into the hues112 of twilight, till, where he stood, there was an empty space. But all agreed that the hoary shape was gone. The men of that generation watched for his reappearance, in sunshine and in twilight, but never saw him more, nor knew when his funeral passed, nor where his gravestone was.
And who was the Gray Champion? Perhaps his name might be found in the records of that stern Court of Justice, which passed a sentence, too mighty113 for the age, but glorious in all after-times, for its humbling114 lesson to the monarch and its high example to the subject. I have heard, that whenever the descendants of the Puritans are to show the spirit of their sires, the old man appears again. When eighty years had passed, he walked once more in King Street. Five years later, in the twilight of an April morning, he stood on the green, beside the meeting-house, at Lexington, where now the obelisk115 of granite116, with a slab117 of slate118 inlaid, commemorates119 the first fallen of the Revolutions. And when our fathers were toiling120 at the breastwork on Bunker’s Hill, all through that night the old warrior walked his rounds. Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. But should domestic tyranny oppress us, or the invader’s step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Champion come, for he is the type of New England’s hereditary121 spirit; and his shadowy march, on the eve of danger, must ever be the pledge, that New England’s sons will vindicate122 their ancestry123.
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