Note 724 — Chapter V

Bancroft, ii. pp. 161, 162, ed. 1856, views the Culpepper rebellion as an outgrowth of the spirit of freedom, not mere lawlessness. See documents in Hawks’ North Carolina, ii. pp. 374-377; also the “Answer of the Lords Proprietors,” p. 38 of North Carolina under the Proprietary Government, pamphlet, 1884. Compare this self-excusatory answer with the manly “remonstrance of the inhabitants of Pasquotank,” who wanted, first of all, “a free Parliament.” This manifesto has been ridiculed by Chalmers and Hawks; Wheeler appears to have the right conception of it.