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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Tree That Saved Connecticut + +Author: Henry Fisk Carlton + +Editor: Claire T. Zyve + +Release Date: April 6, 2009 [EBook #28511] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TREE THAT SAVED CONNECTICUT *** + + + + +Produced by Colin Bell, Joseph Cooper, Diane Monico, and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<p class="title"><i>DRAMATIC HOURS IN COLONIAL HISTORY</i></p> +<hr style="width: 33%;" /> + +<h1> +The Tree<br /> +That Saved Connecticut<br /></h1> + +<p class="title"><small>BY</small><br /> +<br /> +<big>HENRY FISK CARLTON</big><br /> + +<br /><br /> +<i>Edited by</i> CLAIRE T. ZYVE, <span class="smcap">Ph.D.<br /></span> +Fox Meadow School, Scarsdale, New York<br /> +<br /></p> +<hr style="width: 33%;" /> +<p class="title"><small>BUREAU OF PUBLICATIONS<br /> +TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY<br /> +NEW YORK CITY<br /></small> +</p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3><i>HOW TO BE A GOOD RADIO ACTOR</i></h3> + + +<p>The play in this book has actually been produced on the radio. Possibly +you have listened to this one when you tuned in at home. The +persons whose voices you heard as you listened, looked just as they did +when they left their homes to go to the studio, although they were +taking the parts of men and women who lived long ago and who wore +costumes very different from the ones we wear today.</p> + +<p>The persons whose voices you heard stood close together around the +microphone, each one reading from a copy of the play in his hand. +Since they could not be seen, they did not act parts as in other plays, +but tried to make their voices show how they felt.</p> + +<p>When you give these plays you will not need costumes and you will +not need scenery, although you can easily arrange a broadcasting studio +if you wish. You will not need to memorize your parts; in fact, it +will not be like a real radio broadcast if you do so, and, furthermore, +you will not want to, since you will each have a copy of the book in +your hands. All you will need to do is to remember that you are taking +the part of a radio actor, that you are to read your speeches very distinctly, +and that by your voice, you will make your audience understand +how you feel. In this way, you will have the fun of living +through some of the great moments of history.</p> + + +<h3><i>HOW TO FOLLOW DIRECTIONS IN THE PLAY</i></h3> + +<p>There are some directions in this play which may be new to you, but +these are necessary, for you are now in a radio broadcasting studio, +talking in front of a microphone. The word [<i>in</i>] means that the +character is standing close to the microphone, while [<i>off</i>] indicates that +he is farther away, so that his voice sounds faint. When the directions +[<i>off, coming in</i>] are given, the person speaking is away from the microphone +at first but gradually comes closer. The words [<i>mob</i>] or [<i>crowd +noise</i>] you will understand mean the sound of many people talking in +the distance.</p> + +<p>Both the English and the dialect used help make the characters live, +so the speeches have been written in the way in which these men and +women would talk. This means that sometimes the character may use +what seems to you unusual English. The punctuation helps, too, to +make the speeches sound like real conversation; for example, you will +find that a dash is often used to show that a character is talking very +excitedly.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> +<h2><big>The Tree</big><br /> +<big>That Saved Connecticut</big></h2> + + +<h3><i>CAST</i></h3> + +<p class="center"> +GOVERNOR TREAT<br /> +LIEUTENANT ALLYN<br /> +GOVERNOR ANDROS<br /> +CAPTAIN WADSWORTH<br /> +COLONEL BLIGH<br /> +THE SEXTON<br /> +CHARLES WILLYS<br /> +VOICE<br /><br /> +</p> + + +<h3>ANNOUNCER</h3> + +<p>In the year 1661 Connecticut received from the hand of +Charles the Second a very liberal charter granting to the +people of the colony almost complete self-government +and to the colony an enormous stretch of territory extending +westward to the Pacific Ocean. For fifteen years the +colony prospered under the generous charter. Then in +1676 trouble arose with the Governor of New York, Sir +Edmund Andros, about the boundary line between the +two colonies. Andros demanded authority over all the +land west of the Connecticut River. Governor Treat of +Connecticut refused to submit. Andros threatened to +seize the disputed land. Treat defied him. Andros fitted +out three ships, embarked a military force, and set out for +Saybrooke, Connecticut. Treat ordered out the militia, +garrisoned the fort at Saybrooke, and waited.</p> + +<p>Our first scene is in the fort on the morning of July 9, +1676. The Governor is at breakfast when he hears<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span>—</p> + +<p class="center">VOICE [<i>distance</i>]</p> + +<p>Sail, ho!</p> + +<p class="center">ALL [<i>closer</i>]</p> + +<p>Sail, ho! Here they come; call the governor [<i>etc.</i>]</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN [<i>coming in</i>]</p> + +<p>Governor! Governor! The ships are coming into the +harbor!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Are you certain they are the ships of Governor Andros?</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Come and see for yourself, Governor.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Come along, then. Lieutenant Allyn, how many ships did +you see? [<i>crowd noises swell up</i>]</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Only one, sir. I didn't wait for any more.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Ah, here we are! Give me your hand while I climb to the +ramparts.</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Yes, sir! Ah! There you are, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Good!</p> + +<p class="center">ALL [<i>in</i>]</p> + +<p>There's three of 'em, Governor! +That's Andros, sir. No doubt o' that!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Yes, yes, three! Andros's ships! That's certain! [<i>calling</i>] +Every man to his place! Load your muskets and prepare +for action! Andros shall not land!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">ALL</p> + +<p>Aye! We'll stop him! Just let him try it!</p> + +<p>Here, give me your ramrod. Have you got an extra flint? +[<i>etc.</i>]</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Lieutenant Allyn.</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Yes, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Load the cannon!</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>It is loaded, sir.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Fire across the bow of the forward ship! Make them come +to!</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Yes, sir! [<i>calling</i>] Throw the cannon across the bow of +the forward ship!</p> + +<p class="center">VOICE</p> + +<p>Yes, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Fire! [<i>a cannon shot</i>]</p> + +<p class="center">ALL</p> + +<p>Oh! Look at it!</p> + +<p>Yea! Good shot!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Excellent! That will show Andros our temper!</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>The ship is coming about, sir!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>So I see! They may be going to answer our shot with a +broadside! [<i>calling</i>] Down! Every man down behind +the ramparts!</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Down! Down! Every man down!</p> + +<p class="center">VOICE [<i>distant</i>]</p> + +<p>Ahoy, the fort!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Oh! Hailing us! Well, let them hail!</p> + +<p class="center">VOICE</p> + +<p>Ahoy, the fort!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Can you see who it is, Lieutenant?</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>No, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">VOICE</p> + +<p>I say there! Ahoy, the fort! Is there anyone there? +Answer or we'll open fire on you!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Hail them, Lieutenant.</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN [<i>calling</i>]</p> + +<p>Hello there, what do you want?</p> + +<p class="center">VOICE</p> + +<p>Is the Governor of Connecticut Colony in the fort?</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN [<i>low</i>]</p> + +<p>What shall I tell him?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Tell him I'm here.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN [<i>loud</i>]</p> + +<p>Yes, the Governor is here!</p> + +<p class="center">VOICE</p> + +<p>Governor Andros sends his compliments—</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT [<i>under his breath</i>]</p> + +<p>Compliments, indeed!</p> + +<p class="center">VOICE</p> + +<p>And requests Governor Treat to come aboard for a parley.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Never! Tell him if Andros has anything to say let him +come here, alone and unarmed, and say it!</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Yes, sir! [<i>loud</i>] Governor Treat's compliments. He requests +Governor Andros to come ashore for a parley.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Alone and unarmed.</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN [<i>loud</i>]</p> + +<p>If he means no harm, let him come alone and unarmed.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>He'll never come!</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>They're letting a small boat down, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Indeed! Who is in it?</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>A sailor and another—</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Andros?<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>It may be, I don't know him. They're pulling away from +the side now.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>If that is really Andros, he's a brave man.</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Aye, sir, he is that. Will you go down to meet him?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Indeed I will, if he has the courage to come ashore without +a guard! I can do no less than meet him at the shore. +Come along, Lieutenant. [<i>calling</i>] Stand by, men, ready +for action at any moment! Lieutenant Allyn and I are +going out to meet the Governor!</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Through this portal, sir! I've unlocked it.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Thank you.</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>The boat is just beaching, sir.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Good! And here he comes.</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Alone!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Have I the honor of greeting Governor Andros?</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS [<i>coming in, storming angrily</i>]</p> + +<p>What is the meaning of this, sir? What is the meaning of +this?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>I beg your pardon?<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>This—this show of force? What is the meaning of it, I +say?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Sir! This force is here to maintain the rights of this colony +against the illegal aggression of New York!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Where is your Governor?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Here!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Well, Governor, I'll have you know that I have come here +in the legal performance of my duties to take command +of land legally and lawfully a part of the possessions of +His Grace, the Duke of York.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>I have already informed you, sir, that you shall not have it!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Is this rebellion?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>It is not, I assure you. But we will hold this land which is +ours by right of grant from His Majesty, Charles the Second.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>My commission as Governor of this territory comes directly +from His Grace, the Duke of York.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>His Grace has no jurisdiction here.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Here, sir, are my orders. [<i>rattle of paper</i>]<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>And here, sir, is a true copy of our charter. [<i>rattle of +paper</i>]</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>My orders supersede your charter.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Our charter is a royal grant, and cannot be superseded except +for cause by due process of law.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>I shall take possession under my orders. You can appeal +to the Privy Council for redress.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>You can take possession only after every man in this fort +is dead!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Do you still insist on this ridiculous show of force?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>I do! If you make a move to land your troops, we will +open fire!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Very well. I shall report to His Grace that I was prevented +from obeying his command by an unwarranted and illegal +show of force!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>And we shall report to His Majesty that we defended our +rights under our royal charter.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Confound your charter! I'll see to it that you lose it! +Good day, sir.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Good day!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p> + + +<h3>ANNOUNCER</h3> + +<p>So Governor Andros took his departure without gaining +possession of the territory he claimed. For the next ten +years Connecticut continued in undisputed possession of +her charter, and then on December 19, 1686, Andros was +appointed Governor of all New England. News of this +appointment reached Connecticut several months later.</p> + +<p>Our next scene is at the State House in Hartford. It is +June of 1687. The General Court of the Connecticut +Colony is in session. As our scene opens, Governor Treat +is addressing the Assembly.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Gentlemen! I have called you here to consider a matter +of grave importance to the life of this colony. As you +know, His Majesty has seen fit to deprive us of our rights +under our charter and has appointed a Governor who is +to have supreme power over this colony and all of New +England.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Your Excellency—</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Yes, Captain Wadsworth?</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Let us not submit! Let us appeal to the Privy Council! +We have our rights under the charter.</p> + +<p class="center">ALL</p> + +<p>Yes, yes! Let us not submit!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>It is useless, gentlemen. When we are ordered to submit, +we must submit or be in rebellion.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>When may we expect the order?<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>I was informed this very morning that an officer of Governor +Andros was on his way here to take over the government +of the colony, and we might expect him this very +day.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Then what can we do, sir?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>We can submit—indeed we must submit to the rule of +Governor Andros, but, gentlemen, we must not relinquish +our charter!</p> + +<p class="center">ALL</p> + +<p>No, no! We must save our charter. [<i>etc.</i>]</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>But how can we save it? If I am ordered to give it up, +what can I do? I have it here. It is in my possession. How +can I hold it against an order to relinquish it?</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Your Excellency, if it is not in your possession, you cannot +give it up.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>But it is, Captain Wadsworth.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Then, sir, I move you that this Assembly forthwith take it +out of your possession and intrust it to a committee for +safe-keeping.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Yes, that is possible.</p> + +<p class="center">VOICE</p> + +<p>Second!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>You have heard the proposal. Those favoring—</p> + +<p class="center">ALL</p> + +<p>Aye!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Opposed—it is a vote. Will someone propose the committee?</p> + +<p class="center">VOICE</p> + +<p>Your Excellency, I propose Captain Wadsworth, Charles +Willys, and John Talcott.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>But Talcott is not here.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>All the better, sir, since we cannot give up the charter except +upon unanimous consent of the committee.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>A very good arrangement. Is there a second to the nomination +for the Charter Committee?</p> + +<p class="center">VOICE</p> + +<p>Second! [<i>loud knock</i>]</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Don't open until we have had the vote! All favoring—</p> + +<p class="center">ALL</p> + +<p>Aye! [<i>knocking</i>]</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH [<i>outside</i>]</p> + +<p>Open, in the name of the King!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Opposed? Carried!</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH [<i>insistent knocking</i>]</p> + +<p>Open, open, I say! Open in the name of the King.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">TREAT [<i>over the noise</i>]</p> + +<p>Captain Wadsworth, I deliver this charter into your hands +for safe-keeping.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>We shall keep it, sir. Never fear!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT [<i>calling</i>]</p> + +<p>Doorkeeper, open the door!</p> + +<p class="center">VOICE</p> + +<p>Yes, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH [<i>coming in</i>]</p> + +<p>What is the meaning of this, sir? Why was I locked out?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Your pardon, sir. But what authority have you, sir, to +break into the Assembly of the General Court of Connecticut?</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>I have come to take over the government of this colony +under the authority of Governor Andros.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Indeed, and who are you, if we may be permitted to +know?</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Ah, of course—I have the honor to be Samuel Bligh, +Colonel in His Majesty's service. Are you Robert Treat?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>I am.</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Here are your orders! [<i>rattle of paper</i>]<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Thank you. "Hereby ordered"—yes—yes—"in compliance +with mandate of His Majesty"—yes, indeed. +Colonel Bligh, we are ready to turn the government over +to Governor Andros.</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Then, sir, you will deliver up the charter to me.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>What?</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>The charter! The charter—read the rest of the order, +sir.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT [<i>reading</i>]</p> + +<p>"Governor Treat is hereby ordered to deliver up the forfeited +charter"—but, Colonel Bligh, I cannot deliver up +the charter—</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Why not?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Because, sir, it is not in my possession.</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>In whose possession is it?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>It has been intrusted by the General Court to a special +committee.</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Indeed—and who comprises the committee?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>The clerk will read the names of the committee.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>May it please you, sir, the committee consists of Captain +Wadsworth, Charles Willys, and John Talcott.</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Are any of those named here?</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Yes, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Your name, sir?</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Captain Wadsworth.</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Captain Wadsworth, I order you to deliver up the charter +to me.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Oh, yes, and have you an order for it there?</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Indeed I have. Governor Treat has just read it.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>May I be allowed to see it?</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Of course. Governor Treat, will you let this gentleman +read the order and be satisfied.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH [<i>rattle of paper</i>]</p> + +<p>Hm, yes.—"Governor Treat—hereby ordered"—but, +Colonel, this is an order upon Governor Treat!</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Of course it is! Now are you satisfied?</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>I am deeply sorry, sir, I do not see how the committee can +comply with this order.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Why not, pray—is it not properly signed and sealed?</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Oh yes. Signed properly, but it is drawn against the Governor—and +not against the Charter Committee.</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Why—what—oh, this is too much! Governor Andros +warned me that you would be stubborn and stiff-necked! +But I'll have that charter! Here—I'll change that order—give +it here!</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Here you are, sir. [<i>rattle of paper</i>]</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Hm—yes—a quill. So—now—"The Charter Committee—is +hereby ordered"—there you are. Now I +hope you are satisfied.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Are you satisfied with this, Governor?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Hm—does this not seem to be a forgery, Captain Wadsworth?</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>It not only seems to be, sir, but it is. I saw him make an +illegal change in the order. All of us saw it.</p> + +<p class="center">ALL</p> + +<p>Yes, yes! We saw him.</p> + +<p>It is a forgery! Don't obey it!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>I should say that the change invalidated the entire order!</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>What? You are trying to put me in the wrong?<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Not at all, sir! You have put yourself in the wrong.</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>But—but—you forced me to make that change in the +order.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>I believe, Colonel, we merely pointed out that your order +was inadequate; we did not force you to commit forgery.</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Oh, this is a trick! This is a trick! I demand the immediate +surrender of the government and the charter!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>What is the will of the Assembly? Can we deliver up the +government under an order which is obviously forged?</p> + +<p class="center">ALL</p> + +<p>No, no! No indeed!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>The vote is against you, Colonel.</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Andros will come himself and attend to this affair. I wash +my hands of it! He'll make you pay for this day's work—and +he'll get the charter! Good day!</p> + +<p class="center">ALL</p> + +<p>Good day!</p> + + +<h3>ANNOUNCER</h3> + +<p>Andros did come, as Colonel Bligh had threatened, but not +for several months. But when he came, he came in state, +with a company of soldiers, two trumpeters, and Colonel +Bligh. He intended this time to get the charter, and no +mistake!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p> + +<p>Governor Treat called the General Court to assemble on +the evening of October 31, 1687, to confer with Governor +Andros and make one last determined stand to retain the +charter even if there was no way to retain their rights +under the charter.</p> + +<p>Our next scene is at the State House in Hartford. It is +evening. The sexton is preparing the room for the meeting +which is about to take place.</p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON [<i>to himself</i>]</p> + +<p>Now these candles, where'd I best put 'em. I cal'ate +mebbe I'd better scatter 'em around the room—</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH [<i>coming in</i>]</p> + +<p>Good even to you, Nathan.</p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>Even, Captain Wadsworth. Even, Master Allyn.</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Good even, Nathan.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>These candles, Nathan.</p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>Yes, sir! I was jest a puttin' 'em around where everybody'd +git a little light.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>I think perhaps you'd best put them all on the Governor's +table.</p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>The Governor's table. Yes, sir! So—one here—and +one—</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>No, no, Nathan. Put them all together at this end of the +table.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>This end by the window?</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>I think that will be best, don't you, Captain?</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Of course! The Governor needs a great deal of light.</p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>But, sir, the draft from the window—it may blow them +out.</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Well, well, if it does, Nathan, we'll just have to light them +all again.</p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>Yes, sir! Of course, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH [<i>low</i>]</p> + +<p>Now Allyn, seeing you are the clerk of the General Court, +you can sit at the Governor's table without exciting suspicion.</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Yes, Captain!</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Best put your chair next the window.</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Have you the charter?</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Yes, I have it with me, and when Andros demands it I shall +have to produce it.</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Andros must not be allowed to get his hand on it.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>That will be your duty.</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Yes?</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Willys will be waiting outside that window, next your +chair. When the candles go out, grab the charter and toss +it out the window. He'll put it in a safe place.</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Where?</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>You know the oak in front of his house?</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Indeed yes!</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>There is a hollow—high up—</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Good!</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH [<i>louder</i>]</p> + +<p>Nathan!</p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>Yes, Captain!</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>A good fire you have in the fireplace.</p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>I figgered to have a good fire—it's a mite chilly this +evenin'.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>It may get overly warm in here before the meeting is over.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>Aye.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>I want you to stand close to that window behind John +Allyn's chair.</p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>Yes, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Don't leave it. And the moment I say, "Sexton, it's warm +in here," throw open the window. You understand?</p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>"Sexton, it's warm in here," throw it open. Yes, sir, I +understand.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Never mind what anyone else says. Throw it open on my +signal and throw it wide open.</p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>But the candles, sir—they may go out. They're right +close to the window.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Never mind the candles.</p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>Never mind them—yes, sir! [<i>trumpets sound outside</i>]</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Here comes Andros. Throw open the door.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Never mind, Nathan. I'll do it. You stay by that window.</p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>The window. Yes, sir!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Enter, Governor Andros.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Thank you. Governor Treat—I now call you that for +the last time—will you show me to my place?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Of course, sir. Captain Wadsworth, will you usher us to +our places?</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Right this way, Governor. We have arranged this place +for you.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Thank you. Do we need all the candles here?</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>For you and the clerk. [<i>noise and confusion of members +entering</i>]</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Yes, yes! Of course! Treat, will you sit at my left?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Thank you, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Will you call the Assembly to order?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Gentlemen, will you take your places. [<i>sound of gavel</i>] +The Assembly will please come to order! [<i>quiet</i>] In accordance +with the command of His Majesty we are met +here to surrender the government of the Connecticut Colony +to the Royal Governor, Sir Edmund Andros. On behalf +of this Assembly, I have the honor, sir, to welcome +you and assure you of our submission to His Majesty's +command. We have ever been a loyal and a law-abiding<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> +people. We surrender the prerogatives of government under +our charter with regret; but His Majesty commands, +and we, his loyal subjects, have nought to do but obey. +We are, sir, yours to command.</p> + +<p class="center">ALL [<i>cheers</i>]</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Thank you, Master Treat. I am agreeably pleased at the +expression of obedience. In the name of His Majesty I +hereby take command of the colony of Connecticut and +order it joined to the colony of Massachusetts Bay, of +which you shall henceforth be a part. And now, you +have only to surrender the charter to me to complete the +ceremony of submission to the order of His Majesty.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>But, sir, we have signified our submission. The surrender +of the charter is quite another thing.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>How so?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>It was granted in perpetuity, to be forfeited only through +due process of law.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Have you not been informed, sir, that a writ of quo warranto +issued in the proper courts of England was tried and +went by default last February?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Last February? Indeed, sir! We had no knowledge that +any action was brought against it. Who was the complainant?</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>I was!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>You, sir?</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Indeed, you seem to have forgotten an occasion when I +promised you I'd get your charter.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>No, sir! Unfortunately I still remember it!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>I have here the original court order, declaring your charter +forfeit, and I shall now trouble your Charter Committee +to produce the original document.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>One moment, sir. Has not every Englishman a right to +defend his case before a court of law?</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Of course—you had such a chance and failed to appear.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>We had no notice of the action.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>That's not my fault.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>The court is in error, and we shall appeal.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Appeal all you like; but produce the charter.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>We do so under protest.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Ah, very well. I care not how much you protest. Once +I get the charter, I can assure you, you'll never see it again.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>But, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Produce the charter.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Captain Wadsworth, place the charter on the table.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Here it is, sir.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Ah—at last!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>One moment, sir.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>What now?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Will you first sign the receipt for the charter, so that the +committee may be protected?</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Why, certainly, if you wish. It's no matter; but I'll do it. +Give me your quill, clerk.</p> + +<p class="center">ALLYN</p> + +<p>Here you are, sir—and paper.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Yes. Hm—"received—charter—signed"—there—</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Sexton, it's warm in here!</p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>Yes, sir! [<i>noise of window</i>]</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Hey, the lights! Quick, what's happened? Lights! Lights!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">ALL</p> + +<p>The candles have all blown out!</p> + +<p>Put down the window!</p> + +<p>What's the matter—[<i>etc.</i>] [<i>exclamations continue +through the scene</i>]</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Put that window down! What are you trying to do?</p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>Why, sir, it was warm.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Put it down, I say! Light those candles! What foolishness +is this? Light those candles, I say! Do you hear me?</p> + +<p class="center">SEXTON</p> + +<p>Yes, sir, at once, sir! [<i>noise of window going down</i>]</p> + +<p>Here, sir, I'll light the candles. I'm right sorry, sir. Now, +where did I put my flint? Ah, here it is. There you are, +sir. I'm right sorry I put you out, sir. I didn't think—</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Fool! Now, Treat, hand me the charter.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>The charter—why, sir—you had it.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Had it? What are you talking about?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Why, sir! I saw you put your hand on it the moment the +lights went out.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Indeed I did not. Give it here!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>But, sir<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span>—</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Hey—you—Captain—</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Sir!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Wadsworth, give me the charter!</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>But, sir, I gave it to you.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>You did not!</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>But I have here your receipt for it!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Give me back that receipt!</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>I shall certainly do nothing of the kind, sir. I gave you +the charter; you gave me this receipt for it. I have here +twenty witnesses to the transaction!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>I'm being tricked! I say I will have that charter. It's +somewhere here, and I'll have it. [<i>calling</i>] Colonel Bligh!</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH [<i>distance</i>]</p> + +<p>Yes, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Surround this place with your soldiers. Don't let a single +man leave until he has been searched!</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Sir, this is illegal! You have no search warrants!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Indeed! I'll do it whether it's legal or not. I'll have that +charter, I tell you, if I have to search every spot in this +town! I'll have it, I say I'll have it.</p> + + +<h3>ANNOUNCER</h3> + +<p>And so the great search began. All that night and into +the next day the Governor, the Colonel, and their soldiers +searched high and low for the missing charter. At last +they came to the house of Charles Willys, in front of +which stood the great oak in which the charter lay safely +hidden.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Who lives here?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>This is the home of Charles Willys!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Indeed! One of the Charter Committee, eh?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Yes, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Good! Search this place inside and out, Colonel. Don't +leave a thing unturned.</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Very good, sir! Search this place, Captain—thoroughly. +Tear up the floors, dig up the garden, rip the upholstery +off the furniture, but find that charter!</p> + +<p class="center">VOICE</p> + +<p>Yes, sir. Follow me!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Bring out the master of the house. The rest of you back +up against this tree and don't move!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Sir, I protest again—</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Protest all you like. It will do you no good until you produce +that charter.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>I don't know where it is. You had it, that's all I know. +If you lost it, it is not our fault.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Silence!</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH [<i>a little distance</i>]</p> + +<p>Here's the master of the house, sir.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Ah, indeed! Are you Master Willys?</p> + +<p class="center">WILLYS</p> + +<p>I am.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Where is the charter?</p> + +<p class="center">WILLYS</p> + +<p>Your pardon, sir, but how should I know?</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>You were a member of the Charter Committee, were you +not?</p> + +<p class="center">WILLYS</p> + +<p>I was!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Then where is it?</p> + +<p class="center">WILLYS</p> + +<p>I am informed that the charter—</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Yes?<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">WILLYS</p> + +<p>Was placed—</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Yes—yes—</p> + +<p class="center">WILLYS</p> + +<p>In your hands!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Sir! If you don't tell me where that charter is—</p> + +<p class="center">WILLYS</p> + +<p>What then, sir?</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Do you see this oak tree?</p> + +<p class="center">WILLYS</p> + +<p>I'm not blind, sir.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>I'll have you strung up—strung up in it, sir; I'll have you +strung up in it!</p> + +<p class="center">WILLYS</p> + +<p>I should hate to have such a fine tree perverted to such a +purpose, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Ah! You would! Colonel Bligh! Colonel!</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH [<i>distance</i>]</p> + +<p>Yes, Governor!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Send me half a dozen soldiers and a stout rope!</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Yes, sir!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Ah! Now perhaps we'll get something from you. Will +you tell me or will you be hanged by your thumbs from +that stout limb up there until you are ready to tell me +where the charter is?</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Governor Andros, I fear you have forgotten yourself in +your rage. Master Willys is entitled to a trial before any +such punishment can be meted out to him.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Silence, or I'll have you strung up with him! Gad, sir, +I'll fill this oak tree with stiff-necked rebellious Connecticut +men, but I'll have that charter!</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Here are your men, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Good! One of you climb that oak tree. Here, you, Sergeant.</p> + +<p class="center">VOICE</p> + +<p>Yes, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Give him a hand there. [<i>sound of starting to climb the +tree</i>] Have the men found anything in the house, Colonel?</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Not a thing, sir!</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Look here, sir.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Ah, Captain Wadsworth. Have you something to say?</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>I have, sir.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Speak out.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Tell those men to stay out of that tree and I'll tell you.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>All right, Sergeant, come down. I thought we'd get something +out of them if we scared them. Well, Captain?</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Sir, you have lost the charter; that is clear.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Where is it?</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Just a minute. You have lost it. You also have given us +your receipt for it; therefore you should have it.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>And I intend to have it.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>You can't. I can assure you of that, but here is what I +propose. The committee is willing to turn over the receipt +to you if you will stop this foolish and destructive search +for something you can't find.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Never! Sergeant, go up that tree again. We'll string +these fellows up.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Ah, very well, then. But, sir, you'll look very foolish +when you report to the Privy Council that you did not get +the charter, and we produce your signed receipt!</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>What?—Hm<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span>—</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Yes, indeed, Governor. How will you explain that to the +King?</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>What? Why! Ah—very well then, give me the receipt +and I'll leave. After all, your charter will do you no good. +It's revoked.</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT</p> + +<p>Exactly! That's a very sensible view to take, Governor +Andros. I congratulate you.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Here is the receipt, sir.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Humph!</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>You're very welcome, sir.</p> + +<p class="center">ANDROS</p> + +<p>Colonel Bligh, draw up your guard and prepare to return +to Boston. [<i>orders and confusion</i>]</p> + +<p class="center">TREAT [<i>over the noise</i>]</p> + +<p>My congratulations, Captain Wadsworth. A good bargain.</p> + +<p class="center">WADSWORTH</p> + +<p>Indeed it was. Another foot up the tree, and the Sergeant +would have had the charter.</p> + +<p class="center">BLIGH</p> + +<p>Quick step, march!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p> + + +<h3>ANNOUNCER</h3> + +<p>By saving the charter Connecticut preserved her claim to +separate government, and in 1694 the King decided that +the charter was in full legal force. It served as the fundamental +order of Connecticut government down to the +Revolution and until 1818, when a new state constitution +superseded it.</p> + +<p>The oak in which the charter was so well hidden was called +from that time the "Charter Oak." It stood until August +21, 1856, when it fell. At sunset of that day the bells of +Hartford tolled, and mourning was displayed for the historic +old tree. And today interested tourists may see the +spot where the Charter Oak stood and see a piece of the old +tree in the State House.</p> + + + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Tree That Saved Connecticut, by +Henry Fisk Carlton + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TREE THAT SAVED CONNECTICUT *** + +***** This file should be named 28511-h.htm or 28511-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/5/1/28511/ + +Produced by Colin Bell, Joseph Cooper, Diane Monico, and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Tree That Saved Connecticut + +Author: Henry Fisk Carlton + +Editor: Claire T. Zyve + +Release Date: April 6, 2009 [EBook #28511] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TREE THAT SAVED CONNECTICUT *** + + + + +Produced by Colin Bell, Joseph Cooper, Diane Monico, and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +_DRAMATIC HOURS IN COLONIAL HISTORY_ + + +The Tree +That Saved Connecticut + +BY + +HENRY FISK CARLTON + + +_Edited by_ CLAIRE T. ZYVE, Ph.D. +Fox Meadow School, Scarsdale, New York + + +BUREAU OF PUBLICATIONS +TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY +NEW YORK CITY + + + + +_HOW TO BE A GOOD RADIO ACTOR_ + +The play in this book has actually been produced on the radio. Possibly +you have listened to this one when you tuned in at home. The persons +whose voices you heard as you listened, looked just as they did when +they left their homes to go to the studio, although they were taking +the parts of men and women who lived long ago and who wore costumes +very different from the ones we wear today. + +The persons whose voices you heard stood close together around the +microphone, each one reading from a copy of the play in his hand. Since +they could not be seen, they did not act parts as in other plays, but +tried to make their voices show how they felt. + +When you give these plays you will not need costumes and you will not +need scenery, although you can easily arrange a broadcasting studio if +you wish. You will not need to memorize your parts; in fact, it will +not be like a real radio broadcast if you do so, and, furthermore, you +will not want to, since you will each have a copy of the book in your +hands. All you will need to do is to remember that you are taking the +part of a radio actor, that you are to read your speeches very +distinctly, and that by your voice, you will make your audience +understand how you feel. In this way, you will have the fun of living +through some of the great moments of history. + + +_HOW TO FOLLOW DIRECTIONS IN THE PLAY_ + +There are some directions in this play which may be new to you, but +these are necessary, for you are now in a radio broadcasting studio, +talking in front of a microphone. The word [_in_] means that the +character is standing close to the microphone, while [_off_] indicates +that he is farther away, so that his voice sounds faint. When the +directions [_off, coming in_] are given, the person speaking is away +from the microphone at first but gradually comes closer. The words +[_mob_] or [_crowd noise_] you will understand mean the sound of many +people talking in the distance. + +Both the English and the dialect used help make the characters live, so +the speeches have been written in the way in which these men and women +would talk. This means that sometimes the character may use what seems +to you unusual English. The punctuation helps, too, to make the +speeches sound like real conversation; for example, you will find that +a dash is often used to show that a character is talking very +excitedly. + + + + +The Tree That Saved Connecticut + + +_CAST_ + +GOVERNOR TREAT +LIEUTENANT ALLYN +GOVERNOR ANDROS +CAPTAIN WADSWORTH +COLONEL BLIGH +THE SEXTON +CHARLES WILLYS +VOICE + + +ANNOUNCER + +In the year 1661 Connecticut received from the hand of Charles the +Second a very liberal charter granting to the people of the colony +almost complete self-government and to the colony an enormous stretch +of territory extending westward to the Pacific Ocean. For fifteen years +the colony prospered under the generous charter. Then in 1676 trouble +arose with the Governor of New York, Sir Edmund Andros, about the +boundary line between the two colonies. Andros demanded authority over +all the land west of the Connecticut River. Governor Treat of +Connecticut refused to submit. Andros threatened to seize the disputed +land. Treat defied him. Andros fitted out three ships, embarked a +military force, and set out for Saybrooke, Connecticut. Treat ordered +out the militia, garrisoned the fort at Saybrooke, and waited. + +Our first scene is in the fort on the morning of July 9, 1676. The +Governor is at breakfast when he hears-- + +VOICE [_distance_] + +Sail, ho! + +ALL [_closer_] + +Sail, ho! Here they come; call the governor [_etc._] + +ALLYN [_coming in_] + +Governor! Governor! The ships are coming into the harbor! + +TREAT + +Are you certain they are the ships of Governor Andros? + +ALLYN + +Come and see for yourself, Governor. + +TREAT + +Come along, then. Lieutenant Allyn, how many ships did you see? [_crowd +noises swell up_] + +ALLYN + +Only one, sir. I didn't wait for any more. + +TREAT + +Ah, here we are! Give me your hand while I climb to the ramparts. + +ALLYN + +Yes, sir! Ah! There you are, sir! + +TREAT + +Good! + +ALL [_in_] + +There's three of 'em, Governor! That's Andros, sir. No doubt o' that! + +TREAT + +Yes, yes, three! Andros's ships! That's certain! [_calling_] Every man +to his place! Load your muskets and prepare for action! Andros shall +not land! + +ALL + +Aye! We'll stop him! Just let him try it! + +Here, give me your ramrod. Have you got an extra flint? [_etc._] + +TREAT + +Lieutenant Allyn. + +ALLYN + +Yes, sir! + +TREAT + +Load the cannon! + +ALLYN + +It is loaded, sir. + +TREAT + +Fire across the bow of the forward ship! Make them come to! + +ALLYN + +Yes, sir! [_calling_] Throw the cannon across the bow of the forward +ship! + +VOICE + +Yes, sir! + +ALLYN + +Fire! [_a cannon shot_] + +ALL + +Oh! Look at it! + +Yea! Good shot! + +TREAT + +Excellent! That will show Andros our temper! + +ALLYN + +The ship is coming about, sir! + +TREAT + +So I see! They may be going to answer our shot with a broadside! +[_calling_] Down! Every man down behind the ramparts! + +ALLYN + +Down! Down! Every man down! + +VOICE [_distant_] + +Ahoy, the fort! + +TREAT + +Oh! Hailing us! Well, let them hail! + +VOICE + +Ahoy, the fort! + +TREAT + +Can you see who it is, Lieutenant? + +ALLYN + +No, sir! + +VOICE + +I say there! Ahoy, the fort! Is there anyone there? Answer or we'll +open fire on you! + +TREAT + +Hail them, Lieutenant. + +ALLYN [_calling_] + +Hello there, what do you want? + +VOICE + +Is the Governor of Connecticut Colony in the fort? + +ALLYN [_low_] + +What shall I tell him? + +TREAT + +Tell him I'm here. + +ALLYN [_loud_] + +Yes, the Governor is here! + +VOICE + +Governor Andros sends his compliments-- + +TREAT [_under his breath_] + +Compliments, indeed! + +VOICE + +And requests Governor Treat to come aboard for a parley. + +TREAT + +Never! Tell him if Andros has anything to say let him come here, alone +and unarmed, and say it! + +ALLYN + +Yes, sir! [_loud_] Governor Treat's compliments. He requests Governor +Andros to come ashore for a parley. + +TREAT + +Alone and unarmed. + +ALLYN [_loud_] + +If he means no harm, let him come alone and unarmed. + +TREAT + +He'll never come! + +ALLYN + +They're letting a small boat down, sir! + +TREAT + +Indeed! Who is in it? + +ALLYN + +A sailor and another-- + +TREAT + +Andros? + +ALLYN + +It may be, I don't know him. They're pulling away from the side now. + +TREAT + +If that is really Andros, he's a brave man. + +ALLYN + +Aye, sir, he is that. Will you go down to meet him? + +TREAT + +Indeed I will, if he has the courage to come ashore without a guard! I +can do no less than meet him at the shore. Come along, Lieutenant. +[_calling_] Stand by, men, ready for action at any moment! Lieutenant +Allyn and I are going out to meet the Governor! + +ALLYN + +Through this portal, sir! I've unlocked it. + +TREAT + +Thank you. + +ALLYN + +The boat is just beaching, sir. + +TREAT + +Good! And here he comes. + +ALLYN + +Alone! + +TREAT + +Have I the honor of greeting Governor Andros? + +ANDROS [_coming in, storming angrily_] + +What is the meaning of this, sir? What is the meaning of this? + +TREAT + +I beg your pardon? + +ANDROS + +This--this show of force? What is the meaning of it, I say? + +TREAT + +Sir! This force is here to maintain the rights of this colony against +the illegal aggression of New York! + +ANDROS + +Where is your Governor? + +TREAT + +Here! + +ANDROS + +Well, Governor, I'll have you know that I have come here in the legal +performance of my duties to take command of land legally and lawfully a +part of the possessions of His Grace, the Duke of York. + +TREAT + +I have already informed you, sir, that you shall not have it! + +ANDROS + +Is this rebellion? + +TREAT + +It is not, I assure you. But we will hold this land which is ours by +right of grant from His Majesty, Charles the Second. + +ANDROS + +My commission as Governor of this territory comes directly from His +Grace, the Duke of York. + +TREAT + +His Grace has no jurisdiction here. + +ANDROS + +Here, sir, are my orders. [_rattle of paper_] + +TREAT + +And here, sir, is a true copy of our charter. [_rattle of paper_] + +ANDROS + +My orders supersede your charter. + +TREAT + +Our charter is a royal grant, and cannot be superseded except for cause +by due process of law. + +ANDROS + +I shall take possession under my orders. You can appeal to the Privy +Council for redress. + +TREAT + +You can take possession only after every man in this fort is dead! + +ANDROS + +Do you still insist on this ridiculous show of force? + +TREAT + +I do! If you make a move to land your troops, we will open fire! + +ANDROS + +Very well. I shall report to His Grace that I was prevented from +obeying his command by an unwarranted and illegal show of force! + +TREAT + +And we shall report to His Majesty that we defended our rights under +our royal charter. + +ANDROS + +Confound your charter! I'll see to it that you lose it! Good day, sir. + +TREAT + +Good day! + + +ANNOUNCER + +So Governor Andros took his departure without gaining possession of the +territory he claimed. For the next ten years Connecticut continued in +undisputed possession of her charter, and then on December 19, 1686, +Andros was appointed Governor of all New England. News of this +appointment reached Connecticut several months later. + +Our next scene is at the State House in Hartford. It is June of 1687. +The General Court of the Connecticut Colony is in session. As our scene +opens, Governor Treat is addressing the Assembly. + +TREAT + +Gentlemen! I have called you here to consider a matter of grave +importance to the life of this colony. As you know, His Majesty has +seen fit to deprive us of our rights under our charter and has +appointed a Governor who is to have supreme power over this colony and +all of New England. + +WADSWORTH + +Your Excellency-- + +TREAT + +Yes, Captain Wadsworth? + +WADSWORTH + +Let us not submit! Let us appeal to the Privy Council! We have our +rights under the charter. + +ALL + +Yes, yes! Let us not submit! + +TREAT + +It is useless, gentlemen. When we are ordered to submit, we must submit +or be in rebellion. + +WADSWORTH + +When may we expect the order? + +TREAT + +I was informed this very morning that an officer of Governor Andros was +on his way here to take over the government of the colony, and we might +expect him this very day. + +WADSWORTH + +Then what can we do, sir? + +TREAT + +We can submit--indeed we must submit to the rule of Governor Andros, +but, gentlemen, we must not relinquish our charter! + +ALL + +No, no! We must save our charter. [_etc._] + +TREAT + +But how can we save it? If I am ordered to give it up, what can I do? I +have it here. It is in my possession. How can I hold it against an +order to relinquish it? + +WADSWORTH + +Your Excellency, if it is not in your possession, you cannot give it +up. + +TREAT + +But it is, Captain Wadsworth. + +WADSWORTH + +Then, sir, I move you that this Assembly forthwith take it out of your +possession and intrust it to a committee for safe-keeping. + +TREAT + +Yes, that is possible. + +VOICE + +Second! + +TREAT + +You have heard the proposal. Those favoring-- + +ALL + +Aye! + +TREAT + +Opposed--it is a vote. Will someone propose the committee? + +VOICE + +Your Excellency, I propose Captain Wadsworth, Charles Willys, and John +Talcott. + +TREAT + +But Talcott is not here. + +WADSWORTH + +All the better, sir, since we cannot give up the charter except upon +unanimous consent of the committee. + +TREAT + +A very good arrangement. Is there a second to the nomination for the +Charter Committee? + +VOICE + +Second! [_loud knock_] + +TREAT + +Don't open until we have had the vote! All favoring-- + +ALL + +Aye! [_knocking_] + +BLIGH [_outside_] + +Open, in the name of the King! + +TREAT + +Opposed? Carried! + +BLIGH [_insistent knocking_] + +Open, open, I say! Open in the name of the King. + +TREAT [_over the noise_] + +Captain Wadsworth, I deliver this charter into your hands for +safe-keeping. + +WADSWORTH + +We shall keep it, sir. Never fear! + +TREAT [_calling_] + +Doorkeeper, open the door! + +VOICE + +Yes, sir! + +BLIGH [_coming in_] + +What is the meaning of this, sir? Why was I locked out? + +TREAT + +Your pardon, sir. But what authority have you, sir, to break into the +Assembly of the General Court of Connecticut? + +BLIGH + +I have come to take over the government of this colony under the +authority of Governor Andros. + +TREAT + +Indeed, and who are you, if we may be permitted to know? + +BLIGH + +Ah, of course--I have the honor to be Samuel Bligh, Colonel in His +Majesty's service. Are you Robert Treat? + +TREAT + +I am. + +BLIGH + +Here are your orders! [_rattle of paper_] + +TREAT + +Thank you. "Hereby ordered"--yes--yes--"in compliance with mandate of +His Majesty"--yes, indeed. Colonel Bligh, we are ready to turn the +government over to Governor Andros. + +BLIGH + +Then, sir, you will deliver up the charter to me. + +TREAT + +What? + +BLIGH + +The charter! The charter--read the rest of the order, sir. + +TREAT [_reading_] + +"Governor Treat is hereby ordered to deliver up the forfeited +charter"--but, Colonel Bligh, I cannot deliver up the charter-- + +BLIGH + +Why not? + +TREAT + +Because, sir, it is not in my possession. + +BLIGH + +In whose possession is it? + +TREAT + +It has been intrusted by the General Court to a special committee. + +BLIGH + +Indeed--and who comprises the committee? + +TREAT + +The clerk will read the names of the committee. + +ALLYN + +May it please you, sir, the committee consists of Captain Wadsworth, +Charles Willys, and John Talcott. + +BLIGH + +Are any of those named here? + +WADSWORTH + +Yes, sir! + +BLIGH + +Your name, sir? + +WADSWORTH + +Captain Wadsworth. + +BLIGH + +Captain Wadsworth, I order you to deliver up the charter to me. + +WADSWORTH + +Oh, yes, and have you an order for it there? + +BLIGH + +Indeed I have. Governor Treat has just read it. + +WADSWORTH + +May I be allowed to see it? + +BLIGH + +Of course. Governor Treat, will you let this gentleman read the order +and be satisfied. + +WADSWORTH [_rattle of paper_] + +Hm, yes.--"Governor Treat--hereby ordered"--but, Colonel, this is an +order upon Governor Treat! + +BLIGH + +Of course it is! Now are you satisfied? + +WADSWORTH + +I am deeply sorry, sir, I do not see how the committee can comply with +this order. + +BLIGH + +Why not, pray--is it not properly signed and sealed? + +WADSWORTH + +Oh yes. Signed properly, but it is drawn against the Governor--and not +against the Charter Committee. + +BLIGH + +Why--what--oh, this is too much! Governor Andros warned me that you +would be stubborn and stiff-necked! But I'll have that charter! +Here--I'll change that order--give it here! + +WADSWORTH + +Here you are, sir. [_rattle of paper_] + +BLIGH + +Hm--yes--a quill. So--now--"The Charter Committee--is hereby +ordered"--there you are. Now I hope you are satisfied. + +WADSWORTH + +Are you satisfied with this, Governor? + +TREAT + +Hm--does this not seem to be a forgery, Captain Wadsworth? + +WADSWORTH + +It not only seems to be, sir, but it is. I saw him make an illegal +change in the order. All of us saw it. + +ALL + +Yes, yes! We saw him. + +It is a forgery! Don't obey it! + +TREAT + +I should say that the change invalidated the entire order! + +BLIGH + +What? You are trying to put me in the wrong? + +WADSWORTH + +Not at all, sir! You have put yourself in the wrong. + +BLIGH + +But--but--you forced me to make that change in the order. + +TREAT + +I believe, Colonel, we merely pointed out that your order was +inadequate; we did not force you to commit forgery. + +BLIGH + +Oh, this is a trick! This is a trick! I demand the immediate surrender +of the government and the charter! + +TREAT + +What is the will of the Assembly? Can we deliver up the government +under an order which is obviously forged? + +ALL + +No, no! No indeed! + +TREAT + +The vote is against you, Colonel. + +BLIGH + +Andros will come himself and attend to this affair. I wash my hands of +it! He'll make you pay for this day's work--and he'll get the charter! +Good day! + +ALL + +Good day! + + +ANNOUNCER + +Andros did come, as Colonel Bligh had threatened, but not for several +months. But when he came, he came in state, with a company of soldiers, +two trumpeters, and Colonel Bligh. He intended this time to get the +charter, and no mistake! + +Governor Treat called the General Court to assemble on the evening of +October 31, 1687, to confer with Governor Andros and make one last +determined stand to retain the charter even if there was no way to +retain their rights under the charter. + +Our next scene is at the State House in Hartford. It is evening. The +sexton is preparing the room for the meeting which is about to take +place. + +SEXTON [_to himself_] + +Now these candles, where'd I best put 'em. I cal'ate mebbe I'd better +scatter 'em around the room-- + +WADSWORTH [_coming in_] + +Good even to you, Nathan. + +SEXTON + +Even, Captain Wadsworth. Even, Master Allyn. + +ALLYN + +Good even, Nathan. + +WADSWORTH + +These candles, Nathan. + +SEXTON + +Yes, sir! I was jest a puttin' 'em around where everybody'd git a +little light. + +WADSWORTH + +I think perhaps you'd best put them all on the Governor's table. + +SEXTON + +The Governor's table. Yes, sir! So--one here--and one-- + +ALLYN + +No, no, Nathan. Put them all together at this end of the table. + +SEXTON + +This end by the window? + +ALLYN + +I think that will be best, don't you, Captain? + +WADSWORTH + +Of course! The Governor needs a great deal of light. + +SEXTON + +But, sir, the draft from the window--it may blow them out. + +ALLYN + +Well, well, if it does, Nathan, we'll just have to light them all +again. + +SEXTON + +Yes, sir! Of course, sir! + +WADSWORTH [_low_] + +Now Allyn, seeing you are the clerk of the General Court, you can sit +at the Governor's table without exciting suspicion. + +ALLYN + +Yes, Captain! + +WADSWORTH + +Best put your chair next the window. + +ALLYN + +Have you the charter? + +WADSWORTH + +Yes, I have it with me, and when Andros demands it I shall have to +produce it. + +ALLYN + +Andros must not be allowed to get his hand on it. + +WADSWORTH + +That will be your duty. + +ALLYN + +Yes? + +WADSWORTH + +Willys will be waiting outside that window, next your chair. When the +candles go out, grab the charter and toss it out the window. He'll put +it in a safe place. + +ALLYN + +Where? + +WADSWORTH + +You know the oak in front of his house? + +ALLYN + +Indeed yes! + +WADSWORTH + +There is a hollow--high up-- + +ALLYN + +Good! + +WADSWORTH [_louder_] + +Nathan! + +SEXTON + +Yes, Captain! + +WADSWORTH + +A good fire you have in the fireplace. + +SEXTON + +I figgered to have a good fire--it's a mite chilly this evenin'. + +WADSWORTH + +It may get overly warm in here before the meeting is over. + +SEXTON + +Aye. + +WADSWORTH + +I want you to stand close to that window behind John Allyn's chair. + +SEXTON + +Yes, sir! + +WADSWORTH + +Don't leave it. And the moment I say, "Sexton, it's warm in here," +throw open the window. You understand? + +SEXTON + +"Sexton, it's warm in here," throw it open. Yes, sir, I understand. + +WADSWORTH + +Never mind what anyone else says. Throw it open on my signal and throw +it wide open. + +SEXTON + +But the candles, sir--they may go out. They're right close to the +window. + +WADSWORTH + +Never mind the candles. + +SEXTON + +Never mind them--yes, sir! [_trumpets sound outside_] + +ALLYN + +Here comes Andros. Throw open the door. + +WADSWORTH + +Never mind, Nathan. I'll do it. You stay by that window. + +SEXTON + +The window. Yes, sir! + +WADSWORTH + +Enter, Governor Andros. + +ANDROS + +Thank you. Governor Treat--I now call you that for the last time--will +you show me to my place? + +TREAT + +Of course, sir. Captain Wadsworth, will you usher us to our places? + +WADSWORTH + +Right this way, Governor. We have arranged this place for you. + +ANDROS + +Thank you. Do we need all the candles here? + +WADSWORTH + +For you and the clerk. [_noise and confusion of members entering_] + +ANDROS + +Yes, yes! Of course! Treat, will you sit at my left? + +TREAT + +Thank you, sir! + +ANDROS + +Will you call the Assembly to order? + +TREAT + +Gentlemen, will you take your places. [_sound of gavel_] The Assembly +will please come to order! [_quiet_] In accordance with the command of +His Majesty we are met here to surrender the government of the +Connecticut Colony to the Royal Governor, Sir Edmund Andros. On behalf +of this Assembly, I have the honor, sir, to welcome you and assure you +of our submission to His Majesty's command. We have ever been a loyal +and a law-abiding people. We surrender the prerogatives of government +under our charter with regret; but His Majesty commands, and we, his +loyal subjects, have nought to do but obey. We are, sir, yours to +command. + +ALL [_cheers_] + +ANDROS + +Thank you, Master Treat. I am agreeably pleased at the expression of +obedience. In the name of His Majesty I hereby take command of the +colony of Connecticut and order it joined to the colony of +Massachusetts Bay, of which you shall henceforth be a part. And now, +you have only to surrender the charter to me to complete the ceremony +of submission to the order of His Majesty. + +TREAT + +But, sir, we have signified our submission. The surrender of the +charter is quite another thing. + +ANDROS + +How so? + +TREAT + +It was granted in perpetuity, to be forfeited only through due process +of law. + +ANDROS + +Have you not been informed, sir, that a writ of quo warranto issued in +the proper courts of England was tried and went by default last +February? + +TREAT + +Last February? Indeed, sir! We had no knowledge that any action was +brought against it. Who was the complainant? + +ANDROS + +I was! + +TREAT + +You, sir? + +ANDROS + +Indeed, you seem to have forgotten an occasion when I promised you I'd +get your charter. + +TREAT + +No, sir! Unfortunately I still remember it! + +ANDROS + +I have here the original court order, declaring your charter forfeit, +and I shall now trouble your Charter Committee to produce the original +document. + +TREAT + +One moment, sir. Has not every Englishman a right to defend his case +before a court of law? + +ANDROS + +Of course--you had such a chance and failed to appear. + +TREAT + +We had no notice of the action. + +ANDROS + +That's not my fault. + +TREAT + +The court is in error, and we shall appeal. + +ANDROS + +Appeal all you like; but produce the charter. + +TREAT + +We do so under protest. + +ANDROS + +Ah, very well. I care not how much you protest. Once I get the charter, +I can assure you, you'll never see it again. + +TREAT + +But, sir! + +ANDROS + +Produce the charter. + +TREAT + +Captain Wadsworth, place the charter on the table. + +WADSWORTH + +Here it is, sir. + +ANDROS + +Ah--at last! + +TREAT + +One moment, sir. + +ANDROS + +What now? + +TREAT + +Will you first sign the receipt for the charter, so that the committee +may be protected? + +ANDROS + +Why, certainly, if you wish. It's no matter; but I'll do it. Give me +your quill, clerk. + +ALLYN + +Here you are, sir--and paper. + +ANDROS + +Yes. Hm--"received--charter--signed"--there-- + +WADSWORTH + +Sexton, it's warm in here! + +SEXTON + +Yes, sir! [_noise of window_] + +ANDROS + +Hey, the lights! Quick, what's happened? Lights! Lights! + +ALL + +The candles have all blown out! + +Put down the window! + +What's the matter--[_etc._] [_exclamations continue through the scene_] + +ANDROS + +Put that window down! What are you trying to do? + +SEXTON + +Why, sir, it was warm. + +ANDROS + +Put it down, I say! Light those candles! What foolishness is this? +Light those candles, I say! Do you hear me? + +SEXTON + +Yes, sir, at once, sir! [_noise of window going down_] + +Here, sir, I'll light the candles. I'm right sorry, sir. Now, where did +I put my flint? Ah, here it is. There you are, sir. I'm right sorry I +put you out, sir. I didn't think-- + +ANDROS + +Fool! Now, Treat, hand me the charter. + +TREAT + +The charter--why, sir--you had it. + +ANDROS + +Had it? What are you talking about? + +TREAT + +Why, sir! I saw you put your hand on it the moment the lights went out. + +ANDROS + +Indeed I did not. Give it here! + +TREAT + +But, sir-- + +ANDROS + +Hey--you--Captain-- + +WADSWORTH + +Sir! + +ANDROS + +Wadsworth, give me the charter! + +WADSWORTH + +But, sir, I gave it to you. + +ANDROS + +You did not! + +WADSWORTH + +But I have here your receipt for it! + +ANDROS + +Give me back that receipt! + +WADSWORTH + +I shall certainly do nothing of the kind, sir. I gave you the charter; +you gave me this receipt for it. I have here twenty witnesses to the +transaction! + +ANDROS + +I'm being tricked! I say I will have that charter. It's somewhere here, +and I'll have it. [_calling_] Colonel Bligh! + +BLIGH [_distance_] + +Yes, sir! + +ANDROS + +Surround this place with your soldiers. Don't let a single man leave +until he has been searched! + +TREAT + +Sir, this is illegal! You have no search warrants! + +ANDROS + +Indeed! I'll do it whether it's legal or not. I'll have that charter, I +tell you, if I have to search every spot in this town! I'll have it, I +say I'll have it. + + +ANNOUNCER + +And so the great search began. All that night and into the next day the +Governor, the Colonel, and their soldiers searched high and low for the +missing charter. At last they came to the house of Charles Willys, in +front of which stood the great oak in which the charter lay safely +hidden. + +ANDROS + +Who lives here? + +TREAT + +This is the home of Charles Willys! + +ANDROS + +Indeed! One of the Charter Committee, eh? + +TREAT + +Yes, sir! + +ANDROS + +Good! Search this place inside and out, Colonel. Don't leave a thing +unturned. + +BLIGH + +Very good, sir! Search this place, Captain--thoroughly. Tear up the +floors, dig up the garden, rip the upholstery off the furniture, but +find that charter! + +VOICE + +Yes, sir. Follow me! + +ANDROS + +Bring out the master of the house. The rest of you back up against this +tree and don't move! + +TREAT + +Sir, I protest again-- + +ANDROS + +Protest all you like. It will do you no good until you produce that +charter. + +TREAT + +I don't know where it is. You had it, that's all I know. If you lost +it, it is not our fault. + +ANDROS + +Silence! + +BLIGH [_a little distance_] + +Here's the master of the house, sir. + +ANDROS + +Ah, indeed! Are you Master Willys? + +WILLYS + +I am. + +ANDROS + +Where is the charter? + +WILLYS + +Your pardon, sir, but how should I know? + +ANDROS + +You were a member of the Charter Committee, were you not? + +WILLYS + +I was! + +ANDROS + +Then where is it? + +WILLYS + +I am informed that the charter-- + +ANDROS + +Yes? + +WILLYS + +Was placed-- + +ANDROS + +Yes--yes-- + +WILLYS + +In your hands! + +ANDROS + +Sir! If you don't tell me where that charter is-- + +WILLYS + +What then, sir? + +ANDROS + +Do you see this oak tree? + +WILLYS + +I'm not blind, sir. + +ANDROS + +I'll have you strung up--strung up in it, sir; I'll have you strung up +in it! + +WILLYS + +I should hate to have such a fine tree perverted to such a purpose, +sir! + +ANDROS + +Ah! You would! Colonel Bligh! Colonel! + +BLIGH [_distance_] + +Yes, Governor! + +ANDROS + +Send me half a dozen soldiers and a stout rope! + +BLIGH + +Yes, sir! + +ANDROS + +Ah! Now perhaps we'll get something from you. Will you tell me or will +you be hanged by your thumbs from that stout limb up there until you +are ready to tell me where the charter is? + +TREAT + +Governor Andros, I fear you have forgotten yourself in your rage. +Master Willys is entitled to a trial before any such punishment can be +meted out to him. + +ANDROS + +Silence, or I'll have you strung up with him! Gad, sir, I'll fill this +oak tree with stiff-necked rebellious Connecticut men, but I'll have +that charter! + +BLIGH + +Here are your men, sir! + +ANDROS + +Good! One of you climb that oak tree. Here, you, Sergeant. + +VOICE + +Yes, sir! + +ANDROS + +Give him a hand there. [_sound of starting to climb the tree_] Have the +men found anything in the house, Colonel? + +BLIGH + +Not a thing, sir! + +WADSWORTH + +Look here, sir. + +ANDROS + +Ah, Captain Wadsworth. Have you something to say? + +WADSWORTH + +I have, sir. + +ANDROS + +Speak out. + +WADSWORTH + +Tell those men to stay out of that tree and I'll tell you. + +ANDROS + +All right, Sergeant, come down. I thought we'd get something out of +them if we scared them. Well, Captain? + +WADSWORTH + +Sir, you have lost the charter; that is clear. + +ANDROS + +Where is it? + +WADSWORTH + +Just a minute. You have lost it. You also have given us your receipt +for it; therefore you should have it. + +ANDROS + +And I intend to have it. + +WADSWORTH + +You can't. I can assure you of that, but here is what I propose. The +committee is willing to turn over the receipt to you if you will stop +this foolish and destructive search for something you can't find. + +ANDROS + +Never! Sergeant, go up that tree again. We'll string these fellows up. + +WADSWORTH + +Ah, very well, then. But, sir, you'll look very foolish when you report +to the Privy Council that you did not get the charter, and we produce +your signed receipt! + +ANDROS + +What?--Hm-- + +TREAT + +Yes, indeed, Governor. How will you explain that to the King? + +ANDROS + +What? Why! Ah--very well then, give me the receipt and I'll leave. +After all, your charter will do you no good. It's revoked. + +TREAT + +Exactly! That's a very sensible view to take, Governor Andros. I +congratulate you. + +WADSWORTH + +Here is the receipt, sir. + +ANDROS + +Humph! + +WADSWORTH + +You're very welcome, sir. + +ANDROS + +Colonel Bligh, draw up your guard and prepare to return to Boston. +[_orders and confusion_] + +TREAT [_over the noise_] + +My congratulations, Captain Wadsworth. A good bargain. + +WADSWORTH + +Indeed it was. Another foot up the tree, and the Sergeant would have +had the charter. + +BLIGH + +Quick step, march! + + +ANNOUNCER + +By saving the charter Connecticut preserved her claim to separate +government, and in 1694 the King decided that the charter was in full +legal force. It served as the fundamental order of Connecticut +government down to the Revolution and until 1818, when a new state +constitution superseded it. + +The oak in which the charter was so well hidden was called from that +time the "Charter Oak." It stood until August 21, 1856, when it fell. +At sunset of that day the bells of Hartford tolled, and mourning was +displayed for the historic old tree. 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