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.Nominally created to defend the state in a national emer-gency, the Virginia militia, like that of all southern states, in realityexisted to prevent slave insurrections.To better demonstrate white author-ity and military power, each company mustered several times a year.74 Richmond 1800 Part of Richmond s company, under the command of Captain William Aus-tin, had been in the field unofficially since the night of August 30.Now thegovernor called the body, known formally as the Fourth Regiment RichmondTroop, up to its full strength of forty-four men (one of whom was MosbySheppard).Calling out the Nineteenth Regiment to provide support, Mon-roe signed requisitions for 539 rations, including Spirits, at seventeencents each.The Fourth Regiment was to serve until September 15; a smallerforce of three officers and eighteen privates would remain in the field untilOctober 10.The governor clearly was taking no chances; the Ninteenth wouldstay on duty until the end of November.22The arms had already been moved from the capitol to the penitentiary,and those that were not requisitioned by militia units were closely guardedby thirteen privates on special assignment from the Nineteenth Richmond.The contingent served until well into February of 1801 and were paid $6.66each month.The soldiers had to be fed as well, and the ordinarily penuri-ous governor was forced to sign payroll and ration receipts for a total of$246.04.23In an agrarian state that could ill afford any expenditures, these disburse-ments were an unhappy burden.(The operating budget for the coming yearstood at only $377,703.) And these bills were just the beginning.Far up theJames, Cartersville demanded protection from the batteaux men, theslaves who worked the inland waterways, and Monroe was forced to place stationary patrols along the river. More bills came flooding in.JohnHarrison charged the state $47.29 for a few days labor by seven patrolers,and the Nineteenth Regiment lived up to the governor s worst expectationsby running up a liquor tab of another $75. Colonel John Mayo paid a handfulof drifters to guard his toll bridge and then forwarded the bill to the govern-ment.Monroe, however, perhaps decided that this was money well spentwhen the militia, while searching for Gabriel, discovered a number of rudearms forged by the rebel leaders and hidden on the Prosser plantation.24Militia leaders in other counties, most of whom were drawn from theplanter class, thought little of the cost and demanded to be called into ser-vice.Lieutenant Samuel Weisner, of the Twenty-third Chesterfield militia,was most vociferous in his pleas to defend home and hearth.On September4 the governor obliged.For the better part of the month, several hundredmen, including a fine drummer and fifer, crashed about the county ha-rassing blacks but finding virtually no conspirators.Finally growing tiredof this sport, the Twenty-third agreed to be mustered out and presented theastonished governor with a bill for $2,321.25Equally active, but with considerably better cause, were the authoritiesA Plot Discovered 75 along the lower James.The Suffolk militia was called out upon request ofthe people but was hampered by the lack of arms.Monroe agreed to pro-vide the necessary muskets but then found himself unable to keep the prom-ise.By the end of the month the arms still had not arriv d, wrote an exas-perated official. [T]heir arrival at this time wou d be peculiarly pleasing. Even so, local whites organized themselves into regular patrols, andperform[ed] their duty every night. Several bondmen who had been atWhitlock s Mill were swept up, as were two white women who lived withthem.Floating posses even set sail in search of Jacob, and they too for-warded bills for their services to the governor, who watched in alarm as thestate s contingency fund dwindled to nothing.26To the north of Richmond, frightened whites in Caroline County searchedfor those implicated by the captured John.Guards surrounded the court-house, as they would for months, and extra jailors were hired to watch overthose unfortunates dragged in by the patrols and the militia.Receipts alsoarrived on the governor s desk from the militia called out to guard the StateArsenal[s] in Goochland and Fluvan[n]a. 27At this suspicious moment, slaves were deemed to be suspects simplybecause they were slaves.Soon the Caroline County seat of Bowling Greenboasted of Seven slaves.committed to the Gaol. The weary governorsigned pay warrants for another $289.71 to cover the cost of the extra guardsand provisions.By September 14 the state had about five Hundred Militia in the field and devoutly hoped that the clamor would put an end to therebels prospects of succeeding. 28The clamor also alerted terrified whites to the seriousness of the plot [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Nominally created to defend the state in a national emer-gency, the Virginia militia, like that of all southern states, in realityexisted to prevent slave insurrections.To better demonstrate white author-ity and military power, each company mustered several times a year.74 Richmond 1800 Part of Richmond s company, under the command of Captain William Aus-tin, had been in the field unofficially since the night of August 30.Now thegovernor called the body, known formally as the Fourth Regiment RichmondTroop, up to its full strength of forty-four men (one of whom was MosbySheppard).Calling out the Nineteenth Regiment to provide support, Mon-roe signed requisitions for 539 rations, including Spirits, at seventeencents each.The Fourth Regiment was to serve until September 15; a smallerforce of three officers and eighteen privates would remain in the field untilOctober 10.The governor clearly was taking no chances; the Ninteenth wouldstay on duty until the end of November.22The arms had already been moved from the capitol to the penitentiary,and those that were not requisitioned by militia units were closely guardedby thirteen privates on special assignment from the Nineteenth Richmond.The contingent served until well into February of 1801 and were paid $6.66each month.The soldiers had to be fed as well, and the ordinarily penuri-ous governor was forced to sign payroll and ration receipts for a total of$246.04.23In an agrarian state that could ill afford any expenditures, these disburse-ments were an unhappy burden.(The operating budget for the coming yearstood at only $377,703.) And these bills were just the beginning.Far up theJames, Cartersville demanded protection from the batteaux men, theslaves who worked the inland waterways, and Monroe was forced to place stationary patrols along the river. More bills came flooding in.JohnHarrison charged the state $47.29 for a few days labor by seven patrolers,and the Nineteenth Regiment lived up to the governor s worst expectationsby running up a liquor tab of another $75. Colonel John Mayo paid a handfulof drifters to guard his toll bridge and then forwarded the bill to the govern-ment.Monroe, however, perhaps decided that this was money well spentwhen the militia, while searching for Gabriel, discovered a number of rudearms forged by the rebel leaders and hidden on the Prosser plantation.24Militia leaders in other counties, most of whom were drawn from theplanter class, thought little of the cost and demanded to be called into ser-vice.Lieutenant Samuel Weisner, of the Twenty-third Chesterfield militia,was most vociferous in his pleas to defend home and hearth.On September4 the governor obliged.For the better part of the month, several hundredmen, including a fine drummer and fifer, crashed about the county ha-rassing blacks but finding virtually no conspirators.Finally growing tiredof this sport, the Twenty-third agreed to be mustered out and presented theastonished governor with a bill for $2,321.25Equally active, but with considerably better cause, were the authoritiesA Plot Discovered 75 along the lower James.The Suffolk militia was called out upon request ofthe people but was hampered by the lack of arms.Monroe agreed to pro-vide the necessary muskets but then found himself unable to keep the prom-ise.By the end of the month the arms still had not arriv d, wrote an exas-perated official. [T]heir arrival at this time wou d be peculiarly pleasing. Even so, local whites organized themselves into regular patrols, andperform[ed] their duty every night. Several bondmen who had been atWhitlock s Mill were swept up, as were two white women who lived withthem.Floating posses even set sail in search of Jacob, and they too for-warded bills for their services to the governor, who watched in alarm as thestate s contingency fund dwindled to nothing.26To the north of Richmond, frightened whites in Caroline County searchedfor those implicated by the captured John.Guards surrounded the court-house, as they would for months, and extra jailors were hired to watch overthose unfortunates dragged in by the patrols and the militia.Receipts alsoarrived on the governor s desk from the militia called out to guard the StateArsenal[s] in Goochland and Fluvan[n]a. 27At this suspicious moment, slaves were deemed to be suspects simplybecause they were slaves.Soon the Caroline County seat of Bowling Greenboasted of Seven slaves.committed to the Gaol. The weary governorsigned pay warrants for another $289.71 to cover the cost of the extra guardsand provisions.By September 14 the state had about five Hundred Militia in the field and devoutly hoped that the clamor would put an end to therebels prospects of succeeding. 28The clamor also alerted terrified whites to the seriousness of the plot [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]