PALLAS’s HISTORY 
The gentlemen promised that their causes of 
cosplaint should be inquired into by the 
legislature, in order to be redressed. 
«©The Maroon speaker, after expatiating 
on the insufficiency of their lands, the 
inability of Craskell, and the qualities of 
James, without whose re-appointment they 
could not be satisfied, exclaimed: ‘ You are 
our tattas (that is, fathers), we your chil- 
‘dren; our situation, and the superiority we 
have in this country, we derive from our 
connexion with you; but when we do the 
duty required of us for these advantages, do 
not subject us to insult and humiliation 
from the very people to whom we are set in 
opposition.’ He concluded by relating the 
triumph and language of the negro who 
flogged the men, and who was a slave whom 
they had previously taken up and lodged in 
the workhouse for punishment. The slaves 
of course, says one of the planters, made 
use of an opportunity to revenge themselves 
en the Maroons. 
_ «©The Maroons being soothed by the pro- 
mises they had received, and the mediators 
being relieved from the apprehensions caused 
by the mode of their reception, the latter 
assented to the reasonableness of the com- 
laint of the former, engaging to use all their 
influence to promote their wishes. Pleased 
at the result of the visit, or witha view of 
farther insuring the satisfaction that appeared, 
at entered the mind of one of the me- 
diators to propose a collection of money 
among themselves, for the people with whom 
they had come to mediate, and each gave 
something, except the gallant colonel Galii- 
more. He saw in success, obtained by tu- 
mult and violence, and in rewards bestowed 
en insolence, the seeds of future turbulence ; 
therefore, instead of producing his purse, he 
touk from his pocket some bullets, and 
showing them, said: ‘This is the reward 
you deserve, and no other coin shall you 
et from me.’ In the evening the mediators 
eft Treiawney ‘Town, hoping they had for a 
time, at least, tranquillized the Maroons. 
«* However satisfied the visitors were with 
the issue of their visit, the public mind was 
not so easily pacified in the capital, where a 
diversity of opinion arose respecting the con- 
duct to be pursued towards the “Maroons. 
General Palmer, of the parish of Si. James’s, 
wrote a letter to the heutenant-coveror,| re- 
commending; in the name of a meeting 
assembled on the occasion, a compliance 
with their demands; and, in a second letter, 
urged the reinstatement of major James and 
his son. Mr. Tharp, one of the great pro- 
fietors, and then custos of the parish of 
relawney, who, since the meeting he at- 
tended in Trelawney Town as mediator, had 
joined the fleet about to sail for Europe, 
also recommended temporizing and acqui- 
escing in the demands made, as they were 
Weasonable. Ina letter written the day be- 
fore he left the island, after imputing the 
‘*ebellion of the Maroons to the ‘improper 
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conduct of the magistrates of St. James’s, 
and a few trifling causes of discontent, he 
declared he was confident that hostilities 
would have commenced some days before, 
without specifying what prevented their tak- 
ing place ; but stating, that he believed 
Craskell, from what he understood, to be 
unfit for the office of superintendant ; that 
major James was the idol of the Maroons, 
and that nothing less than his re-appointment 
would satisfy them. 
« Soon after the departure of the enstos 
for England, where he had, estates that re- 
quired his care, the Maroon affairs assumed 
a better aspect, and his judgment respecting 
the influence of these dreaded mountaineers 
over the slaves, which, in his opinion, would 
bring ruin on all, appeared to have been 
hastily formed; for neither the plantation- 
negroes, nor the other bodies of Maroons, 
discovered the slightest design of supporting 
them. On the contrary, those who were the 
most suspected, the Accompongs, publicly 
testified their disapprobation of the conduct 
of the people of Trelawney Town, declaring 
that they had a superintendant (captain 
Forbes) whom they loved, and whose advice 
they were resolved to follow. They imme- 
diately made a formal renewal of their com- 
pact with the whites, rendering the ceremony 
more solemn by the baptism of all the 
younger Maroons. Some of the plantation- 
negroes in the gee ERNE about this 
time preferring complaints against their over- 
seers, their conduct was at first construed as 
taking advantage of the situation of things : 
but no alarm from the general conduct of 
the slaves could be justified, for never was a 
spirit of order and obedience more observable 
among the negroes than at this period. Even 
Edwards, who charges the Maroons with an 
early seduction of the slaves, says; Happily 
the class of people on whom they relied for 
support, remained peaceably disposed; noz- 
did an instance occur to raise a doubt of 
their continuing to do so.’ Neither did the 
planters attribute the diseontents expressed 
on the plantations in the vicinity, to the in- 
fluence of the Maroons; on the contrary, 
one of them says, * What check have we so 
eficetval as the Maroons?’ and mentions this 
as a motive for settling with them without 
hostility ; at the same time recommending 
the recollection that, in the rebellion of 
1766, the Maroons brought in the head or 
person of every slave in rebellion, in the 
space of one month. : 
«« Binding that, far from being supported, 
they were upbraided by the “ccompongs, 
the Tielawney Town Maroons had leisure to 
reflect on the Insolence of their conduct, and 
after some days evinced a less intractable 
disposition, On the 26th of July, informa- 
tion was received from a white man who 
had been at their town, that they were 
peaceable, and said they would be satisfied, 
48 Craskell was removed; if they were left 
alone. it appeared clearly that the Maroons 
OF THE MAROONS. 
