Allegheny Uprising Page #4

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He said

they wiped out Brady and the men.

We teach them everything, don't we, Tom?

His Excellency, Governor Penn,

will see you tomorrow.

Thank you.

What is the meaning of this intrusion?

l sent word l'd see you tomorrow.

What we've got to say

can't wait till tomorrow.

-Why, how dare...

-Our apologies, Your Excellency,

-we're Conococheague Valley men.

-l see.

Frightful tragedy, frightful.

This is General Gage,

in command of His Majesty's forces.

We've come to request Your Excellency

to forbid trade with the lndians,

and to ask military protection

for the valley.

l understand and sympathize with you,

but l have judged it consistent

with the good of His Majesty's service

to order all available troops westward

to meet the lndians on their own grounds.

While they murder us on our grounds.

We're carrying out a military policy

designed to guarantee

the permanent security of the frontier.

Haven't you eyes enough to see that?

We've eyes enough

to see only our own dead.

Colonel Brady has received

the lndian chieftains...

Colonel Brady

will receive no more chieftains...

What's that? What's that?

Dead men make no peace treaties.

-What are you saying?

-Colonel Brady and his men are dead.

Dead?

Their heads split open

with tomahawks made by white men.

''A proclamation. From this day

all persons whosoever they may be,

''are forbidden to trade with lndians.

''Anyone failing to heed this warning,

does so at his own peril.

''The Valley of the Conococheague

is forthwith taxed 1 per capita

''for the erection of Fort Loudoun, and

the maintenance of His Majesty's troop

''to be permanently stationed there

for the protection of said valley.

''John Penn. God save the King.''

This is the reward of aiding

the mother country with her trade.

Warehouses filled with goods.

Goods that cost us hard cash,

fetched 3,000 miles from England.

Must we endure it?

What's the army for,

if not to protect business?

And what's government for,

if not to protect business?

Certainly not to interfere with it.

Gentlemen, you still do business

with the army, don't you?

lt will take 20 years for the army to buy up

the supplies we have on hand,

and furthermore, there's no profit in it.

l wasn't thinking of that.

You'll have a military permit to take goods

through to the outlying forts, won't you?

Yes.

Now, if a shipping clerk made a mistake,

and sent a few wagonloads of trade goods

through with the military supplies,

they'd be traveling under the protection

of a military pass, wouldn't they?

-Barmaid, barmaid!

-Yes, sir.

Another for each of us.

All right, boys. Get out the musket balls.

Fifty keg of musket ball for Fort Pitt.

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