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In the lower counties indeed all the talk was of pardon and terms of submission. The white paper cockade which had been adopted in contradistinction to the hemlock as the badge of the government party, predominated in many of the towns through which Abner's party had passed. "That air proclamashin 's kinder skeert em more'n did us Berkshire folks." Abner explained to a crowd at the tavern.
Ef the Lord pardons us fer not hangin the jedges an lawyers, it'll be more'n I look fer," observed Peleg Bidwell. "Here comes the Duke," said another. "Wat dew yew say ter this ere proclamashin, Cap'n?" Perez laughed. "The more paper government wastes on proclamations, the less it'll have left for cartridges," he replied.
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