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Updated: August 25, 2024
The Director, panic stricken, endeavored to shift the responsibility of the insane course which had been pursued, upon one Adriansen, an influential burgher, who was the leading man among the petitioners who had counselled war. Adriansen was now a ruined man. His own plantation had been utterly devastated.
One of his servants took a gun, went to the fort and deliberately discharged the piece at the Director, but without hitting him. The would-be assassin was shot down by a sentinel and his head exposed upon the scaffold. Adriansen was sent to Holland for trial. After terrible scenes of suffering, a temporary peace was restored through the heroic interposition of DeVrees.
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