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I'm all stand by me with the other musket Bobby There'll be a whole band of bushwhackers mark and you open it They say open it up and stand clear on the muskets bushwhackers come again, ma If it is we'll give them what we lads and don't shoot until you know what you're shooting at Yes The peddler power and welcome you are indeed mr. McPherson He'll forgive our last string hanging in the times like these you know I never expected to see you know and why not learn is my job is it not bringing folks here in the backwoods the things they need It's well with a war on you should be shown in a musket instead of a peddler's back Andy Oh, mr. Jackson, you know school the lad named no offended couldn't expect him to know Jack is doing more for the American cause than any time when you are you are So that's it yo swamp box. I wedgie a carry more on your head than you do in your pack a jock Perhaps but one thing I didn't carry in my head is a loose tongue laddie and let that be a caution to you too clutter boxes The bushwhackers came down on us jock. Hi. Yes for you. They tried to top the door down. I gave it to them good Mr. McPherson barely a foot through the door Set another platter Robby time off and rest your pack good man and comes up with me. Thank you, mr. Jackson Well, what news of the war mr. McPherson the war has come to the Waxwell brains It's more than cowardly bushwhackers. We have to fear What's mean you mr. McPherson the British have landed in Charleston. I will soon be down upon the Waxwell Oh, not of major Davion as Carolina boys of anything to say about it. Hi Davion drive every last well them into the sea Perhaps you forget brother use with them. Hi. If they as much as they'll come this way brother Yeah, hush handy lad. Hush hush listen to me for a wee bit I come from Davies camp with news for the Patriots of the Waxwell The news will not gladden your hearts, but as best you know But you're all in mortal danger. Well, what is it mr. McPherson major Davies army has been routed by the British They were outnumbered line five to one And if you're in the right, I know when out in the end. Hi, but not without setbacks and losses Davies forces at the moment are in full retreat many a brawny lad is full. Have you have you heard out of my son? You have any time to inquire mr. Jackson Major David dispatch me with a message to the people of the Waxwell. What is the message? He can't possibly hope to reorganize his forces this side of hanging rock David wants every male who can carry a gun to join him at hanging rock within the month. Hi Well, there he means to make a stand The outcome of that battle will settle the future of the Waxwell. It'll be them or us Every male can carry a gun. Well, that means me and Robin Andrew I can handle a musket as good as anyone. I can place a ball through there I have a squirrel at two and oh, you're only a child Andrew a boy of 13 I can shoot that's what they're looking for near the situation is Very grave. Mr. Jackson very grave Where are you looking at my young ones like like that, man mother you heard a jock set major tongue Robbie Perceive jock McPherson putting rash thoughts like that in the heads of children hold your tongues Mr. McPherson that that's why you came to my door You can take up your pack and leave this very instant. I swear I hadn't ever thought like that my hate. I swear. Oh, well, I doubt Maybe not. Hey, Mr. McPherson. I This wilderness took my husband now my eldest hero is away fighting and For all I know he may lie dead, but all these hardships must be born So that our children and their children may have a fair chance in a new land Yes, you're right You're right Mr. McPherson, I You say you brought those scissors. I bet you fetch by this way by the finest pair of this I did let me have them and Robbie. I fetch my garments from the loft your garments. Yes, I'll be cutting them up for bandages tonight Mr. McPherson Andy and Robbie may not go to battle, but their mother can I'm leaving for hanging rock in the morning. It is a dangerous and foolhardy trip. Mr. Jackson, but may the Lord keep you and bring you back see hand me up the sandal bags Andrew And don't look so sorrowful Andy. I'll be quite safe I think that much just that I want to go to please more please let me ride with you to hang in there Andrew You're to stay home here Robbie look after you. I don't need looking after if you are a little rebel aren't you must Andrew? Don't call me that oh torch lad. There's better men than you called rebels these days General Washington himself. We're not rebels. We're patriots. We're standing up for our land fighting for the things we think are right This is a free country and free Andrew. This is no time to be making speeches. He's got the spirit in him though When he glues up, we'll be hearing from him our wager Defending the cause of free men please more. Let me ride with you to hang and walk Robbie you're to stay at home and watch after Andy. I don't need watching after all now be good lads Come now kiss your mother. Goodbye If I'm not back within a fortnight make your way to Aunt Jane's plantation at 10 mile Creek. Goodbye. Bye. Goodbye Please ma take care and come back soon. No, no, don't you worry your mark and take care of herself Goodbye, Mr. McPherson. God be with you mom and keep you safe. Get up Get up Peppy That is a braver heart never beat Robbie That's the log can from the cabin and start cleaning the muskets. I'll get the pony saddle And I'll look you here you young cock-a-lurams you you to be Jock Son those kings regulars they can handle muskets better than we reckon I see the man I get that ball out of your arm Cut away his breach of a man see to that wound in his leg. All right. No use the knife Oh, that buckskin is too tough for your shears if it's all the same to you doctor Could you tend to my leg and let the good woman here look to my arm? Lad this is no time for a show of modesty. Oh, no Take me it's a turd. I'm thinking oh, oh there. That's out wash out the wound ma'am and bandage Let me look to his leg ball and right through sir. Good. I'm the pain probing for him. I'll finish up with him doctor Dr. Here's some more men Then the Joshua look they're bringing more wounded up. I'll get some more hay from the loft and spit it on the barn Well, we set them doctor over yonder need the halo. I look for the tool here Take care of the woman got to get back to the crossing. He's got a bad Saints alive and Elizabeth Crawford are your heart net. Oh, just a strip off and my scalp met them to a base Wait, jeb wait, Andy. I got to get back to the car. Have you seen a herd out of you my eldest I can't say I have Andy and not since the battle of stone fairy least ways But I can tell you those two little wildcat young inser yours. I'll be an Andy Well, you're at home. I reckon I know my own kin when I see him Oh, how did you tell me? Well last time I saw him They were down in the meadow about a mile yonder popping away at everything they could see having the time of their young lives Those red uniforms will make prime targets. Don't the handy did you do for that one lobby? No, not exactly You mean you missed missed. I hit what he was a showman. What will be a show? It's coattails Yes, I'll be one set of pants and won't be sitting down for a long long time a lobby Keep your head down. You dang fool. Let me get a ball through your head. Do you I just wanted to see whether I'll keep your head down like I tell you or I'll let up you with this ramrod. So help me I will now hand me your powder horn won't do you might a good empty not a grain Just about pass me that you to pass me yours Tarnation well, there's no sense in our staying here. I'll be I'll be looking under there's a whole mess of the enemy are coming up Look at them lined up as a fellow parade and we only have some ammunition Well, we haven't any so we better get and get fast. Let's run for the break. All right. Come on Guess so my leg Why your leg? It's all a blood Andy How does your leg feel Andy right fit again Bobby? Hi, but what good are legs in this hole of a prison? Can't go nowhere Love me Robbie. There was no sense in you being catched too. You should have run for the woods Mom told me not to let you out of my sight. So why keep talking about it? Because I still think there was no sense to it. That'd be why Bobby, when do you think they'll let us go? Don't know Think we'll be here to To the war's over perhaps Robbie hi You let the man knows where we'd be Maybe I wager if she did know she'd get us out Hi Robbie, you know ma she'd ride like I'll get out into Camden I clear up to the prison gate and she's handy to us at full mouth of yours You feeling bad Robbie? I I reckon It's the heat of bothering me Andy heat Well, I'm me Robbie. It's chill enough in here to freeze our bodies very so Robbie You haven't been took you haven't been took with a scourge have you? Robbie have you know? No, no, I'm all right. Let me feel your head Robbie. No, I tell you stay away. I'm all right Robbie Andy Jackson you you come an inch close and I'll strike you down. You mind me? I'll strike you down. So help me, haven't I will? You're quite certain doctor that you can get along without me now Lord bless you my dear of course Though how we could have ever managed without you in those terrible days after the battle I know not I did what any American mother would have done for my son. That's why they have the sons they do I Run along home ever only knows how much you need a rest. I'm afraid I can't go home yet, dr. Colden My young ones sorry need me elsewhere. Well, you heard from Andrew and Robert I They're in the enemy prison at Camden Oh Well, at least you have the consolation of knowing they're alive and well if it were only so doctor What else have you heard they're both gravely ill Then perhaps major davie can arrange to have them freed in the next change of prisoners Oh, there's no time for that. What do you mean? Oh, that'll take days My lads are took with a smallpox I've got to get to them immediately and not at all You're listening to agnes moorhead as elizabeth jackson in the hickory tree on the cavalcade of america Sponsored by the dupont company maker of better things for better living through chemistry As the second part of our story opens Elizabeth jackson has arrived in camden to see her two sons andrew and robert who have been imprisoned by the british We see her now facing the commandant of camden prison Lord rodin. Yes, mistress. Pleased to be seated My darn choir of your name and the purpose of this visit Elizabeth jackson, sir What concern of you with me my two lads are being held in camden as prisoners of war. I beg of you Mistress jackson If you've made this journey and some vain hope to affect their release then i'm sorry to inform you that your mission is indeed ill-advised Fetch me the prison file captain sir. You must live if you please my good woman Here's the list of prisoners my lord. I presume these children are the two rebels Ah Robert jackson age 15 Andrew jackson a buddha saints Only 13. I serve my young ones children. They're just mere children taken at the engagement before hanging rock whilst bearing arms Mr. Jackson If they were old enough to take up arms against his majesties troops then children will know they're old enough to suffer the consequences for the Act against the crowd with it indeed. I I am sorry, mistress jackson But were I to order their release. I I'd be lacking in duty to mckingen confederate But they're ill in your death with the plague How can you talk of duty to me their own mother? You love those sons of yours, don't you? Oh, I do indeed sir. I love them more than anything on god's earth And you would do anything within your power to gain their release. I sir anything Very well my dear woman. We shall see captain Write out release of those two young rebels. Oh may heaven bless you sir. I am mr. jackson. I will grant their release, but I bet what sir? There is a condition A condition What their freedom perhaps their very lives depend upon your answering three questions Honestly and to the best of your knowledge What are the questions, sir? one How many men are under major davis command two what arms of they at their disposal Three but what means and what manner do they receive their supplies? Well, mr. jackson I see I see you expect me to buy my son's freedom with the lives and blood of my countryman Well, mr. jackson, you love your son. I love my sons I love them too well to see the mother that bore them turn traitor to their country Good day, sir. Uh mr. jackson I In truth, I did not expect you to answer my questions The chance is just amused in english gentleman to torture a woman. No, no by heaven. Do you Think i have no feelings I have a home family in england Will it not for my duty to make king and country? Beauty to your king and country What manner of king what manner of country is yours that demands that children be casted without plague ridden prison to suffer a horrible certain death What will it serve you your country or your beloved king if my sons die in camden jail Will that and only that satisfy your precious sense of duty you mock my sense of duty What have your own sense of duty madame? I do did your own countryman for which you'd sacrifice the lives of your two sons rather see them die Here is the end of this Are the allegiance to a cause not a king, sir The cause of free men fighting for justice and liberty Is the best cause The cause worth dying for All right to betray that I do not betray a king or just a people or a country alone I betray humanity itself is Is that how all you americans feel all liberty loving americans, sir Then I would see this curse. It's struggle over I in that today if it is not but a waste of precious english lives trying to stem the inevitable Oh, I beg of you, sir. I beg of you. If you won't free my boys, at least give me the consolation of seeing them tending them And they're an illness that won't be necessary my dear mr. Jackson captain. Give me that release order. I am alone You're going you're going to sign to prove. Yes. Yes. Take your precious young rebels take them home, mr And for the sake of all the totally see if you can employ that irresistible eloquence of yours to keep them there Sandy my lad here. I am son. Here's you more I was dreaming Dreaming I was back in that canton prison. Oh your home son your home Home, I don't reckon home ever looks as good to anyone as it does to me. Oh, yes, it has Yes, it has it looks like that to everyone All our neighbors here in the wilderness the folks all over waxile county all through north carolina up and down the whole end That's why they're fighting andrew To keep these homes they've built and the ones they're going to build as the country opens up But listen to me running on and you're still so weak it can hardly stand I won't be once I get some riddles inside me Oh, I mean, I'm powerful hungry I'm so hungry. I could eat my buckskin britches horn buttons at all Oh son, I reckon you're sure are getting well again. Well, how's robbie doing it and jane's? Is he up and about and powerful hungry like me is he ma And I never saw you cry before What's on this is is robbie and the lad Robby isn't it at jane's? he's not The word robbie never was it at jane's andy You totally know. Well, you were very ill on the ride home lad. You were out of your head with a fever But good lord saw fit to spare you son But he took robbie I mean robbie's dead Other robbie Oh and Don't cry ma, please don't cry You still have me and Hugh They lad I just have you Just you Your brother Your brother Hugh. He died of his wounds at stone fair huh When I get well again Will you permit me to go back to the war? Well, I'll not hold you andy my son. I must fight ma for robbie and you Now that they're gone Yes Yes, you may as well go and rule I too will be gone from here You're going away ma. Ah, yes lad But where ma? Oh anywhere to the fighting is andy There'll be much for me to do The good lord has seen fit to take two of my sons But there are other sons andy And while there's blood in my body and strength in my bones I'll not turn away from them For they're my sons too and If by some mischance I don't return andrew Then it'll be yours to keep the roots of freedom strong And the tree of liberty Gain Forever ahead we'll return the first here is gain wetman speaking for dupont When you go shopping for food you squeeze the tomatoes and pinch the peaches That little habit and most of us have it Ruins millions of pounds of fresh vegetables and fruits Every year Now add all the spoilage and waste that takes place between the farm and your table And you get a figure that's pretty shocking in these days when people in some countries are hungry More than a quarter of all the fresh fruits and vegetables grown in the united states Are thrown out as garbage or other waste before they reach your table This waste has to be paid for through higher prices for the fruits and vegetables that are actually sold If waste can be lessened It will help keep prices down In an effort to reduce the present high waste figure Some interesting experimental work is being done by progressive organizations in the food field Grocery retailers, produce wholesalers, growers and specialists from leading universities As well as engineers from refrigeration and packaging supplies And cellophane packaging specialists from the dupont company The results of these experiments look so promising That someday in the future when merchandise is freely available and when enough packaging materials are available You may have a new type of produce department in your favorite store Instead of spending a lot of time trying to choose the best of the fruits and vegetables left After other shoppers have handled them You'll find them neatly arranged in gleaming transparent packages Yours will be a complete freedom of choice And you won't have to wait for a clerk to help you You'll just take out a package of apples or spinach and pay the price marked on it Shopping will be more convenient, faster, easier You won't have to do a lot of trimming and washing when you get home The things you buy will be cleaner and fresher Many of them ready to cook And this method called pre-packaging will sharply reduce waste Pre-packaging fresh produce is one of the latest ways to reduce waste In which dupont cellophane A product of chemical science improved in quality And continually reduced in price by American business ingenuity better serves you Protects food stuffs that reach your table Transparent moisture proof clean economical Cellophane shows you what you buy and at the same time protects what it shows It not only helps to prevent fruit and vegetable waste But brings these products to you at their best It helps the grower the retailer and you Cellophane is one of the dupont companies better things for better living through chemistry Oh, here's our star agnes moorhead. Thank you gain It was a pleasure tonight to play elizabeth jackson because The mother of andrew jackson is an excellent example of the kind of mother who gave direction and inspiration to a great american I feel that particularly these days we need more insight and understanding of these truly great persons the mothers of america Who's spirit and sacrifice sympathy and unfaltering faith are the cornerstone of our country Thank you Next week the dupont cavalcade brings you douglas fairbanks jr. And mr. cunningham sweeps the seas It's an adventurous exciting story based on the real life experience of gustavis cunningham of the united states navy Cunningham in 1777 was a one-man navy facing a mighty english fleet dominating the high seas And his gallant fight against great odds his capture and escape make a true epic tale of the revolutionary war Listen in next monday to mr. Cunningham sweeps the seas starring douglas fairbank jr The music for tonight's dupont cavalcade was composed and conducted by robert armrester Tonight's play was written by henry walch agnes moorhead is one of the stars of the new metro golden mayor picture the beginning or the end In the cast with agnes moorhead tonight where walter tedley is andy Conrad benion is robbie william johnstone is mcpherson herb butterfield as colton and haunts conread as rodin This is john easton inviting you to listen next week to douglas fairbanks jr. In mr. cunningham sweeps the seas On the cavalcade of america brought to you by the depart company of wilmington delaware The cavalcade of america came to you from hollywood. This is mbc the national broadcasting company