And not only was the church well provided for by the royalist assembly, but the state also. While Virginia by her citizens elected her governor, she had allowed him a fixed salary, which, now that he was nominated by the crown, was insufficient. One thousand pounds, derivable from a permanent tax on tobacco, with an additional two hundred more than the whole annual expenditure of the government of Connecticut, was granted as his permanent salary; but even that did not satisfy him. He complained that he had not three times as much, adding for his consolation, “I am, however, supported by my hopes that his gracious majesty will one day consider me.” Such now was the royal governor of Virginia. The justiciary government of the province was also changed; the magistrates were appointed by the governor and council, and held their offices for life. The county courts, now independent of the people, levied county-rates at their own pleasure and for their own expenses—they being an irresponsible body. Like the county magistrates, the newly-elected members of assembly, though nominally chosen for two years held themselves to be equally irresponsible, and remained in office for many years. Before long, therefore, “the meetings of the people at the usual places of election had for their object, not the election of burgesses, but to present their grievances.” Indeed the power of election, if the exercise of it had been required, was soon limited; the elective franchise being now restricted to freeholders and householders. The Restoration produced in Virginia a political revolution, opposed to the principle of popular liberty and the progress of humanity. To sum up the changes which had taken place; we shall find the General Assembly, which sat at the pleasure of the governor, imposing arbitrary taxes, and deriving extravagant and exorbitant emoluments; we shall find a constituency restricted and diminished; religious liberty at an end, arbitrary taxation in the counties by irresponsible magistrates; hostility to popular education and the press—regarding which we may quote the governor’s own words: “Thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have for these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!”