The weekly Arizonian., 1859-11-10

noble and generous traits of mind and heart
 with brave, loyal souls, maguanimOus natures liberal hands and kindly feelings-but also witt jealsus attachment Co degree in a state
 with pride of lineage, pride ofpostion--as little of democrats in sentiment or conviction as if is possible to conceive. They are, in their owr opinion, the authoritive guardians of the state not simply by legal election of the ireehoIders but by birth, rank and position Not unkind or oyerbearlng, they yet look down from an i'm
 mense height upon the common people-yeo men, factors and tradesmen-and calmly as snme, as they vcrlly believe themselves entitled to, the place of ofpatricans and constitutional rulers
 This brief sketch may serve to explain the astonishmeut indignation and bitter opposition which the coarse clad youth from Hanover aroused when he quietly arose 10 dictate the course Of action to be pursued by the barons. Ihere was everything in his appearance and soclal status to provoke dispeasure He was clad Tn an old faded peach blossom coat, rude m fabric Ns in fashion; his knee-breeches, in stead of fine cloth or velvet. consisted of dressed leather his head was covered with an old rusty uewig, innocent of powder and utterly insigni. hcant, beside the flowing perukes of the nabobs, as they were then called There was nothing in the bearing of this shabbiy dressed figure t0 redeem its coarse appearance. The shoulders stopped, 1t moved stitlly and awkardy; when the compressed lips opened to speak, the words which came forth were pronounced in a way to grate painfully upon the cultivated cars of the lstener. Earh was called 'yarth, learning. iarHiu' and natural naiteraL The effect was as dIsagrecble as that produced to day upon an American by the pronunciation of g foreigner. lhis alone threw a gulf between the rustic youth aud the Oxford educated gentlemen. But all personal objections sank into insiguifcance beside the audacity of the propositions offered by the cosrsnly aPpareled young man. His aI. sumption of leadership would at any time have been regarded hy the old barons as presumptu- ous but he did more. He placed himsefn de- termuHed hostility to each and all-for his eel ebrated resolutions were the gauntlet of def ance, thrown down to all the preudices of the past-the old world theories-n their very essence and foundation They fell like thun derbolt They distinctly denied the right of parment to legisate upon matters concerning the American colOnies-heuce their right to lay, mpusts-hence the constitutionality of the Stamp Act The reading of the resolutions was the signal for storm. The lightning was succeeded by the roar of the opposition thunder The advocates of further petition, protest and memorial fought with all the passion, virulance and animosty of men who were outraged in their political convictions their personal vanity and their views of social propriety. Henry says that a storm of abuse was visited upon him. and Jefferson, then youth and listener in the lobby, declares that "the debate was most bloody It was in the midst of his speech, that Henry, with arms extended aloft and flash ng eyes, thundered out his celebrated words Caesar had his Bruus Charles the First his Cromwell and George the Third his voice was drowned in violent and indignant cries of "Ireason Treason' rolling up from every part of the house, and from the lip, of the Speaker It was a moment which tries man hood, and tests the fibre of the soul-H Henry 8 bore the strain His figure rose aloft with a prouder defiance; his eye flashed with fires more naughty and determined Confronting his op- pouents with the ccornful wrath of an aroused giant, his voice rung out clear and stormy, And George the Third, he repeated, "may profit by their example If this be treason. make the most of fitl The resolutions were carried Driven through, over all opposition. and in spite of the most tremendous attacks, they were adopted-the last by bare majority. Peyton Randolph, in passing through the lob by, was heard to eXclaim, with a bitter oath, that he would have given five hundred guin- cas for a single vote One vote would have sllenced the alarm bell, and five hundred guin- eaS was not much to offer for it
 The action of the great House of Expresses, of Virginia, sent thrill through the whole land from North to South; and the ten years war of constitutional struggle which would terminate in a seven years war of reyolutionry combat begun on that day when Patrick Hen " fought his resolves through the Assembly of Virginia, and publicly defcd the power of Par liment-Nslo Fork Century.