New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-06

| believe do them great Justice in allowing tE1t
they employ to some good purpose two hours
of the twenty four" At this time the Carolina
planter, who had had but poor opinion Of New
England, changed his mind and wrote To thu
Scotch ladies: You cannot we'll imagine what
a Land of health plenty and contentment this
is, among all ranks vastly improved within these
/ ten years I am almost tempted t wish
/ that instead of broiIing and squabbling about
public affairs in Carolina. | had been set d"wr
quietly here Five years after. having married
/ again he did settle down in Boston, taking up
. the business which the rich old sugar baker. mis-
/ sisters second husband laying down. lie
came, unfortunately. into more "squahbIing.
for the Stamp Act had just been passed and Bos-
ton full of rage and disorder. Conservative
to the backbone and long British Off ial. he
had sympathy whatever with the patriot
! movement, though he did into the future
clearly enough to declare that in pr cess of
time this extensive fertile territory, cultivated
/ as it will be by millions of people, healthy and
strong, must by the nature of things prepon-
| derate" He was not in any sense a malignant
Tory; but the ties of birth held him strongly.
and he honestly believed that the America when
he loved was sacrificing her best interests in re
| bellion His business, at least was ruined He
shared the unpOpuarity Of his brother Tories.
though it does not appear that he displayed his
| principles any more extensively than by offering
ball for W s Brown, who was concerned in the
! fight between James otis and the Royal Customs
Commissioner. John Robinson. Murray writes
to friend apropos Of this occasion:
As was passing out next to Mr.. Dana my
| viz was pulled off. and a pate, clean shaved 10y
| time and the barber. was lett exposed ms
! was thought a signal and prelude for further
! insult. which would probably nave taken riat'
| but for hurting the cause. Gong alonE IN 't'7
! plight surrounded by the crowd, in the GaLA-
/ Lewis Gray took hold of my right arm ana MT
! William Taylor of my left and supported me-
! while somebody behind kept nibbng at NY
sides and cudcayorins to trip me, FOR the lI'''T-
uie. as may Ice supposed, Of treadIng the reform
| ir,, instica ont Of me hv the multitude. Nj.
| Dcbois threw himself in my rear ana suffered
| not a little i'm my defence Mi &. Hooper went
| before, and my wig dishevelled, as was t"'d'
was borne staff behind The gentlemen
| nv friends and supporters. offer'd to house mo
near the Hall. but l insisted on going nome ID
safety Mr. Gray and others having continually
| thus admonishcd my rotinue on the way, 80
! violence, yOu'H hurt the cause
royal appointment as inspector of the port
! of Salem did not further exalt Murray in the
eyes of the patriots and after the evacuation
| of Boston he fled with his wife TO HaHiaN ana
| never again saw his sister or his children he
| came under the Act of Punishment, all his prop
| ertv was coniiscated and he died in Nova Scotia
| in 17S1. Peace to him-we may think him ms
taken. but he was honest in his beliefs ami
| suffered for them.
The most entertaining part of this volume -
! to be found in the letters from various feminine
| hands describing their experiences III Gam
| bridge and Milton during the opening thrlI"I
! of the Revolution. Murray's clever sister filZ'-
! betb-bv that time married to her third nus
! band the wealthy and extremely tlmld old gen
! tIeman Ralph Inman-guarded as well as might
| he her two estates from the incurslonS oil IN"
| troops She had many friends among the Amer
| leans who endeaVored to keep her from ihoieSt'i-
| ton. but war is not play and she had 10 meet
! MANY troubles and finally lost nearly all the
! property she had struggled so hard TO save
! Quaint indeed are the letters exchanged 10y the
| frightened old husband in Boston and the eAAs-
! perated wife in Cambridge. Dear SIR ana
Dear Madam are their modes of address anu
/ the wayering weakness of the man conlcally
| contrasts with the unsefsh courage of the haru
! working Scotchwoman.
The book is edited with care but without 'i'e
spirit the animation and the fuller reinforce
n,ent of contemporary history which might nave
! made if something more than a family chrohltle-
! If is worth noting, by the way, that James Mur-
/ raw ,ae \ distant relative of Sir Walter Scott.