The evening world., 1911-10-09
Monday. October 8. 1910:
Copyright 1911. by The rrs Publishing Go. the Now YoA wodD.
No. Nv. The DaWn of The Revolution.

No. w. The Dawn of the Revolution.
TALL. stalwart, Virginia boy. scarcely OF age, won for himself
much local fame by punging into the wintry wilderness. in
December. 1874. and crossing hundreds of miles Of Forest infested
GN0 by savage beasts and still more savage Indians.
lie carried a letter of protest from Gov. Dnwiddie OF Virginia to the
French commander on the Ohio River. This message was. in a way, the
first indirect move that as ,o lead up to the revolution. twenty years later.
1t AZ te protest Of inspired Coonits. And its youthful bearer was
destined onc day to become the chief actor in that matured protests drama
He was George Washington.
France and England we're masters Of the greater nat Of North America
Aiohs te Atanoc seab'ard and or a vry few miles inland. chung the
fringe vt English colonies. Thirteen of them. To the south were Spains
was n longer a serious factor in North American arairs) To the north.
in Canada the French were in full control. Tho French pioneer, had also
Gulf Of Mexico. claiming he whole rcsnn as "New France"
There ws a continent thousands o miles wide n
n.-,- stretching from Florida to the Arctic. And there were
70, ~ri I p only "a handful Q French N English settler. to occupy
S| h,ra rsS'. r N 70" ton oiy room for all Il them; s, Tor =
over fur trndins rights France and England were hereditary foes and their
migrant h're t'k up the n"nhle a v"st land that could ave swallowed
ward into tho Auanac. The indians too sMes with te rrench md aaass i.
horrors OF tomahawk and torture to the warfare.
Gov nanwiddie protested IN vain against the encroachments of tho French
forts Then he English "oOnists turned to the mother country for aid in their
hour Of danger. Bnt England was slow in sending soldiers and wh~r Il. ad
focs 1t "a a sharp lesson. but 1t AS the frs, step toward Liberty.
in common with each other. Now. under pressure of a common peril. they
combined against the French. The war taught them not only how to tight Ike
heroes and to rely o. their W proves rather than o n English help but It
welded the scattered colonies ttoo n compact body. with mutual interests
Each setlcmen Learned to rally to dts sister colonies Aid.
When att last in l7s the French were utterly beaten and were forced to
very different sort of North America from that Of ten years arner 1t was
who called taensaves "Ensnshmen" 1t was made up now OF a strongly united
band of colonies shat had learned to love their new land Se'ausc they had tOH:s,
longer did they turn helpessly TO England In every moment of "res~ They
they were TIT nucleus Of new World Power
- "I-.\ Va pastme. rot hat Is Just WAT n British rarna-
.he-N" ment 10 proceeded to do 1t began to heap heavy take
o Hornets and unjust restrictions o. the American colonies It for
- bade them TO export goods to any country but Ensland
1t exacted duties on all their imports n crushed their efforts at establishing
manufactures of their own. Their, !, la. cam the Stamp Act.
The hornets nest "a kicked. And instantly the hornets were ut n force
all these imposions, But times had changed. The settlers were n longer
They were AMERICANS.