The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-07-12

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when he came to take possession 81
the old plantation with his bride after
the neglects Of the French war.
Finds Virginia State.
But Virginia was more changed than
Mount Vernon. He had left It q col
ony, at odds with q royal governor:
he returned to find 1t a state, with
BENJAMIN Harrison, that stout gentle.
man and good. planter, for governor,
by the free suffrage of his fellow Viz
ginians.
There had been no radical break
with the aristocratic traditions of the
past. Mr.. Harrison's handsome seat
at Lower Brandon lay where the long
reaches Of the James marked the old.
est regions of Virginia's life upon
broad, half-feudal estates; where there
were good wine and plate upon the
table, and gentlemen kept old customs
bright and honored In the observance,
A Great Change In Affairs.
But the face Of affairs had greatly
changed, nevertheless. The old gener'
alton Of statesmen had passed away.
almost with the colony, and a young
or generation was In the saddle, not.
wlthstanding gray-haired figure hera
and there.
Richard Bland had died In the year
of the Declaration; Peyton Randolph
had not lived to see It..
Edmund Pendleton, after presiding
over Virginia's making as a state, as
chairman Of her revolutionary commit
tee of safety, was now withdrawn
from active affairs to the bench, hts
fine figure marred by a fall from his
horse, his old power as an advocate
transmitted into the cooler talents Of
the judge.
Patrick Henry, tho ardent leader OF
the Revolution, had been chosen the
states first governor, in the year of the
Declaration Of Independence; three
years later Thomas Jefferson had sue
ceeded him in Office, the philosophical
radical of times OF change; tho choice
Of Mr.. Harrison had but completed thu
round of the new variety In affairs.
Men who, like Richard Henry Lee
had counseled revolution and the
breaking Of old bonds, were now In all
things at the front Of virginia's bust
ness; and younger men, of force and
Oower Of origination equal to his own.
wero pressing forward as If to carry
new generation to the stage which,
had known nothing but Independence
md q tree field Of craftsmanship.
Among the rest, James Madison
only little. more than, ten years out!
of college, but already done with serv-i
Ing his novftiate In the congress- of the
confederation, q publicist and leader,
In the old dominion at thirty-two.
Edmund Randolph, of the new gen.
GRAFTON of the commonwealth great
family Of lawyers, like his forbears in:
gifts and spirit, was already received
at thirty, into place of influence
among public men.
Marshall a War Veteran.
John Marshall, just turned Of TWEEN
ty-eight, but q veteran of the long war
none the less, having been at the thick
OF the fighting, lieutenant and q cap
tain along the Virginian forces. from
the time Dunmore was driven from
Norfolk till the eve of Yorktown. was,
now that that duty was done, a lawyer
in quiet Fauquier, drawing to himself
the eyes Of every man who had the
perception to note qualities Of force
and leadership.
James Monroe had come out of the
war at twenty-five to go at once into
the public councils of his state, an
equal among his elders. Young men
came forward upon every side to take
their part in the novel rush of affairs
that followed upon the heels OF rev.
olution.
Royal Welcome for Washington.
Washington found himself no strang.
or In the new state, for all it had
grown Of sudden so unlike that old
community In which his own life had
been formed. He found q very royal
welcome awaiting him at his home,
coming.
still as much as ever; was as loyal to
him now as it had been in the PARKWAY
days Of the French war, when Din
widdle alone fretted against him; re-
ceived him with every tribute of af.
lection, offered him gifts, and loved
him all the better for refusing them.
But he must have felt that q deep
change had come upon his life, none
the less, and even, upon his relations
with his old familiars and neighbofs.
Most Famous Man Of the Day.
He had gone away 1onored indeed,
and marked for responsible services
among his ,people-a Burgess as mat
ter of course, a notable citizen, whose
force no man who knew him could
fall to remark: but by no means &C.
counted greatest, even among the men
who gathered for the colonv's h,nsinass