Bisbee daily review., 1913-04-27
ontinued From Yesterday
st.lI Runs With- ths Hounas


 He found time, even that stirring year. to quicken his blood once and again, nevertheless, while winter held, by a run with the hounds; for he was not turned politician so sternly even yet as to throw away his leisure upon anything less wholesome than the hale sport he loved.
 On the goth of May. 1775, the sec ond Virgiaian convention met, not in williamsburg, but at Richmond, and its chief business was the arming of the colony.
 Maryland had furnished the ironical formula with which to justify what was 10 be done: Resolved, unani- Dously, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the gentlemen freehold CTS and other freenen, is the natural strength and only stable security of a free government: and that such militia will relieve our mothe=-coun- try from any expense in our protec- ton and defense. will obviate the pre- tence of a necessity for taxing us on that account. and render it unneces- saTy 10 keep any standing army ever dangerous to hberty-in this proyince."s
 Patrick Henry Declares War.
 Mir Henry. accepted the formula with great relish. in the convention at Richmond. in his resolution that the colony be immediately put into pos ture of defense" but he broke with it in the speech with which he sup ported his measure of preparation. Tn this there was no plan or pre- tence of peace, but, instead, a plain declaration of war
 Once more did Edmund Pendleton, Richard Bland, Mir Nicholas and Col f onel Harrison spring to their feet to check him, as in the old days of the ] Stamp act Once more, nevertheless. did he have his way, completely tri- umphant.
 The War Party Triumphs. What he had proposed was done, and his very opponents served upon the committee charged with it's accom- | pIishment It was not going more l than other colonies had done: it was ] only saying more: it was only deal. | ing moro fearlessly and frankly with i fortune
 Even slow, conservative men like ! John Dickinson of Pennsylvania, | shielded themselves behind onlyan If. ' fTEe first act Of violence on the part 1 of administration in America" they i knew, "or the attempt to reinforce General Gage this winter or next year ] will put the whole continent in arms, 1 from Nova Scotia to Georgia. 1 Regulars Meet the Militia. What they feared very speedily 1 came to pass
 Twas hardly four weeks from the ! day Mir. Henry proclaimed a state oi
 war in the convention at Richmond
 before the kings regulars were set
 upon at Lexington and Concord and | driven back in rout to their quarters | by the swsrming militia men of Mass achusetts.
 On the 18th of April they had set
 out across a peaceful country to seize the military stores placed at Concord
 Before the day was out they had been fairly thrown back into Boston, , close upon three hundred of their com
 rades gone to a last reckoning; and the next morning disclosed a rapidly
 growing provincial army drawn in
 threatened siege about them. Lord Dgamore Rolled.
 In the darkness of that very night
 JApril 20). at the command of Dun. more. a force of marines was land
 ed from an armed sloop that lay in James river. in Virginia. to seize the gunpowder stored at Williams burg.
 The "irginiens in their turn spraDs to arms and Dunmors- was forced