The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-05-31

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Tread and fearfully submit to the
views OF the majority. Government
was suspended; there was nowhere 80
much as a justice Of the peace acting
ander the authority ct the crown.
There might have been universal Ii.
eense had the rabhe not seen their
leaders SO noble, so bent upon high
and honorable purposes. It was an
object-lesson in the character OF the
revolution to see Washington ride
through the colonies to take charge Of
IN insurgent army. And no man or
woman, or child even, was likely to
miss the lesson.
That noble figure drew all eyes to
It; that mein. as: If the man were 4
prince; that sincere and open counte-
nance, which every man could see was
lighted by d good conscience; that
cordial ease in salute, as Of a man
who felt himself brother to his
friends. $685..
~" Shows Himself to tho People.
+ There was something about Wash.
hgton that quickened the pulses OF
/ crowd at the same time that 1t
lwed them, that drew cheers which
we're a sort of voice of worship. Chill
drefl desired sight Of him, and men
elt lifted after he had passed. It was
good to have such man ride all the
,pen way from Philadelphia to Cam.
bridge In sight Of the people to as.
sume command Of the peoples army.
It gave character to the thoughts
" Ill who saw him.
Matters had not stood still before
Boston to await commander sent by
congress.
| While Washington waited for l1fs
commission and made ready for his
Journey there had been fighting done
Which was to simplify his task.
General William Howe had reached
Boston with reinforcements on the
25th of May, and quits ten thousand
troops held the city, while u strong
deet Of men-of-war lay watchfully III
The harbor.
- Tire British Hesitate.
There was no hurry, It seemed,
about attacking the sixteen Thousand
raw prUvincials, whose long lines were
drawn loosely about the town from
Charlestown Neck to Jamaica Plain.
But commanding hills looked across
the water on either hand-in Charles.
town on the north and in Dorchester
On the southeast-and 1t would be
we'll, Howe saw, to secure them, lest
they should be occupied by the insur.
gents. " ..,.%
On the morning of the nth Of June,
however; while leisurely preparations
were Amazing in Boston to occupy
the hills Of :Charlestown, it was dis
severed that the provincials had been
beforehand In the project. There they
were in the clear sun, working dill.
| gently at redoubts OF their own upon
the height. 49,
At q Fearful: Cost.
Three thousand men were put
across the water to drive them of.
Though they mustered only seventeen
hundred behind their unfinished
works, there we're several assaults
and the loss Ut thousand men was
the cost Of dislodging them. + ~.
| : They withheld their f1re till the red.
coats we're within flfty-nay, thirty
yards OF them ana then poured out i
deadly, blazing Are which no man
could face and tive: They were oast
ed only when they failel 81 powde,
ind despaired of reinforcsments. .
Veteran officers who ltad lad the -
Bahlt declared the regulars Of France
were not more Formidable than these
militia.men, whom they had despised
~ raw peasants. @ 4.
There was no desire to buy another
American position 1T that price; ana
| Washington had time enough for the
tompli mentary receptions and id.
dresses ana the elaborate parade .o1
essprs md fsyisN that delayed hill
iiolrney to lteza NJ. I.