The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-05-17

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stitutional agitation.
There is an opinion which does in
some degree obtain in the other colo
MES that the Massachusetts gentle.
men, and especially Of the town Of
Boston, do affect to dictate and take
the lead in continental measures, that
we are apt, from an inward vanity and
self-conceit, to assume big and
naughty airs" said Joseph Hawley,
who, for all he had grown old az a
quiet Massachusetts lawyer among his
neighbors, had kept his shrewd eyes
abroad. 1T is highly probable" no
told John Adams, with wholesome
bluntness, that you will meet gentle.
men from several of the other colo.
MES fully equal to yourselves or any
of you in their knowledge. of Great
Britain, the colonies, law, history, gov
eminent, commerce. BY what we
from time to time see in the public
papers, and what our assembly and
committees have received from the
assemblies and committees of the
more southern colonies, we must be
satisfied that they have men of az
much sense and literature as any we
can, or ever could, boast Of"
Advised to 30 Prudent.
1t was mere counsel Of prudence
that they should play their part In the
congress with modesty and discretion.
Not Gushing and Paine, but the
Adamses, carried the strength Of the
Massachusetts delegations; and it was
Samuel Adams, rather than John, who
was just now the effective master In
the great Bay Colony-"master' of
puppets" his enemies called him.
Hale, bluff, adroit, plain, a man Of
the people, he had grown old in the
business of agitation. Fifty-two years
he had lived, planning always for
others, never for himself. He had
never looked forward in his life," he
frankly said: never planned, laid
scheme, or framed a design of laying
up anything for himself or others aft,
er him." had let all his private bust
ness go neglected, and lived upon the
petty salary of a small public office,
the indulgence Of fortune, and the
good Offices Of the friends and neigh
bors who loved him.
The master OF Puppets"
He was in Philadelphia now wear
Ing the plain suit and spending the
modest purse with which his friends
and partisans had fitted him out-the
very impersonation Of the revolution
men were beginning so to FEAR
No man had ever daunted him:
neither could any corrupt him: He
was possessed with the instinct of agi-
tation; led the people, not the lead
ers; cared not for place, but only for
power; showed mastery of means,
4 self.containment, a capacity for
timely and telling speech, that mark
ed him a statesman, though he loved
the rough ways Of a peoples govern
ment, and preferred the fierce demo-
cracy of the town meeting to the
sober dignity of senates. Like an
eagle in his high building and strength
of audacious flight, but in instinct and
habit bird of the storm. Not over
aice what he did, not too scrupulous
what he devised, he was yet not self
lsh, loved the principles he had given
his life to, and spent himself without
limit to see them triumph
Another Kind Of Adams.
John Adams, hi, cousin, was Of =
very different mould; q younger man
by thirteen years; no man Of the peo-
pie, but with taste rather for the ex-
elusive claims of education and breed
ing; self-regardful; thought too cal
culating; too quick-witted to be- pa.
hent with dull men, too self-conscious
to be at ease with great ones; and
yet publicsp1rited withal, and gener-
'us In action il not in Judgment; Of
great powers, il only he could manage
70 use them without jealousy. ri. f.s5 *
Samuel Adams thought only Of his
md, not Of himself; seldom spoke Of
himself, indeed; seemed sort Of
subtle engine for the peoples bust
ness. John Adams thought of himself
always, and vet mastered himself to
play great part with the nobility Of
l man of genius, If not with the grace
u a. man Of modesty and, self forgetful
devotion. !, For the time he could even
hold back with his willy cousin, resign
leadership in the congress to Virginia,
md act in all things the wise part of
hose who follow. =
A Situation Full Of Peril. 4: - ~; n
1t was a circumstance, full Of peril
that the delegates of the several colo
MES should at such juncture BE-
strangers to one another, and provin.
dals all, nowhere bred to continental
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