The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-04-25

Carpenters Hall.
Instantly sweep the majority into his
following with a charm and dash of
eloquence that came like a revelation
upon the quiet assembly
lie was but twenty-nine years old,
but he had spent all his life in learn
iuR how the world went, and by what
manner Of speech IL was moved and
governed. he had roamed the woods
with no thought bat for sport. or a
quiet hour with a book or his fancy
in the shape OF the trees He had
Kept a country store. aud let gossip
and talk oi Affairs OF colony and coun-
Try side take precedence OF business
Finally be had turned with a per-
manent relish 70 the law. and had set
himself 10 plead causes for his neigh
bors ia way that made judges stare
and iuries surrender at discretion. In
every thing be had seemed to read the
passions OF men. Books no less than
men. the chance company of an old
anthor no less than the constant talk
81 The neighborly land he lived in,
seemed 10 hll him with the quick prin-
eiples OF the people and polity to which
no belonged. and to lend him an in
evitably every living phrase in which
20 utter them.
His Power Over Men.
The universal sympathy and insight
which made his pleasantly so engag-
s-r~ a.. MOI, ~ avarv etovnn rapdarod
his power no less than terrible when
he turned 10 play upon their passions.
lie was not conscious or any audacity
when he sprang to his feet upon the
instant he saw the house resolved in
10 committee to consider the Stamp
Act II was of the ardor of his nature
20 speak when conviction moved him
strongly. without thought of propriety
OF precedence; and it was like him
90 stand there absorbed, reading his
resolutions from a fy-leaf torn from
an old law-book.
It seemed no doubt a precious piece
of audacity in the eyes of the pre-
scriptive leaders of the house to hear
this almost unknown man propose his
his express defiance of parliament
in tones which rang no less clear and
confident upon the clause which de-
clared his majestys liege people" of
che colony in no way bound to yield
obedience, than i'm the utterance of
the accepted matter of his premises.
Astounds the Old Leaders.
UrNafa ga r.ad mn of ouaa hot oVon
Passionate. The astounding, moving
elouQueaco OF the young advocate, his
instant hold upon the house, the di-
rectness with which he purposed and
executed action in so grave a matter,
stirred the pulses of his opponents
and bis followers with an equal power,
and reused those who would have
checked aim TO a vehemence as great
as his own.
The old leaders of the house, with
whom ne now stood face to face in
this critical business, were the more
formidable because of the strong rea
son of their position No one could
Justly doubt that they wished to see
the Old Dominion keep and vindicate
her liberty, but they deemed it folly
60 be thus Unexpectedly beforehand
with the issue. Almost 10 a man they
were sprung of families who had come
10 Virginia with the great migration
that had brought the WashingtOns. in
che evil day when 50 many were fee
ing England 10 be quit of the Puritan
tyranny -royalists all. and touched tC
che quick with the sentiment of 10y
atty.
Twas now a long long time since
Cromwells day. indeed; generation!
had passed and deep passion foI
Virginia had been added to that OLE
reverence for the wearer of the crown
ga England. But these men prideC
themselves still upon their loyalty
made Il a point of honor 10 show
themselves no agitators. but cOnstitu
tional statesmen
it made them grave and deeply anx
ious % see the privileges that wer,
most dear 10 them thus violated AM
denied. but it did not make them hast.
80 quarrel with the parliament Of thu
realm. They had intended opposition
but they feared 10 throw their Gauss
away by defiance. Twas as little wis
"a dignified. TO flout thus at the sover
eign power before all means had beef
exhausted TO win it to forbearance.
The Speaker of the House.
Il was not the least part of the diff
Guilty 70 face the veterans speaker Johl
Robinson. so old in affairs, so stated
IN his age. so graVely courteous. an
yet with such threat of good man
~ers against those who should max