Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1913-04-17
A Serious 6Iunder.

quleSce, II not without protest, at
least without tumult or dangerous re-
sistance.
A Serious 6Iunder.
II was a sad blunder. Virginia 10
sented threat and execution alike In
sch a matter as deeply as did litigi-
Gus Massachusetts,.
A long generation ago. in the quiet
year 1892, when bluff Sir Robert was
prime minister, there had been an in
oideut -hich Governor Keith, maybe.
had forgotten. The ministry had De-
manded of Massachusetts shat she
should establish a fixed salary FOR her
governors by a standing grant; but
she had refused. and the ministers
had receded.
The affair had not been lost upon
the other colonies. That sturdy one
time royal governor, Alexander Spots-
wood. in Virginia, had noted il very
particularly. and spoken of it very
bluntly. dihgent servant Of the crown
as be was, TO Col, william william Byrd, when
he came his way on his progress to
the mines" He declared that il the
assembly in New England would stand
bluff. he did not see how they could be
forced to raise money against their
will, for il they should direct It to be
done by act Of parliament, which they
have threatened to do Though It be
against the right Of Englishmen to be
taxed but by their representatives,
yet they would find it no easy matter
to put such an act in execution"
No observing man could SO much as
travel in Virginia without finding very
promptly what it was that gave point
and poignancy to such an opinion
A LsVei-Headed Parson. .r..
That quiet gentleman, Rev. Andrew
Burnaby, vicar Of Greenwich, was in
Virginia IN 1883, and saw plainly
enough how matters stood. The pub
lie or political character of the Yir-
ginians,' he said, corresponds with
their private one; they are naughty
and jealous OF the liberties, impa-
tent of restraint, and can scarcely
bear the thought Of being controlled
| by any superior power. Many Of
them consider the colonies as indie
pendent states. not connected with
Great Britain otherwise than by hav-
ing the same common king and being
bound to her with natural affection"
/ Not only so, but they think II a hard
ship not to have an unlimited trade
TO every part Of the world"
All this, and more. Granville might
have learned by the simple pains Of
inquiry. One had but to open his
eyes and look to see how imperious a
race had been bred IN the almost
feudal south: and, for all they had
never heard revolutionary talk thence,
ministers ought to have dreaded the
leisure men had there to think, the
provocation To be proud, the neces-
sity to be masserful and individual,
quite as much as they had ever
dreaded the stubborn temper and the
quick capacity for united action they
had once and again seen excited In
New England
Law a Dead Letter.
70 was not necessary TO try new
laws to see what the colonies would
do IL provoked. The difficulty already
encountered in enforcing the laws Of
/ trade was object-issscn enough; and
the trouble in that matter had grown
acute but yesterday. For long, indeed,
no one in the colonies questioned the
right of parliament TO regulate their
7 trade; but it was notorious that the
Z laws actually enacted in that matter
I had gone smoothly of in America only
because they were not seriously en-
( forced.
The trade hitiier Is engrossed by
the Saints OF Kew England laughed
Colonel Byrd, who carry OF a great
deal Of tobacco without troubling
themselves with paving that imperti-
nent duty of a penny pound"
( The acts of trade practically for