The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-01-25

mcnt. integrity as of a true Roman
spirit. was sort Of prince among the
rest. No man could doubt he wished
Virginia TO have her liberties. He had
gone over sea 10 speak for her III Din
widdie's day. though he was tho kings
attorney, and had lost his Office for his
boldness. But there were traditions. of
loyalty and service in his breeding
which no man NIGH, rightly ignore.
His father before him had won
knighthood and the royal favor by long
aud honorable service as his majesty s
attorney in the colony. Pride and 10y
atty had gone hand in hand in the an
nails of proud race, and had won for
the Rsndolphs q prestige which made
it impossible Sir John s son should
very long be kept from the Office he
had SO honorably inherited And so
Peytou Randolph was now once again
the kings attorney.
1t was not as the kings officer. how.
ever, but as an experienced parllamen-
tRry tnctician. trained debater,
sound man of affairs, that he had set
himself to check Henry in his revolu-
tionary courses.
ACCUSED OF TREASON.
Henry found himself, in truth, pas
sionately set upon, Even threats were
uttered, and abuse such as proud men
find III TO hear. They cried Treason!
treason.' upon him when he dared de-
clare the king would do we'll TO look
TO the fate of Caesar and Charles the
First for profitable examples.
But he was not daunted a whit. "lf
this be treason, make the most OF 1t,
was his defiance to them.
One ally who might have stood with
him, had he known, was absent. Rich
ard Henry Lee wonld have brought to
his support a name as ancient and as
honorable az any in the colony. and
an eloquence scarcely less than hls
own. But. as il was, he was left al
most alone. and won his battle with
no other aid than very plain men could
lend by vote and homely utterance.
The vote was very close, but enough.
Randolph flung out of the house: NUT
tering in his heat that he ''would have
given five hundred guincas for a sim
gle vote.
NOT INFLATED BY HIS TRIUMPH.
Henry, taking the triumph very sim
ply, as was his wont, and knowing his
work for the sessions done, quietly
made bis way bomeward that very
day, striding unconcernedly down Duke
Of Gloucester street, chatting with a
friend, his legs clad in buckskip rs If
for the frontier, his saddle-bags and
the reins of his lean nag slung care
lcssly over his arm.
The assembly had adopted Henry s
declaration of rights. not his resolu,
tion of disobedience, and had softeDed
little the language be would have
used: but its action seemed seditious
enough to Fanquier, the governor, and
he promptly dissolved them,
It did little good TO send Virginians
home, however, if the object was to
check agitation. The whole manner of
their life bred thought and concert Of
action Where men have leave to be
individual, 1.-Two separately and with a
proud self-respect. and yet are much
at each others tables, often in vestry
council together, constantly coming and
going. talking and planning through.
out all the country side, accustomed
to form their opinions in league, and
yet express each man his own with a
dash and favor OF independence: where
there is the leisure to reflect, the habit
Of joint efforts In business, the spirit