Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1913-04-20

spread everywhere throughout the set.
Elements. Not only did the impending
enforcement of the act engross the
conversation OF the speculative part
of the colonists," as Washington wrote
TO Francis cambridge in London; il
promised to engross also the ener-
gies of very active. and it might be
very violent, men in many quarters,
and it began to grow evident that
some part of government Itself would
be brought to a standstill by its pro
eesse.
"Our courts OF adjudicature." de-
clared Washington, must inevitably
be shut up: for It is impossible toI
next Of kin to it, under our present
circumstances, that the act of parlia-
ment can be complied with and
II a stop be put to our judicial pro-
ceedings, / fancy the merchants oil
Great Britain trading to the colonies
win not be among the last to wish for
a repeal Of it."
A Bill Of Rights.
The congress at New Y0IH drew
up nothing less than bill of rights
and immunities. and sent resolutions
over sea which arrested the attention
Of the world. The Virginia assembly
despatched like papers for itself: and
Richard Henry Lee. when he had as
sisted to draw its memorials, hast
ened home to form in his own Cava-
lier county a ''Westmoreland associa'
1 ton" whose members flour Washing
tons among the rest) bound them
/ selves by a solemn, covenant to exert
every faculty to prevent the execution
OF the said stamp act in any instance
whatsoever within this colony" The
ministry could not stand the pressure.
/ They gave way to Lord Rockingham,
and the act was repealed.
Washington Takes It Calmly.
! Meanwhile Washington. his calm
temper mistaken, was slowly coming
to clear vision Of affairs in all their
( significance Fox hunting did not
cease. He was much in the saddle
and at table with the Fairfaxes. whom
nothing could shake from their allie
{ giance, and who looked with sad fore
. bodings upon the temper the colony
was in.
Il was proper they should speak so
( II they DENIED il just, and Washington
had no intolerance for what they
urged. But George Mason. the neigh
Dor whom he most trusted. was Of a
very different mind. and strengthened
and confirmed him in other counsels.
Mason was six years his senior;
man, too, cast by nature to under
stand men and events. how they must
go and how be guided. They con,
i ferred constantly. at every turn Of
their intimate life. in the field or in
| the library. mounted or afoot in the
| forests. and came very deliberately
and soberly to their statesman's view
Randolph and Pendleton and Wythe
| and Bland had themselves turned,
after the first hesitation, 10 act with
ardent men like Lee in framing the
memorials to king lords and commons
which were to go from the burgesses
along with the resolutions Of the
stamp act congress in New York; and
Washington, who had never hesitated,
l but had only gone slowly and with his
eyes open, with that self poise men
had found so striking in him from the
first. came steadily with the rest to
the at last common purpose OF reso
lutte opposition. PR
Repeal Of the Act. ga
The repeal Of the act came to al
like a great deliverance- "a
Governor Fauquier had deemed IT
his duty to dissolve the assembly
upon the passage OF Henry's resoid
| tions. but he had acted without pas
sion IN the matter, and had kept the
respect Of the men he dealt with, He
was not a man, indeed, to take public
business very seriously, having been
bred a man Of fashion and a courtier
rather than a master Of affairs. He
loved gay company and the deep c--
element Of the gaming table. not the
round CO ofhcial routine. Affable. gem
erous. elegant. a scholar and real lover
OF letters. he vastly preferred the
talk of yivacious women and accom-
| piished men to the business OF the
general court. and was man 70 be
liked rather than consulted.
A RoyaIist Governor.
Washington, always admitted 70 the
intimacy Of official circles at VIII
Iamsburg. very likely reiished the gal
liant Fauquier better than the too of
cious 0inwiddie. It was unhappilyi
no portent to see a man still devoted
to dissipation at sixty-two. even
though he were governor Of one OF his
majestys colonies and trusted ser
T, want Of the crown; and FauQulsr7
/ gifts as man OF wit and OF instructez
tastes made his companionship nc less
acceptable to Washington than to the
other men OF discernment who fire.
quented the ball rooms and receptions