Bisbee daily review., 1913-05-10
Life Of Washington
 By
 Woodro4v
 Wilson President of the United States
(Contlnued from Yesterday

mountains, also, had they been empty and unclaimed, like the vast territory that lay belond the Ohio. But for many a year settlers had been crossing the noun tains into those fertile valleys, and both this region and that which Vir- ginia still kept showed many clear ing now and many a rude hamle, ~here hardy frontiersmen were mak. ing a new home for civilization.
 Rather than be handed over to con gress, to be disposed of by an author tty which no one else was bound to obey. North Carolina's western set- tiers declared they would form a state of their own, and North Carolina had to recall her gift of their lands to the confederation before their plans of defiance could be checked and de- feated.
 Virginia found her own frontiers
 nen no less ready to take the iDitia- tive in whatever affair touched their
 interest.
 Spain Closes Lower MissIsss-PI.
 Spain offered the United States trade at her ports, but refused to grant them the use of the lower courses of the Mississippi, lest terri torial aggression should be pushed too shrewdly in that quarter; and news reached the settlers beyond the noun tains, in the far counties of North Carolina and Virginia, that Mir Jay. the Confederation's secretary for for eign affairs. had proposed to the congress to yield the navigation of the Mississippi for a generation. in ex- change for trade on the seas. They iatly declared they would give them selves, and their lands too. into the hands of England again rather than submit to be so robbed, cramped and | deserted.
 The New England states, on their part, threatened to withdraw from the Confederation if treaties were to be made to wait upon the assent or ! frontiersmen on the far Mississippi. The situation was full Of menace of
 no ordinary sort
 It could profit the Confederation lit ! tie that great states like Virginia and [ New York had grown magnanimous. i and were endowing the Confederation | with vast gifts Of territory in the west, | if such gifts were but to loosen still I further the already slacRened bonds Of ! the common government. leaving set ! tiers in the unclaimed lands no ale | glance they could respect. l Without a national government spir | tied and strong enough to frame poll [ cies and command obedience, "wc i shall never establish a national char acter or be considered as on a respect ! able footing by the powers of Europe.
 Washington had said from the first. Washington Urges Union. | He had made a most solemn appeal | 10 the states In his last circular to | them, ere lie resigned his commission urging them to strengthen the powers ! of congress, put faction and jealousy
 away, and make sure of "an indis- | soluble union under one federal head"
 An option is still left to the United
 States of America" ke had told them with all his plain and stately eIo | quenee; fit is in their choice, and de-
 bends upon their conduct. whether
 they will be respectable and prosper ous. or eontemptible and miserable.
 as nation. This is the time Of their ! political probation"
 The hazards of that probation had been a burden upon his heart through
 all the toll of the Revolution. and now
 it seemed as if the states must needs make every evil choice in meeting them. Congress could not so much as learry out the provisions of the treaty
 of peace, for its commissioners had made promises in the name of the
 states which the states would not re deem.
 England Breaks Her Agreement.
 England consequently refused to
 keep her part of the agreement and .relipquish the western posts. She levied commercial war against the country. besides, without fear Of re prisaI; for congress had no power to sregulate trade, and the states were too jealous of each other to cooperate
 in this or any other matter.
 English statesmen had consented to give up the colonies, and recognize Itheir independence as a nation. rather
 than face any longer the world in
 arms: but they now looked to see
 them presently drop back into their
 hands again, out of sheer helplessness
 and hopeless division in counsel: and
 there were observant men in America wko deemed the thing possible. though ! it brought an intolerable fire into
 their blood 10 think of it. In Financial Straits. Other nations. too. were fast con ceiying a like contempt for the Con, federation.
 It was making no provision for the , payment of the Vast sums Of money it had borrowed abroad. in France and 1 Holland and Spain; and it could not ] make any. It could only ask the ] states for money, and must count it self fortunate to get enough to pay
 even the interest on its debts. !. was this that foKe.=n courts were l.