The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-07-01

virginia's committed. % % appointed
at once, should be instructed to look
into the character of the new court of
trial lately established in Rhode Is
land.
An Understanding With New England.
Dabney Carr was directed to move
the resolutions. and the eloquence Of
Lee and Henry won for them an in
slant and hearty acceptance.
Dunnore promptly dissolved the as
sembly, and Washington was free to
set out for New York to place Jacky
GUSTS at Kings college, lingering on
the way in Philadelphia to see the
races, and pick up the talk of the
hour during half dozen evenings at
the rooms of the Jockey club, at the
balls and assemblies Of the gay town.
and at the hospitable tables of his
friends.
Washlngton's Amusing Letters.
The opening of the year had found
Washington in a very genial humor,
his letters touched with pleasantly
and gossip. "Our celebrated fortune.
Miss French, whom half the'world was
in pursuit Of" he wrote, in February,
to Colonel Bassett, bestowed her
hand on Wednesday last, being her
birthday (you perceive, think myself
under a necessity of accounting for
the choice), on Mr.. Ben Dulany, who
is to take her to Maryland. :.
Mentioning of one wedding puts me
in mind of another'-and so through
the news of Miss More. remarkable
for a very frizzled head and good
singing" and the rest Of the neighbor-
hood talk
Trouble at Mount Vernon.
But the year turned out very sad
one for him
He had been scarcely ten days back
from New York when Patsy Custis.
whom he loved as his own daughter,
died. 1t called forth all the latent
Christian faith of the thoughtful,
steadfast man to withstand the shock.
And Master Jack GUSTS, the girls
hayward brother, gave him little but
anxiety. He would net study, for all
Washington was so solicitous he
should have the liberalizing outlook OF
books, and be made eft for more use
full purposes than horse-racer," and
though he was but twenty, could hard
ly be induced to see the year out at
college before getting married.
The Boston Tea Party.
It was no doubt very we'll that pub
lie affairs of the first consequence
called Washington's mind imperative
ly off from these private anxieties.
which could not but be dwarfed in the
presence of transactions which threat
ened to shake the continent.
AS the year drew on, the govern
ment in England undertook to force
cargoes Of the East India company's
| tea into the ports. When all resisted,
and Boston. more forward even than
the rest, threw three hundred and
| forty odd chests of tea into the har-
Dor, acts passed parliament giving
| dangerous increase of power to the
governor Of Massachusetts. and di-
recting that Boston port be closed to
all commerce N and after the first
day of June; and it became evident
! that vigorous action must be taken
In response.
A Day Of Prayer and Fasting.
The Burgesses in Virginia MAY,
177z) resolved that June LIST should
be set apart as day of fasting and
prayer-prayer that civil war nigh,
be averted and the people of America
united in a common cause.
Again Dunmore dissolved them; but
they gathered in the long room of the
Raleigh tavern. and there resolved to
urge a congress of all the colonies.
and to call convention for Virginia
to meet at that place on the first day
of August to take action for the col
ony.
Dimes With Lord Dunmore.
/ They showed no spleen towards the
governor. Washington dined with him
the very day of the dissolution, spent
the evening at the palace, even rode
out with him to his farm on the fol
/ lowing morning and breakfasted there
and the Burgesses did not fail to give
the ball they had planned in honor
of Lady Dunmore and her daughters
on the evening the day they had
held their meeting in the "Appolo
room" at the Raleigh
But there were fasting and prayer
on the 1st of June; the convention
met on the first day of August; very
! outspoken resolutions were adopted
and Peyton Randolph. Richard Henry
Lee. Patrick Henry. Richard Bland
Edmund Pendleton.. George Washing
ton and BENJAMIN Harrison were di
rected to attend the congress of the
colonies appointed to meet in Phil
adelphia on the fifth day of Septem
Der.
Sets Out for Congress.
When the time came for the jour
ney, Henry and Pendlton joined Wash
ington at Mount Vernon. 1t must
have been with many grave thoughts
that the three companions got to
| horse and turned to ride through the