Bisbee daily review., 1913-04-23
Life Of Washington By
 Woodrozu
 Wilson
President of the United States


 There was one matter to which Washington felt it his bounded duty as a soldier and a man of honor to devote his time and energies, whether politics pressed or not. A grant of two hundred thousand acres of the the government of the colony to those who enlisted for the war against the French and Indians in 1754; but noth- ing had ever been done to fulfill the promise, ard Washington undertook to act as agent for his comrades in the business.
 Selects Farms for Fellow Soldiers. In the autumn of 1770, accordingly, be turned away for space from the deepening trouble in the east to plunge once more into the western ways and search out proper tracts for the grant along the reaches of the Ohio.
 Twas a two months journey, for , he did not stop till he had gone close three hundred miles beyond Fort Pitt And when he was home again no one in the government who could lend 9 hand in the matter got any peace from the stirring, thorough man until the business was put finally into shape.
 There was a tidy profit in the grant , for himself; for his own share was large, and he providently bought, be sides, the shares of others who were unwilling to spend or cooperate in the matter. But there were months upon months of weary, unrequited service | for his comrades, too. given witf hearty diligence and without grudg ing.
 Buys Great Meadows. Their portions were as well placed | as his own, they were to find, wheI ! it came to the survey. He came of | from the business very rich in west | ern lands-buying the Great Meadows ] among the rest, for memOTy's sake but richer. still in the gratitude ana admiration of the men for whom h' had Iabored.
 Meanwhile events darkened omi nously.
 I 4 new administration had beeI formed in England under Lord North and had begun it's government by re | pealing all the taxes Of 1769 excep that on tea. But it was parliament right to tax them that the colonist were fighting, not the taxes them ] selves, and one tax was as hateful a hundred
 | The Boston Affair. | The year had been marked In sinis ter fashion, moreover, by a oroil be tween townsmen and troops in tn streets of Boston, in which arms hGt been used and men slain, and in tn heated imaginations of the colonist the affair had taken on the ugly al pect of massacre.
 The year iTTi went quietly enougI for Virgfnians. Botetourt was dead and that good merchant of York, Vi liam Nelson, president of the counci sat in the place of authority througt out the year. Although the whol country refused the taxed tea, the al tention of the ministers, as it haI pened, was fixed chiefly upon Mass chusetts, where trade centered at
 growing port and opposition had local habitation.
 Quiet In Virginia
 In Virginia there was no place [ send troops to, unless the whole couI try were occupied. and so long 6 - Mf. Nelson vas acting governo Colonel Washington could go vithor precccuDation to the races and zenti b men everywhere follow their own d D vices in the quiet counties. There was riotlng-rebellion, even . in North Carolina, so uneasily did a
 fairs go there; but Governor Tryo 2 was a soldier as we'll as a despot. ar 2 did not need to trouble his neighboi ] about that
 An Unpopular Governor. It was not until the first months 1772 that virginians began to req
 plain signs of change in the face ( their new governor, John Murray, ca