Bisbee daily review., 1913-04-19

ash and heated action. and there had
been bitter debates before even those
significant premises for a revolution.
airy conclusion had been forced to
adoption. Old leaders and new, young
men and old alike, had willingly united
N the memorial of 1854; but now that
The Stamp Act was law. conservative
members shrank from doing what
must look so like a fat defiance of
parliament
Only young men would have had the
ludacity to urge such action; only
5ery extraordinary young men would
nave had the capacity TO induce the
house to take it. But such young men
we're at hand. their leader as veritsble
a Democrat as had ever taken the
aoor in that assembly.
Than his BibIe ais mother came OF
vivacious line OF easy-going wits
and takers, which had a touch more
Of steadiness and energy might any
day have made famous.
His father had served his county OF
Hanover very capably and acceptabiy
as surveyor, colonel. magistrate, and
his uncle had been beloved as the
faithful pastor of quiet parishes But
they had been no long time in the col
ony: they lived back from the tide
water counties where the real aristoc-
racy had its strength and supremacy;
they were OF that middle class of yeo-
men-gentlemen who love liberty. but
do not affect rank.
A vigorous aristocracy favors the
growth Of personal eminence even in
those who are not of it, but only near
it." and these plain men Of the mid.
die counties were the more excellent
and individual in the cultivation OF
their powers by reason of the contact.
But there was a touch Of rusticity, a
neglect of polish, a rough candor Of
speech about them which set them
apart and distinguished them sharply
enough when they came into the pres
euce Of the courtly and formal gentle
men who practiced the manners OF
London in the river counties.
A Rustic Figure in the Home.
Patrick Henry, at any rate. must
have seemed a very rustic figure &c
the Burgesses when he first came to
take his seat amongst them on May
day In 1865.
He was known, indeed, TO many
This was the man, they must have
known, who had won so strange a yer
dict from jury two years ago in the
celebrated parsons case at Hanover
court house, against the law and the
evidence But his careless dress and
manner, his loose, ungainly figure, his
listless, absent bearing. must have set
many a courtly member staring.
For such men as Washington, in
deed, there can have been nothing
either strange or unattractiye in the
rough exterior and unstudied ways OF
the new member. Punctilious though
he was himself in every point of dress
and bearing. WashingtoH's life had
most Of it been spent with men who
looked thus, and yet were stuff OF true
courage and rich capacity within. The
manner OF a man could count as no
test of quality with him.
His experience had covered the
whole variety OF Virginian life. He
was an aristocrat by taste, not by prin.
ciple. And Patrick Henry had, in
fact, come to the same growth as he
in essential quality and principle,
though by another way. Henry's life
had been wilful, capricious, a bit hap
hazard. Washington's all the while
subject to discipline; but both men
had touched and seen the whole en-.
ergy Of the commonwealth, knew its
hope, could divine its destiny
There was but one Virginia. and
they were her children. It could not
take long 90 bring them to an under
standing and comradeship in affairs.
A Winner in Debate.
It was characteristic of the new
member that he should step at once
and unhesitatingly to a place Of lead
srshlp when debate OF the Stamp Act
stirred the house, and that be should