The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-31

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Copyright. 1913. by Mcclure Newspaper syndicateJ
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John Adams, Thomas Cushing, Samuel
adams, and Robert Treat Paine were the
representatives OF Massachusetts. 1t was
their people who had most provoked
Parliament to be high-hsnded and ag-
Gressive.
The struggle with the ministry at home
had taken shape in Boston. 1t had come
to actual riot there All the continent
and all England had seen how stubborn
was the temper, how incorrigible the
spirit of resistance, in that old seat of
the Puritan power, always hard set and
proud In its self-willed resolution TO be
independent: and all eyes were turned
now upon Gushing and Paine and this
brace of Adamses," who had come, II
was thought. TO hurry the congress INTO
radical courses. Kindness. applause, hos
pitality. studied and expensive respect,
had attended them at every stage OF their
long ride from Boston to Philadelphia
Grent Excitement Over Congress.
The country was much stirred by the
prospect of a general congress OF COM
mittees'' at Philadelphia; and the dele
gates from Massachusetts were greeted
than the rest, because their people had
been the first to suffer in this bad bust
ness; because their chief port at Boston
was closed and relocated sentries We're
On their streets
1t behooved the Massachusetts men.
however, not to suffer themselves to De
misled Many looked upon them askance'
some distrusted them heartily. Thelr
own hot-headed mob had provoked the
- hfah shav-
much. They had wantonly destroyed pri-
yate property when they threw the tea
into the harbor to show the government
their spirit.
su.pIclous of New EngIandcrs.
There had been more than a touch OF
violence, more than a little turbulence
and a vast deal Of radical and revolu-
tIonary talk In all that they had done:
and the Colonies were full yet of men
who had no tolerance for anything that
transgressed, were It never so little the
moderate limits OF constitutional agita-
ton.
There is an opinion which does in
some degree obtain in the other colo
MES that the Massachusetts, gentlemen
and especially of the town Of Boston.
do affect to dictate and take the lead IN
continental measures. that We are apt.
to assume big and naughty airs said
Joseph HawIey. who. for all he had
grown old as quiet Massachusetts,
lawyer among his neighbors, had kept
his shrewd eyes abroad. 1T is highly
probable" he told John Adams, with
wholesome bluntness. that you will
meet gentlemen from several of the
other colonies fully equal to yourselves
or any OF you in their knowledge of
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tory, government, commerce. BY
what We from time to time see in the
public papers, and what our Assembly
and committees have received from the
and committees of the more
Southern colonies, We must be satisfied
that they have men OF as much sense
and literature as any we can, or ever
could. boast Of"
Advised to he President.
1t was mere counsel of prudence that
they should play their part in the con-
gress with modesty and discretion.
Not Gushing and Paine, but the
Adamses. carried the strength of the
delegation; and il was
Samuel Adams, rather than John. who
was just now the effective master in the
great Bay Colony-'master of puppets,
his enemies called him.
HAZE, DUH. aurolt, p4ahl. man OF tne
people, he had grown old in the business
OF agitation. Fifty-two years he had
lived. planning always for others. never
for himself. He had never looked for
ward in his life he frankly said: never
planned, laid a scheme, or framed a de-
sign Of laying up anything for himself
or others after him. had let all his pri-
vate business go neglected, and lived
upon the petty salary of small public
ONCE, the Indulgence of fortune, and the
good Offices of the friends and neighbors
who loved him.
He was in Philadelphia now wearing
the plain suit and spending the modest
purse with which his friends and parti-
sans had fitted him out-the very i'm
PRESERVATION of the revolution men were
beginning so to fear
No man had ever daunted him: neither