Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1913-04-17

Keep mem sensible now tney must
stand or fall. succeed or fail, with the
power at home-their own raw leyies
had taken part with the kings troops
out OF England in some clumsy stroke
or other against French stronghold
in the north or a Spanish fortress il
the south; and now at last they hao
gone with English troops into the field
in a national cause Provincials ano
redcoats had joined for a final grapplt
with the French, to settle once and fol-
all who should be owners and masters
on the coveted continent
No Longer Dependent.
The issue had been decisive By the
summer of 1860 Washington could
write his kinsman in England that the
French were so thoroughly drubbed
and humbled that there remained lit
tie to do to reduce Canada from end tc
end to the British power.
But the very thoroughness of the
success wrought a revolution in the
relations of the colonies to the mother
country II rid them of their sense
OF dependence. English regiments
had mustered . their thousands, nc
doubt, upon the battlefelds Of the
war in order that the colonies might
be free to possess the continent, and
il was hard TO see how the thing could
have been accomplished without them
But ii had been accomplished, and
would not need to be done again.
Not overawed by Foreigners.
Moreover, it had shown the colonial
militia how strong they were even in
the presence of regulars. They had
almost everywhere borne an equal
part in the fighting, and. rank and file.
they had left with a keen resentment
the open contempt for their rude
equipment and rustic discipline which
too many arrogant officers and inso-
lent men among the regulars had
shown. They knew that they had
proved themselves the equals OF any
man in the kings pay in the fighting.
and they had come out Of the hot
business confideut thai henceforth, at
any rate. they could dispense with
English troops and take care Of them
selves.
They had lost both their fear OF the
French and their awe OF the English.
Twas hardly an opportune time for
statesmen in London 20 make a new
and larger place for England's author
ity in Anerica, and yet nat was what
they Immediately attempted.
a.
men who had neither place
nor power. there vas no longer any
one in England who knew, though it
were never so vaguely, the real tenn
per and character Of the colonists.
Twas matter of common knowledge
and comment. it is true, that men OF
were beyond all reason
impatient OF command or restraint,
affecting an independence which was
hardly to be distinguished from con-
tumacy and insubordination; but what
ground was there to suppose that a
like naughty and ungovernable spirit
iurked in the loyal and quiet south, or
among the prudent traders and phleg-
platic farmers who were making the
middle colonies so rich, and so regard
full OF themselves in every point Of
gain or interest?
Hands Off," the British Policy.
Statesmen of an elder generation
had had a sure instinct what must be
the feeling Of Englishmen in America,
and had, with "a wise and salutary
neglect" suffered them to take their
own way in every matter Of self-gov-
eminent
Though ministry after ministry had
asserted a rigorous and exacting SUI
premacy for the mother country in
every affair OF commerce, and had de-
teTmined as they pleased what the col
onies should be suffered TO manufac-
ture, and how they should be allowed
to trade-with what merchants, in
what commodities, in what bottoms,
within what limits-they had never
theless withheld their hands hitherto
fros1 all direct exercise Of authority
in the handling OF the internal affairs
OF the several settlements, had given