Bisbee daily review., 1913-04-23

Again Dunmore dissolved them; bu: they gathered In the long room of the [ Raleigh tavern. and there resolved to 1 urge a congress of all the colonies, and to call a 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 putspoken resolutions were adopted; Snd Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry. Richard Bland. Edmund PendIeton, George Washing on and Benjamin Harrison were di- rected to attend the congress of the colonies appointed to meet, in Phil tdelphia on the fifth day of Septem- per.
 Sets Out for Congress.
 When the time came for the jour tey. Henry and Rendition joined Wash ngton at Mount Vernon. It must lave been with many grave thoughts hat the three companions got to
 ,orse and turned to ride through the ong August day towards the north. | In the congress of 1774 the leaders | if Virginia were for the first time | brought into faeeto-face conference | with the men of other colonies. | In 1765 Fauquier had dissolved the
 surgesses with such sharp despatch, | Ipon the passage of MT. Henry's reso- | utions, that they were all gone home
 before the call for congress to act | Ipou the stamp duties could reach | them.
 1 The Patriot Leaders Independent. | But in 17T4 they were not to be so ] cheated. They had themselves issued 1 he call for a congress this time, and
 dissolution could not drive them home. Their leader could at least finger at the Raleigh and concert
 means to have their way, house or no
 house. --..
 birthday Cyon percetye, think myself
 under D necessity, of accounting for
 the ch9icei, on NIr. Ben Dulany, who
 Is to take her to Maryland. :. iMentiohing of one wedding puts me lin 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. ' q
 Trouble at Mount Vernon.
 But the year turned oVt very sad
 one for him. Ig 8
 | He had been scarcely ten days back | from New York when Patsy Custis,
 whom he loved as his own daughter,
 died. It called forth all the latent
 Christian faith of the thoughtful,
 steadfast man to withstand tbe shock And Master Jack GUstis, the girls
 waywaTd brother. gave him little. tut anxiety. He would not study, for all
 Washington was so soicitous he
 should have the liberalizing outlook of
 books, and be made fit for more use
 fuI purposes than horse-racer." and
 though he was but twenty. could hard z ly be induced to see the year out at \ college before getting married.
 The Boston Tea Party. It was no doubt very well that pub I lie affairs of the first consequence , called Washington's mind imperative ]. ly oh from these private anxieties, '- which could not but be dwarfed in the 3 presence of transactions which threat 2 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 os power to the
 governor of Massachusetts, and di-
 recting that Boston port be closed to all commerce on and after the first
 day of June: and 1t became evident
 that vigorous action must be taken
 In response.
 A Day of Prayer and Fasting. r The Burgesses in Virginia (May,
 1774) resolved that June Ist should 2 be set apart as a day of fasting and prayer-prayer that civil war might ! be averted and the people of America |, united in a common cause
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