Bisbee daily review., 1913-05-11

wrote hotly to Henry Lee, upon hear ing to what lengths contempt of the authority of congress had been car. rseA; and until the curtain is with dfsgn, and the private views and self. sl. principles upon which these men aet are exposed to public notice, hsTs little hope of amendment without another conyulsion"
 Perhaps the conference at Annapo- fg would withdraw the curtain and rfVe the light leave to work a puri- section, and he waited anxiously for .te Issue.
 fssfinilsFhss States Apathetiei isp4 fHBnS When tlfs commissioners assem- blFd khey found only five states repre. ,sssteas-Sirginias Pennsylvania DelR- ssFssre. New. Jersey and New York ', Maryland had suddenly fallen indif- fefent, and had not appointed dele. gates. New Hampshire MassacIu sets, Rhode Island and North Caro- iina had appointed delegates, but they had not taken the trouble to come. Connecticut, South Carolina and GeoF- Fia had ignored the call altogether. The delegates who were in attend. anee. besides. had come with only the most jealously restricted powers; only New Jersey. in her great uneasiness at being neighbor to the powerful states of New York and Pennsylvania, had authorized her representatives to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations and other important matters might be nee. esssTy to the common interest and permanent harmony of the several states"
 Hamiiton's Stirring Appeal.
 The other delegates had no such scope; all deemed it futile to attempt their business in so small a conven- ton; and it was resolved to make an other opportunity
 Alexander Hamilton of New York drew up their address to the states, and in it made bold to adopt New ter sey's hint. and ask for a conference which should not merely consider questions of trade but also devise sueh further provisions as should ap- pear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal govern n-ent adequate to the exigencies of the Union"
 Hamilton held with Washington for g national government.
 ccneress indifferent.
 He had been born, and bred as a lad, in the West Indies. and had never received the local pride of any colony stnte into his blood He had served ith the army, too, in close intimacy vith Washington. and. though twenty five years his captains junior, had seen as clearly as he saw the deep hazsrd of a nations birth.
 The congress was indifferent, if not hostile. to the measures which the ad- dress proposed: and the states would have acted on the call as slackly as be- fore, had not the winter brought with 1t something like a threat of social FGs--JGOu, and lairly startled them o-. -r llair negligent humoT.
 The seheiiion of Shays,
 Tine c-uiral counties of Massachu, s-,' HrpE- into violent rebellion, uE- 5a- one Shays, veteran of the Revolu- tfcu not to reform the government, but io rid themselves of it altogether C shut the courts and escape the pay. nent of deDts and taxes.
 Tho insurgents worked their will for weeks together; drove out tho officers 0f the law, burned and plundeTed at pleasure through whole districts, iiv- ing upon the land like hostile army, and were brought to a reckoning at last only when a force thousands strong had been levied against them.
 States sympathize With Shays.
 The contagion spread to Vermont aud New Hampshire; and, even when the outbreak had been crushed. the states concerned were irresolute in the punishment of the leaders.
 Rhode Island declared her sympathy with the insurgents; Vermont offered them asylum; Massachusetts brought the leaders to trial and eonYie- ton, only to pardon and set them free again.
 Congress dared do no more than make covert preparation to check a general rising.
 Washington's indignant Protest.
 You talk, my good sir" wrote Washington to Henry Lee in congress, "of employing influences to aDpease the present tumults in Massachusetts. know not where that influence is to be found, or. if attained, that it would be a proper remedy for the disoF- deFs. Influence is no government. Let US have one by which our lives. liber- ties and properties will be secured, or let us know the worst at once.'
 IL was an object-lesson for the whole country: the dullest and the most lsthargic knew now what slack gov ernmeRt and financial disorder would produee.
 The states one and all-saye Rhode islsnG-bethought them of the con vention called to meet in Philadelphia on the second Monday in May, 17S7, and delegates were appointed.
 Even congress took the lesson to heart, and gave it's sanction to the