Bisbee daily review., 1913-04-24
Life Of Washington By
 Woodrow
 Wilson
President of the United States

(Continued from Yesterday
 A convention took the place of the assembly, and seven leading members ,f the house were sent to Philadel- nhia, with as full authority to speak and act for the colony as if the Bur yesses themselves had commissioned them
 Bluff Ben Harrison.
 Mir. Harrison declared in Philadel- phia that "he would have come on loot rather than not come" and quiet Richard Bland that he would have gone if 1t had been to Jericho"
 Colonel Harrison struck his new colleagues from the north as a bit rough in his free southern speech and manner; and MT. Bland seemed to hem ca plain, sensible man." such as would be more given to study than to agitation.
 If such men. artless and steady as any downright country gentleman of 1ld England, held so high a fancy for he business of the congress. it was easy to conclude what the hastier. younger men would be likely to plan and do: and the Massachusetts dele gates found themselves greatly heart sned.
 John Adams. Thomas Gushing, Sam uel Adams and Robert Treat Paine were the representatives of Massa- . chusetts. It was their people who had most provoked Parliament to be aigh-handed and aggressive. The struggle with the ministry at | nome had taken shape in Boston. It iad come to actual riot there. All the continent and all England had seen | now stubborn was the temper. how in- oorrigible the spirit of resistance. in that old seat of the Puritan power. al. ways hard set and proud in its self I wiIled resolution to be independent; and all eyes were turned now upcn Cushing and Paine and this brace of Adamses," who had come, 1t was bought, to hurry the congress into -adical courses. Kindness, applause. hospitality, studied and expensive -espect." had attended them at every stage of their long ride from Boston 70 Philadelphia.
 Great Excitement Over Congress. The country was much stirred by
 he prospect of a general congress of committees" at Philadelphia; and the delegates from Massachusetts were Teeted as they passed even more gen. srously than the rest. because their people had been the first to suffer In this bad business; because their ,hief port at Boston was closed, and lred-coated sentries were on their streets.
 It behooved the Massacusetts men
 however, not to suffer themselves to De misled Many looked upon them lskance; some disturbed them hearti
 y. Their own hot-headed mob had
 provoked the massacre, of which
 hey made so much They had wan. only destroyed private property when hey threw the tea into their harboT Q show the government their spirit.
 Suspicious of New EneIanders- There had been more than a touch
 ,f violence. more than little turbu
 ence, and a vast deal of radical and
 evolutionary talk in all that they had ione; and the colonies were full ye,
 1f men who had no tolerance for any
 hing that transgressed, were it never
 70 little. the moderate limits of con
 stitutionzl agitation.
 There is an opinion which does ir pome degree obtain in the other colo
 aies that the Massachusetts gentle
 men. and especially of the town oi
 Boston. do affect to dictate and take h he lead in continental measures. that u Ee are apt. from an inward vanity and
 Ielf-conceit, to assume big and
 naughty airs" said Joseph Hswley s who. for all he had grown old as g quiet Massachusett. lawyer among h neighbors. had kept his shrewd cyl abroad Tt is highly probable" z told John Adams. with a wholeson bluntness. that you will meet genn
 men from several of the other col