Bisbee daily review., 1913-04-19

I lie was but twenty-nine years old,
but he had spent all his life in learn
ing how the world went. and by what
manner OF speech it was moved and
governed. He had roamed the woods
with no thought but for sport. or a
quiet hour with book or his fancy
In the shape OF the trees. He had
kept couptry store, and let gossip
and talk of affairs of colony and coun-
| try side take precedence of business
Finally he had turned with a per-
manent relish 10 the law. and had set
himself to plead causes for his neigh
bors in way that made judges stare
and juries surrender at discretion. In
everything he had seemed TO read the
passions OF men. Books no less than
men, the chance company OF an old
author no less than the constant talk
Of the neighborly land he lived in,
seemed to I'LL him with the quick prin-
ciples OF the people and polity to which
be belonged. and to lend him an in
evitably every living phrase In which
TO utter them
His Power Over Men.
The universal sympathy and insight
which made his pleasantly SO engag-
ing to men of every stamp rendered
his power no less than terrible when
he turned to play upon their passions.
He was not conscious OF any audacity
when he sprang to his feet upon the
instant he saw the house resolved in
TO committee 20 consider the Stamp
, Act II was Of the araor OF his nature
to speak when conviction moved him
strongly. without thought OF propriety
or precedence; and it was like him
to STAND there absorbed, reading his
resolutions from hy-leaf torn from
an cid law-book
1t seemed no doubt precious piece
of audacity in the eyes Of the pre-
scriptive leaders OF the house to hear
this almost unknown man propose his
high recital OF Virginia's liberties and
his express defiance Of parliament
in tones which rang no less clear and
confident upon the clause which de-
clared his majeE5y's liege people" OF
the colony in no way bound to yield
obedience, than in the utterance of
the accepted matter of his premises
Astounds the Old Leaders.
Debate famed up at once, hot, even
passionate. The astounding, moving
elouquence OF the young advocate, his
instant hold upon the house. the dt-
rectness with which he purposed and
executed action in so grave a matter,
stirred the pulses of his opponents
and his followers with an equal power,
and reused those who would have
checked him to a vehemence as great
as his own.
The old leaders OF the house, with
whom he now stood face to face in
this critical business, we're the more
| formidable because Of the strong rea-
son of their position. No one could
| justly doubt that they wished to see
| the Old Dominion keep and vindicate
| her liberty, but they deemed it folly
! to be thus Unexpectedly beforehand
with the issue. Almost to q man they
were sprung OF families who had come
TO Virginia with the great migration
] that had brought the Washingtons. In
the evil day when so many were fee
ing England to be quit OF the Puritan
| tyranny-royalists all, and touched to
the quick with the sentiment Of 10y
atty.
Twas now a long long time since
| Cromwells day, indeed; generations
| had passed. and a deep passion for
| Virginia had been added to that old
| reverence for the wearer Of the crown
In England. But these men prided
| themselves still upon their loyalty;
made # a point of honor TO show
themselves no agitators. but eonstitu.
I tional statesmen.
/ Il made them grave and deeply anx-
ious to see the privileges that were
most dear to them thus violated and
/ denied, but il did not make them hasty
to quarrel with the parliament Of the
( realm. They had intended opposition,
/ but they feared to throw their cause
away by defiance. Twas as little wise
as dignifed, to flout thus at the sover.
eign power before all means had been
exhausted to win il to forbearance-
The Speaker Of the House.
1t was not the least part OF the Diff
Guilty to face the veterans speaker John
Robinson, SO old in affairs. so stately
/ IN his age, so gravely courteous. and
yet with such a threat Of good man
ners against those who should make
breach of the decorous traditions OF
/ the place But the men chiefly to be