The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-05-10

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right to tax them that the colonists
were fighting, not the taxes them
selves, and one tax was as hateful ~
= hundred. T.
The Boston Affair. ...:
The year had been marked in SIMS
ter fashion, moreover, by a broil be-
tween townsmen and troops in the
streets of Boston, In which arms had
been used and men slain, and In the
heated imaginations Of the colonists
the affair had taken on the ugly as
pect of q massacre. v
The year It'll went quietly enough
for Virginians. Botetourt was dead,
and that good merchant Of York, Will
liam Nelson, president of the council,
sat in the place Of authority through
out the year. Although the whole
country refused the taxed tea, the At
tention Of the ministers. AZ it hap.
pened, was fixed chiefly upon Massa-
chusetts, where trade cnItered at .
growing port and opposition had =
local habitation.
Quiet In Virginia
In Virginia there wss no place to
send troops to, unless the whole coun-
try were occupied, and so long as
Mr.. Nelson was acting governor.
Colonel Washington could 90 without
ureoccupation to the races, and gentle
men everywhere follow their: own de-
vices In the quiet counties. :,
There was rioting-rebellion. even
In North Carolina, SO uneasily did a.
fairs go there; but Governor Tryon'
was soldier as well as a despot, and
did not need to trouble bis neaghbors
about that.
An Unpopular Governor.
It was not until the first months Of
l772 that Virginians began to read
plain signs Of change In the face Of
their new governor, John Murray, earl
Of Dunmore-a dark and distant man.
who seemed to the Virgtnians to come
like q satrap to his province, who
brought a soldier with him for seore-
!ary and confidential adviser, set up
Z fixed etiquette to be observed by ali
who would approach him, spoke
abruptly and without courtesy, dis
played In all things an arbitrary TEN.
per, and took moro interest, 1t pros
emily appeared, in acquiring tracts OF
western land than In conducting the
government Of the colony. ;:
The year Of his coming was marked
by the secret destruction of the reve,,
nue schooner Gaspe In Rhode Island,
and by many significant flaws Of tem-
per here and there Throughout tho col
onies: and ITS saw affairs at last
come to a crisis.
Dunmoro and the Burpsooe1.
Dmmore had summoned the bur-
gesses to meet him upon his hrst COM
Ing. but had liked their proud temper
as little as they liked his, and was
careful not to call them together;again
I'LL March, 1773, though he had prom,
sed to convene them eaF1fer.
There was instant trouble. -,
F.: In view Of tho affair Of tho Gaspe.
parliament had again resolved upon
the trial of malcontents In England,
and the burgesses were hot At seeing
the sentiments Of tho colonies 20
douted. Conservative men would sim
have waited to try events, but their
fellow-members Of quicker pulse were
diligent to disappoint them.
Leadership fell to those who were
bold enough to take It.; and Patrick
Henry, Richard Henry Leo, Dabney
Carr and Thomas Jefferson, radicals
all, drew together, self-constituted
committee of guidance.
Evening after evening they met In
= private room at the Raleigh, with
now and again one or two other like
spirits called into counsel, to consult
what should be done.
Richard Henry Lee proposed that
the colonies should be invited to Join
Virginia in appointing committees Of
correspondence. through which to de-
wise steady concert Of action, and that
Virginia's committee, to be appointed
At once, should be instructed to look
into the character Of the new court Of
trial lately established in Rhode 70.
land.
An Understanding With New England.
Dabney Carr was directed to move
the resolutions, and the eloquence Of
Lee and Henry won for them an in
slant and hearty acceptance.
Dunmore promptly dissolved the a.
sembly, and Washington was free to
set out for New York to place Jacky
Gusts at Kings college, lingering on
the way In Philadelphia to see the
races, and pick up the talk of the
hour during half a. dozen evenings at
the rooms of the Jockey club, at the
balls and assemblies Of the gay town,
and at the hospitable tables Of his
friends. = T..
Washlngton's Amusing Letters.
The opening Of the year had found
Washington in very genial humor.
his letters touched with pleasantly
and gossip. "Our celebrated fortune,
Miss French. whom half the'world was
In pursuit Of" he wrnte IN Eohr11arv