Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

keep quiet and have nothing to say for at Least
a wear or two; but he almost Immediately made
one Of the best speeches OF his life, and, from
that time ON, he has always been listened TO
with marked attention. Surely no one wouid De
expected to be better informed on Virginia
history than he.
In the first United States Congress we hnd
man named Moore serving in the House OF
Representatives from Virginia, just as we ma
the present Mr.. Moore serving his native State.
Though the Democratic nomination N. m n,s US
trict practically means election, yet the present
incumbent from the eighth district has decided
we are told, not to seek denomination, and De.
ing a friend of the District of Columbia, the
people Of Washington viii consider his returning
from public life real loss, indeed.
LIS speech ON Washington's Birthday, the
printing of which, by the way, he paid
for himself, proving the contrary to the rule.
was one of his best efforts, in which he IN part
said:
somewhat distant from here are the
scenes of Washingtons military activities, but 1t
rather uuickenS the pulse to consider that near
by within sight Of the Capitol, Is the virginia
County of Fairfax, where he lived, then lnciuo.
ing the present County Of Arlington ana tho
town of Alexandria, which was the county seat.
There was his Mount Vernon home where ne
resided from his sixteenth year, ana WHICH
might have disappeared long ago, but Tor the
faithful guardianship of an association OF pa
home and his burial place, but the place from
which he started streams that broadened OUT
into the ocean of his final achievement IN Gre
ating our institutions.
"F1or example recall transaction now ale
most forgotten, vitality bearing upon the future,
which no one could then dimly discern. III
occurred nearly decade after the British gov
ernment's attempt to collect stamp TAX from
the Colonies for its own use, which the virginia
House of Burgesses declared against as Vlolat"
of without reDTe@
sentation a principle which had been announc.
ed in Virginia four years earlier than its f1rsc
announcement in the English petition OF rlgnt.
Eat that time, Washington, young MEMBER
Of the House. followed Patrick Henry, who, with
flaming elouuence, successfully led the Oppose"
ton. The tax was wisely abandoned, but with
fatlous unwisdom, a case OF whom the gooS
would destroy they first make mad the
principle was violated in another fashion ss
tbe later date to which am now referring.
rParliament began TO tax trade. II PROVIDED
that on important imports into the Colonies Q
tax should be collected for the use OF tho
government There was vehement remonsuanco
everywhere and nowhere more vehement than
In Massachusetts. There the revolt occasloneo
the familiar incident tersely recorded IN the
diary Of John Adams, who wrote, under oate
Of December 2, IT'S:
uNDICKIY Virginia touched mind and
" heart with the sister colony. In May
177A the House of BWgesSes was again IN seS~
atom at Williamsburg, with Washington again
member. and again dehantly adhering to the
principle mentioned which was proclaimed IN
Virginia not long after the landing at James
town, the House ordered that June i, the e1"
fective date Of the Boston port act be set aside
as a day Of fasting and prayer.
'"The royal governor promptly dissolved tnO
Fzo,,se and at once the members assembled m
the Raleigh Tavern and issued ean for
Virginia convention to meet In August, indoors.
ing the proposal for . continental congress W
meet at an early date. Then came the paTuc~"