. The wonderful story of Washington and the meaning of his life for the youth and patriotism of America . ordingly, month bymonth and year by year, the interference and resent-ment on both sides increased, by the passage of ob-noxious laws on one side, and resistance to their en-forcement on the other side. All this time, Washington was in the midst of theturmoil, not as a leader but more as a peacemaker,though always in full sympathy with the fast growingAmerican idea. As we take a swift view of thosetimes, we are apt to suppose that the change of mind,uniting the colonies in opposition to Gr
. The wonderful story of Washington and the meaning of his life for the youth and patriotism of America . ordingly, month bymonth and year by year, the interference and resent-ment on both sides increased, by the passage of ob-noxious laws on one side, and resistance to their en-forcement on the other side. All this time, Washington was in the midst of theturmoil, not as a leader but more as a peacemaker,though always in full sympathy with the fast growingAmerican idea. As we take a swift view of thosetimes, we are apt to suppose that the change of mind,uniting the colonies in opposition to Great Britain,came suddenly and unanimously, but, as in all placesand situations, where there is freedom of thinking,the general conviction came slowly, especially theconviction to use force in the defense of the rights ofof man as learned in the hard freedom of the wilder-ness. What we might call the high-water mark ofmind, in favor of force for maintaining colonial lib-erty, was that of Patrick Henry, whose slogan wasGive me liberty or give me death. On the other hand, there were many, from the aris-. Washington Surrendering His Commission. SIGNS OF REVOLUTION 75 tocratic mansion to the log cabin in the forest, wholooked upon force against the mother country as ahorror and a crime. Between these extremes, Wash-ington labored for patience among the colonists anda change of policy among the law-makers of GreatBritain. In writing to his wife s uncle, an influentialman in London, he said, The Stamp Act engrossesthe conversation of the speculative part of the colo-nists, who look upon this unconstitutional method oftaxation as a direful attack upon their liberties, andloudly exclaim against the violation. In the New England colonies, the people were farmore fierce in their resentment toward the require-ment that they must buy stamps to make legal almostevery transaction. This method of getting moneyfor the British government was so offensive to Bos-ton that a publicly encouraged mob
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