. Washington, the man of action . WASHINGTON the legislature was dissolved by theGovernor for having ventured toprotest against the home govern-ments actions he himself proposedan embargo on tea and certain otherarticles imported from England,and never afterwards permitted theforbidden merchandise to be used atMount Vernon under any pretextwhatsoever. Again, when the Bur-gesses protested against the dispatchof British troops to Boston and wereonce more dismissed for their pains,he voted for a day of fasting andprayer and observed both the letterand the spirit of his vote. 97 WASHINGTON Two mon
. Washington, the man of action . WASHINGTON the legislature was dissolved by theGovernor for having ventured toprotest against the home govern-ments actions he himself proposedan embargo on tea and certain otherarticles imported from England,and never afterwards permitted theforbidden merchandise to be used atMount Vernon under any pretextwhatsoever. Again, when the Bur-gesses protested against the dispatchof British troops to Boston and wereonce more dismissed for their pains,he voted for a day of fasting andprayer and observed both the letterand the spirit of his vote. 97 WASHINGTON Two months later, at a meetingheld to elect delegates to the Conti-nental Congress, he made a shortbut exceedingly characteristicspeech. I will raise a thousandmen, enlist them at my own ex-pense and march myself at theirhead for the relief of Boston, heannounced to the assembled com-pany. Those few words plainlydemonstrated that, in his opinion,the hour for action had this view was not shared bythe majority of his hearers,
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