Thereupon the burgesses repaired to the Raleigh tavern, where they adopted a set of non-importation resolutions and formed an association.

The resolutions were offered by Washington, and were the result of his quiet country talks with Mason.

When the moment for action arrived, Washington came naturally to the front, and then returned quietly to Mount Vernon, once more to go about his business and watch the threatening political horizon.

Virginia did not live up to this first non-importation agreement, and formed another a year later.

But Washington was not in the habit of presenting resolutions merely for effect, and there was nothing of the actor in his composition.