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A New Story Of Patrick Henry

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Day
28
Month
June
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mr. Pttrtou's communicatiou to the At?'■' i Motithly is on Juffersou as a ' Re t'oriuci in Old Virginia." It is gooi ttiroughuut ; but is ospuuially goocl in rovivinf; an extinet speeoh of Putiick Henry, made in defensa of oortain Baptists, who had darcd to preach thoir doctrines when Titginift rejoiced in an Bstablished Cliuruh - vvhioh Jeffettpn event'iallv suoceeded in ovorturniug, in the ircat oausu ot' religious liberty. We cnn not givu Patrick Henry's speech in full, but Porton bas GaaWëd us to show tin; orator in his ünost expression. The court ia asseznbled ; 'atriok II "íiry, who had riddeo on horseack (it'ty niiluH to dcfond his olients, bons nis defensa in this way : " May it picase your warship, I tliink I leárd ivad by theproaftcntion.aslentered ie house, the paper Iuowboldin myhand. : 1 have rijjhtly understood, tho kiug's ttorncy Iih i framed nn indiótment ior ib purpos of vrraigning nnd puriishiilg iy imprigonment theso throo iqofiensive icrsons before thu bar ot' this court tor a rimo ot' gieat magnitude - as disturbors t' the peaco. May it ploase th'o court vliat lid I lioar read V Did I heur it disiuctly, oi' was it a niistake of my OAVnV Did I hear au oxpression, as of crime, ihnt theso nion whom your worships aro about to try for misdeineanor are chargod with - with - with whatt " Having delivorod tUoso words in a haltiiiL, brokcii manuor, as if his mind was 6taggoriug uiider tho weight ol a monfltrous idea, he lowcrod his voico to aüd, awaming tho prof'oiindest soliMunity of mmuier, answered hú cxwn question ; "Preachiug tho Gospol of the Sou of God ! " Thnn hu paused. Every ejro was now rive'ted upon hiin, and every irnud intont ; for all this wal oxocutid us i Koun or a Siddons would hnve performed it on the stagp - Rye, vcicc, ittitude, gesture, uil in accord to prodifco tho utmost possiblo effect. Amid a silcneo tli.it oould be folt, 1! wil vod thoindiotyiioiit t hree times aronnd hls ho i-l, ns thougli still viuazed, stili unablw to oompreheud the charge. Tlien ho raiaed his hands and cyos to neaven! and in a tono of pathetic enorgy wholly indcflcribablo, exolaimed : "Great God ? "

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