Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-06-23
REVOLUTIONARY PRINCIPLEs & MEN.
Wiafs Nae.ches of Patrick HENRY

Wa?fS Sas.cheS Of Patrick Henry.
Correspondence OF President Adams with MIR. Writ.
[COm@wsieated for Mess ResiSter,l
QUINCY, January5, 1913.
SI.-Your sketches OF the life OF Mr.. Henry
nave given me rich entertainment. / will
not compare them to the Sybil, conducting
Itneas 10 see the ghosts of departed Saees and
heroes III the regions belOw-but 10 an angel
conveying me te the abodes of the blessed On
hGh, 10 converse with the spirits just men
made perfect. The names of Henry, Lee,
Bland, Pendeton, Washington, Rniledee,
DlcNmS0n, Wythe, aud many others will ever
thrii through my veins with an agreeable sen
Satlon. am not about TO make any critical
remarks upon your work at present. But, sir,
Grant heroes ante Agamsmuona muti.
Or, not to earbIe Horace,
tixere fortes ante Acamemnoua
huit sed 0mnes acTiyuabis5
tTseniur iguOtique Tonga
Nocle. cafent quia waite s9cro.
If cond go back TO the age of thirty FIVE,
Mr.. Writ, would endeaV0r to become Your
rival, not il. elegance of composition, hat in
simple narration OF facts supported by records,
histories and Testimonies of irrefragable autho-
fjty | would adopt, in all its medesty, your
uue, sketches OF the lite and writings of
James OH, OF Boston" Aud in imitation of
yonr example, would introduce portraits of
long catalogue ofllustriOus men, who were
agents III lhe revelation, III favor of il or a.
gaii-i Il.
jeremiah Gridley, the father of the bar in
Boston, and the preceptor of Pratt, OTIS,
Thatcher, Gushing and many others Benia-
nan Pratr. clIetjustice VI New York colonel
Jchn iynge; James Otis, OF Boston, the hero
1T tie Diogra ply; OXeubridge Thatcher Ioua.
than Sewali, attorney general and nudge of adj
miraliy; samuel Quincy, solicitor general
Daniel Leonard, now hiefjusiCe oil Bermuda;
JOSIAH Quincy, the Boston Cicero Richard
Dana and Francis Dana his SON fast minister
to Russia, and afterwards chef Justice iona
Than nlayhew, ID. ID. Samuel Cooper, ID. ID.
Chas Chauncey, ID. ID. JAS. Warren aud his
wife Joseph Warren, of Bunker's Hill John
Winthrop, professor al Harvard college and a
membcrOf council Samuel Dexter the father;
John OrthlngtOB, of Springfield Jos. Haw-
ley Ot NORTH Hampton, aud James Love! of
Boston governors Shirley, Powudl, Bernard
Hutchinson, Hancock, BOwdoID, Adams, Sulli-
van and Gerry iieut governor Oliver chiaf
justice Oliver, Judge Edmund I'rowbridge,
Ju9sse William Gushing ana Timothy RuggleS
ought not TO be omitted. The military cilarac-
ters ward, Lincoln, Warren, Knox, Brooks,
Heath, &c. must come in Of course f,OT
shOaid BeuJamiu Kent 5amuel Swift or John
Heed be forgotten.
! envy none of the weILmcrited glories Of
Virginia, or any Of her sages or heroes. But
sir, am Jealous, very jealous, OF the honor OF
Massachusetts,.
The resistance to the British system for sub
Jugating iae colonies, began ~ 1870 and in Tie
lnOnlh OF February, l7Gi, James OTIS elertri.
hei The town OF Boston, the province Of Mas
6achuseus Bay, aH1 the whole continent, more
than Patrick Henry ever did in the whole
course of his lite. we must have psnegyrIcs
and hyper Ooie', must say, that II MIR. Henry
was DemOSthencs, and Mr.. Richard HeHrv
Lee Cicero, JAMES OIls WAS ISAIAH AND ELE-
XVI UNITED.
nope, sir, that some young gentleman, Of
tie ancient AVID honorable family OF " Tie
Searchers," will hereafter d. impartial justice
both 10 Virginia and Massachusetts
After all this lreedop, assure YOU, sir, IL is
10 6dttsry, when congratulate the nation on
tie acquisition OF az attorney general Of such
talents dud industry as your Sketches" de-
MONS rate.
wish great esteem ( am. sir, your friend
and huUbl0 servant. JOHN ADAMS.
MT. WIRT, dtorHrg gererai
OF the United States.