The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1859-03-12
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+" Patrick Henry was originally @fkeeper
He was married very Young, an sg INTO
some business III his own accouh ,ayas Il
bankrupt befor8 the year was out SNyhen /
was about the age ot fifteen. | left NE school
here % 80 to college at William Arg.
5sN . few days at a friends in ~tss%Ssss,anty
-ol. IA. There ! first saw aud Y L nc,
quaintsd withI,atrick iienry.-lIa, Spent
he Christmas holidays there | prI1ttdM to
Williamsburg. Some questions arose about
my admission, as ny$spreparatory studies had
not been pursued ;& &c school connected with
mat institute This delayed my admission
about n ff when Henry appeared in
" Williamsburg aie ipplied for a license To prac-
lice law, having con- aenced the study Of it at.
or subsequently to, t aime Of meeting him ii
| I,ouira. There Vert Sur examiners-Wythe
PeudIettra, pteyiol, Randolph, and John Ran.
dolph. Wyehe and Pendleton at once rejected
his application the tw ~ianddaphs, by his
Importantly, were prlya L upon to sign the
license and having ed their signatures,
he again seSso a-ld!ctoL, and after much
Il many promises OF ..lture study;
~ 49, HsNhtb'nS uiS. itG tDet. Kin
olt for a NJ lawyer. The first case
"hich or ~ MN into notice was q contested
elect ~ which be appeared as counsel be.
fore q nmittee OF the House of Burgesses
his \ d was tha parso,, 80, alr,,aI i, Nh
These and similar Efforts soon OBJ
aIned for him so much reputa,l ton that he was
elected a member Y LA Legislature. He was
as well SUITE Afs times as any man ever
was, aSs $ not row easy to say Whit we
should have done without Patrick n nv, Hel
was far before all in maintaining shirt Of
the Revolution. His ~in1nenc most ey.
teslSiye with the members tl,e upper
counties. and his hntdness ans 3air votes over
awed anu controlled The NOR 91ol st the more
tlmid aristocratic gentleme il the lower part
OF The State. His eloqueate was peculiar. If
indeed, it should be called eloquence; for it was
Impressive and sublime beyond what can be
Imagined. Although it was difficult, when lie
had spoken to tell what he had said, yet while
ne was speaking, it always seemed directly 10
the point When he has .8oken in opposition
TO my o~pinion--had produced a great effect
and | myself been delighted and moyed--f
have asked myself wher he ceased What
he said z Inever co stlswer the inou;rv
Ills person was Of size, and his manner
yerv fast ~, ~, anSp teilhef8
shnrt -fran, ats speeches generally
nronnnc. - : 70 nan an hour his
was totrotten viii. ,"sat aha VICIOUS, but II
speaA'hg.
NV 80 W. = alah q very little knowledge of
I R,,,sn m \. no'nit's' and read no books.
i,s. w one november from AIbermar,e
oour'' le borrowed q me HINES Essays. in
lWo volumes, saying he should have leisure in
'ue Mih'ef lor reading. In the spring he re-
''thea them, and declared that he had not been
10 60 farther thaueSventy or thirty pages
'he hfst volume. He wrote almost nothing
ne could not write. The resolutions Of ~
"nieh ltNe been ascribed to hf@a, have by
many neen supposed to have been written IL
Johnson, who acted as lis second on thu,
'ecaslon but if they were written BY Henry
'ih'seif, they were not sach as to prove any :
'owef OF composition. Neither in politics nor
n his profession was he a maj, of business. {
'e was a man Tor debate only. His blgs.rather
~ ma. 'e read Plutarch every year / doubt
he ever read a volume of it in his Gfa.
MS TEMPER was eScegent, and he generally
'osersed decornm IN debate. On one or two {
'ccasl"ns | have seen him angry, and his apger
vas terrible; those who incurred it we're no, !
opposed to rouse II ap,in r., bt,a.