The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-20

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AS the convention had comrntcd the State sep
araon, action was taken on the appointment Of committee
will be likely e maintain and order in
the colony and substantial and equal liberty the
bald Cary was adopted There an unstaiable conflict
between the democratic and arstocrac clements OF the
Xenon Ihe of victorious The last clause se q
by the convention to hold office until the General As
fem a sq%d adourn When the ballot ac was taken
foyfve votes, and John Page vote Mr. Henry was de-
cared accordingly elected first Governor Of the Common
Mr. Henry entered upon the duties Of his office on the
a Of July 1776 His salary was fixed at per year.
satisfaction From ali quarters Of the State and even from
other colonies congratulations and good wishes. While
being renovated and prepared for his reception Mr. Henry
returned for brief season to his home in Hanover On his
d o rs e e
palace 1t is said that greatly to the disappointment OF his
enemies the arsocras he conducted himself as 0py
ernor with great dignity meeting all the and pro
prietes Of the office with and most
excellent taste
The scope this chapter will permit any detailed
OF remaining years his life elected Gov
three times SUCCESSFULLY and doubtless would have been
the if he had insisted that he
by Constitution ineligible. During the second term
Governor he married to Miss Dorol,ea cambridge
BY many years the junior Of her distinguished husband but
they lived together in great she proving Ito be or
h% the an q @ Go oyeno e aS E
removed his family from "Leatherwood, in November 1884
he took up his residence williamsburg but at place
called Salisbury located the other side Of the James River
In 1886 he declined another election Governor, and retired
his home and undertook the practice OF his profession
to build up his fortune, which had become impaired.
Nor there be allowed minute account of the charge
that he aspred be Dictator Of the suspicion he rested
under OF his opposition to the adoption OF the FED
eal Constitution by the Virginia Convention There is no
proof that Mr. Henry heard of any scheme to make him
DICTATOR that he dreamed of such pposterous thing
It unlikely pointed out by Mr. Tyler that whatever
there made Of the word dictator simply in the
condng to the Governor enlarged elgences DC
andng unusual and prompt action His opposition to the
adoption Of the Federal Constitution due, not to any
change inconsistency in his but simply to his strong
nsstence that certain rights be clearly Defined and not
left recognition by implication only No one believed more
ardenty than he strong and fixed federation OF the States
but he sougta union based clear definition OF rights
For all the qualities that to make great statesman ana
orator. perhaps other part of his life did Mr. Henry ever
SO superb demonstration Of power and capacity as IN
this great convention. =
And there be permitted only brief word concerning
part played securing the amendments to the Constr
tuition which he addressed all his great powers most
assduously. chad acquesced in the adoption OF the Con
stituon with the expressed hope that when the detects
had tried point realized they would be re-
moved by amendment Through his influence, after long
struggle the Legislature Of Virginia asked Congress to cal
another convention to which the Constitution should be re-
submitted This Congress refused to do but suffered ter
amendments to the Constitution in which was emDodlec
nearly all Of the changes desired by Virginia
When Mr. Henry was fiftyeigt years old and being pos
her