The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-27

Robert c. Nicholas, Richard Bland.
Richard Henry Lee. Benjamin Har-
rison. Edmund Pendleton Patrick
Henry Dudley Digges. Dabney Carr.
Archibald Cary and Thoma, Jefferson
On the day after the dissolution. this
committee addressed circular to the
other colonies. Robert Carter Nicholas
published. during this year. a pamph-
let In defense Of colonial rights. i.
CHAPTER LxXxIv.
punmore at ACKNOWLEDGMENT
| Committee OF safety--Carrington
Read, Cabell.
punmore's domestics now abandon
ed the palace and removed to Porto
Bello his country seat about s,%
miles below williamsburg. The fugi-
i've Governor took up his station at
Portsmouth.
On Monday, July II. 1875. the con-
Vent'on met at Richmond. Measures
were taken for raising two regiments
OF regular troops for one year ana two
companies for the protection of the
Western frontier, and to divide ths
colony into sixteen districts. and :.
exercise the militia as minute-men en-
as 10 be ready for service at a mo-
ments warning. AT the instance ~
Hlchard Bland. a n inquiry was made
mo certain charges rejecting on his
! innocence
.iumphantly indicated. Although NJ.
had raised extreme measures vol ,rian
nv crlsls came. and the rupture took
pidce ne was behind none in patriotic
druof ana devotion to the common
sduse' "A minister was implicated ir
~ oPdsatlnE the charges against him
committee OF safety was organiz-
duties of the colony; IL cons,stad =,
e!eNen gentlemen Edmund pensleton
george Mason. John Page. cb.rS
niand. Thomas Ludwen Lee. Paul car
rington' Dudley Digses william Ga.
pel' carter braxton. James Mercer and
American statesmen-patrick Henry
BY Moses Colt Tyler. chapter MI ~
ih"ependenee. page 19i. Dudley Dicres
virginia Convention of i776
nc American colonies had been
a".t'iF advancing along a path strewn
mth corpSes and wet with blood. TO-
mdIos the doctrine that "A total sepa
,S a,.oh rom the mother country
thihs hitherto contemplate ted by thon
only as a disaster and a crime
ms supreme question IL was plain
was TO confront the very next VII.
gina convention. which was under an
continent 10 meet e5-.y IN the coming
NAY Almost at once. therefore. after
MS return home. Patrick Henry Vas
sent 1t in that convention
on Monday morning, the sth OF Nav
me convention gathered at Williams
purs Tor It's iirst meeting. On its roll
VI members we see many OF those
names which have become familiar 10
US IN the progress OF this history-the
names OF those sturdy and well trained
leaders who guided virsinia durins
an that stormy period-Pendfsto
carF' Mason, Nicholas, Bland. the Lees
Mann Page. Dudley Digzes. wythe
Edmund Randolph and a few othery
ror the first time. also on such roll
we meet the name of James Madison,
am aecompiished young political phi.
.osopner' then but four years from tho
inspiring instruction of President
"ltnefspoon a Princeton
dudley Digges on Committee TO
pratt Bill OF Rights and Constitution
for Virginia. page 20.
Moreover. the great step taken by
the Virginia Convention. on the day
just mentioned (AIay S. 177s1 com,
mitted that body to the duty OF taking
at once certain other steps OF sunrems
Importance
They We're about to cast off the
government OF Great Britain it was
necessary for them. therefore. to pro-
vidc some government to be put in
ire place of it. Accordingly. in the
very same hour In which they m
str'icteo their delegates in Congress IN
propose declaration OF indenend-
ence. they likewise resolved. "Thlt 4
committee be appointed to prepare a
declaration of rights, and such a plan
OF government as will be most likely.
10 maintain peace and order in this
colony and secure substantial anJ
equal liberty to the people"
or this committee, Patrick Henry
was a member: and with him waro
associated Archibald Cary. Henry Leo
Nicholas, Edmund Randolph. sland'
dudley Disges, Paul Darlington. Mann
Pnge Madison. George Mason aud
others The two tasks before the
commIttee-that of drafting "A stst,.
nhent or rights and that of drafting
Constitution for the new state OF
VI sin'a--must have pressed heavily
urcn It's leading members
pisges' Leonard t?-c. 1870. An
English mathematician. He was ELI.
Gated at oxford and was the author cr
Tec;enicon U536). on measuring lana.
etc; Partometria: A Geometrical Pru.
tse G5ID, and A Prognostication
Everlasting U553-'56). an ASTROLOGICAL
work.
! E;sges. Thomas (?-l595D An Eng
lish mathematician. the son of Leon
ard. He was educated at Cambridge
ANU ch'eleu farilament In 1872. BE
constituted the alterations ana forti-
hcat'cI's OF Dover Harbor. served IN
the Low Countries in 15ss-'94. and was
interested in search for che donir-
lens or the great Can OF Cathain, in
the Antarctic seas. He edited his
father's Pantometrla and great many
treaties on science and military en-
sin"eT:ng.
Digses. digz. Sir Dudley n5ss-l63s).
An t'nt fish diploma fist and jurs'. He
was forn at Barham, Kent. I'll, son OF
Th"ria:' and graduated at oxford r.
| l6ul. IT. 1915 he went to Rus,p AMI
in 90 to Holland as special ailbassa-
| dor. ut later fell into disfav,
through his independent opinions. He
was suihor OF Rights and Privileges
of the Subject G6i2l. and TIE Com-