The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-01-30
OLD MASTERS
PATRICK HENRY
By C. C. G.

worked upon he was irresistible. No
other man could so sway juryHe
was often irresistible even against
the instructions of the court and the
direct command of the law.
But he was indolent and would
not study; he loved to play the vio-
lin in the house or to stretch himself
on the lawn under tree in a warm
day and dream. What were those
dreams? Had not the stage been
set for the great tragedy Of the revo-
luton and had not the caller of the
acts summoned him, the chances are
thousand to ten that he would have
dreamed his life away and long ago
have been forgotten. And save for
him and others who later made great
names might never have been awak-
ened from their indifference, and
through his words heard the trumpet
call of duty and of patriotism.
DuMaurier pictures Trilby as "tone-
deaf, who couldn't sing one note in
tune, who couldn't tell c from an
F. until hypnotized by Svengali, and
she then could outsing an angel.
Some archangel must have hypno-
tized Patrick Henry for when inspir-
ed he could compel an audiance to
bow spellbound to him. so marvellous
and mpsterful was his eloquence.
Even Themes jefferson said of his
ora,,,:v. 81 never heard anything
that deserved to be called by the
same Lame with what flowed from
hin, a..G where he got the torrent of
larenage from is uncomfortable. l
ahv. frequently shut my eyes while
ne spole and when no was done
asked myself what he had said with
out being able to recollect a word OF
it."
With Jefferson first knew Henry he
(Jefferson) was but boy. The ac-
count says:
about the time Jefferson entered
college at Williamsburg he made the
acquaintance of a hilarious, impecu-
NOUS, irresponsible, reckless young
lawyer, full of music and humor, who
was regarded by the neighbors as an
incorigible scamp, but soon in sin
gle speech was to win the reputa-
ton of being the most eloquent and
persuasive orator in America. In
the loose methods of the courts OF
those days Patrick Henry was admit,
ted to the bar after six weeks study
and a promise of future application
, but the conduct of his first case made
, him famous throughout the colony.
When Henry came to williamsburg
he frequently shared Jefferson's bee
, because of lack of money to pay 6
, hoted bill and it was upon fly-lea1
, of Jefferson's Cooke upon Littleton'
, that Henry wrote the famous resolu
= ton, and it was from Jefferson'
chamber that the briefless barristel
, went to the meeting Of Burgesses II
NAV, 1853 to make that famous
= speech against taxation without rep
= resentation. Jefferson accompanied
{ him and the speech that Henry mad
, changed Jefferson to an arrant rebe
= against the king and all Englishme'
: in office in the Colony of Virginia
4 Fifty-nine years later Jefferson de
q scribed that day as the most import
| ant in his life.
/ It is a misfortune that there wer'
/ no shorthand reporters in his day tt
t catch and preserve what he said. Still
. who knows? At this thought o
v Trilby. It was as if she said. "See
= what does the composer count for
0 Here is about as beautiful song al
was ever written, with beautiful
I words to match, and the words have
i been made French for you by one o
8 your smartest poets. But what d.
Y the words signify any more than thu
Il tune or even the language? The
g Nussbaum is neither better nor wors
e than Mon Ami Pierrot, when l an
the singer; for am Svengali; ant
t you shall hear nothing, see nothing
/: think of nothing but Svengali, Sven
e gall, Svengali."
), When a war is on bugles and roll
o ing drums are as necessary as gun
t and ammunition. Virginia was shor
', in bugles and drums SO Patrick Hen
q ry was sent and for dozen years h
was an inspiration not only to Vii
d ginia but to every one of the thil
y teen colonies.
E Perhaps when st. Patrick went t
/" Ireland there was harpist who play
& ed for courts and ladies bright VIII
m was converted and learned to Low
Il God and his country, but who neve
re could give expression on his harp
N tho naw imnressiOns that the gres