Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-29

with Washington and the two rode on 10 PhiIa-
deiphia in company. Totally unlike in train
ing and temperament, each bore the other i'm
love and admiration, and it must have hurt
them that they could not see eye to eye in
the present crisis.
Washington, slow to form judgments as
he was tenacious in holding them still thought
In terms of petition and remonStrance relying
largely on Burke and Pitt and the English Lib
erals. As q matter Of fact when the various
delegates gathered in Carpenters Hall on Sep
TENDER s. only Patrick Henry and Samuel
Adams were blessed with the vision Of indie
pendence
a I the very outset Henry struck a powerful
blow for unity, putting an end to mean sec
aOnal Wrangling with this noble declaration:
-"An America is thrown into one mass Tho
distinctions between Virginans, Pennsylvanians,
New Workers. and New Englanders are no more
ana not Virginan, but an American" And
when the subtle Galloway came forward with
plan for continuation of British rule-a Co
onial union under the control OF the king
It was Patrick Henry's eloquence that defeated
the cunning scheme.
At the end Of the session, however Adams
and Henry had small cause for enthusiasm
Gaioway's trick had been defeated by one vote
only and the temper Of Congress was over
whelmingly conservative-but Henry was not
downcast. In conversation recorded by Col
john OvertOn, ne declared that war was Ger
tain. and prophesed Frances aid
When Virginia's second revolutionary con-
Vention met in Richmond in the Spring of tho
following year he set to work to make his
prophecy come true. There in old st. Johns
Church were the same forces that stood op-
posed at Williamsburg in 1765, just 10 years
before-on one side the patricians fearful of
preclpitate action and on the other Patrick
Henry and plain men that he had fired with
his love of liberty.
resolution of hens and haws was proposed.
full of pro estations of loyalty to the King
Henry, attacking it as servile and absurd called
for the colony to put itself Immediately into a
posture of defense. and moved the organization
of q militia Pendleton led his conservatives in
instant opposition insisting that it would be
time enough to resort to measures of despair
when every well founded hope was entirely van
iShed," but Henry crushed them in the speech
that has come to be the loved heritage of every
American child. What heart has not thrilled
to those tremendous periods that babe people
put by their fears and mean servities?
I'VE must fight. I repeat it. sir. zoe must
light An appeal to arms and to the God OF
Hosts is all that is left US. Shall roe
gather strength by irTesolution and inacttOn?
There is no retreat but in Submission
and SLAVERY Gentlemen may cry peace
peace, but there is no peace Is life 50
dear. or peace so SaUeet. to be purchased at
the price OF chains and SlGUery? Forbid it, Al
"ttyfCLy SOu! NWOU HOC 1OHQL course others
mag take. but as for me, giue me liberty
or OtUe DEATH
Up to this time no man had done more than
hint that war might come unless England did
this or that. Henry's boldness lay in the fact
that he swept hesitancieS aside and declared
that war muSt come. Nor was he wanting in
deeds to back his words. When Lord Dunmore
raided the public powder magazines ON April
20. the very day after Pitcairn fired upon tho
farmers at Lexington. Henry took the field with
5000 volunteers and forced the governor to
make compensation. His back turned, however,