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Identifier: americanauniver08beac (find matches)
Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and exclusiveright and power to lay taxes. In the bloodydebate which followed he was opposed by Ran-dolph, Bland, Pendleton, Nicholas, Wythe, andall the old members, whose influence in theHouse till then had been unbroken, so welearn from Jefferson, then a college student, whowas present at the session of the burgesses. Inpleading the injustice of the Stamp Act, Henryused the famous words: Caesar had his Brutus;Charles the First, his Cromwell; and George theThird (Treason! shouted the Speaker. Trea-son, treason, echoed others. After a mo-ments pause, the orator completed the inter-rupted sentence in a manner that showed no lessdefiance than adroitness) and George the Thirdmay profit by their example. If this be treason,make the most of it. As the royal governor ofMassachusetts wrote the ministry: The Vir-ginia resolves proved an alarm bell to the dis-affected. By his intrepidity, his oratory, andhis intuition, at once patriotic and prophetic,Patrick Henry became henceforth the protag-
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HENRY —HENRY COLLEGE onist of the colonial cause, sharing with Otis,Gadsden, and Samuel Adams the high honor oflaunching the American Revolution. Henry represented Virginia in the first colo-nial congress, which met at Philadelphia 5 Sept.1774, when he gave final expression to the feel-ing of nationality : The distinctions betweenVirginians, Pennsylvanians, -New Yorkers, andNew Englanders are no more. I am not a Vir-ginian, but an American. With this speechcompare Christopher Gadsdens remark nineyears before at the Stamp Act congress in NewYork: There ought to be no New Englandmen, no New Yorkers, known on the continent,but all of us Americans. On 23 March 1775, Henry, as a member of thesecond Virginia convention, which met in St.Johns Church, Richmond, moved that the colonybe armed, and again electrified the patriots withhis eloquence in support of this radical measure.Gentlemen, said he, may cry peace, peace —but there is no peace. The war is actually be-gun ! The next gale that

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