. The home auxiliary and reference for teachers and students. awkwardly about, with acountenance of abstraction and totalunconcern as to what was going lost the cause before the committee,but made a deep impression as an ora-tor. In May, 1765, he was himself electeda member of the House of Burgesses(legislature) for a county in which hedid not reside. A copy of the StampAct had arrived from England. Onthe 29th the House went into Com-mittee of the Whole, and PatrickHenry, a new and untried member,with the foreknowledge of only twomembers, moved the celebrated Vir-ginia Resolves—that taxa
. The home auxiliary and reference for teachers and students. awkwardly about, with acountenance of abstraction and totalunconcern as to what was going lost the cause before the committee,but made a deep impression as an ora-tor. In May, 1765, he was himself electeda member of the House of Burgesses(legislature) for a county in which hedid not reside. A copy of the StampAct had arrived from England. Onthe 29th the House went into Com-mittee of the Whole, and PatrickHenry, a new and untried member,with the foreknowledge of only twomembers, moved the celebrated Vir-ginia Resolves—that taxation withoutrepresentation was odious to Englishlaw and practice, and would have atendency to destroy freedom. The de-bate was long and threats were uttered, and muchabuse cast on me, said Patrick of sublime eloquence fromMr. Henry are recorded. Reaching aclimax of invective, he paused, andsaid with solemnity: C?esar had hisBrutus; Charles the First his Crom-well; and George the Third (Trea-son ! shouted the Speaker of the. PATRICK HENRY BIOGRAPHY—PATRICK HENRY 357 House. Treason! Treason! camefrom all parts of the hall)—andGeorge th° Third may profit by theirexample. If this be treason, make themost of it. The resolutions, altertwo days of debate, passed the Vir-ginia House. They had been cut downin number, which modified their tone,but a manuscript copy of PatrickHenrys resolutions soon reached NewYork City, where they were handedabout with great privacy. They wereaccounted so treasonable that the pos-sessors of them declined printing themin that city. They reached New Eng-land, where the Sons of Liberty wereprompt to give them wide the papers accompanying his will,Patrick Henry left the original manu-script of the Virginia formed, he wrote, the firstopposition to the Stamp Act. Find-ing that no person was likel}^ to stepforth. I determined to venture; andalone, unadvised and unassisted, on ablank leaf of an
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