The beginner's American history . e from the heart. Yet Jefferson hoped andprayed that the time would come when every slave in thecountry might be set free. 185. Thomas Jefferson hears Patrick Henry speak at Rich-mond.— Jefferson was educated to be a lawyer; he wasnot a good public speaker, but he liked to hear men whowere. Just before the beginning of the RevolutionaryWar (1775), the people of Virginia sent men to the city ofRichmond to hold a meeting in old St. Johns met to see what should be done about defendingthose rights which theking of England had re-fused to grant the Amer
The beginner's American history . e from the heart. Yet Jefferson hoped andprayed that the time would come when every slave in thecountry might be set free. 185. Thomas Jefferson hears Patrick Henry speak at Rich-mond.— Jefferson was educated to be a lawyer; he wasnot a good public speaker, but he liked to hear men whowere. Just before the beginning of the RevolutionaryWar (1775), the people of Virginia sent men to the city ofRichmond to hold a meeting in old St. Johns met to see what should be done about defendingthose rights which theking of England had re-fused to grant the Amer-icans. One of the speakers atthat meeting was a fa-mous Virginian namedPatrick Henry. Whenhe got up to speak helooked very pale, but hiseyes shone like coals offire. He made a greatspeech. He said, Wemust fight! I repeat it,sir, — we must fight! The other Virginiansagreed with Patrick Hen-ry, and George Wash-ington and Thomas Jefferson, with other noted men whowere present at the meeting, began at once to make readyto We must Fight! 146 THE BEGINNER S AMERICAN HISTORY. 186. Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Indepen-dence ; how it was sent through the country. — Shortly afterthis the great war began. In a little over a year from thetime when the first battle was fought, Congress askedThomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and some others towrite the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson reallywrote almost every word of it. He was called the Penof the Revolution ; for he could write quite as well asPatrick Henry could speak. The Declaration was printed and carried by men mountedon fast horses all over the United States. When menheard it, they rang the church bells and sent up cheer
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