..Under the crown, American history; . pages, dress and retinues. When the Stamp Act and other oppressivemeasures were put in operation by the Britishministry, the English-American colonists werearoused to persistent opposition, and the voicesof Patrick Henry and other patriots were sound-ing an alarm in the legislative hall of the oldCapitol near the Raleigh Tavern. Almost daily conferences were held in theApollo room, at which measures were devisedthat, in a quiet way, often effected more salutaryresults than the most eloquent declamations. It was in that room that young ThomasJefferson and
..Under the crown, American history; . pages, dress and retinues. When the Stamp Act and other oppressivemeasures were put in operation by the Britishministry, the English-American colonists werearoused to persistent opposition, and the voicesof Patrick Henry and other patriots were sound-ing an alarm in the legislative hall of the oldCapitol near the Raleigh Tavern. Almost daily conferences were held in theApollo room, at which measures were devisedthat, in a quiet way, often effected more salutaryresults than the most eloquent declamations. It was in that room that young ThomasJefferson and two or three others preparedthose counter - resolutions and addresses inopposition to those of the British Parliament, 160 THE MIDDLE PLANTATION. in the spring of 1769. They were promptlyadopted by the Virginia House of Burgesses orAssembly, and produced a crisis. This act caused the royal governor to dissolvethe Assembly. The members met the next dayin the Apollo room, formed themselves into aVoluntary Convention, drew up articles of. THE RALEIGH TAVERN. Opposition against the use of any merchandiseimported from Great Britain, signed and rec-ommended them, and then repaired to theirrespective districts. They were all reelected except those who haddeclined to countenance the proceedings of themajority. This was incipient rebellion; andsimilar acts in that room from time to timeafterward made the Raleigh Tavern to Virginia,relatively, what Faneuil Hall is to Massachusetts. THE MIDDLE PLANTATION. 161 Virginia kept pace with Massachusetts in theadoption of revolutionary measures. Her voicewas always quick to express sympathy with thatgenerous sister in her struggles against inflic-tions of British power during the hot ten yearsquarrel between the Americans and the imperialgovernment, before they came to blows. When, in the spring of 1773, the VirginiaAssembly received copies of an address issuedby the Assembly of Massachusetts, in which thesore grievances of that province were set
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