Patrick Henry's "Treason" speech before the House of Burgesses in 1765, where he introduced the Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions, "in language so extreme that some Virginians said it smacked of treason". Patrick Henry, 1736 - 1799. American attorney, planter, politician, orator and Founding Father. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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