Show IN RAPS AMERICAN HEROES james 11 II stark historian in hta his book the loyalists of massachusetts and the other side of tho the american revolution calmly tears the balos from tho the heads of the ancestors anc estora of many 1 ot of massachusetts first families famili ps who pride themi them selves on their honorable lineage the book is in a most damaging to the cause of 0 the tha S sons one of tho the revolution and other kindred societies and one of the boldest statements concerning the real lives of 0 some borne ot of the foremost men of revolutionary hays ws in a chapter devoted to the causes odthe of the revolution the author states in virginia the revolutionary movement of the poor whites or crackers led by patrick henry was against the tha planter aristocracy it was only very slowly and very deliberately that washington Menti fled himself with the cause patrick henry was one or of the most moat unreliable men living according to historian stark byron called him a fore forest aLborn born demosthenes and jefferson wondering over his career exclaimed where he got that torrent of 0 language langu aga Is inconceivable I 1 have frequently closed ray my eyed while ho he spoke and when he was done asked myself what he had said without being able to recollect a word of it lie he had bad been successively a storekeeper a farmer and a shopkeeper but he failed in all these there pursuits and became a bankrupt at 23 declares tha the author then he studied law a few weeks and practiced a few years finally he embarked on the stormy sea of politics one day he worked himself into ft fine frenzy and in n a most dramatic manner demanded liberty or death alt although bough lie he had bad both freely at his disposal I 1 john adams joined the probably because he siaw aw t that hat it if th the e revolution was successful there would be great opportunity for advancement under tho the now government this proved to be the case the author by quoting from a letter which adams wrote shows doston boston that adams was a defaulter and did not make maho proper return of taxes and that his sureties had to pay about jauk takes up with careful detail the doston boston mobs and the events lead lait in telling of the doston boston massacre he bo so says ys the repeatedly challenged the soldiers to fire it if they dared and the torrent of coarse anc annl profane abuse poured upon the soldiers is astonishing even in its echoes across the century and would furnish merial tor for an a appropriate ap pp top inscription on the attacks monument |