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Show Give Me Give Me Deatk" THE orator had a definite place In the building of America. IS the Eighteenth century orator was a fine art and not the lost one that it Is today. Therefore, writes Eliza-beth Eliza-beth Ellicott Poe, in the Washington Post, the place that Patrick Henry held and holds in the affections of the peo-pie peo-pie for the part he played before and during the American revolution is one that cannot be toe t highly estimated. Hanover county, Va., which has given giv-en many notable men and women to the Old Dominion' Hall of Fame, has every right to be proud of the achievements of this Henry of Stud-1763 Stud-1763 he was sounding sound-ing the keynotes of freedom in unmistakable unmis-takable tones. He was a country lawyer law-yer who had made an early marriage rather foolishly and was struggling to keep a growing family in the necessities neces-sities of life when, in 1763, be became aroused in behalf of what was known as "The Parsons' Cause," concerning the right of the clergy to receive the same price for their tobacco as other Colonists. In 1765 Henry was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. From time he took his seat be introduced intro-duced act after act defining the right! of the colony, especially in the matter of the obnoxious stamp tax and, against great opposition, carried allot his resolutions through the sheer force of his logic and his eloquenca, This made Patrick Henry the leader of the colony, in many senses of the word. Patrick Henry came rightly by Mi love of freedom, his historical sens and powers of oratory. For he wai a cousin of the historian, William Robertson, Rob-ertson, of Scotland, and of the mother of Lord Brougham. His mother wai a Winston of that noted English family fam-ily and his father saw to It that he bad a classical education and every P slble advantage In the way of propf learning. In 1774 Henry was foremost In call to form a Continental congress George Mason, author of the Bill Rights, himself an author and pah'"'1 of more than usual ability, said of Henry Hen-ry : "He is bv far the most powers speaker I ever heard. Every word says not only engages, but commas-the commas-the attention, and your passions a no longer your own when he address them. But his eloquence Is the sma est part of his merit. He Is In, opinion, the first man upon this co tlnent, as well in abilities as In P lie virtues, and had he lived In wot about the time of the first PunC , when the Roman people hd """jL their meridian glory, and their not tarnished, Henry's talents ra have put him at the head of that g lous commonwealth. , Of course, It was In his great sp familiar to every schoolboy In he shouted for all to hear-kW3 ( commoners alike "Give me linen ' give me death" thai lie rose to I' incnie liemhts of eloquence achieved for himself undying am served fame. ( It Is said that many g grf liens as to the future ol H" government read like prnpheCj light .-if subsequent history. |