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Show WHEN PATRIOT SPOKE " ' ' " I Ringing Words of Patrick Henry Are Enshrined in Hearts of All Free Men. - "I know not what coutm others may take, but a for me, give me liberty or give me death 1" TtlKSK were the ringing closing Mortis of Patrick Henry on March !KI, 1775. as lie delivered his immortal and eloquent address In support of the resolutions passed by the second revolutionary convention of Virginia, of which ho was an honored delegate. For Ax months the various colonic., hnd been milking military preparations. prepara-tions. Lord Dunmoro In Virginia wrote In December, 1774, to tho curl of Dart- I mouth: "Kery county Is now arming a company com-pany of men, whom they cull nn Independent In-dependent company for the avowed purpose of protecting their committee? and to be employed ngnlnst the government govern-ment If occasion require." When the movement for n vvcll-rcg-uliited militia, referred to nbove, vvns v Patrick Henry. Introduced In the revolutionary congress con-gress In Virginia, It met some opposition, oppo-sition, not because It was preraatdre, but because Patrick Henry came out more boldly tot war than anyone In the colonies had done before that time. Nearly fifty years later Thomas Jefferson Jef-ferson said: "After all, It must be allowed al-lowed that Patrick Ilenry was our leader In the measures of the resolutions resolu-tions In Virginia, nnd In that respect more Is due to him than to any other person. ... He left us all behind." be-hind." John Roane, who heard Patrick Henry's Hen-ry's famous speech described It to Edward Fontaine In 1834, and this manuscript Is In the library of Cornell university: "You remember, sir, the conclusion of the speech, so often dcclutmed in various ways by schoolboys 'Is life so dear, or peace so svvet, nt to bo purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it. Almighty Godl I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me deuthi' Ho gavo each of Old Church at Richmond, Va., Where Patrick Henry Delivered His Famous Fa-mous Address. these Words n meaning which is not conveyed by tho reading or delivery of them In tho ordinary way. "After a solemn pause, ho raised his eyes nnd chained hands toward heaven, nnd prayed, In words nnd tones which thrilled every heart, 'Forbid 'For-bid It, Almighty Godl' He then turned tnvrnrd the timid loyalists of the house, who were quaking with terror ter-ror nt tho Idea of tho consequences of participating In proceedings which would be visited with the penalties of I treason by the Rrltish croun; and he' slowly bent his form yet nearer to the earth, and said: 'I know not what course others may take,' nnd he accompanied ac-companied the words with hi!) hands still rrosxed, while he seeinea to be weighted down with his emotion. "Continuing, he lifted one hand firmly, firm-ly, as If holding a dagger with the point aimed at his brenxt. ne stood like a Roman senator defying Caesar, while tho unconquerable spirit of Cato of Utlca Hashed from every feuture; and he closed the grand appeal with the solemn words, 'or give me death I which sounded with tho awful cadence of a hero's dirge, fearless of death, and victorious In death; and he suited suit-ed the uctlon to the word by a blow upon the left breast with the right hand, whkh seemed to drive the dagger to tho patriot's heart," |