{"id":449,"date":"2004-02-16T13:18:35","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T18:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=449"},"modified":"2024-10-27T18:08:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T22:08:18","slug":"thomas-jefferson-patrick-henry-spoke-as-homer-wrote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Jefferson: \u201c[Patrick] Henry spoke as Homer wrote\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=1451626991&#038;asins=1451626991&#038;linkId=3N2ENSS4VQTQVRVR&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nFrom ANGEL IN THE WHIRLWIND, by Benson Bobrick<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On May 29, 1765, Patrick Henry rose in the Virginia House of Burgesses to introduce a series of momentous resolutions which he had hastily drafted on a blank leaf of an old law book\u0085Henry accompanied these resolutions with a fiery speech given the next day in which he concluded, &#8220;Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell and George the Third&#8221;\u0097amid cries of &#8220;Treason&#8221; that arose from all sides of the room \u0096 &#8220;and George the Third,&#8221; he continued artfully, &#8220;may profit by their example.  If this be treason, make the most of it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Jefferson, then a student at the College of William and Mary, was standing in the doorway and heard Henry speak.  &#8220;I well remember the cry of treason,&#8221; Jefferson wrote afterward, &#8220;the pause of Mr. Henry at the name of George III, and the presence of mind with which he closed his sentence, and baffled the charge vociferated.&#8221;\u0085To Jefferson it seemed as if Henry &#8220;spoke as Homer wrote&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=1451626991&#038;asins=1451626991&#038;linkId=3N2ENSS4VQTQVRVR&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ANGEL IN THE WHIRLWIND, by Benson Bobrick On May 29, 1765, Patrick Henry rose in the Virginia House of Burgesses to introduce a series of momentous resolutions which he had hastily drafted on a blank leaf of an old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[174,924,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101257,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/101257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}