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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 31: (search)
rginia convention directed the excess to be restored. Two days after the return of the volunteers, Dunmore issued a proclamation against a certain Patrick Henry, and his deluded followers; and secretly denounced him to the ministry as a man of desperate circumstances, one who had been very active in encouraging disobedience and exciting a spirit of revolt among the people for many years past. On the other hand, the interior resounded with the praise of the insurgents. On the eighth, Louisa county sent them its hearty thanks. On the ninth, Spottsylvania cordially approved their prudent, firm, and spirited conduct; and Orange county in a letter signed among others by the young and studious James Madison, a recent graduate of Princeton college, applauded their zeal for the honor and interest of the country. The blow struck in Massachusetts, they add, is a hostile attack on this and every other colony, and a sufficient warrant to use reprisal. On the eleventh, Patrick Henry set