[PatrickHenryinVA]

I always love it when I'm scanning FR and run across a referene to my old friend Patrick Henry. I was just last night performing as Mr. Henry, and giving excepts from the same ratification debate as reproduced by you above, to an Elderhostel group at a hotel here in Richmond, VA. I have been interpreting Patrick Henry for the last 11 years, and I have been including more and more of the anti-ratification arguments in my presentation. I love this part:

"But I am fearful that I have lived long enough to become an old-fashioned fellow. Perhaps an invincible attachment to the dearest rights of man, may, in these refined enlightened days be deemed old fashioned: if so, I am contented to be so.

"If I shall be in the minority, I shall have those painful sensations, which arise from a conviction of being overpowered in a good cause. Yet, I will be a peaceable citizen! My head, my hand, and my heart shall be at liberty to retrieve the loss of liberty and remove the defects of the system, in a constitutional way."

I was reading "The Anti-Federalist Papers" a few nights ago, and would recommend them as required reading to anyone trying to get the whole picture of the American Experiment.

If you know of a group, convention or school that would enjoy a visit from Patrick Henry, please visit our website at:

http:/www.virginiapatriots.com


Regards,

Michael Wells
Virginia Patriots, Inc.

[mrsmith]

Holy smokes that's you at St John's! You get great reviews.

I haven't been since I was a kid. I'll definitely go when it starts up again next year (been meaning to for a while) and say hi!
If I run across any work I'll sure send it your way.