[Carry_Okie]

Patrick Henry, doubting his fellow Virginian’s ratifying-convention assurances that the newly strengthened federal government would never abolish slavery, made sure Madison didn’t become one of the state’s senators, declaring his election would produce “rivulets of blood throughout the land.”

To suggest that this is the sum of Henry's concerns is deliberate misdirection by character assassination.

[Huck]

To suggest that this is the sum of Henry's concerns is deliberate misdirection by character assassination.

That's a good point. But the Federalists won, and so they get to wear the white hats. Henry gets to play the villain. It's dishonest and lame, but there you go.