History of the Colony And Ancient Dominion of Virginia
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The presiding magistrate was the father of young Henry. The sheriff, according to Mr. Maury's own account, finding some gentlemen unwilling to serve on the jury, summoned men of the common people. Mr. !Maury objected to them, but Patrick Henry insisting that "they were honest men, " they were immediately called to the book and sworn. Three or four of them, it was said, were dissenters "of that denomination called 'New Lights. ' " On the plaintiff's side the only evidence was that of Messrs. Gis...t and McDowall, tobacco- buyers, who testified that fifty shillings per hundred weight was 516 HISTORY OF THE COLONY AND the current price of tobacco at that time. On the defendant's side was produced the Rev. James Maury's receipt for one hun- dred and forty-four pounds paid him by Thomas Johnson, Jr. The case was opened for the plaintiff by Peter Lyons. "When Patrick Henry rose to reply, his commencement was awkward, unpromising, embarrassed. In a few moments he began to warm with his subject, and catching inspiration from the surrounding scene, his attitude grew more erect, his gesture bolder, his eye kindled and dilated with the radiance of genius, his voice ceased to falter, and the witchery of its tones made the blood run cold and the hair stand on end.
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The presiding magistrate was the father of young Henry. The sheriff, according to Mr. Maury's own account, finding some gentlemen unwilling to serve on the jury, summoned men of the common people. Mr. !Maury objected to them, but Patrick Henry insisting that "they were honest men, " they were immediately called to the book and sworn. Three or four of them, it was said, were dissenters "of that denomination called 'New Lights. ' " On the plaintiff's side the only evidence was that of Messrs. Gis...t and McDowall, tobacco- buyers, who testified that fifty shillings per hundred weight was 516 HISTORY OF THE COLONY AND the current price of tobacco at that time. On the defendant's side was produced the Rev. James Maury's receipt for one hun- dred and forty-four pounds paid him by Thomas Johnson, Jr. The case was opened for the plaintiff by Peter Lyons. "When Patrick Henry rose to reply, his commencement was awkward, unpromising, embarrassed. In a few moments he began to warm with his subject, and catching inspiration from the surrounding scene, his attitude grew more erect, his gesture bolder, his eye kindled and dilated with the radiance of genius, his voice ceased to falter, and the witchery of its tones made the blood run cold and the hair stand on end.
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