Sketches of the Life And Character of Patrick Henry
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On the next day, Saturday, the 22d of April, when every thing was perfectly quiet, lord Dunmore, with rather more heat than discretion, sent a message into the city, by one of the magistrates, and which his lordship had delivered with the most solemn asseverations, that if any insult were offered to Capt. Foy (a British captain residing at the palace as his secretary, and considered to be the instigator of the governor to his violences) or to Capt. Collins, Jie would declare freedom to the slav...es, and lay the toiiyn in ashes; and he added, that he could easily depopulate the whole country. At this time both Capt. Foy and Collins were and had been continually walk- ing the streets, at their pleasure, without the slightest indication of disrespect. The effect of a threat, so diabolically ferocious, directed towards a people who had ever shown him and his family such enthusiastic marks of respect and attention, and following so directly LIFE OF HENRY. 135 on the plunder of the magazine, will be readily con- ceived.
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