[166] _Letters of John Adams to his Wife_, i. 40.

[167] _Letters of John Adams to his Wife_, i. 47, 48.

[168] _Works of Jefferson_, i. 116.

[169] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 1227.

[170] _Ibid._ iii. 390.

[171] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 387.

[172] _Ibid._ ii. 395.

[173] _Ibid._ ii. 442, 443.

[174] _Ibid._ ii. 426.

[175] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 443.

[176] Patrick Henry's reasons were thus stated by him at the time to
Colonel Richard Morris and Captain George Dabney, and by the latter
were communicated to Wirt, 136, 137.

[177] Wirt, 137, 138.

[178] Wirt, 141.

[179] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 504

[180] Cooke, _Virginia_, 432.

[181] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 540.

[182] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 541.

[183] _Ibid._

[184] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 516.

[185] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 540, 541.

[186] _Ibid._ ii. 529.

[187] _Ibid._ ii. 539, 540.

[188] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 641.

[189] _Ibid._ ii. 667.

[190] _Ibid._ ii. 710, 711.

[191] _Ibid._ ii. 938.

[192] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 1024.

[193] _Ibid._ ii. 1620, 1621. For notable comments on Patrick Henry's
"striking and lucky _coup de main_," see Rives, _Life of Madison_, i.
93, 94; _Works of Jefferson_, i. 116, 117; Charles Mackay, _Founders
of the American Republic_, 232-234; 327.

[194] 4 _Am. Arch._ ii. 541.

CHAPTER XI

IN CONGRESS AND IN CAMP

On Thursday, the 18th of May, Patrick Henry took his seat in the
second Continental Congress; and he appears thenceforward to have
continued in attendance until the very end of the session, which
occurred on the 1st of August. From the official journal of this
Congress, it is impossible to ascertain the full extent of any
member's participation in its work. Its proceedings were transacted in
secret; and only such results were announced to the public as, in the
opinion of Congress, it was desirable that the public should know.
Then, too, from the private correspondence and the diaries of its
members but little help can be got. As affecting Patrick Henry, almost
the only non-official testimony that has been found is that of
Jefferson, who, however, did not enter this Congress until its session
was half gone, and who, forty years afterward, wrote what he probably
supposed to be his recollections concerning his old friend's
deportment and influence in that body:--

"I found Mr. Henry to be a silent and almost unmeddling
member in Congress. On the original opening of that body,
while general grievances were the topic,