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Patrick Henry

Moses Coit Tyler

  • History
  • Book language: English
  • 371 pages

A biography in the American Statesmen series, Moses Coit Tyler’s Patrick Henry portrays the Virginia statesman and orator of the American Revolution. Drawing on letters, records, and personal papers, it offers a careful account of his public career and the era he helped shape.

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American Statesmen
PATRICK HENRY
BY
MOSES COIT TYLER
Riverside Press Logo
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

[Pg iv]

COPYRIGHT, 1887, BY MOSES COIT TYLER

COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY MOSES COIT TYLER AND HOUGHTON,

MIFFLIN & CO.

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY JEANNETTE G. TYLER

The Riverside Press

CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS

PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

[Pg v]

PREFACE

In this book I have tried to embody the chief results derived from a study of all the materials known to me, in print and in manuscript, relating to Patrick Henry,—many of these materials being now used for the first time in any formal presentation of his life.

Notwithstanding the great popular interest attaching to the name of

Patrick Henry, he has hitherto been the subject of but one memoir founded on original investigation, and that, of course, is the Life by

William Wirt. When it is considered, however, that Wirt’s book was finished as long ago as the year 1817,—before the time had fairly come for the publication of the correspondence, diaries, personal memoranda, and official records of every sort, illustrating the great period covered by Patrick Henry’s career,—it will be easy to infer something as to the quantity and the value of those printed materials

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