Hmmmmmm.  Very interesting.  I have never heard anything about Patrick Henry
being boring.  At the risk of sounding like the press a few years ago when
reporting on the pecadillos of our president, perhaps step 1 is to 'define
boring.'

In any case, we must give him his due.  History is repleat with men and
women who rose above their usual modus operandi life only once or twice.
Through the Revolutionary War, George Washington a good example.  Poor guy
lost just about every battle he fought, until Comte de Grasse set up the
Coups de Gras at Yorktown.  As I recall, General Grant failed at just about
everything before the Civil War, drank to excess, etc. was not a good
president, yet brought victory to the Union.  Let's be thankful the Good
Lord gives us an opportunity for our '15 minutes of fame.'

Randy Cabell
Boyce




----- Original Message -----
From: "John Shroeder" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: VA-HIST Digest - 7 Sep 2004 to 10 Sep 2004 (#2004-114)


> In a message dated 9/10/2004 11:59:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> I'd welcome any suggestions of some action that could be added especially
> before working on the speech. Hubby suggested that other than his speech,
> Patrick Henry was a pretty boring guy. Anyone disagree?
>
> Anne
> He defended persecuted Caroline County Baptists in the courts in
Alexandria
> and I have noted that a number of them, including my ancestor, John Acuff,
> located on Leatherwood Creek adjacent to his Franklin County property.  It
seems
> logical that they may have followed him there tho' I have no evidence of
that.
> John
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