Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 38
y would gain nothing by pressing theStamp Act and other laws which bore hard oncolonial prosperity; for he held that if they wouldonly see it, the colonies were as necessary to Eng-land as England to the colonies. It is difficult for us to-day to put ourselves in theplace of Washington and other… … PATRICK HENRY. England. There the King was, and he was one ofthe subjects of the King. The Kings officers cameto Virginia, and when Washington saw, as he sooften did, a British man-of-war lying in the riveroff Mount Vernon, his mind was thrilled withpleasure as he thought of the power of the…
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