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Patrick Henry, by Moses Coit Tyler
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Title: Patrick Henry
Author: Moses Coit Tyler
Release Date: July 10, 2009 [eBook #29368]
Language: English
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American Statesmen
PATRICK HENRY
by
MOSES COIT TYLER
Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge
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.
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 fin