221.

[448] Wirt, 402.

[449] Fontaine, MS.

[450] Meade, _Old Churches_, etc. ii. 12.

[451] Wirt, 387.

[452] Fontaine, MS.

[453] Fontaine, MS. Also Meade, _Old Churches_, etc. ii. 12; and Wm.
Wirt Henry, MS.

[454] MS. Certified copy.

[455] For example, D. Stuart's letter, in _Writings of Washington_, x.
94-96; also, _Jour. Va. House Del._ for Nov. 3, 1790.

[456] McRee, _Life of Iredell_, ii. 394-395.

[457] _Writings of Washington_, x. 560-561.

[458] _Writings of Washington_, x. 562-563.

[459] _Writings of Washington_, xi. 81-82.

[460] MS.

[461] Lee, _Observations_, etc. 116.

[462] Gibbs, _Administration of Washington_, etc. i. 337; see, also,
Hamilton, _Works_, vi. 114.

[463] Jefferson, _Writings_, iv. 148.

[464] Entire letter in Wirt, 385-387.

CHAPTER XXII

LAST DAYS

The intimation given by Patrick Henry to his daughter, in the summer
of 1796, that, though he could never again engage in a public career,
he yet might be compelled by "some unlooked-for circumstance" to make
"a transient effort" for the public safety, was not put to the test
until nearly three years afterward, when it was verified in the midst
of those days in which he was suddenly to find surcease of all earthly
care and pain.

Our story, therefore, now passes hurriedly by the year 1797,--which
saw the entrance of John Adams into the presidency, the return of
Monroe from France in great anger at the men who had recalled him, the
publication of Jefferson's letter to Mazzei, everywhere an increasing
bitterness and even violence in partisan feeling. In the same manner,
also, must we pass by the year 1798,--which saw the popular uprising
against France, the mounting of the black cockade against her, the
suspension of commercial intercourse with her, the summons to
Washington to come forth once more and lead the armies of America
against the enemy; then the moonstruck madness of the Federalists,
forcing upon the country the naturalization act, the alien acts, the
sedition act; then the Kentucky resolutions, as written by Jefferson,
declaring the acts just named to be "not law, but utterly void and of
no force," and liable, "unless arrested on the threshold," "to drive
these States into revolution and blood;" then the Virginia
resolutions, as written by Madison, denouncing the same acts as
"palpable and alarming infractions of the Constitution;" finally, the
preparations secretly making by the government