PATRICK HENRY DELIVERING HIS SPEECH OF 1765.

Photogravure after the Painting by Rothermel.

DER the English law of treason, such language as Patrick Henty used in the celebrated speech of 1765, in the Virginia House of Burgesses, made him liable to be drawn, hanged, and quartered. painter, entering into the spirit of the times, suggests, but does not exaggerate, the excitement necessarily produced by such a speech at such a time.