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 more honourable the man who was the object of them. Mr. Henry, who had been on the point of setting out for congress at the time when he had been called off by the intelligence from Williamsburg, now resumed his journey, and was escorted in triumph, by a large party of gentlemen, as far as Hooe's ferry on the Potomack. Messengers were sent after him from all directions, bearing the thanks and the applauses of his assembled countrymen, for his recent enterprise: and in such throngs did these addresses come, that the necessity of halting to read and answer them, converted a journey of one day, into a triumph of many. Thus, the same man, whose genius had in the year 1765 given the first political impulse to the revolution, had now the addi- tional honour of heading the first military movement in Virginia, in support of the same cause.

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