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RICHARD HENRY LEE.

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RICHARD HENRY LEE.

To censure a just pride of ancestry would be to lessen the incentives of virtue; and since he who was the idol of a people's worship has declared, even when holding up to scorn the folly of aristocracy, "that the glory of our forefathers is a light to their posterity," it may be permitted to observe, that Richard Henry Lee traces his descent from one of the most ancient and distinguished families in Virginia.

The firmness and policy of his great grandfather, obtained nominally for Virginia, what his own energetic eloquence and active patriotism afterwards contributed effectually to secure to her, the title of an independent dominion. When the arbitrary taxation of the first king Charles of England had lost to him his kingdom and his life, as Virginia had not suffered with the parent state, so she shared not in its joy on this event, and only by treaty as an independent dominion, would she consent to avail herself of the protectorship of Cromwell. Mr. Lee and Sir William Berkley conducted, on the part of the colony, the negotiation which followed her resistance to the armed

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