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FOOTNOTES:

[398] Leake, _Life of Gen John Lamb_, 307-308

[399] Madison, _Letters_, etc i 402

[400] _Works of Haton_, ix 392

[402] Elliot, _Debates_, ii 414

[403] Madison, _Letters_, etc i 418

[404] _Writings of Washi+ngton_, ix 433

[405] Bancroft, _Hist Const_ ii 483

[406] _Corr Rev_ iv 240-241

[407] _Ibid_ iv 241

[408] _Jour Va House Del_ 42-43

[409] _Jour Va House Del_ 32

[410] Madison, _Letters_, etc, i 443-444

[411] For conte, see _Writings of Washi+ngton_, ix 446-447; _Writings of Jefferson_, ii 574; Rives, _Life of Madison_, ii 653-655; Bancroft, _Hist Const_ ii 485

[412] Bancroft, _Hist Const_ ii 488-489

[413] Gales, _Debates_, i 258-261

[414] Marshall, _Life of Washi+ngton_, v 209-210; Story, _Const_ i

211

[415] Howison, _Hist Va_ ii 333

CHAPTER XX

LAST LABORS AT THE BAR

The incidents embraced within the last three chapters cover the period from 1786 to 1791, and have been thus narrated by the as distinctly as possible, and in unbroken sequence, Patrick Henry's relations to each succeeding phase of that immense national movement which produced the American Constitution, with its first ten a those saht seereat labors as a party leader, and as a critic and moulder of the new Constitution, he had resu labors in the practice of the law

Late in the year 1786, as will be re then poor and in debt, he declined another election to the governorshi+p, and set hi his private fortunes, so sadly fallen to decay under the noble neglect i service of the public One of his kinsmen has left on record a pleasant anecdote to the effect that the orator happened to mention at that tireat burden of his debts ”Go back to the bar,” said his friend; ”your tongue will soon pay your debts If you will pro fee on the spot”[416] This course, in fact, he had already detere of fifty, at no tirown prematurely old under the storain buckled on his professional aran his life over again, in the hope ofdays, as well as for the honor and welfare of his great brood of children and grandchildren To this task, accordingly, he then bent hirim wilfulness that would not yield either to bodily weakness, or to the attractions or the distractions of politics It is delightful to be pery was abundantly rewarded; and that in exactly eight years thereafter, namely in 1794, he was able to retire, in comfort and wealth, from all public and professional employments of every sort