[19] Curtis, _Life of Webster_, i. 584. [20] First printed in the Philadelphia _Age_, in 1867; and again printed, from the original manuscript, in _The Historical Magazine_, August, 1867, 90-93. I quote from the latter. [21] Jefferson's memorandum, _Hist. Mag._ for August, 1867, 90. [22] Wirt, 16, 17. [23] Curtis, _Life of Webster_, i. 584. [24] McMaster, _Hist. of U. S._ i. 489. [25] I have carefully examined this testimony, which is still in manuscript. [26] Judge Winston, MS. [27] Wirt, 18, 19. [28] These fee-books are now in the possession of Mr. William Wirt Henry, of Richmond. [29] Wirt, 18. [30] _Hist. Mag._ for 1867, 93. [31] Randall, _Life of Jefferson_, i. 47, 48. [32] William Wirt Henry, _Character and Public Career of Patrick Henry_, 3. CHAPTER IV A CELEBRATED CASE Thus Patrick Henry had been for nearly four years in the practice of the law, with a vigor and a success quite extraordinary, when, late in the year 1763, he became concerned in a case so charged with popular interest, and so well suited to the display of his own marvellous genius as an advocate, as to make both him and his case immediately celebrated. The side upon which he was retained happened to be the wrong side,--wrong both in law and in equity; having only this element of strength in it, namely, that by a combination of circumstances there were enlisted in its favor precisely those passions of the multitude which are the most selfish, the most blinding, and at the same time the most energetic. It only needed an advocate skilful enough to play effectively upon these passions, and a storm would be raised before which mere considerations of law and of equity would be swept out of sight.