the exception his care to record authorship of Virginia resolutions, 78; leaves a sealed account together with his will, 83, 84, 85; doubts as to his authorship, 84, note; condemned in Virginia by the officials, 86; denounced by Governor Fauquier, 86; and by Commissary Robinson, 86, 87; begins to be known in other colonies, 88; gains immediate popularity in Virginia, 88, 89; becomes political leader, 90; his large law practice, 91, 92; buys an estate, 91; his great success in admiralty case, 93; succeeds to practice of R. C. Nicholas, 93, 94; evidence of high legal attainments, 94; leads radical party in politics, 95; his great activity, 96; member of Committee of Correspondence, 96; leads deliberations of Burgesses over Boston Port Bill, 98; appointed delegate to Continental Congress, 99; member of convention of county delegates, 100. _Member of Continental Congress._ His journey to Philadelphia, 100, 101; his oratory heralded by associates, 101; described by Atkinson, 102; speaks in favor of committee to settle method of voting, 110; protests against small colonies having equal vote with large, 111; urges that old constitutions are abolished, 112; wishes proportional representation, excluding slaves, 112; his speech not that of a mere rhetorician, 113, 114; on committee on colonial trade and manufactures, 114; opposes Galloway's plan, 116; expects war, 116; wishes non-intercourse postponed, 117; on committee to prepare address to the king, 117; his share in its composition, 117, 118; on committee to declare rights of colonies, 118; his practical ability not so extraordinary as his oratory, 119; misrepresented as a mere declaimer, 120; mythical account by Wirt of an impressive speech, 120-121; asserted also to be author of rejected draft of address to the king, 122; and to be cast in the shade by more practical men, 122; this passage a slander due to Jefferson, 123; not considered a mere talker by associates, 124; high tribute to his practical ability by John Adams, 124, 125; agrees with Adams that war must come, 125; allusion of his mother to him in 1774, 126; fame of his speech for arming Virginia militia, 128; danger of an overestimate, 129; in Virginia convention offers resolutions to prepare for war, 134; opposed by his political rivals, 137; and by all who dreaded an open rupture, 138, 139; his speech, 140-145; description of Henry's manner by St. George Tucker, 143; by Randall, 146; by John Roane, 146-149; question as to its authenticity, 149-151; chairman of committee for arming militia, 151; also on committees on public lands and on encouragement of manufactures, 151, 152;