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Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., Part I. (search)
emed to possess all our minds. Mrs. Gawthmey remarked, If Patrick Henry had been living, I reckon Virginia would have stepped out of the Union side by side with South Carolina. Well, replied Commodore Maury, he would have acted as he thought. There would have been no pros and cons, and his irresistible eloquence would have carried all before it. Then baring his head, while the moonlight seemed to glorify his grand intellectual countenance, he repeated a portion of that grand oration of Mr. Henry ending, Give me liberty or give me death. As these immortal words fell from his lips all remained silent, though wrought up to the highest pitch of patriotic excitement. After a moment we walked on very quietly, until, passing out of the mellow moonlight, we entered the brilliantly-lighted parlors of the Spottswood Hotel. The hum of conversation, the sound of careless, happy laughter, the music of a band playing outside, soon brought us down from the heights of enthusiasm to the deli