Men of the American Revolution: Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine

Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine were the infrastructures are the Revolutionary movement against their father country, Great Britain. Patrick Henry was a Governor from Virginia, who became notorious for his presence as a persuasive orator in the Virginia House of Burgess. One of the most intricate works he utilized to get Congress on board for war spoke to the Convention on March 23, 1775, Speech to the Virginia Convention. He offered a proposition to the Convention as he saw them tilting towards a diplomatic approach but Henry saw that war was inevitable and they needed to bear down for the struggle. In contrast, Thomas Paine was blatant with his purpose for writing The Crisis, No. 1. Paine was a gun hoe political activist with a niche for radial pieces. His audience differed from Henry, who was appealing to Politicians and had to evoke the logical side to augment credibility amongst the Convention. Paine had to render the spirits of soldiers beaten and weary from the extended periods of war and brutal winter. Markedly, the soldiers endured bouts of depression provoked by a sense of defeat and loss of time with their families. Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine knew they had to conjure fighting spirits in the people, who have allowed domination by a country thousands of miles away. Henry and Paine had a proclivity to move people with graphic and thought-provoking works bursting with rhetoric and figurative language that awakened the souls of their diverse audiences to ignite the war for freedom.

In a Speech to the Virginia Convention, Henry appeals to ethos in the beginning by telling the President of the Virginia Convention, “No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentleman who ...

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...ce is so that our children will have peace in their day. A father , a mother who does not battle for peace for the children are unfit and in this period family was almost all you had.

Paine and Henry beautifully helped the struggle of freedom in 1770’s and used speech to bring the slight simmer of uproar to bubbling boil. These two revolutionaries will be forever known in history as the spearhead of the America known today. These highly educated men noticed that the proof in front of their audiences was not penetrating to their minds and they required someone brave enough to say what was unraveling rather than have it on their shores and to walk past. Henry and Paine had a proclivity to move people with graphic and thought-provoking works bursting with rhetoric and figurative language that awakened the souls of their diverse audiences to ignite the war for freedom.