{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
Revolutionary Reminiscenccs.--Of all the
characters that the days oftrial brought forth
not one presents such extraordinary mixture
of carly infirmity, and of splendid manhood,
as Patrick Henry. But carly or late, he had
not artificial pretensions. All his gifts were
the gifts of nature; all his lights, the lights
of unaided nature. Habitually idle, he en-
tered Into trade; then agriculture; returned,
after marriage, totradc again, and fuiicd ip
all! He took to the forest as a huntsman,
and finally, touched with the suffering of
an amablc wife and his lovely children,
without study or preparation lie urged his
wav to the bar at the age of twenty-four,
and there displayed the forensic wonders of
his mind. To the elo1ncnce, the matchless
spirit and the genius of this man, Mr.. lcifer-
son, with his usual frankness and decision OF
character, ascribcd the first impulse which
Virginia received in the glorious cause OF
freedom. To the stamp act Mr., Henry op
posed resistance before which the efforts
of royalty sunk TO rise no more. lnthc year
1865, he carried by a single vote the liber-
ties of his country. Tn 1774, he together with
George Washington and others, were deput-
cd to the Colonial Congress. 1t was in Car
penters Hall, Philadelphia, he poured forth
those bursts of eloquence, which ut once
kndIed up the glowing flames of liberty,
and blasted for ever the tory hopes of the
refugee and the royalist. Patrick Henry had
the glory of first assigning to Washington
the need Of superior virtue and wisdom. 1t
was Henry who at cnce invoked the wal
and spirit which was to conduct the Colo
MES to freedom and to victory. He was a
great advocate of State Independence as the
sure and indeed the very means OF avoiding
actual consolidation. The first offices al
home and abroad were rendered to this sim
gular genius, but he declined them all. Like
Washington, he was free from ambition, anf
three score years terminated the earthly ca
reer of both these models of public purity
and perfect devotion to all their country. L
Patrick Henry had his errors early in life
our Young readers will recollect that the!
died long before he did, and do not ';elon;
even to his tomb The rest is inscribed b,
the gratitude of the people, upon the table
of the nation, as an imperIshablc lesson t
the children Of the Republic.


Pugiligtic Conteat.-A boxing match tool
place at Eton school, England, on the 21s
February, between the Hon. A. f. Cooper
son Of the Earl of SALISBURY, under Is, ant


young man Of the uame of Wood, ncpheN
of the Marquis of Londonderry, near II
which terminated in the death of the form
er. The contest continued nearly two hours
and both parties were constantly piled be
tween rounds with brandy. They Tough
about sixty rounds, and at the last round
Young Cooper fell heavily on his head, am
never spoke afterwards. He was then car
ar. I, tls,.c 1yb