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George Tucker's sneer implies, such a body of men, in such a crisis of public danger, would have twice and thrice elected him to the highest executive office in the State, and that, too, without one dissenting vote? To say so, indeed, is to fix a far more damning censure upon them than upon him. Jour. Va. House Del. 30, 36, 66; also Hening, ix. 474-476; 477-478; 530-532; 584-585. Sparks, Corr.
Like most hastily framed and passed laws this one proved unsatisfactory and a second one, with more detailed provisions was passed. Hening records it: 1762.
At length, he asked him for the glasses again and, after looking intently, said: "Jest between the edges uv two clouds I caught a glimpse uv a man, an' he wuz wavin' a flag, which wuz a sheet from his own bed. It would be Jake Hening, 'cause that wuz his place, an' he told me to go straight on to the cove, ez they wuz now expectin' us thar!" "Who is expecting us?" "Friends uv ours.
This was followed, according to Hening, in 1676 by another cavalier gesture to the oppressed: ... It is hereby intended that our neighbor Indian friends be not debarred from fishing and hunting within their own limits and bounds, using bows and arrows only.
You see, then, it is so clear a point in this person's opinion that the ready road to popularity here is to trample under foot the interests of religion, the rights of the church, and the prerogatives of the crown." Coll. i. 12. Perry, Hist. Coll. 316, 317. Hening, Statutes at Large, vi. 88, 89. Ibid. vi. 568, 569. Perry, Hist. Coll. i. 508, 509. Hening, Statutes at Large, vii. 240, 241.
Here and there, like dim lights along an uncertain voyage, bits of legislation or isolated conservation procedures appeared. In due course it became evident that natural fishways to choose one example were being obstructed to the disadvantage of both the fish and navigation. Hening records the law enacted to keep the rivers open: 1745.
That Patrick Henry did not attend the great convention, everybody knows; but the whole meaning of his refusal to do so, everybody may now understand somewhat more clearly, perhaps, than before. Hening, xi. 525-526. Sparks, Corr. Rev. iv. 93-96. See, also, Washington's letter to Henry, for Nov. 30, 1785, in Writings of W. xii. 277-278. Jour. Va. House Del. for Nov. 25, 1786.
Whatever was told by Smith, Beverly, Keith, Stith, and Burk with his continuators, or by Hening in the statutes at large, or in the journals of the House of Burgesses and of the House of Delegates, or could be gathered from the living voice for eighty years, he knew intimately and could recall at a moment's notice.
Hening, vol. 6, p. 356-7. Grimke, p. 163-4. The Declaration was certainly the constitutional law of this country for certain purposes. For example, it absolved the people from their allegiance to the English crown. It would have been so declared by the judicial tribunals of this country, if an American, during the revolutionary war or since, had been tried for treason to the crown.
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