The Fight Against The King 's Army

In Patrick Henry’s,“ Speech in the Virginia Convention,” he explains to the President as well as the government at the time on how a war with Britain is completely necessary in order to gain full independence for America. Henry uses a proud tone to inspire his audience, simple and complex sentence structure to convey straightforward details, patriotic and passionate diction to bring an uprising of emotion, and ethos to ethically support the main idea.

His appeal to pathos can be seen in the statement, “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.” Jefferson’s choice of words appeal to the reader’s emotions and cause them to feel resentment towards the king’s actions. His diction and syntax also appeal to pathos in the sentence, “Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.” In this statement, Jefferson mentions that the king of Britain is undeserving to rule the colonies because of his brutality. Once again, he uses a series of negative terms to describe the king’s actions in order to force the reader to feel enraged and become more understanding of the colonies’ decision to break away from British rule. Thomas Jefferson’s appeal to pathos through his word choice can also be seen in the sentence, “A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” In this statement, Jefferson compares the king to a tyrant. The colonies wanted more freedom, however, under British control they had little to no rights. By calling the king a tyrant, Jefferson appeals to the reader’s emotions and causes them to feel more anger

Have you heard of The Battle of King’s Mountain? This small battle is considered by many “the turning point in the American Revolution”. This battle has many causes, leaders, events, and effects that make it an important and significant.

The prominent patriot Patrick Henry once said, “I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” (Henry 7) implying that a life without liberty is not a righteous life. Henry’s quote is included in his popular oratory, “Speech to the Virginia Convention”, in which he discusses with the colonists who were under the tyrannical reign of the Crown. Throughout his speech, Henry lists all of the discrepancies the thirteen colonies had with Great Britain, concluding that there is no other option, but to retaliate instantaneous. In Patrick Henry’s “Speech to the Virginia Convention,” he utilizes amplifying loaded words and coherent parallelism in order to influence the assembly to unify and reciprocate.

According to Patrick Henry, “I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” (Henry 7). Patrick Henry was able to give an outstanding speech at the Virginia Convention, regarding the actions needing to be taken by the colonists. This speech included the criticizing and denouncing of Great Britain, along with the urging of the colonists to fight for independence. This including that the colonists need to become prepared because the unjust actions of the British were not simply going to go away. Henry urges the colonists to fight for the freedom that they rightfully deserve, and he does it extremely well. In Patrick Henry’s ‘Speech to the Virginia Congress’, he demonstrates passionate pathos appeals and rhetorical questioning to persuade the colonists to stand up for themselves and join the fight for their freedom.

Although Republicans preferred more power to the states, as President, Jefferson should have kept the county's best idea in mind and tried to keep the national government strong. Jefferson also comes across as very hypocritical in this letter by trying to dismantle the government he created and fought for during the drafting of the Constitution. In this letter, Jefferson is guilty of trying to allow his own vision for the country to come through rather than keeping the strict constructionist ideas of his party in mind and supporting the Constitution even if it called for a strong national government.

Metacom, known as King Philip to English colonists, was the leader of the Wampanoag Confederacy during the 17th century. Years after his birth, Metacom would be the cause of King Philip’s war, which resulted in the death of more than six hundred settlers, as well as the destruction of multiple colonies, and his own death.

Jefferson relates to this tragic event that happen to colonist because when the colonist remembers what happened, it will hurt them and make them come into realization of all the harm that Britain has done to them. Jefferson also uses these emotions of the people to build up anger, and make them rebel against the British. He also states that “the present King of Great Britain is a history of injuries”. Jefferson is trying to say that King George III is a king who only brought harm, even in the past. This means that the king will continue to harm them no matter how many years pass by, and the best solution is they get separated from them. This is why Jefferson uses these reasons as an argument towards the loyalist in why we shouldn’t let Britain take control of them, after all the harm they have committed towards them.

Jefferson then uses ethos to give a counter logical argument that government should not be “changed for light and transient causes,” with a sole reason to justify these claims as a necessity. He achieves this by identifying wrongdoings from the Great Britain with strong dictions such as “abuses and usurpations” and “absolute Despotism,” then concluding with another use of deductive reasoning to argue that people have rights to “throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security” if the system has been abused. He states it to inform the readers about abuses that colonists have suffered from the Great Britain and acts as a rational decision to become independent and create a new form of government. Finally, Jefferson continues on using strong dictions to further denote the King George III and begins on utilizing inductive reasoning to logically prove his

In this essay, I will prove how Jefferson uses a rhetorical structure in his work to attract his audience about the usurpations of the King of Great Britain (King George III). I feel that Jefferson’s rhetoric is justly what makes the Declaration of Independence so significant because he emotionally draws in his readers by presenting them with a lengthy list of grievances that Great Britain had on the United States colonies. I will then show how Jefferson uses literary terms such as the warrant to state his belief on the conflict with Britain, gives supporting facts (list of grievances) to support his belief, and then makes a claim for independence after his exhausting list of grievances to make a solution to the conflict with the British. By having such an effective rhetorical structure in the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson eventually leads the U.S. colonies to independence from Great Britain.

Patriots were known to tar and feather Loyalists when they had the opportunity. Therefore, in Virginia, were Loyalists were not the majority they were targeted.(Doc B) The Patriots in this printing are seen as inhumane, the faces are portrayed as if they are of a different species than the Loyalists. They’re seen as threatening and almost miserable men. Loyalists are men of great honor, and would not want to be part of the Patriot movement. This would evoke a sense of embarrassment on the men and they would push against being subject to mob rule ran by Patriots. The Loyalist being forced to sign the document even shows a sense of stability and honor, he doesn't seemed frightened or worried and appears as if he knows he still is superior to those of the Patriots. This source is used to show how Loyalists, even in complicated situations, are still more powerful and overcome the obstacles they face. The author evokes a feeling of superiority within a Loyalist despite the situation they are forced

Patrick Henry, one of the most, if not the most, influential politicians of eighteenth century America, wrote, and presented, the Speech in the Virginia Convention during a time of tension between Britain and its Colonies. As a spokesman of the independence movement, Henry continuously faced the threat of persecution by the British, yet he carried on expressing his beliefs explicitly until he earned the opportunity to attend the Virginia Convention, in which he respectfully, but courageously, argued that war with the British was inevitable. In doing this, he rallied the colonists into a fighting spirit, and one month later, the Revolutionary war had begun. Through his use of political rhetorical devices, such as, ethos, pathos, logos, and his infamous fallacy, Patrick Henry influences not only the colonists’ mindsets, but also their actions against the British King.

On March 23, 1775, in the meeting hall of St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, a group of important statesmen, merchants, plantation owners, military leaders, and various others met to determine the fate of their beloved colony. The colony of Virginia, under the governorship of Lord Dunmore, was tearing at its seams between monarchists, who remained loyal to the British Crown, and patriots in support of independence.

“Give me liberty, or give me death!” is a quotation attributed to Patrick Henry, which he used to close his speech to Virginia Convention. During this time period, the 1770s, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson all made arguments in favor of separation of the American colonies from Great Britain; many of these appeals were persuasive for different reasons, whether that be logical, emotional, or pertaining to credibility and trust, which is to say logos, pathos, and ethos. First of all, we will examine Henry’s arguments during his speech at the Virginia Convention. Then, we will identify Paine’s appeals in a part of his essay, The Crisis n1. Lastly, we will evaluate Jefferson’s myriad of arguments in a part of his Autobiography.

“Jefferson’s ideals came from a hypothetical yeoman farmer, whose hard labour on the land will offer the best judgment on the rights of people.” (Sturgis, pg 7) At times, Jefferson had made uncomfortable decisions that opposed his ideals and beliefs, such as the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon. This forced a removal of the