Speech To The Virginia Convention Rhetorical Analysis
What is the chances of Britain taking over the United States again? Well during the revolution the revolutionaries were very patriotic and were willing to do anything to free themselves from the British control. The colonist feared being under control of Britain again and possibly going to war. In Patrick Henry's “Speech to the Virginia Convention” Henry uses pathos to channel the revolutionaries emotions and gets them to want to go to war with the British. In the speech Henry used a confident tone to let the revolutionaries know how important freeing their country from Britain was. While most of the other revs went the peaceful route Henry “not thought disrespectful to those gentlemen” (Henry 102) had another idea of how they