Against Patrick Henry

Today I have gathered here on this dark afternoon to speak words not of persuasion, but reason. I am here to address those words that have been spoken not out of honor, but out of hatred towards the crown. Words that have come from a man who seeks not to reason and what is best for the people, but out of vengeance and rancor, this man`s name is Patrick Henry. This man who burdens a body less than honorable has spoken terrible words out of anger and confusion. His words carry no veracity. He points out the fact that British soldiers are in the Colonies armed and ready to fight, he complains that the soldiers are here quote, to ``bind and rivet upon those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging``. Also quoting, ``No sir, she has none.  They are meant for us``. This desperate man could not be further incorrect. The British royal army has been sent to the Colonies to do nothing else but protect the American Colonists. Massive armies of Native Americans roam the Colonies in search of easy targets to murder and take from. These savage cannibals have no mercy with anyone who is found in their way. British soldiers are killed every week defending the American Colonists and then they complain about it? Their arguments are rooted from desperation and hatred.  If it were not for the British Soldiers there, Native Americans would slaughter thousands. He also says that the British have no enemies in this corner of the world; we have one enemy and one enemy only, the Native Americans. The only solution to this is to tax the Colonists in the minute amounts. With their taxes being paid for, we can maintain the soldiers that have been placed there for THEM, and by maintain the soldiers their security is at no risk. Great Britain does not grow currency on trees; the only way to maintain their protection and security is by taxation, there is no other way. Would you rather fight and risk breaking in all out warfare that could take the lives of thousands of people who, by other means would prosper in this new world? There are ways to do this peacefully and those are NOT the ways of this violent and blood thirsty Patrick Henry.  Another flaw in Henry’s speech, are his words out of desperation, those who have not been thought out fully and understood to speak. This man is concrete headed and looks nowhere but through his own path, his own way, not what is best for all, but what is for HIS greater good. He states that the Colonists have no way out of the quarrel in which they have been placed in. There are ways to reconcile with the British and get their way with their demands. The Crown will hear them out if their petitions and demands are reasonable and are capable of being brought forth and presented in a manner that an be understood and proceeded with. The major flaw in their demands is that they ask such great things that are impossible to accomplish. They want taxation to be removed, but if they are left defenseless against the hordes and hordes of Native American war parties scourging through the lands, they will perish and die out by two winters at most. We cannot have our soldiers shielding them from death and torture, from witnessing living scalping and treacherous Native rituals, if we receive no currency to maintain our hundreds of soldiers there, the soldiers will not last in the Colonies. So, I give this as a warning to desperate and rancor filled men like Patrick Henry, those who speak with no reason and through desperation, to stop this now before it is to late and violence breaks out among us. Stop spreading fallacies and rumors for we are here to protect the Colonists not to bind them as if they were criminals. I give this warning once and for all, for the good of the Colonial people and their children and women and homes, stop this now before it is to late. We must rejoice and remain peaceful or what will happen next is out of my jurisdiction and control.