There was a problem with Henry's speeches. Twelve years earlier, he had stood up in court and called King George a tyrant, and he had been fighting against English laws and rule in the courts ever since. Henry was an attorney with a knack for turning a phrase and a commitment to American independence. The four-day meeting turned into a fierce debate about whether or not to raise a militia and arm Virginia in the fight against the British. The 39 year old Henry was representing Hanover County, Virginia. There were 120 delegates, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry. Henry spoke at the Second Virginia Convention, a meeting of American colonial leaders held at St. It was on this day in 1775 that Patrick Henry gave a famous speech which probably included the line, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Louis Adamic said, "My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn." He wrote about travel, the labor movement, immigrant life in America, and Eastern European politics in books like The Native's Return (1934), Cradle of Life (1936), and Two-Way Passage (1941).
Throughout his career, he moved all over the country, fought in World War I, wrote for newspapers, and worked manual jobs.
So at age 14, he decided that he was grown up enough, and he immigrated to the United States. But he was a poor student, and as a teenager he was expelled from school for causing trouble with his support of the Yugoslav nationalist movement. His mother wanted him to become a priest, not take off for America.
In his autobiography, Laughing in the Jungle (1932), he wrote: "One day - I was then a little over 10 - I said to Mother: 'Someday I am going to America.” It's the birthday of writer Louis Adamic ( books by this author), born in Blato in what is now Slovenia (1899) to a family of farmers.