ADDRESS "TO CAPTAIN PATRICK HENRY AND THE
GENTLEMEN INDEPENDENTS OF HANOVER.[1]
"Gentlemen: We, the committee for the county
of Orange, having been fully informed of your seasonable
and spirited proceedings in procuring a compensation
for the powder fraudulently taken from the
country magazine by command of Lord Dunmore,
and which it evidently appears his lordship, notwithstanding
his assurances, had no intention to restore,
entreat you to accept their cordial thanks for this
testimony of your zeal for the honor and interest of
your country, We take this opportunity also to give
it as our opinion that the blow struck in the Massachusetts
government is a hostile attack on this and
ever other Colony, and a sufficient warrant to use
violence and reprisal in all cases in which it may be
for our security and welfare.
"James Madison, Chairman.
| James Taylor, | Thomas Barbour, |
| Zachariah Burnley, | Rowland Thomas, |
| James Madison, Jr., | William Moore, |
| James Walker, | Lawrence Taliaferro, |
| Henry Scott, | Thomas Bell." |
