Two Angry Men

Hot-headed Patrick ("Liberty or Death") Henry was Virginia's original ''unreconstructed rebel," a Scottish King-hater who swung a verbal sledge on the propertied classes at every opportunity. He came home from the Revolution and attacked the Constitution as.destructive of States' rights. He turned down a Senatorship, a post as Secretary of State under George Washington, those of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and of Minister to France under John Adams. Propertied himself, Henry retired to his 2,920 acres of rolling Virginia grassland in 1795, a bitter, disappointed man, angry with his Government and its leaders. He died at Red Hill, Va. in 1799.

Hot-headed Carter Glass, who has snarled at the New Deal's "invasion" of States' rights, who turned down the Secretariat of the Treasury under Franklin Roosevelt, but who respects the propertied classes, got angry in the proper tradition last week. He took the Senate floor to demand passage of a bill appropriating $100,000 to buy Patrick Henry's Red Hill estate as a national monument. Senator Glass, bitter at his Government and angry with its leaders, contented himself with a snarl at an unnamed official of the Interior Department, who, he said, "does not think Patrick Henry's achievements or his fame are worth a tinker's damn" and who had "emasculated" the bill with nullifying amendments. Carter Glass asked Senate emasculation of the amendments, passage of his original bill. He got it a few gavel raps later.

To the House went the bill and to Lynchburg, Va. went Carter Glass for a week-end rest, 45 miles from the home of Virginia's first historic angry man.

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