Virginia is a treasure house with two of the sides open to wind and weather.

I told the Council that, and they would not believe me.

Here are we at war with France, and Frontenac is hammering at the gates of New York.

If that falls, it will soon be the turn of Maryland and next of Virginia.
England's possessions in the West are indivisible, and what threatens one endangers all.

But think you our Virginians can see it?
When I presented my scheme for setting forts along the northern line, I could not screw a guinea out of the miscreants.