These unfortunate people who are fighting here strive to create a republic where all men shall be equal! Said the sainted martyr Charles on the scaffold, ''T is no concern of the common people's how they are governed.' A common man equal to a Talbot! Fight, my son, if you must; but oh, fight for the king, even an usurper, before a republic, a mob in which so-called equality stands in very unstable equilibrium,--fight for the rightful ruler of the land, not against him." "Mother, if I am to believe the opinions of those whom I have been taught to respect, the rightful rulers of this colony, of our country, of any country, are the people who inhabit it." "And who says that, pray, my boy ?" "Mr.Henry." "And do you mean to tell me, a Talbot, that you have been taught to look up to men of the social stamp of Patrick Henry, or to respect their opinions ?" she said with ineffable disdain.
"Mother, the logic of events has forced all men to do so.

Had you heard his speeches before the Burgesses at Williamsburg, you would have thought that he was second to no man in the colony, or in the world beside; but if he be not satisfactory, there is his excellency General Washington." "Mr.Washington," she replied with an emphasis on the "Mr." "Now there, I grant you, is a man," she said reluctantly.

"I cannot understand the perversion of his destiny or the folly of his course." "And, mother, you know his family was as loyal as our own.

One of his forefathers held Worcester for King Charles with the utmost gallantry and resolution.

And he had as a companion in arms in that brave attempt Sir George Talbot, one of our ancestors.