"Speech to the Virginia Convention" "For my own part I consider it as nothing less than a question of
freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject
ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we
can hope to arrive at the truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which
we hold to God and our country."
When Henry says, “...I consider it as nothing more than a question of
freedom or slavery..." he is implying that the decision to go to war is
based on
doing whatever they want, when they want, or doing what someone tells
them to
continuing to live as they have been in America or going back to England
being able to govern themselves as a nation or becoming part of British rule
and thereby being subjected to British law
being free people or being bought and sold as slaves