What would make you risk your life for a cause that was seldom considered achievable? At the time Patrick Henry gave his speech most Americans at the time were small farmers, and they all had the same fear of Britain invading the colonies. Patrick Henry’s “Speech to the Virginia Convention” utilizes logos to persuade his fellow colonists to fight the British.
If the colonists had voted against Henry’s proposition they would’ve been caught ill-prepared by the English. Henry used logos to convince the revolutionaries who still fooled themselves that peace could still be made with Britain. “Deceive ourselves no longer, Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert this storm...We have