Posted on 03/07/2011 4:27:39 AM PST by EternalVigilance
March 7
The King punished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
He passed the Boston Port Act, MARCH 7, 1774, effectively closing the
harbor to all commerce, intentionally ruining their economy.
Surrounding towns rallied by sending food.
William Prescott, who later commanded at Bunker Hill, wrote:
"Providence has placed you where you must stand the first shock...
If we submit to these regulations, all is gone..."
"Our forefathers passed the vast Atlantic, spent their blood and
treasure, that they might enjoy their liberties, both civil and
religious, and transmit them to their posterity...
Now if we should give them up, can our children rise up and call us
blessed?"
"This House, being deeply impressed with apprehension...from the
hostile invasion of the city of Boston in our Sister Colony of
Massachusetts Bay, whose commerce and harbor are, on the first day of
June next, to be stopped by an armed force, deem it highly necessary that the said first day of June be set apart, by the members of this House, as a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, devoutly to implore the Divine interposition, for averting the heavy calamity which threatens destruction to our civil rights."
On the day of the appointed fast, June 1, 1774, George Washington
wrote in his diary:
“Went to church, fasted all day.”
The King's appointed Royal Governor, Lord Dunmore, was so upset by
this Day of Fasting & Prayer resolution that two days later he
dissolved Virginia's House of Burgesses.
Virginia's colonial leaders went down the street and gathered in
Raleigh Tavern, where they decided to form a Continental Congress,
which two years later would vote for independence from the King.
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1. Do you realize the absolute importance of prayer, as our Founders did?
2. Are you willing to pay the steep price for liberty?
1. Do you realize the absolute importance of prayer, as our Founders did?
Absolutely. Prayer first, but also target practice, plotting, cussing, combat, and good communication. :)
That’s part of the “steep price.”
:-)
We must continue to offer moral support as they face down the government employee unions and their unholy alliance with the RAT Party.
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