Posted on 01/07/2015 5:08:59 AM PST by Lazamataz
And Thomas Jefferson was “just some jerk” with a quill and parchment. It’s not the man but the character about which I am concerned.
“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
I guess most people have no clue what “sacred Honor” is anymore, or they would have stood firm. They will have to confront themselves in the mirror every morning, knowing that they were cowards.
I’m already an Independent.
Bookmark.
How degraded our political class has become stands out in stark relief when compared to this brave and principled man, Caesar Rodney
"No portrait of Caesar Rodney exists. We know that he was tormented throughout his life by asthma, and that his adult years were plagued by a facial cancer. He experienced expensive, painful and futile medical treatments on the cancer.
The apex of Caesar Rodney's service to his state occurred in the spring of 1776... He, along with Thomas McKean and George Read, were the three Delaware delegates to the Continental Congress. The explosive issue of actual independence was the question of the hour.
The discussion of the Resolution occupied several contentious weeks. Unanimous agreement eluded its supporters, and a recess was declared. On June 15, 1776 the Delaware Assembly released their three divided delegates to vote their individual judgment in Philadelphia. The Congress reconvened on July 1, 1776.
However Caesar Rodney was in Delaware dealing with militia creation and Tory problems. The Delaware vote on independence was deadlocked with McKean 'for' and Read 'against'. A dramatic story began to unfold. McKean sent a courier to Caesar Rodney advising him of the deadlock and Caesar Rodney immediately left for Philadelphia, either on horseback...or by carriage. Riding all night in a torrential rainstorm, he arrived at Independence Hall on July 2, 1776 muddy, wet and fatigued but 'booted and spurred', and also seriously ill.The eighty mile trip had consumed eighteen hours, and much of his vitality. He was strong enough to break the Delaware tie and vote for independence, adding Delaware to the successful vote that day, and the eventual unanimous vote later in July.
Rodney was elected President of Delaware in 1778 for a three year term, and served an additional seven months.The ratification of the articles of Confederation consumed him for over a year marked by real contention within the Delaware Assembly. As peace approached, Rodney's frail constitution was played out. He was again appointed to the Continental Congress and the Delaware Assembly, but never served. He had reached the end of his strength and had probably bankrupted himself in service to the state. It is the ultimate irony that Caesar Rodney was to die less than one year from the signing on september 3, 1783, of the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolution war".
And today's Lilliputians sell their souls for a committee assignment and thirty pieces of silver.
I appreciate, but you only pinged me. LOL
Worse: They don't care. Hell, they don't even KNOW to care.
It is the cycle of all nations. We will get our chance to become 'men of sterner stuff', when something hideous happens to collapse us.
I pride myself on my brevity.
99% of the population of the United States do not mind wearing the shackles and chains of the slave as long as they have their EBT card and NFL football along with NBA basketball.
It's a long way off 99%, but it is a majority.
.... and thank you for the reminder that, while I sit in the folly of my fellow man, I can turn to the All Powerful Lord God for solace and shelter.
Thank you, kind sir.
Thanks for the reference, and I'm delighted to be able to vocalize (write-alize?) the feelings we are all feeling.
Fascinating story about a man I knew nothing about.
Your best yet.
Simply excellent.
mark
Thank you, kind sir.
Twain
While they’ve technically only been in charge for a few days, the election results have been known for about two months. The speakership election wasn’t a pop quiz. The newly elected and reelected reps failed it miserably.
From which a reasonable man may conclude that approximately 90% of the Republican members have no principles, and are in fact small-minded and petty politicians. Statesmen they are not.
Hey bro. I think I disagree with the Kasserine Pass analogy. After our Kasserine Pass debacle, we changed our tactics. We appointed new commanders. We altered our strategies.
We shall do none of these things. Boehner and the GOP will double-down.
Note that I have removed the term ‘establishment’ from the GOP-e. It is not the Establishment that is the problem, any more. It is the newly-elected so-called “principled conservatives” that are every bit the same problem as the old entrenched progressive Republicans.
The whole party is rotten, with only a 10% that are redeemable.
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