Mercy Otis Warren
Posted on 11/05/2015 8:05:49 AM PST by Perseverando
Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren was called "The Conscience of the American Revolution." She was wife of Massachusetts House Speaker James Warren and sister of patriot James Otis. Mercy Otis Warren corresponded with many American leaders, including: Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton and John Adams.
In 1805, Mercy Otis Warren published a three-volume "History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution."
In her work, "Observations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions," 1788, Mercy Otis Warren wrote:
Mercy Otis Warren continued: "And when asked, what is become of the rich produce of their farms - they may answer in the hapless style of the Man of La Mancha, 'The steward of my Lord has seized and sent it to Madrid.' Or, in the more literal language ... Government requires that the collectors of the revenue should transmit it to the Federal City."
America's founder's rejected "the divine right of the king." Instead of power flowing from the Creator to the king then to the people, they set up a government where power flowed
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I wish Hillary was in Salem in 1692.
Well, she definitely weighs as much as a duck, I’ll grant you that.
Hillary would have been one of the false accusers, not one of the alleged witches
To summarize the state of Women back in the day:
They had to know stuff.
They helped their men do chores. They were responsible for a ton of “outside” work on the farms. They were doctors. They were nurses. They were cooks.
They had to know how everything worked. Because they had to step in to do it.
I would argue that most young men have no clue.
I laughed at my son in law the other day. He did not have a tool box. With tools. Except a hammer and a pair of cheap pliers.
Guess what he is getting for Christmas.
OMGOSH...best post of the day!!! LMAO
It was a nice dream while it lasted.
Try putting up food from the garden and thinking about you and family starving if you did not...many of today’s women are clueless...just give them their Starbucks
Hindsight....We don’t remember the stupid ones and nobody wrote about them, but we do see them walking and talking today. Time buries evidence and since stupidity is not held in high esteem, there is little evidence of it in history.
The ideas motivating so-called "progressive" women like Hillary Clinton are rooted in the shallow and failed ideas of more recent vintage.
These so-called leftist "progressives" like HRC portray themselves as the "intellectual" elite, although they are totally bereft of any real knowledge or understanding of the great ideas which were the seedbed of Ameria's successful 200-year experiment in liberty.
Today's liberals, especially the so-called "progressives," with all of their domination of academia and Far Left politics, seem to fit into a category described in an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:
"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)
Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.
Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by the Founders.
If they are allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never will know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution.
Now would be a good time for conservatives to read Dr. Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind, which can be read online, by the way.
In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, quoting lines which now seem to bear a strikinig resemblance to the players on the stage in American politics today.
For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:
"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."
Yes, the pseudointellectuals who occupy the White House, the media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."
By their words and actions, however, they display that provinciality Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot (see above) as being one of time and place, having no intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians--even those "experts" who attempt to denigrate a man whose understanding of their brains exceeds anything they ever have comprehended.
America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of their "teens" in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty.
It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because that Constitution does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).
Blasting it "all to smithereens" seems to be the goal of the Far Left which currently has control of the Executive branch of the government and wishes to carry it "forward" (see HRC's logo).
And men?
Here's a REAL MAN....LOL
But one day he called and wanted me to come over to help him fix something at his house. Not having seen his new house yet, I agreed to come over to help. He said all of the door knobs in the house were loose and needed tightening. When I got there, I realized he had bought a replica of a large, midwestern-style farm house (it fit like a fish out of water in Tempe, Arizona) and the loose doorknobs were that way to replicate the old door knobs in the 1800's.
The first thing I did, however, was to ask him for his toolbox. He said he didn't have one. He said he never learned to fix anything himself and always hired help to fix things in his house. So I was getting the "you're my friend--I don't have to pay you" jive played on me. He had expected me to bring my own tools and fix it for free. The guy didn't know which end of the broom to sweep with and was asking me to do all of his fixit projects around this big house, as a "friend".
Nothing doing. I drove him to the nearest hardware store and got him a toolbox and filled it with a whole bunch of various tools one needs to work around your house. He paid for all of it, of course, but whined the whole time. I still had to do the work because he didn't know the difference between a flat head and a Phillips head screwdriver. But at least I didn't have to haul my own tools over. I just took it in stride and looked at it as a way to renew our friendship.
But I asked him, how a guy could have gotten to his late 50's life and owned several homes but didn't know how to do anything to keep it repaired and maintained?. My dad taught me how to use the tools properly and fix just about anything. I spent my whole life doing my own home improvements, repairs and maintenance.
As it turned out, my friend sold the home within a year and moved away again because his job, but I spent that year playing his handyman and getting to know him again. It was not all a loss I guess. But it amazes me how one can go through life and not pick up the basics of taking care of your property.
They were smarter because they were here before Oprah, The View and the Kardashian Klan.
” Colonial women were smarter than women today “
So, ALL Colonial women were smarter than ALL women today? That’s what it says. A very stupid headline.
So, ALL SOME Colonial women were smarter than ALL SOME women today?
OK, all fixed now. Nothing to see here now. Move along.
More and more young people are like that today because so many things are replaced rather than fixed. Co-workers complain of young relatives unable to change a flat tire & such; they think I’m handy because I can occasionally fix small machines or unjam photocopiers (I’m actually not very handy, just normal).
I was sitting in one of those old all metal porch chairs the other day and thought ‘This is what is wrong with everything.’ Someone made good money and purchase the chair probably 50-60 years ago, knowing it would last their lifetime. If a bolt came out then it was fixed. Refrigerators and stoves and freezers were the same. They would run forever or they got fixed. An appliance salesman told me last spring parts only have to be made for 8 years for an appliance. Think about that, you pay for the warranty and as soon as it is out there are no parts to fix the appliance. Bottom line is you do not have to learn to fix anything anymore.
I would have gone over and shown him how to fix the first one. And then taken him to Sears to buy some damn tools.
The only time you pluck your eyebrows is when the stitches start to itch.
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