The excerpt here is verbatim from the opening sentences of The Ghost of Freeper Past’s OP earlier.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3403656/posts
I guess, the ‘me and various others’ he was talking about is possibly the source you cite here.
Various others is: Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Samuel Adams, etc ... all the people I quoted. They are the eloquent ones. I just pieced it together.